For Christmas, my sister got me a web cam. Sometimes the Hubbard family sits around their web cam and sings songs for distant family and friends. Sometimes the Jaeger family sits around their computer screen to watch these Hubbard family songs. Family! Friends! You have brought us all together again.

Tuesday I figured out how to use my web to record a song from the Jim Henson classic “Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas”. I’ve already posted it to my facebook page, so I’m just adding it here for coverage. It is supposed to be a creepy song, and it is ok to laugh, because I was totally going for over dramatic.

You can watch the original on youtube.com also.

I’d like to take this moment to greet all of the people I met yesterday at the Faulkner County Supporters of Sustainable Communities “Green Drinks” get together yesterday. I got to talk to quite a few people about my passion for handmade, recycled, and locally made crafts.

Yesterday I linked all 6 panels of the Beer Can Hat together:

You can enlarge any of those pictures by clicking on them.

I also saw this music video for Red Fang’s “Prehistoric Dog”. They also are very much into turning aluminum cans into protective clothing. For those of you who like tamer music, turn the music down, and only watch the first and last minute. WARNING: this video contains massive consumption of beer, the opposite of consuming beer, Live-Action Role Players (LARPers), as well as gushing blood. As someone who has worked with the sharp edges of an aluminum can, I know you must be prepared for things like this when working with aluminum.

Working on my resume and other holiday gifts this weekend. I may have commissioned a sweater for some friends, so I need to gather my sweater pattern collection and get that sent. Lots of pictures coming up.

Poet David Mason and composer Lori Latiman worked together to create the operatic version of The Scarlet Letter. If you’re in Conway, AR you should see it this week. Here is some information on show times.

Tyrone and I saw David Mason from his book in verse, Ludlow, last year at UNL. I have man to many cool/hip poetry readings. Mason’s reading was the closest thing to a rock show I have ever seen. It rocked in the performance and the production of every word.

Last Friday night we headed out to the Faulkner County fair with our neighbor Sujith. None of these pictures need captions, except for the “WTH?” on the equal opportunity belt buckles showing the Mexican flag and the Confederate flag (complete with a “13″ and skull and crossbones?). ROCK ON for the Slayer ones.

It was a good night for corn dogs and soft pretzels. We talked to a family that raised lambs from Wooster. A band decked out in gold colors played country and rock hits from the 50s, and of course “Sweet Home Alabama”. I don’t mean this in a bad way, but it seems in some ways Arkansas is the red headed step child of the south. It has the Mississippi, but only half of it. There are no songs about it like Alabama, Georgia, or Louisiana. There aren’t very many blue smoky hills or green pastures of grazing horses like Kentucky, Tennessee, or the Carolinas. Then there is the Texas envy, which probably has something to do with football, but I suspect it goes much deeper. I’m not even sure if Texas is technically the south, or if it is just Texas.

I believe it is for this reason that the crowd at the fair enjoyed the southern rock hits. Being from Nebraska, I know we don’t embrace the Wizard of Oz, or that Iowa band Slipknot. We don’t try to claim the Black Hills of South Dakota, or anything about Wyoming (except water of course). If there is an Arkansas song I’m missing, please let me know. You’d think there would be one since Johnny Cash is from Arkansas.

I’m just going to post a few pictures here, but you are welcome to go through the gallery.

Around 3pm on Friday, I decided to put my hair into a mini bee hive:

Jen on bass




Courtney on drums





Kristen, on vocals





Band





Everyone should be in a band once in his or her life. It was fun, girls!

I’ve been running around putting fliers up in Lincoln for the Mister Baby show on Friday night! I didn’t know not having a job was so expensive AND such hard work. We’ve made some nice money off of some shows before, but nothing that would cover how much we would spend on new strings, drum heads, and wardrobe. (OK, mostly wardrobe.) Here’s an invite for you (click to enlarge):

Yesterday, I spent the afternoon crafting with my friend Sarah Skean, author of the Great Plains Foodie blog, and leukemia survivor. She made me leftover meatball sandwiches, and I posed with one with my best Angelina Jolie lips interpretation.I also finished my 2008 derby for the hat contest at State Fair Park. Last year, I placed second, but this year I planned ahead, and I’m going for that $100 first prize money.

The derby came out to party with the rest of us at the dome last Friday, but was far from finished. I may add a wire to help balance it on my head.

I’m trying to break into that fun world of knitting, DIY, and design. I really like reading what other people are doing, and then at night I enjoy what David Lynch calls, “the doing”.

Here is an original knit based on Cursive’s album “The Ugly Organ” :

The armband is knit in the dreaded, but oh-s0-washable Red Heart Acrylic.