Dez writing on the Quarter Stitch

[celticdragonfly]

I got an email from bkseiver today, telling me Dez's blog was a must-read today. She's right.

Dez is talking about The Quarter Stitch, a marvelous little yarn and needlepoint store in the French Quarter. I've been there (for anybody reading me who doesn't know me well, I spent 10 years of my first 18 in Baton Rouge, so New Orleans was somewhere I went reasonably often), and it's a lovely place, and I still have a couple of skeins of luxury yarn that I dunno WHAT I'm going to do with, but they seduced their way into my hands.

The whole post is fun, but I just gotta quote some of it:

There are many reasons that sidewalk preachers don't have much luck in New Orleans, among them being:

-- you can't scare Southerners with heat.

-- you can't scare us with locusts, either. We have roaches the size of a man's thumb, and they fly.

-- you need to resolve this business about Jesus, wine and grape juice for once and for all. There's a good reason that most native New Orleanians are either Catholic or Jewish.

-- virgins, wise or foolish, are in short supply here

-- so what if the Bible says the streets of Heaven are paved with gold? Gold, schmold. We want a place to park.

-- if you think a beast with seven heads and ten horns is scary, you have obviously never been to Mardi Gras.

Nah, none of that stuff works on us.

But ... "excuse me, Mr. Sidewalk Preacher ... what was that you just said about a coat of many colors?"

Dez, thanks for the giggle. If she was on LJ I'd have metaquoted her.

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[bkseiver.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear the right music to go with the post!

Luxury yarn - scarf?