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crewgrrlIf you all thought that Stalkerbook or MySpace had the monopoly on black holes for your time, and you don't knit or crochet, then you're probably right. If you do, then Ravelry has them beat in spades.
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moderngypsy (AKA Miss V) as "MySpace for knitters," it is a wonderful place to hang. Just like on Facecrack, you can belong to groups, namy of which are various TV show fan groups, or listeners to a particular podcast, or readers of a popular blog. There are even a couple of Judaism related groups. On the message board for one of these groups, I found a blurb about a separate group called "Hat Attack."
Most of the people who read my blog have heard of the game "Assassin." This is a knitting version of that game. Each participant knits a hat (there is a specific pattern released on the day the game officially starts) and mails it to their intended victim. If you receive a hat, you are dead. If you have not finished the hat that was meant to kill your target, you mail the materials back to your assassin, who then finishes it and sends it off (and if you think this is nuts, google "Sock Wars").
I joined. And so I started watching the message board for the group. People were talking about the yarn they were going to use, the needles, etc. Then I spotted a thread labeled "Dear Assassin, Dear Target." This thread consisted of posts like:
"Dear Would-Be-Assassin: You should probably know that I only accept mail sent via owl.
Dear Target: Please don’t be frightened by the owl tapping on your window a few hours after we get the pattern. He has a present for you."
Most recently, the following appeared:
Needless to say, I was amused.
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Described by the crafty
moderngypsy (AKA Miss V) as "MySpace for knitters," it is a wonderful place to hang. Just like on Facecrack, you can belong to groups, namy of which are various TV show fan groups, or listeners to a particular podcast, or readers of a popular blog. There are even a couple of Judaism related groups. On the message board for one of these groups, I found a blurb about a separate group called "Hat Attack."Most of the people who read my blog have heard of the game "Assassin." This is a knitting version of that game. Each participant knits a hat (there is a specific pattern released on the day the game officially starts) and mails it to their intended victim. If you receive a hat, you are dead. If you have not finished the hat that was meant to kill your target, you mail the materials back to your assassin, who then finishes it and sends it off (and if you think this is nuts, google "Sock Wars").
I joined. And so I started watching the message board for the group. People were talking about the yarn they were going to use, the needles, etc. Then I spotted a thread labeled "Dear Assassin, Dear Target." This thread consisted of posts like:
"Dear Would-Be-Assassin: You should probably know that I only accept mail sent via owl.
Dear Target: Please don’t be frightened by the owl tapping on your window a few hours after we get the pattern. He has a present for you."
Most recently, the following appeared:
"Dear Radar Eavesdroppers and Casey*: Please disregard the number of times the words kill, slay, blood, murder, attack, weapon, etc. are contained within this thread. We are but a group of humble (read smack talkin’), charitable (read bloodthirsty), knitters sharing a bit of generous fun (read DEATH), with our fellow knitters (read Soon-to-die-targets).
This has been a public service announcement.
We now return to our regularly scheduled program, Begging for Mercy while Threatening Bloody Death."
Needless to say, I was amused.
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Date: 2008-01-30 08:40 pm (UTC)What I think is really funny is trying to explain this entire thing to someone living twenty years ago.
"Everybody has a computer in their home. One with um, one of those modem things, only much faster, of course, and they talk to people all over the world with it. And for people in their teens and twenties, knitting is a really cool hobby, and they use their computers to have gigantic knitting wars via the mail."
I mean, as crazy as Snow Crash was, it didn't get that crazy!
Hat Attack
Date: 2008-02-10 03:26 am (UTC)Shamrockknits, your assassin
Death Approaches!
Date: 2008-02-12 03:38 pm (UTC)Shamrockknits, your assassin