in the beloved style of the early DIY movement, the gorgeous ladies of 1223 wharton sent valentines to those they adore.
cats can't send valentines. everybody knows that.
i'd have sent knitting tarot valentines myself, old school-style, but in the grand tradition, there were none left for me. you'd think that there'd be power in owning the means of production, wouldn't you. like, i could just go make some more. it doesn't seem to work like that though.
a little more on valentine's day, vaguely crochet- and spinning- related. for valentine's day this year, among other things, i got ben a dvd of the colorized carnival of souls, with audio commentary track by mike nelson. SIGNED by the man himself. i mean, talk about cool. i could do without the colorization, but we do love mike.
we did love mike. a little idol-toppling has occurred for me surrounding this whole adventure. i found the carnival of souls deal through mike's website, which also features some of his "random" writing. (those of you who know me are already cringing at the ooze of acid with which i pronounce the word so disingenuous and overused in the blog "writing" worlds, "random". well, mike didn't use it, but this is random writing if i ever saw it.)
the link may not stay active -- who knows how often mike nelson randomizes -- but if you scroll to the bottom of the current page, you'll find the "Stupid Hat Round-Up". o ho ho ho. so mike trolled the internet for pictures of hats to which he could attach his zany commentary.
he has an ana voog hat there.
big mistake, mike. once again -- for many, many years i have adored mike nelson. those straight-world good looks, the top notch MST3K writing and host presence. he had it all. but apparently i had it all, and was just applying it to my vision of mike. because what my mike nelson would have said about an ana voog hat is, "this hat is so fucking sexy i can hardly stand it."
mike didn't have the sense. i LOVE ana voog's hats. anybody worth their salt would know better.
i'm sure we'll enjoy the dvd, as we will continue to enjoy our MST3Kfests. i don't think i mentioned on this blog that, this past christmas, we had a "gift of the magi" moment surrounding MST3K. i went to one of those fan sites where they make bootleg episode tapes for you for a little money, and got ben a bunch for a gift. i was SO excited, i could not wait to give them to him (and watch them), so i suggested that we each give each other ONE gift, early, on xmas eve. so excited was i about giving ben his tapes, that i did not notice the telltale size and shape of the gift from ben that i myself was opening, which was in fact... a big stack of bootlegged MST3K episodes.
out of sixteen episodes total, we only doubled up on two.
which brings us back to valentine's day, by way of true love.
(and my sister's boyfriend got her a llama -- whose care is being paid for in megan's name for the next year at the lehigh valley zoo.)