Chapter 5 of Dracula Though is gorgeous and the people who love it are too! (But Renfield is sanguine as well... more on that soon...) Rhinebeck=blast. And blast=exhaustion, but it was all good. Blog post here so I don't bore you. Newsy bits: Heidi says: I know your a big fan of The Phantom Tollbooth so I wanted to tell you about a new documentary project and the Kickstarter campaign to help fund it. I'm making . Do you KNIT? Could you help a penguin out? ! (Not a joke) From: lahlahland I made this mini-me: Ann Shaffer came across this link to a page about a Canadian artist’s series of paintings called ”” —how perfect is that? --nice review of Defarge on p 63 Use for magazines! Zowee! New Thing for you: And on that brilliant note: MORE PATTERN SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES! Checkout the !!! Now we've got Defarge Vol 2 coming up as well as (drumroll) Defarge Does Chaucer and Defarge Does Shakespeare!   Karen's Patti Scarf on the iPhone this week, on here next.   Twitter/donations/scary... ! of the on Sparkly Vampires: I couldn't find an actual translation of Obour in the source material, but there was a note stating that its origins are Turkish, while the Slavonic name is Upior, and that in Dalmatia they are known as Wrikodlaki. (Sorry, no idea how to pronounce that one) On the plus side, they do appear to be easy enough to deal with-all you have to do is force the obour into a bottle using an Eikon, stopper it up, affix the Eikon to the bottle, and then chuck the whole enchilada into a fire.  Karen Wessel Just remembered what I've been meaning to mention - not sure if you don't know already but - the "Leiterwagen" mentioned in Dracula? the literal translation is Ladder (=Leiter) cart/wagon (=wagen). So called because the sides of it look like ladders. And if smaller stuff needed to be transported they had canvas to put inside and if dung needed to be transported they had boards/planks to take the place of the ladders on the side... Centripetal—moving to the center Centrifugal—moving away from the center CHEEKY REDHEAD's CREEPY PLAYLIST: "Cruel Spell" by Big Bad Voodo Daddy "Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers "Dr Bones" by Cherry Poppin Daddies "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon "Young Blood" by Norah Jones "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo "Kiss of Fire" by Louis Armstrong "Bad Things" by Jace Everett "All Souls Night" by Loreena McKennitt "Moon Over Bourbon Street" by Sting "Devil With A Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly" by Mitch Rider & the Detroit Wheels "I Put A Spell On You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins "In The Midnight Hour" by Wilson Picket "That Old Black Magic" by Keely Smith/Louis Prima Add your fave creepy songs to the comments section below!   What I'm knitting that isn't for Voyageur Press: Chrissy G's Wilhelmina's Shawlette in the WWMDfK? Knit Along! Meg's Van Tassel Mittens KAL! 55 members A place to share about the books covered on CraftLit (or ones that should be) as well as "What Would... Books we've read by Start date: September 1, 2011 by Start date: January 1, 2010 Share and ratings with CraftLit, and even join a on Goodreads. Book talk begins at 20 min. Listen to 227 .