Kim Werker What?

Time to run down where I’m at on various fronts:

Status of the winter issue of IC: Goes to press next week. Soon I’ll embark on the frenzy of making sure I have enough clean clothes for a work week in Colorado.
Status of my Gathered Pullover: Finished the first sleeve. Instead of starting the second sleeve [...]

What would it be? Let me know by 5PM Pacific Standard Time tomorrow (Thursday, 13th November 2008).
If I—*cough* “hypothetically”*—have a chance, I’ll pick one or two to ask.
* I don’t consider anything to be certain, and that’s all I’ll say about it. No, I’ll say one more thing. You all rock.
[x-posted at CrochetMe.com]

I believe everything he says here, and I ask the same questions. If you’d like to chime in on those questions, please do. No fighting, no all-caps yelling. Just discussion.
[Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love - Countdown with Keith Olbermann- msnbc.com.]

The publishing world is increasingly abuzz about its own struggling right now, and talk about the general need for publishers to adapt their business models (the music industry’s failure to seize the digital-distribution opportunity until several years too late is frequently mentioned*) seems to be focusing on two things: e-publishing and free content. I’m inspired [...]

“Play with me, I’m a fungi!”
Weekend stupid joke open thread. Let’s hear ‘em!

Mushroom Village, originally uploaded by kpwerker.

I read The Andromeda Strain when I was around thirteen years old. I grabbed my dad’s yellowed copy off his towering shelves of sci-fi and pretty much devoured it. It might be the book that sparked my lifelong fascination with apocalyptic fiction. For a couple of years I’ve been meaning to reread it with adult [...]

This morning I feel, for the first time in my life, that the people of the United States will be well taken care of by the government they elected. I don’t recall feeling this good about anything in a very long time.
I wrote more about it on my 365 photo here.
[Thx to my friend JB [...]

Have I mentioned that I’m a cynic? Have I mentioned that I have trouble not tuning out politicians whenever they speak? Regardless of whether I agree with them or not? Have I mentioned how much of an identity crisis I had when I listened for the first time to the entirety of one of Barack [...]

365.99 (Absentee)
If you’re a registered voter in the U.S., please perform the utmost civic duty today and vote. Bring a book or some yarn if the lines are long.
Vote. Pass it on.

As an unintended follow-up to my tweet this afternoon (which received more immediate replies than any I’ve ever made)

the man, not having seen my tweet, presented me with “Halloween salad”.

I don’t recommend it.