cut to ribbons

bow down

Glue + tape + scissors + paper + knife + glue + tape + scissors + paper + knife... I've made stacks of gift bow/ribbon/rosette things to pop atop Christmas presents: knits ones, Jane Fonda ones, 2000 A.D. & Judge Dredd ones... you name it, I've turned it into a bow.

Many times I've had to hold a roll of tape in my left hand, a knife in my right - pointed menacingly at both a wrist (nice juicy veins in there) and a thigh (some fairly large and important arteries in there, too) - while cutting firmly into and around the roll. And no injuries have been sustained. Yet this afternoon when I dropped my tape, I reached down to catch it and cut the back of my hand open on a cutting mat (a CUTTING MAT, people - plastic and soft). It's a dangerous business being R.W. Scissors.

See you at Kraftbomb tomorrow, I hope! It's the last one of the year, and perfectly timed for last-second Christmas shopping. If I can survive until then.. dun-dun-dunnnn.