Dr Wingnut

Day: March 26, 2007

  • Nevada

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    … thrice blessed by being virtually farmer-free, a site upon which the Middle American equation of agricultural drudgery and Christian virtue has no traction, where mercantile virtues triumph and your average Nevadan’s experience of food production is confined to watching the “lobster plane” land at McCarran airport every morning.Dave Hickey, It’s Morning in Nevada, Harper’s,…

  • Success

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    Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.Mavis Gallant

  • Murphy’s Laws of Sewing

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    Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron.The serger only eats the customer’s garment.If you need 6 buttons, you will find 5 in your button box.The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the other one.When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always too small.The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always…