The Fifty worst songs

1. We Built This City ... Starship
2. Achy Breaky Heart ... Billy Ray Cyrus
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight ... Wang Chung
4. Rollin' ... Limp Bizkit
5. * Ice Ice Baby ... Vanilla Ice
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll ... Huey Lewis and the News
7. * Don't Worry, Be Happy ... Bobby McFerrin
8. Party All the Time ... Eddie Murphy
9. American Life ... Madonna
10. Ebony and Ivory ... Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
11. Invisible ... Clay Aiken
12. Kokomo ... The Beach Boys
13. Illegal Alien ... Genesis
14. * From a Distance ... Bette Midler
15. * I'll Be There for You ... The Rembrandts
16. What's Up? ... 4 Non Blondes
17. Pumps and a Bump ... Hammer
18. * You're the Inspiration ... Chicago
19. Broken Wings ... Mr. Mister
20. Dancing on the Ceiling ... Lionel Richie
21. Two Princes ... Spin Doctors
22. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) ... Toby Keith
23. Sunglasses at Night ... Corey Hart
24. Superman ... Five for Fighting
25. I'll Be Missing You ... Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112
26. The End ... The Doors
27. The Final Countdown ... Europe
28. Your Body Is a Wonderland ... John Mayer
29. * Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Deep Blue Something
30. Greatest Love of All ... Whitney Houston
31. Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ... Crash Test Dummies
32. Will 2K ... Will Smith
33. * Barbie Girl ... Aqua
34. Longer ... Dan Fogelberg
35. Shiny Happy People ... R.E.M.
36. Make Em Say Uhh! ... Master P featuring Silkk, Fiend, Mia-X and Mystikal
37. Rico Suave ... Gerardo
38. Cotton Eyed Joe ... Rednex
39. She Bangs ... Ricky Martin
40. I Wanna Sex You Up ... Color Me Badd
41. We Didn't Start the Fire ... Billy Joel
42. * The Sound of Silence ... Simon & Garfunkel
43. Follow Me ... Uncle Kracker
44. * I'll Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) ... Meat Loaf
45. Mesmerize ... Ja Rule featuring Ashanti
46. Hangin' Tough ... New Kids on the Block
47. The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You ... Bryan Adams
48. ** Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ... The Beatles (double-starred because it's my daughter's favourite song)
49. I'm Too Sexy ... Right Said Fred
50. * My Heart Will Go On ... Celine Dion

You know the drill - star or bold the ones you personally like. The list supposedly contains the fifty worst songs ever. I think it contains a fair selection of mediocre but badly-overplayed songs. Anyhow. Try it if you dare.

Crochet Club

Herein are the minutes for the first ever meeting of Hamilton's Hip Young Crocheters Club (Hereafter referred to as HHYCC.)

Present: sassy_fae and velvetpage, co-founders and co-presidents of HHYCC.

Also in attendance were Dragonlass, honourary member of HHYCC pending her attainment of the age and dexterity required to wield a crochet hook to good effect; and pyat, primarily as babysitter of Dragonlass.

Item one on the agenda: get into the closet containing two-thirds of velvetpage's yarns/threads/projects in various states of completion. This required moving substantial numbers of Dragonlass's toys to either side and on top of each other. Also, a crate containing several binders and many LP's was summarily banished to the basement, which, strangely enough, also holds the turntable for them.

Item two: pull out of closet the first bin of YTPIVSOC. Sort through these. Wear misshapen attempts at thread crochet as hats. Lament the desire ever to make a potholder in the shape of little bloomers, out of fire-engine-red thread. Congratulate self on non-completion of bloomers. Discuss possible uses for some lovely bouclé in a dark mauve-purple, and then discover that one skein is already attached to the first few rows of what appears to be a scarf. Realize that non-completion of scarf probably had a lot to do with the difficulty of working with bouclé yarn. Replace project in bin. Discover a glue gun, eight different colours and styles of ribbon, six different balls of size-10 thread in various colours including baby pink, delft blue and the aforementioned red, two balls for an incomplete sweater (the sweater itself is in the bin that was left unopened) and various and sundry other items. Replace lid with some difficulty; these are cheap knock-off bins and the lids are warped from long sojourn in the closet.

Item three: pull out second bin of YTPIVSOC. Discover the incomplete project that velvetpage actually wanted to show her co-founder. The afghan is in six strips, each containing five squares. Made with a double-ended afghan hook, the intent was to reproduce as closely as possible the woven effect of a plaid blanket. Some squares are a solid colour, some are blue and green, some have red vertical and horizontal stripes, some yellow, some a yellow horizontal and red vertical stripes, some vice-versa. The overall effect is very close to the intended look, but it was never finished.

Item four: pull out these strips of plaid afghan, decide on a method of joining strips together, and begin work while sassy_fae pulls out her crochet pattern books.

Item five: Break to put Dragonlass to bed. Sing lullaby, which is completely ignored as Dragonlass attempts to reach Daddy's pocket watch, in which she is very interested.

Item six: Look through the pattern books provided for the purpose by sassy_fae. Lament colour choices in almost every pattern. Comment on the difficulty of getting certain types of pattern to lay flat upon completion. Reminisce about crocheted toys and clothes of the seventies that we remember wearing as children.

Item seven: seek out pop. Put a bit of the cherry neat into said pop, at least for velvetpage.

Item eight: Renew perusal of pattern books. Laugh until we cry at chicken pothandle cover. sassy_fae, please, please post a picture of that.)

Future meeting date: the next Friday with no gaming for either co-founder.