Shamelessly self-centered plug

My t-shirt design, Hip Knitter, got an honorable mention on its last outing, which made it eligible for their periodic Double Take Derby, where they put all the honorable mentions in a cage and... okay, there's no knife fighting. But you have another chance to vote again, and I've started a preorder list for the much more likely possibility of an independent print run.

Coming soon for the Apple ][e: Hip Knitter!
Express your individuality with hip, fun knitting projects your family and friends will love! If they're into laptop covers shaped like elder gods, anyway.

Vote for me in the Derby if you've ever bought from Woot: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=56418
Get on the pre-order list: http://www.formspring.me/gement

Here is the shirt design in all its glory:


Woooooooooooooooooo(t)!

Edited to add: If you're on Ravelry, I need etiquette advice on how to promote there. I made a post the first time, and I'm not sure what the community standards are on bumping an old thread vs. making a new one, and so on.

Meanwhile, in the world...

With the new very very very long commute I haven't been as plugged into following events as usual. Let the record show that I'm at least dimly aware of politics in Tripoli and weather on the East Coast. :(

I just don't know what I can say of any use on either topic, let alone all the other stuff that's been scrolling off the page faster than I can read it since the turn of the year. I don't want to "just stick to my knitting" (ha), I'm just overloaded by the world and my own brain chemistry.

Also, in critical reading, I just reread the second volume of Fables and I wish I could remember my reactions from the first time I read it to compare. This time around, their choice of a new Farm administrator after the rebellion made me so angry I could spit. I'm trying to remember if I caught it last time, and I'm still not sure if the authors realized how poorly that axle was mended. (Hint, when the rebellion was about underrepresentation and imprisonment of non-humanoid citizens, YOU DON'T HIRE AN UNDERQUALIFIED HUMAN.)