weird aside

[reddawn]

How awesome is it that there are people out there whose business it is to put up pages at misspelled URLs? I can never remember how to spell McMenamins, so every time I want to check a movie schedule I end up at some random page where I'm assaulted by pop-ups and weird attempts to get me to click on other links. Do people fall for these fake ass

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[seymour_glass]

i never related to the craft thing in any way...but i'm not artistic in that way at all...

[reddawn]

so how are you artistic? is hockey an art?

[seymour_glass]

surprisingly enough i used to write poetry...

[cto]

The Get Crafty(tm) 3rd wave has never appealed to me. Even T-shirt surgery seems like too much work. It's a shirt, put it on, if it goes on your body and you can still move your arms, then it fits, let it be. I agree the big stitch is an aesthetic I like. DIY for 15 year-old boys, not DIY for those who have studied and practiced and actually know how to do it. I'm right there with ya babe.

Now, where in Chicago do I find a 5th of Mexican Vanilla?

http://community.livejournal.com/chicagochat/331195.html

[reddawn]

It seems like you got some pretty good advice. Pilsen or Logan Square is where I'd head to first. Honestly, I wasn't exactly a practicing gourmand when I lived in Chicago so my food needs were mostly satisfied by the produce mart down the street.

I like t-shirt surgery, especially to make giant punk t-shirts fit me since no hardcore band ever has small t-shirts for sale. You'd think that with all the skinny emo boys out there there'd be demand for the tight fitting tee but it's always a rare find for me. Oh yeah, I'm also a fan of making ripped jeans into ridiculously short skirts. I call my look Frankensexy(tm).

[walktheplank]

everyone in Portland has their little cottage industry thing going.

The last time I was out in Portland, I ran into one of Yoonie's friends at the IPRC - she was printing handmade cards on a letterpress.

Cute 'n' crafty is nauseating... although I did get a kick out of it when a friend knit me a winter scarf with a skull and crossbones.

[reddawn]

Yeah, the paper store (Paper Zone) here is a veritable social scene. Everyone woman in town makes her own line of greeting cards, scarves, skirts and handbags. I should actually have written about how the whole craft thing also strikes me as being eerily gendered and homemaker-y . . . I don't know a single guy who knits, after all. Then of course, it's all done in the spirit of reclaiming the domestic arts, right? Riiight.

time

[anonymous]

that's what it all comes down to. do i like making stuff? sure, i'd love to make a dresser or refinish a table - i love working with my hands. but do i do it?! hells nah, i ain't got time for that shiit. i help my "friends" at l.l.bean who make some pretty good pants and shirts, and haven't bought any furniture for about ten years. and not only do i not have time for crafting crap, i don't want to go to someplace where everyone spent $3 in materials and 3 hours in "crafting" something that they want to sell to me for $20. i don't know, maybe it's just me but i just don't want to see it, i don't want to be around it and i certainly don't want to buy it. if someone knit me a scarf or a sweater and GAVE it to me, well then, right on. but i ain't buying it. i guess that dooms me from ever living in Portland. doh!

I've got your Bite of Oregon right here

[slipkid]

that was me. I thought I was logged in but i guess i got logged out when i changed my password. could you already tell it was me?