I'll take your side, ita. Red shoes can be OTT, especially when they're not balanced by anything else red.

Jilli, I bring my knitting with me to low-key social events all the time.

Oh, I bring mending and minor alteration projects with me all the time, too. But I've never thought about sewing a skirt by hand; that's the crazy part.

Isn't the official dresscode for the event OTT??

(ita's, not Jilli's)

OK, so we have these creepy t jillifont spiderlike cricket things t /jillifont that even unnerve me with their crazy jumping. They're harmless, but anyway. They make for GREAT Loki entertainment when he's out on his leash. Got him up and down the whole block, since they are everywhere. I don't think he realized he wasn't chasing the same one. Or cared. 20 minutes and only came in because MK needed his shot.

I think you've sewn skirts by hand when I've been around and it wasn't like it took over the room or even the couch. I don't see why you couldn't do it at a low-key social scenario.

I do not feel like being social tonight. Drat. Need to let people know.

Those sound like camel crickets, sarameg. We have them in NC, too. Leifur's great about killing them. Although last night he left a mostly dead one in my bed as a gift, which I could have lived without.

Those cave crickets are freaky looking. I always jump at first, thinking they're big-ass spiders when I see them at my parents' place.

Yeah, I don't think Loki had any idea that when he pounced on one, he was squashing it. But no worries, there's another one. Good cat toys.

Randy Quaid and wife arrested in Canada, seek refugee status

VANCOUVER (AP) — Actor Randy Quaid told Canada's immigration board Friday that he and his wife are seeking asylum from "the murderers of Hollywood" and will therefore apply for refugee status in Canada, after they were arrested on U.S. warrants related to vandalism charges.

The pair were arrested on Thursday afternoon in a shopping area of an affluent Vancouver neighborhood and were jailed on outstanding U.S. warrants.

The Quaids are wanted in Santa Barbara, where they missed a court hearing Monday on felony vandalism charges.

Evi Quaid begged a Canadian immigration adjudicator not to force them to return, saying on Friday that friends, such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger, have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she worried something would happen to her husband next.

"We feel our lives are in danger," she said. "Randy has known eight close friends murdered in odd, strange manners ... We feel that we're next."

During a break in the proceedings, the Quaids' lawyer, Brian Tsuji approached the media to read a single-sentence statement from the Quaids. "We are requesting asylum from Hollywood star whackers," he read, declining further comment on the mental state of his clients.

Huh. Yeah, if I was their attorney I think I'd decline further comment on their mental states....

If bon agrees with me, I must be right. Because she never sartorially agrees with me. However Jesse's point as also kinda on point.

Still! I don't do OTT I don't feel comfortable with. And there's plenty of it I feel comfortable doing. Where do I find a wedding guest dress with a neckline down to my navel? But no red shoes.

If I hadn't left my dinner in my car, I wouldn't have noticed I didn't lock it. Oops.

I have not drawn yet today. I am a bad person.