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It’s curious. On eBay right now you’ll find dozens of gray acrylic crocheted ponchos honoring Martha Stewart, often sold with an issue of her magazines, a packet of seeds, or some other Martha item. Mysteriously, people are actually buying these things. One poncho-and-magazine combination is going at the moment for $41.00 with 19 bids.

Back in the early 90s I used to go around in a gray wool poncho. (Always twenty years behind or fifteen years ahead of my time, me.) It didn’t take all that long for me to recognize that it was not particularly attractive. Nor was it comfortable, especially when I was trying to lug around books, groceries, or laundry. I see trendy girls in their ponchos these days and I think, “You suckers.” But at least those ponchos don’t usually look as if they’ve been made out of old mop heads, unlike these Stewart-style objects.

In other news, I have it on good authority that having shingles really, really sucks. Josh is being amazingly patient, though.

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