“A woman with a lot of ideas can never have too much fabric.”*

by chuckofish

Today’s post is a real hodge podge. What can I say? Click here for a joke.

On Sunday, after driving back to Jefferson City, I printed a new pattern and set to work crawling on the floor to tape it together and cut it out. I put the self-timer on my phone to use, as well. Aren’t you so impressed? You’ll notice the kneeler I bought at the dollar store after the last time I did this. It actually really helped (when I used it).

The end sewing result is not terribly photogenic, but I am confident the next version will be better than the first attempt.

I’ve also discovered this twitter account that brings tears to my laughing eyes.

Because of course a parody account of a certain type of old lady is what makes me feel heard. [insert the eye roll emoji].

I’ve been reading Salinger, which also makes me feel heard.

“It isn’t just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness’ sake. I mean if he were a girl–somebody in my dorm, for example–he’d have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through Wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so–I don’t know–not necessarily wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and–sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”

Franny & Zooey

In things that did not make me feel heard news, I recently watched A Rainy Day in New York, a Woody Allen for Amazon movie that was finally released in 2020 (the release was held up because of Me Too, okay). I’d say the movie is pretty standard Woody Allen. Hollywood Golden Boy Timothee Chalamet played the Woody Allen part (again, okay). The movie was enjoyable for the scenic, cleaned up New York shots but also weird because of some odd filming choices that I suspect only someone who has worked in production would be bothered by. The whole thing had the feeling of being phoned in. However, I still kind of enjoyed it. The bar is real low these days.

*@PearlsfromMyrna twitter