December 31, 2004

CAGED FURY:

Martha Stewart Loses Decorating Contest (Fox News, December 31, 2004)

Martha Stewart, who built a billion-dollar media empire based on her holiday and home decorating tips, was unable to lead her team to victory in a prison decoration contest, a magazine reported.

Stewart and a team of fellow inmates at a federal prison camp in Alderson, W.Va., crafted paper cranes to be hung from the ceiling, People magazine reported in an article posted on its Web site Wednesday.

They lost out to a competing team that built a nativity scene showing "pictures of snow-covered hills and sleds and clouds on the wall," the magazine quoted an inmate as saying.

Each team was given $25 worth of glitter, ribbons, construction paper and glue to build a display based on the theme "Peace on Earth," the magazine said.


It seems safe to say Ms Stewart hasn't been born-again behind bars. Cranes?

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 31, 2004 3:36 PM
Comments

Isn't it comforting to know that with Kobe, OJ, Bin Laden, and Saddam still free we have managed to jail a woman who was willing to cook. clean, and decorate?

Posted by: Dorothy Judd at December 31, 2004 5:08 PM

Perhaps the paper cranes were the birds and not the machines.

Posted by: Brandon at December 31, 2004 5:25 PM

Brandon:

And?

Posted by: oj at December 31, 2004 5:28 PM

As they say, to an origamist who only knows how to make cranes, every occasion looks like an opportunity to make paper cranes.

Posted by: pj at December 31, 2004 5:46 PM

This story reminded me of something else in the news recently: Origami peace gesture met with violence in Thailand.

So perhaps Ms. Stewart would be better served by a more avant-garde form of origami: Origami Boulder Company.

Happy New Year everyone!

Posted by: MB at December 31, 2004 6:28 PM

Martha can't be that dense. She deliberately threw the contest to ingratiate herself with the tough that controls the black market toilet paper concession.

Posted by: NC3 at January 1, 2005 10:02 AM

Unfortunately, they were life-size replicas of Robert Crane.

Remember; all origami is Liberal.

Posted by: Noel at January 1, 2005 10:55 PM
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