Possible Blasphemies and other silliness
Categories: Photography, Random, Entertainment, PhiladelphiaSo… The Sopranos is over. I have yet to see more than a snippet of an episode or two and I’m just fine with that. Apparently I will remain a luddite when it comes to that particular facet of popular culture because I just don’t care. Am I alone in my apathy?
I am forced to note that NPR cares a lot about The Sopranos since almost every program I’ve listened to today has touched upon the finale and reactions to said final episode. I’m fascinated that NPR is giving this rather violent HBO drama such press but I couldn’t care less about the show itself. I think the secret is out: the entire staff of NPR is addicted to The Sopranos. Oh, and apparently there’s very little real news today, probably because everyone newsworthy was watching The Sopranos last night. I half expect the next pre-presidential debate to contain a question about the candidates’ reactions to the finale.
I am very proud of myself. I cleaned my craft desk this weekend. Now there’s space for my sewing machine to stay setup all the time! I dug out my copy of Omiyage by Kumiko Sudo as well. This book is beautiful and fun - it contains lots of little fabric projects. Pretty bags and pouches! And they’re small, short projects which is an excellent way to ease myself back into being productive on my sewing machine again. I don’t know if I’ll sew much of anything for Pennsic. I am keeping the bar low this year. I am glad I’ll be able to putter at my machine anytime now that it has a spot on the desk. (Maybe I’ll even plug it in tonight!)
Tennyson is being quite cute in the box and apparently I am not allowed to reappropriate said box to use for recycling. When I was taking photos of said cuteness, I was shocked to find schmutz on my camera’s lens. I spent a tense 4 minutes painstakingly de-schmutzifying it carefully with my cleaner and a microfiber cloth. The schmutz came off without any damage to the lens but now I’m paranoid. I really need to get a UV filter or two to pop on the ends of my lenses.
The total number of murders in Philadelphia reached 180 as of last night - averaging more than one a day so far this year.
tags: camera, crime, murder rate, npr, philadelphia, photography, pop culture, radio, schmutz, sewing, television, tennyson, the sopranos
June 14th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I, too, share in your lack of concern for The Sopranos ending. I’ve watched even less than you (apparently) have!
THANK YOU hugely for the ecogeek link with skyscraper information. (I signed up for the email updates!) Now I can educate my luddite husband (self-named, lol!) that no, people are not just as involved in saving the planet as they were in the 70’s, it’s indeed become much more mainstream (duh). My man; I have to love him if only for his humorous skepticism.
I sure hope they make the replacement for the Towers eco-friendly; in fact, lets go for all green? Yeah!!
:) Chrissy