Podcast poll and results

The last two podcasts from last time were Mystery Theater and Old Time British Radio, both of which were pretty much what they said on the label and both of which came from the same Nostalgia Radio website.

They were both made about mid-60s, I think; and the British one had Jon Pertwee, although he didn't sound like I expected. Other than that, they lived up to the stereotypes about their respective countries: the British one relied on rattling off difficult and clever lines at speed and panto-level humor ("I say Pertwees because I three see of you. I'm talking to the one in the middle. Lis thandlord, 'e keeps inebriating that we're insisting!") while the American one was into portentious melodrama with musical stings ("So you're telling that just after your fiancee's uncle, the famous scientist of crystallography, committed suicide for no reason last week, she mailed back your ring and announced she would marry his laboratory assistant?" *Dun, dun, DUN!!*)

I don't see myself subscribing to either one, mostly because the women's roles are either Mrs. Slocombe or willing recipients of insane amounts of sexual harassment (British) or duplicitous dames and seriously stupid secretaries (American).

However, I can see myself downloading one or two for the occasional knitting afternoon.



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Next post - a knitting pattern. How sad is it that I plan my posts in advance?

Short knitting post with PS podcast

I don't know if it's too late to change my Ravelympics event, or even if I want to, but I tried the knitting pattern I'd intended and decided I wasn't thrilled enough to live with it for 17 days.

However, I reproduce it here because there's nothing wrong with it, it just wasn't floating my boat.

All edges: bring yarn forward (do not yarn over) and slip last stitch as if to knit. Knit first stitch through back loop. (This is the only version of the chain edge that doesn't tend to slide right back off the needle, as the "slip first stitch" version inevitably does.)

Cast on 29 stitches.

Knit first through back loop, [K4, P4]3 times, K3, yarn forward and slip last stitch.

Repeat.

What you get is a reversible variation on the Prayer Shawl pattern with a single line of stockinette between every two pattern repeats (two lines will go up one side, three up the other.)

I could just do garter for my Ravelympics project, but that seems a waste for that nice teal alpaca.


PS: I have listened to a couple of the Folger Shakespeare podcasts and I think I'm going to pass on a subscription. While there is no other podcast that will get Janet Reno and Walter Mondale reciting Shakespeare, my knee-jerk reaction to lines like "I saw many Iagos in Congress" is "No shit, Sherlock!"