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All the crazy stories that have been flung around this blog lately (not yours yesterday, Don, that one sounded 100% authentic, down to the riot gear and the dogs) have coalesced inside my head along with the other thing I’ve been thinking a lot about these past days–fiber.
No, no. Not Grape Nuts, or celery, or whole wheat bread. Not the fiber you eat. The fiber you knit, crochet and weave with.
You see, last Friday, I attended an all-day spinning workshop. I had a fabulous time, the instructor was great, and I came home with a skein of pretty good looking yarn that I made myself. It was a great sense of accomplishment!
All that got me to thinking how closely working with fiber and writing are related. After all, we writers
Spin yarns
Weave stories from whole cloth (especially on this blog!)
Knit together plots
We embellish, and sometimes we pull apart and start our spinning and our weaving and our knitting all over again.
Maybe that’s why fiber appeals to me so. When I weave or knit or spin, I get a break from writing, but there are still connections, as well as the essential down time all our brains need to re-energize, re-charge and just let themselves go to be creative. All the while my fingers work over the fiber, my brain is spinning, too
Have a happy–and safe–Fourth of July!
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Boom…boom…boom…boom.
That was the start of some song wasn’t it?
Also, the sound of the night before…the day of…and the day after the 4th.
And our dogs will go bonkers!
Zz
by Zorro
on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 am
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Most people know the Animals’ version of the song, although it was originally sung my a girls’ group out of Cleveland called Casey and the Stitchers:
Boom boom boom boom
Gonna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms
I’m in love with you
Love that is true
Boom boom boom boom
I like the way you walk
I like the way you talk
When you walk that walk
and you talk that talk
You knock me out
Right off of my feet
C’mon and shake,
Shake it baby
Shake it up baby
Shake it baby
C’mon now baby
Shake it baby
I don’t mean maybe
Shake it baby
You’re driving me crazy
Shake it baby
C’mon, c’mon
Shake it baby
All right, all right
The way you walk
The way you talk
When you walkin’ that walk
And talkin’ that talk
I need you right now
I mean right now
I don’t mean tomorrow
I mean right now
C’mon, c’mon
C’mon shake it up baby
Boom boom boom boom
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 am
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My goodness! Booms and Boom, Boom, Boom. What a way to start the day!
by Casey
on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 am
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I paint pictures. And while I paint, ideas for stories pop into my head.
by Don
on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
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It’s interesting, isn’t it, Don, how one creative pursuit sparks another. It really does have something to do with letting those creative juices flow, with tapping into your muse and nurturing it. I’ve always thought that for me, the weaving and spinning and such were a break from my writing. But really, maybe they are essential to my writing.
by Casey
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 am
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C.R., it’s like some commercials I see.
I wonder how they ever got the courage to present them to a client. Reading the lyrics ( never one of my favorite songs) makes me wonder what the hell people were thinking when they paid to have it recorded in the first place.
Like Lionel Richie…You’re once, twice, three times a lady. What? Why not go on…four times, five times, six times a lady. One lady is more than I can handle in most cases. Boom boom boom boom.
Zz, you started this!
(I’m sorry, I’m working out my morning rage. Haven’t had a Zburger yet and morning without a Zburger and coffee is like…, like…, morning without a Zburger and coffee
by Don
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:18 am
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Don, one of my all-time favorite stupid lyrics is from some Bobby Goldsboro song: “What the heck, I hugged her neck.”
Then there’s a great line from Sonny and Cher’s The Beat Goes on: “Men keep marching off to war, electrically they keep a baseball score.”
Oh, how about that old standard, “I’m gonna sit right down and knit myself a sweater.” Or something like that.
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
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We need a theme song for Zburgers Inc.
Hmmmmmm.
How about “Zorro….Zorro….zorro….”
Zz
by Zorro
on July 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 am
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Casey, I didn’t know you could frog spinning. Then again, I don’t spin. I have a hard enough time keeping Thunder Butt from eating my yarn stash, I don’t want to think of her getting a hold of spinning fiber!
by Marissa
on July 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
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Forget about your pains
Forget about your sorrows
There’s a big greasy burger
Waitin’ for you at Zorro’s.
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
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No, you can’t exactly frog spinning, Marissa. You’re right about that. But there are ways to make messed-up spinning better. Wish I knew that before I spun two whole bags of roving!
And, CR, what about:
McZorro burger
The boom, boom in your stomach
by Casey
on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
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Okay, Casey, what the heck is frog spinning?
Is that something you do with a nose twitch?
And bags of roving?
Speak English!
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
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Frogging is what some people call taking apart their knitting (like to fix mistakes). It’s called frogging because you “rippit, rippit, rippit.” I call it unknitting. And roving is a type of processed wool that can be spun into yarn.
There, a lesson in fiber arts 101.
by Casey
on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
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Ah! Editing!
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
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If you want to eat
and not be pooro
get a cheap burger
from your good friend Zorro
Zorro burgers are good and cheap
They’re so good they’ll make you weep
A little bit of beef and a lot of fat
will fill you up now how ’bout that?
It’s not quite there yet, Zz. But close
by Don
on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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It is…..close!
Can you do the voice-overs?
And CR can bang his drum…..hear he marches to the beat of a different drummer though.
So…..maybe not.
Zz
by Zorro
on July 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
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Here’s a jingle to attract the
alternative menu crowd:
Some people eat chicken
Some people eat fish
A burger from Zorro’s
Can be any meat that you wish
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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Is roving frog a meat?
Zz
by Zorro
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
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When you stop it from roving it’s a meat.
Zorro’s Tasty New Frog Burger –
One bite and you’ll croak!
Well, that was just too easy.
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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When I picked the headline, “Spinning Out of Control” for today’s blog, I had no idea how apropos it would be!
by Casey
on July 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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Apropos?
Aren’t they some kind of South American lama or something? Can you make sweaters out of them? Burgers?
We could raise them and get a twofer.
by C.R.
on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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Spinning Out of Control is also what that house did before it fell on a witch.
Yikes!
Zz
by Zorro
on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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Okay, I’m late in on this conversation. (Yes…Again) It’s hard to be in on these conversations with my kids around this summer!
I’ve never learned to knit, but I love to crochet! I’ve made several things this year — a purse for my daughter, a holder for my iPod, and a baby blanket for a friend. I agree Casey. Working with yarn is fun, and it really does get one’s mind going!
by Judy
on July 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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From with hunts to Zburgers and the best Judy can do it stick to the original blog?
by Don
on July 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 am
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Judy’s smart. She knows better than to get mixed up in the craziness!
by Casey
on July 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 am
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