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I purchased the Leisure Arts "Our Best Knit Baby Afghans," which has some terrific patterns in it. I want to make one "adult sized" which will mean increasing the original afghan (35" X 46") approximately 60%, to about a twin-bed size (size will need not be exact, by any means).
My gauge and the pattern gauge are both 5 to 5.25 sts/1".I wonder if someone can help me verify that my calculations are correct?
The pattern row says:
187 sts.ROW 1: Slip 1 as if to K, P1, K1, P1, K3, P1, K1, P1, * (K3, P1) twice, K1, P1; repeat from * across to last 7 sts, K3 (P1, K1) twice.
ROW 2: Slip 1 as if to purl, P1, K1, P5, K1, P3, K1, P1, K1, *(P3, K1) twice; repeat from * across to last 12 sts, (P1, K1) twice.
[color=red]I took the pattern off this post since we can't post copyrighted patterns. Now let me see what I can do to help.[/color]Questions:Am I right in presuming that the pattern is a multiple of 10 + 17 (on the first one); and 10 + 27 (on the second one)? (why are there more sts on one side of the pattern than the other? -- am I reading that correctly?)
All the pattern rows appear to have 10 sts for the pattern, but it varies between 17 and 27 as to the edge stitches (a difference of 10).
So am I safe in presuming if I cast on 297 (yikes!), it will yield me an afghan of approximately 56"-60" wide?
I've attached pics of both the afghan and the pattern, since I probably haven't made myself too clear.My brain hurts -- too much math.Shocked
The pattern you posted had 186 stitches cast on. I think from looking at the rest of the rows, and writing a bit of it out on paper that your ratio is 10 + 6.
There seems to be a 3 stitch border of each edge and the pattern stitches in between.
Thank you, Ingrid.
I apologize to all for posting the pattern.I'm a musician by trade, and I deal with copyright issues all of the time, so I'm not sure what my head was thinking! :oops:
I appreciate your help and instruction (and correction!)
In my haste, it seems I made some typos in relating the pattern. I have placed the omissions in bold. Would this make a difference to the "multiple of 10 + 6" supposition?
[i]ROW 1: Slip 1 as if to K, P1, K1, P1, K3, P1, K1, P1, * (K3, P1) twice, K1, P1; repeat from * across to last 7 sts, K3 (P1, K1) twice.
ROW 2: Slip 1 as if to purl, P1, K1, P5, K1, P3, K1, P1, K1, *(P3, K1) twice, P1, K1; repeat from * across to last 12 sts, P3, K1, P5, K1, P2.[/i]
I bought some Bernat Satin in Mocha (love it!) and look forward to making a beautiful afghan with this great yarn! I am taking an Amtrak trip with a friend of mine from South Louisiana to Wisconsin in a couple of weeks and will enjoy the company of my knitting on this l-o-n-g trip
Since I had access to the pattern, I figured it off of that, so you should be ok. (At least if I'm correct. ) I'm pretty sure I am.
Thanks again, Ingrid for your help.And, yes, it seems to be correct. I tested by casting on 50 + 6 and working some rows with no problems
Is there an easy way to explain to me how you ascertained the 10 + 6 from the pattern? Or a website that would explain it to me? I've looked and looked at the row instructions, and I'm apparently making it harder than it is to come up with 10 + 6 out of:[i]ROW 1: Slip 1 as if to K, P1, K1, P1, K3, P1, K1, P1, * (K3, P1) twice, K1, P1; repeat from * across to last 7 sts, K3 (P1, K1) twice.
ROW 2: Slip 1 as if to purl, P1, K1, P5, K1, P3, K1, P1, K1, *(P3, K1) twice, P1, K1; repeat from * across to last 12 sts, P3, K1, P5, K1, P2. [/i]
...and it's driving me nutzo that I can't "see" it (which is not a far drive!) Are these instructions written kookie? (probably not) I've had no problem in the past taking a stitch pattern from a pattern book and using it for a sampler-square afghan, but apparently I can't do things in reverse :crying:
Thanks for any words of wisdom!~Sara
It wasn't obvious. I sat with some paper and a pencil and wrote out the pattern chart-style. As the pattern 'showed' itself, I saw that the three stitches on the edge were the only ones that stayed the same. The picture confirmed this.
Sometimes patterns include the edge in with the last part of the pattern stitches, which leads to confusion.
There was recently a pattern posted on here that, when read, looked wrong. The LYS even said it wasn't possible. My first reaction was that it couldn't work, but when the poster said that someone had made it from that pattern, I wrote it out and there was a :doh: moment when I saw that the last part of the pattern included only part of the pattern stitch and the edge.
Sometimes pictures are best, I guess. Maybe that's why I prefer charts so much.
Thanks again, Ingrid.
Lordy, I'm so frustrated!! I've spent all day with graph paper and books and pencil in hand, searching internet sites, trying to graph these #$%^&$ instructions and just generally being perplexed. I dunno what I'm doing wrong, but it's "stump the band" for me. I'm just not "getting it." Surely I can't be this stooopid? Or maybe I am. Somehow I managed to get a college degree - summa cum laude at that -- but this is paralyzing me :wall: :wall:
Oh well, I'll take a break and revisit it again another time before I get so aggravated that I throw all my new-bought knitting things in the dumpster and say "forget it!" (Hubby would love that, considering how much $$$ I've spent in the last few weeks! :lol: We-e-e-e-e-e-e-e.
One thing to remember, and you may already be doing this, is to write the right side rows from right to left and the wrong side rows from left to right.
Also, when you write the wrong side rows, you have to write the opposite of what the stitch is so that the chart looks like the front of the blanket.
That's why charts are written with an empty square meaning knit on right side and purl on wrong side--so on the chart all the stockinette stitch sections are all the same.
Several more hours; several more pages of graphing/scribble -- still nothing that clicks. Some rows, I have 14 boxes; some 27; some 17. I don't get it. Nothing lines up or appears the least bit repetitive. I'm blue in the face. I can't find any straight-out instructions online of how to transfer a written pattern to chart.
Oh well, I totally give up. I guess if I'm not savvy enough to be able to look at an afghan pattern and figure out the stitch multiple to be able to enlarge it, I have no business knitting. I'm really, really down and sad about this, especially since I am far from being a "new" knitter!
Anyone want a whole slew of brand new needles -- Addis/Pony Rosewoods/CN Rosewoods -- a great new bag, several new books, and about a truckload of great new yarn???
Thanks for everyone's help in the past. This has been a wonderful group. I'll miss participating
Oh stop! Don't give up!
When you chart a pattern that has increases and decreases, you don't chart how many stitches the pattern uses, you chart the result of the increase or decrease. So even if it's a triple decreases that uses three stitches, you use a symbol to represent the triple decrease in one box. If you have a yo, it takes one box, even though it doesn't use a stitch.
Are you trying to chart the whole afghan, including the edging, or just the rows you posted. When I'm more awake, I can post how I charted those two rows, if you'd like.
I'll play with it.
I stayed up very late figuring this out--it got to me, too.
When I worked it out the first time, I was using the 186 stitches that they start with. For some odd reason, they add a stitch before the pattern section.
There are 13 edge stitches on the left side and 14 on the right, and they don't really match the center stitches, so it was confusing. I think your assessment of 10 + 27 makes sense this way.
In any event there are 10 stitch repeats for the center pattern, so you could add as many groups of 10 as you like to get extra width. I
In fact, you could just put some seed stitch edge and just have the 10 stitch repeats between them, or work the first 14 stitches, then start the repeats there with the kkkpkpkkkp section.


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Lisa and Helen have travelled across China in search of amazing street food. The recipes are truly accessible – easy for anyone to make in the comfort of their own kitchen. Ken HomThis beautiful book offers a real insight into the street food cultures of China and vividly evokes the smells and sounds of the markets. It's the closest you may get to experiencing Beijing street food without actually being there, smelling the mix of aromatic spices, caramelized apples, barbecuing meats and steaming dumplings, with clouds of smoke and noisy bustle all around you, and red lanterns glowing above.Over 100 recipes and a wealth of stories and insight into cooking methods bring this cuisine to life. All recipes have been carefully chosen to be achievable for the western cook.Helen and Lisa Tse have set out to encapsulate that sense of excitement, awe, wonder and hunger for these morsels of street food: from soft fluffy bao, to hot fried chicken, from piping hot bowls of noodles, to coal-roasted squid, delicate tea eggs and bubble tea, this is food to truly excite the appetite and awaken a sense of adventure in the kitchen.With a foreword from the master of Chinese cooking, Ken Hom, this is the essential book for the foodie bookshelf.
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Where exactly is the thermostat on a 1997 Lincoln located?
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The thermostat is in the front of the engin inbetween the radiator and engin. Follow top radiator hoze thats connected to the metal pipes by the altenator on passengerside down the hoze will go down into the front of the engin and between radiator, then will stop at a 3 way connector where it splits into 2 more hozes. if u get under neith the car and look up at that connecctor there is 2 bolts remove those bolts and the thermostat is in there. U may need to pry it out a little with a flat head screw driver. then clean the rim and inside where the thermostat was and get gasket sealer and spread it on like butter all over where gasket was and where anything will touch when bolted back together. then sit the new gasket in the top part first then place the long skinny shaft of the thermostat in first into the upper part of the connector (where u took it out) then put the bottom part and top part back together (make sure everything is dry b4 its put in and together) then put the 2 bolts back in the housing and ur all done. Just make sure u check ur coolant cause u lost some in this process. Let the car run for a while and cheak for leaks the refill coolant again after it has taken some into the engin. check coolant levels for a few days after this and for leaks aswell.
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While standing at the front of the vehicle, look to the right side of the radiator to find a large hose connected to the radiator. It will lead you to the thermostat housing. The thermostat is located inside the metal pipe at the other end of the hose. Exact mounting details vary with model year. Generally, there are two bolts, one above and one below the housing that must be removed to access the thermostat. The heat shield on some models for the exhaust crossover pipe partially blocks access to the bolt heads, so some tricky tools are needed to remove it. On mine, I removed the EGR sensor and heat shield so I could access the bolt heads. Once removed, the thermostat is very simple to replace.If the thermostat is located on top you may have to take off the altenator tension bracket.
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In Reply to: RE: PSVANE KT120 posted by Mendel on April 18, 2017 at 11:09:00
Thanks for all the great information! I just might try one of the other suggested tubes in my Rogue Cronus Magnum. I wonder if I would set the bias the same as the KT120?
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If your Cronos Magnum operates the same as my Stereo 90 (and I think the amp sections are very similar), you bias KT120/KT90/KT88 at 35ma on the built in meter, and bias KT66/EL34/KT77/6L6gc at 30 ma.
Check with your manual or contact Rogue (great people to work with) if you are unsure.
Try some different output tubes tube rolling is fun with the Rogues!
35 mA always works and you do nothing wrong. but trying some mAs more can make sense and is audible instantly. so with my rogue i had best results in performance in all aspects with KT120 at around 38 mA. pitching the bias up to 40 mA is no problem at all for KT88/90/120 and your amp either. (the rogue�s fuses would blow at 250 mA, right?). running under 35 mA makes no sense. you would notice your amp sounding cold, boring and dreary. over 40 mA the sound from my gear became narrow, harsh and stressed.
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Assassination Vacationby Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other--a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.
From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue--it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and--the author's favorite--historical tourism.
Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are lighter diversions into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.
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Assassination Vacation
By Sarah Vowell
Simon & SchusterCopyright © 2005 Sarah Vowell
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PrefaceOne night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. There they were - John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz - in tune and in the flesh. The men who murdered Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley were elbow to elbow with Lee Harvey Oswald and the klutzy girls who botched their hits on klutzy Gerald Ford, harmonizing on a toe-tapper called "Everybody's Got the Right to Be Happy," a song I cheerfully hummed walking back to the bed-and-breakfast where I was staying.
Not that I came all the way from New York City just to enjoy a chorus line of presidential assassins. Mostly, I came to the Berkshires because of the man who brought one of those presidents back to life. I was there to visit Chesterwood, the house and studio once belonging to Daniel Chester French, the artist responsible for the Abraham Lincoln sculpture in the Lincoln Memorial. A nauseating four-hour bus ride from the Port Authority terminal just to see the room where some patriotic chiseler came up with a marble statue? For some reason, none of my friends wanted to come with.
Because I had to stay overnight and this being New England, the only place to stay was a bed-and-breakfast. It was a lovely old country mansion operated by amiable people. That said, I am not a bed-and-breakfast person.
I understand why other people would want to stay in B&Bs. They're pretty. They're personal. They're "quaint," a polite way of saying "no TV." They are "romantic," i.e., every object large enough for a flower to be printed on it is going to have a flower printed on it. They're "cozy," meaning that a guest has to keep her belongings on the floor because every conceivable flat surface is covered in knickknacks, except for the one knickknack she longs for, a remote control.
The real reason bed-and-breakfasts make me nervous is breakfast. As if it's not queasy enough to stay in a stranger's home and sleep in a bed bedecked with nineteen pillows.
In the morning, the usually cornflake-consuming, wheat-intolerant guest is served floury baked goods on plates so fancy any normal person would keep them locked in the china cabinet even if Queen Victoria herself rose from the dead and showed up for tea. The guest, normally a silent morning reader of newspapers, is expected to chat with the other strangers staying in the strangers' home.
At my Berkshires bed-and-breakfast, I am seated at a table with one middle-aged Englishman and an elderly couple from Greenwich, Connecticut. The three of them make small talk about golf, the weather, and the room's chandeliers, one of which, apparently, is Venetian. I cannot think of a thing to say to these people. Seated at the head of the table, I am the black hole of breakfast, a silent void of gloom sucking the sunshine out of their neighborly New England day. But that is not the kind of girl my mother raised me to be. I consider asking the Connecticut couple if they had ever run into Jack Paar, who I heard had retired near where they live, but I look like I was born after Paar quit hosting The Tonight Show (because I was) and so I'd have to explain how much I like watching tapes of old programs at the Museum of Television and Radio and I don't want to get too personal.
It seems that all three of them attended a Boston Pops concert at Tanglewood the previous evening, and they chat about the conductor. This, I think, is my in. I, too, enjoy being entertained.
Relieved to have something, anything, to say, I pipe up, "I went to the Berkshire Theatre Festival last night."
"Oh, did you see Peter Pan?" the woman asks.
"No," I say. "Assassins!"
"What's that?" wonders the Englishman.
To make up for the fact that I've been clammed up and moping I speak too fast, merrily chirping, "It's the Stephen Sondheim musical in which a bunch of presidential assassins and would-be assassins sing songs about how much better their lives would be if they could gun down a president."
"Oh," remarks Mr. Connecticut. "How was it?"
"Oh my god," I gush. "Even though the actors were mostly college kids, I thought it was great! The orange-haired guy who played the man who wanted to fly a plane into Nixon was hilarious. And I found myself strangely smitten with John Wilkes Booth; every time he looked in my direction I could feel myself blush." Apparently, talking about going to the Museum of Television and Radio is "too personal," but I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
Now, a person with sharper social skills than I might have noticed that as these folks ate their freshly baked blueberry muffins and admired the bed-and-breakfast's teapot collection, they probably didn't want to think about presidential gunshot wounds. But when I'm around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.
I continue. "But the main thing that surprised me was how romantic Assassins was."
"Romantic?" sneers a skeptic.
"Totally," I rebut. "There's a very tender love scene between Emma Goldman and Leon Czolgosz."
Blank stares.
"You know. He was the anarchist who killed McKinley. Buffalo? 1901? Anyway, the authorities initially suspected Goldman had helped him, but all it was was that he had heard her speak a couple of times about sticking it to The Man. He'd met her, but she wasn't his co-conspirator. Anyway, the play dramatizes the moment they meet. He stops her on the street to tell her that he loves her. The guy who played Czolgosz was wonderful. He had this smoldering Eastern European accent. Actually, he sounded a lot like Dracula - but in a good way, if you know what I mean." (They don't.)
"He told her, 'Miss Goldman, I am in love with you.' She answered that she didn't have time to be in love with him. Which was cute. But, this was my one misgiving about the performance, I thought that the woman playing Goldman was too ladylike, too much of a wallflower. Wasn't Emma Goldman loud and brash and all gung ho? Here was a woman whose words inspired a guy to kill a president. And come to think of it, one of her old boyfriends shot the industrialist Henry Frick. Maybe I'm too swayed by the way Maureen Stapleton played Goldman in the film Reds. She was so bossy! And remember Stapleton in that Woody Allen movie, Interiors? Geraldine Page is all beige this and bland that so her husband divorces her and hooks up with noisy, klutzy Maureen Stapleton, who laughs too loud and smashes pottery and wears a blood-red dress to symbolize that she is Alive, capital A. Wait. I lost my train of thought. Where was I?"
Englishman: "I believe Dracula was in love with Maureen Stapleton."
"Oh, right. I haven't even mentioned the most touching part. Squeaky Fromme and John Hinckley sing this duet, a love song to Charles Manson and Jodie Foster. Hinckley and Squeaky sang that they would do anything for Charlie Manson and Jodie Foster. And I really believed them! Squeaky's like, 'I would crawl belly-deep through hell,' and Hinckley's all, 'Baby, I'd die for you.' It was adorable."
Mr. Connecticut looks at his watch and I simultaneously realize that I've said way too much and that saying way too much means I might miss my bus back home. And I really want to go home. I yell, "Nice meeting you!" and nearly knock down the teapot collection in my rush to get away from them. Though before I can leave, I have to settle up my bill with the friendly B&B owner. His first name? Hinckley.
On the bus home, I flip through my Assassins program from the night before and read the director's note. Of course talking about the murders of previous presidents is going to open the door to discussing the current president. That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary. Timothy Douglas, the Assassins director, doesn't say the president's name either, but he doesn't have to. Clearly, Douglas is horrified and exasperated by the Iraqi war. He writes,
Proportionate to my own mounting frustrations at feeling increasingly excluded from the best interests of the current administration's control in these extraordinary times helps me toward a visceral understanding of the motivation of one who would perpetrate a violent act upon the leader of the free world. My capacity for this depth of empathy also gives me pause, for I have no idea how far away I am from the "invisible line" that separates me from a similar or identical purpose.... Please allow me to state for the record that I am completely against violence of any kind as a way of resolving conflicts.
That crafty explanation slaps me in the forehead with all the force of "duh." Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm - hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Like director Tim Douglas, my simmering rage against the current president scares me. I am a more or less peaceful happy person whose lone act of violence as an adult was shoving a guy who spilled beer on me at a Sleater-Kinney concert. So if I can summon this much bitterness toward a presidential human being, I can sort of, kind of see how this amount of bile or more, teaming up with disappointment, unemployment, delusions of grandeur and mental illness, could prompt a crazier narcissistic creep to buy one of this country's widely available handguns. Not that I, I repeat, condone that. Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
I am only slightly less astonished by the egotism of the assassins, the inflated self-esteem it requires to kill a president, than I am astonished by the men who run for president. These are people who have the gall to believe they can fix us - us and our deficit, our fossil fuels, our racism, poverty, our potholes and public schools. The egomania required to be president or a presidential assassin makes the two types brothers of sorts. Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City that way. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up out of the desert by the sheer will of true believers. The assassins and the presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
One of the books I read for McKinley research was Barbara Tuchman's great history of European and American events leading up to World War I, The Proud Tower. Her anarchism chapter enumerates the six heads of state who were assassinated in the two decades before Archduke Ferdinand was murdered in 1914: McKinley, the president of France, the empress of Austria, the king of Italy, a couple of Spanish premiers. Her point being, it was an age of assassination. Well, I can come up with at least that many assassinations off the top of my head from the last two years alone as if playing some particularly geopolitical game of Clue: Serbian prime minister (sniper in front of government building in Belgrade), Swedish foreign minister (stabbed while shopping in Stockholm), the Taiwanese president and vice president (wounded when shots were fired at their motorcade the day before an election), two Hamas leaders (Israeli missile strikes), president of the Iraqi Governing Council (suicide bomber). And, in May 2004, an audio recording surfaced from Osama bin Laden promising to pay ten thousand grams of gold (roughly $125K) to assassins of officials in Iraq representing the United States or the United Nations.
"I'm worried about the president's safety," I said at a Fourth of July party in 2004 when this guy Sam and I were talking about the upcoming Republican National Convention here in New York. "I think you've seen The Manchurian Candidate too many times," said Sam. Guilty. Still, I dread bodily harm coming to the current president because of my aforementioned aversion to murder, but also because I don't think I can stomach watching that man get turned into a martyr if he were killed. That's what happens. It's one of the few perks of assassination. In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. As the rueful Henry Adams, a civil service reform advocate who marveled at his fellow reformers' immediate deification of President Garfield after that assassination, wrote, "The cynical impudence with which the reformers have tried to manufacture an ideal statesman out of the late shady politician beats anything in novel-writing."
Somewhere on the road between museum displays of Lincoln's skull fragments and the ceramic tiles on which Garfield was gunned down and McKinley's bloodstained pj's it occurred to me that there is a name for travel embarked upon with the agenda of venerating relics: pilgrimage. The medieval pilgrimage routes, in which Christians walked from church to church to commune with the innards of saints, are the beginnings of the modern tourism industry. Which is to say that you can draw a more or less straight line from a Dark Ages peasant blistering his feet trudging to a church displaying the Virgin Mary's dried-up breast milk to me vomiting into a barf bag on a sightseeing boat headed toward the prison-island hell where some Lincoln assassination conspirators were locked up in 1865.
I remembered that my friend Jack Hitt had written a book called Off the Road in which he retraced the old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. So I floated my pilgrimage theory to him in an e-mail and he wrote back that at one point on his Spanish trip, he saw "the flayed 'skin' of Jesus - the entire thing, you know, with like eyeholes and stuff, mounted on a wooden frame." Cool. His e-mail went on to say that in the Middle Ages,
Relics were treasured as something close to the divine. Often when a great monk died and there was a sense that he might be canonized, the corpse was carefully guarded in a tomb - often twenty-four hours a day. Visitors could come to the tomb.
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Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.
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This is one of my favorite books. It is a great story of history and the happen-chance meetings and situations that are woven into it. Many fascinating stories - especially enjoyable for those of us who enjoy trivia - written in a very lively, free-flowing style. Very enjoyable read.
I enjoyed this book. If you are interested in presidential assassinations but don't feel like nodding off in between lines of dry, academic drivel...this is the book for you. It presents the facts in a well organized way with a little humor thrown in; I should emphasize 'a little humor' because some of the jokes just are not funny. However there is an O.C. reference which saved the day for me. I also took a walk around Chelsea and checked out some of the buildings and statues. It got me excited about leader-of-the-free-world death all over again.
So I do tend to identify with Sarah's polotics, but even beyond that...I'm obsessed with her. She is an amazing and witty writer. Reading one of her books is like having a little chat with a friend. In fact, sometimes I imagine the conversation I would have if I were at dinner with Sarah, David Sedaris, and Ira Glass. They love me; it's excellent.
I loved this book on several levels: first, its content. I've always been interested in and have studied the Presidents, and the author did an amazing amount of research. Second, the writing itself: I'm crazy about how Ms. Vowell writes. It's wry and sly and just how I'd love to be able to write myself. And, a bonus with the audiobook is that it's read by the author herself. Her voice takes a few minutes to get used to, but once you do get used to it, you just can't imagine anyone else reading this book and doing it the proper justice. I can't recommend this book highly enough!
Sarah Vowell, famous for her unique '3rd grader' voice, is a history buff as well as a great writer. In 'Assassination Vacation' Sarah and sometimes her friends (she doesn't drive) travel along the country's famous and not-so-famous landmarks commemorating the assassination of 3 US Presidents. She goes every where from the Ford Theatre, to the Mudd House (now a museum) to the jail where they sent Dr. Mudd on a little island. This book is a hilarious, fast paced read sure to keep your attention!
Fun, entertaining, educational, and very well written. Love books that make me laugh outloud!
This was a great, quick read. There were a lot of laugh outloud moments and neat little factoids. I love how Sarah Vowell makes you feel like you're right there with her, along for the all the excitement in the discovery of our shared past.
This is one of those books that I could easily read more than once (and actually, I have). Like all of Sarah Vowell's other books, it is well written and engaging. If only all history books were this interesting.
Can't put Assassination Vacation down! Sarah's prose takes the reader into her world of history and makes it come alive! Would be an excellent book for a teenager disinterested in History Book history. It might have been nice had she and the publisher included books for further reading and/or source notes. Otherwise its huge fun and you can learn lots too!! Such a bargan
The latest offering from Sarah Vowell fails to dissapoint. It is an amazing book, that is 100% history, but 100% of Sarah's unique writing and humor. I highly recommend it to everyone.
This is a very good book -- plenty of actual history, with great wit and style to really make things interesting. I really enjoyed it.
I bought this book because I saw her interview on the Daily Show on Comedy Central, and I thought it interesting that there was a book written by such a young woman about the assassination of one very well-known president, Lincoln, and two less-known presidents, Garfield and McKinley. Her dedicated interest in the subject peaked mine...and I could relate to her eloquent nerdiness. The book is a great narrative that weaves in and out of modern and historical politics, and draws intriguing lines of coincidence and not-so-coincidental stories between each assassination. Being a reader who mostly enjoys fiction, this book was able to keep me entertained throughout - I even laughed out loud once or twice on the train during my morning commute. Her enthusiasm and fascination with these events made the book that much more fun for me to read because as I was following along on her pilgrimmage, I was taking notes on what I would do on mine when I go to visit my sister in DC this July. Good stuff!
Even at her most disjointed, Sarah Vowell never ceases to make a reader laugh out loud or think. 'Assassination Vacation' is not the best thing she has ever written, not by a longshot, but this tour through some of our country's more unknown (and sometimes morbid) historical sites is a long, meandering wander through Ms. Vowell's psyche as well. It's worth the trip. Oh, and you'll never utter the phrase 'Seward Plaque,' without thinking of her and you will utter it, trust me.
Sarah Vowell is like a American studies Paul Theroux minus the paternalism. My second favorite of her books
New author for me, pleased to find her. For my money, she has a very witty, creative and entertaining writing style, seasoned with a bit of irreverence. Also a rather interesting history lesson. I read it in just a couple sittings, often smiling as I read, sometimes actually chuckling.
Assassination Vacation is both very funny and very interesting.
This book is exacty what I thought. A modern writer who has convinced herself that she is much more intelligent and possess a greater understanding of history than any contemporary and much smarter than any Founding Father or other historical figure. Stories are muddled by her insistence of placing within her views on modern politics in case her next book doesn't find a publisher. If you keep in mind this is not an historical study it can be somewhat entertaining.
The audio version is 5 stars as it has her delightful voice added to it. It does have really interesting information about political life in the 19th century. It also has a large amount of left of center commentary, but that's Ms. Vowell. One has to like that or learn to get by it to enjoy her work.
Entertaining Look at History I had the opportunity to see Sarah Vowell in Cedar Rapids as a part of the Outloud! Author Series sponsored by the Metro Library Network. I was familiar with Ms. Vowell from her appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. After her reading and Q & A session with the attendees, I purchased two of her books, Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes. I decided to tackle Assassination Vacation first as I have had some weird fixation with both the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations since 10th grade. Ms. Vowell has a unique style of writing American History. For Assassination Vacation, she travels around the country visiting well-known and not so well-known locales connected with the assassinations of 3 early U.S. presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. She doesn't just visit site connected to the presidents, but also those connected to the men that fired the gun. This approach provides a unique, somewhat well-rounded picture of the victim and perpetrator. I say "somewhat well-rounded" because Ms. Vowell is well-known for her commentary on current American politics which she deftly weaves into the narrative of the book. Some might say this taints the overall neutral perspective that some might be seeking in a non-fiction novel. Personally, history cannot be viewed in a vacuum and connecting historical events to current events, for me, brings old dusty stories back to life. Overall, I give Assassination Vacation a thumbs up. If you like your American History with a touch of well-known and obscure facts with a side of satire and sarcasm, then you should check it out.
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Prelude – Eki no Inu Kau
--To Feed the Dogs of War --
"Tch." Genma adjusted his toothpick with his teeth, gazing up as the sky lightened from a deep indigo to a blood red. "That's ominous. What's the saying about red skies in the morning?"
His companion shrugged. "How should I know, Genma-san?" she questioned, nervously dropping a hand to her shuriken holster as a bird cawed and took flight overhead.
Her action was not unnoticed. Genma grinned and shook his head regretfully. This is what happens when Hokage-sama starts assigning rookie Chuunin to border patrol. The fact remained, however, that there was little other choice. Even now, almost three years since that disastrous Chuunin Exam (the one for which he had proctored the final exam, to his eternal dismay), Konoha still had barely enough shinobi to keep the land secure from invasion. Jounin were more in demand than ever as requests for high-profile missions continued to pour in, and ANBU always had something going on... leaving the border patrol stretched thin.
The former Chuunin examiner put a hand on the kunoichi's shoulder. "Don't jump at every small noise," he cautioned. "You'll tire yourself out."
"H...hai," she agreed. Her hand, however, remained in place.
"Tch." Genma bit down on the toothpick. Her nervousness was going to infect him if he wasn't careful. Damn rookie. "What's your name, anyway?"
"Yume, sir."
"I want you to check one hundred meters in each direction, Yume-kun," he told her. That would get her off his back, at least for half an hour. "Come back immediately if you see anything suspicious."
Her eyes widened. "But sir, what counts as suspicious?"
"What are you, a Genin? Tch." Genma shook his head with frustration. "You passed your Chuunin exams somehow, didn't you? I'm sure you'll know if you see it."
"Y-yes sir," she managed, jumping straight up into the air and disappearing to the north.
Genma sighed and pressed his fingertips to his forehead. It was going to be a long week until he was relieved. Something about that girl... he'd never seen her before; and distinctive indigo eyes like hers would be hard to forget. Once he returned to the village, he'd check her background, but until then he rested his back against the tree and began composing a few lines of poetry in his mind.
blood red skies above
keeps the young from peaceful sleep
my path...He sighed, sensing a presence behind him. "Back already? What did you-"
...my path leads to death
Bright sunlight streamed through the leaves and branches, lending the forest a serene, still air. All was silent but for the sudden crackle of a leapt-upon branch.
"Yahoo!" Inuzuka Kiba cheered, briefly flying through the air before landing again. "Early morning run, right Akamaru?"
Easily keeping pace beside him, his ninja dog and constant companion, the snowy white dog Akamaru barked once in resounding agreement. They'd already left the rest of their team behind; they'd wait for them at the border, sure enough, but early morning runs were the best. The impulsive youth sniffed the air and twisted around in midair to face back the way he had come. Akamaru had already halted and was sniffing more intently.
"What is it, Akamaru?" Kiba landed nimbly on the branch, only then noticing the silence of the forest. A silence that was far too deep- not a bird nor beast stirred.
Nearly two meters from snout to tail, Akamaru whined unhappily, then jumped from the branch to the ground and bounded off to the east.
Kiba was quick to follow. "What is it?" He skidded to a stop as a smell hit his sensitive nose like a blow. "Wha-"
The sweet iron smell of fresh spilt blood made him gag as he entered the small clearing, the sight of the precious fluid only then registering in his vision, smeared over the trees and the rocks, soaked into the soil beneath his feet, a devilish mire sucking at his shoes. "What happened here?" Kiba covered his nose and crossed to the far side of the clearing, where Akamaru pawed at something in the bushes.
The dog, white fur now streaked with red, bit down on a piece of navy blue cloth and tugged. "This is a Konoha ninja!" Kiba exclaimed, dropping to his knees and pulling the body from the brush. The man's breathing was faint, but it was there. "Akamaru, go get one of the guys patrolling the border. There's got to be at least one somewhere near us." He frantically dug through his pack and yanked out a scroll, scribbling a brief note on the inside and handing it to the dog. "Bring them here, go!"
Akamaru chomped down on the scroll and vanished, winding his way through the trees like a white shadow.
Kiba shivered as he gazed around the clearing. "What kind of weapon could have done this?" he murmured, staring at the gashes covering the Jounin's body. And his eyes narrowed. There was something clutched in the Konoha shinobi's hand. The younger man gently opened his fist and, as if struck by a bolt, dropped the hand and lunged to his feet."Hurry, Akamaru!"
Sarutobi-sensei. Not a day has passed that I haven't marveled at your influence in this village. Tsunade stood at the bay window of her office, hands clasped behind her back, watching a shadow fall over her village from the clouds obscuring the sun above. Sometimes, though, your mistakes and misjudgments come back to bite me. She sighed and turned, picking up a simple piece of cloth, recovered by Inuzuka Kiba- a cloth heavy with the weight of impending war.
A single finger-less glove, the type commonly worn by shinobi. A glove which, on the knuckles, was emblazoned the mark of the Village Hidden in the Clouds.
"Genma-san has no memory of the fight he must have had," Shizune said softly, eyes on the glove. "And it will be some time before he's conscious enough to respond to ANBU's interrogation methods."
"Of course," Tsunade agreed, clenching her fist around the navy-blue cloth. "That would be too easy."
Beside the glove lay a letter, recently arrived- this morning, actually- by carrier pigeon from the Village Hidden in the Clouds. In eloquent words, it warned of a rogue ninja turned serial killer last seen approaching the Land of Fire. A pleasant method of denying any possible involvement. However...
"Relations have never been good between Konoha and the Village in the Clouds." Tsunade dropped heavily into her seat and laid her head on the table, letter in one hand, glove in the other. "This could be an innocent case of a murderous rogue ninja, or it could be a prelude to invasion."
"And don't forget their interest in the Byakugan," Shizune added. She flinched as Tsunade turned a glare to her.
"How would I forget something like that?" she snapped angrily. "Now be quiet, I have to think." Tsunade steepled her fingers and rested her chin upon them. "Shizune," she said finally. "How many Jounin are available?"
"Uhh..." the less-imposing woman dug through the paperwork littering the desk until she found the list. "Right now... one."
"That's all? One?"
"Hai. Hyuuga Neji."
Tsunade's hand slipped and slammed against the desk. "Absolutely not!" The impact jarred the precarious stack of papers, sending them cascading through the air like a papery rainstorm.
Shizune jumped and tried to catch some of the wayward sheets. "But... he's the only one available," she protested weakly.
"It's impossible that there's only one Jounin not currently assigned to a mission." Her eyelid twitched with the effort of remaining calm. "Where is everyone?"
She gulped. "Well... we've had a lot of requests for high-profile missions lately... and we've just had the graduates from the Academy get assigned... There are a whole bunch of Chuunin available, though!" she added hastily at the sight of the mounting storm crossing the Hokage's face.
"I don't want to give Chuunin something this sensitive." Tsunade pressed her fingertips to her forehead and sighed.
"Why not Neji-kun?" Shizune ventured.
Her head snapped up. "Because I'd rather the Byakugan be nowhere near those damned Cloud ninja!" Tsunade massaged her temples wearily. "Send for Neji," she conceded finally. "If I remember correctly, only one member of his team is currently in Konoha?"
Shizune checked the paper in her hand. "Hai, the kunoichi Tenten. Lee-kun is with Gai-san on a mission."
"Send for her, then, too."
The other woman bowed and exited, leaving the Hokage alone. A rather ominous sign, Tsunade realized with horrifying abruptness.
In the flurry of papers that had flown through the air, the letter promising peace had disappeared.
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