Mood:
lazyNow Playing: The Tour de Pharmacy...er...France
Topic: I can has topik?
As I'm sure we all know, yesterday was the 40th anniversary man's first walk on the surface of the moon. I'd say moonwalk but like you I am sick and tired of the wall to wall Michael Jackson coverage. To commemorate the even TCM ran the 1902 masterpiece movie "trip to the moon AKA For the Earth to the moon" It's the first time I have seen this little gem in it entirety. I've seen scenes out of context, but never the whole movie. It was an absolute delight from beginning to end. It was one the very first movies, and one of the very first movies was a special effects laden sci-fi fantasy. I can't imagine how the first movie goers felt when seeing this; it must have been pure magic. from the flickering images on the screen to a time and place where travelling to the moon was possible. My son Ben noticed right away that the shape of the movie's moon capsule was the same as the one that went to the moon decades later, and that the movie capsule landed in the ocean the same way the real one did. My favourite part of the movie? Why the giant mushrooms inside the moon of course!
Back to the moonwalk: I was just a little kid and for years I cursed our miserable television for giving us such a miserable fuzzy picture. Years later I realized everyone got the same miserable television picture because all the first pictures from the moon were miserable and fuzzy. The next day it was all everyone in school talked about, except the one grade six teacher, Mrs Bulldog. He name was mrs bullard, but everyone -including a few teachers -called her Bulldog. She was universally hated. She said that we should get off the moon and out of space because it was distracting everyone from god and church and our eternal salvation.
She was the one who helped me to form my opinions on religion. She had daily bible readings in class and anyone who wasn't a good christian could stand outside in the hall while the rest of us had the daily bible lesson. Out principal at the time was a mennonite minister so he saw nothing wrong with this. When I was in school the standard time out punishment was to stand in the hall, in her bible class, the jewish kids had to leave and stand in the hall. Lots of kids "did the math" so to speak. It was then that I wondered if this religion thing was really as great as everyone said. She also hated boys and stated as much many times in class.
I found out recently that's she's still alive, over 100 and still as much of a miserable bulldog as ever. I got an invitation to her 100th birthday to share our memories of our time in her class, as tempting as it was to share the memory of how she sent all the bad jewish kids into the hall and have answer for her reprehensible behaviour to boys and anyone she deemed un-christian, I passed on going.
In other news, I have a whole bunch of tote bags waiting to be painted. I have some in the cotton drapery liner and some in muslin. The muslin will make some really nice novelty bags and the liner will make some really nice shopping bags. I timed myself yesterday and it took an hour to make four bags from cutting to final pressing, and that included one thread cone change. That's about fifteen minutes a bag. Because of the width of the fabric I'm using cutting is very easy and there's no waste, the left over fabric is the perfect size for a pencil case size bag. The most time consuming part is securely sewing the handles. Forwards, backward, pivot, angle pivot backward pivot to final corner, secure. Boring!
Today I get to do the fun part, I can bring out the paints and be creative. I want to include lots of cute mushroom pictures and few cute mushroom one liners and puns. I also want to include a few non-mushroom ideas for people who may not share my love of mushrooms. i hope it is nice so I can take everything outside and paint outdoors. This has not been a good summer for spending time outside.
And that's all for now. The race is over, the sun is almost shining, and a box of fabric paint awaits. Later!
