Patrick Geretty and I are still plugging away at the music video of "Rainy Days and Mondays" we want to make with the Countess and Stinky O'Sock. We recorded the music tracks in November, and are hoping to get all the sets and Stinky finished to shoot in mid February. Stinky is a 7 foot tall sock puppet. Patrick puppeteers him from the inside, like Big Bird. Stinky is getting an overhaul for the video including a new outside sock.

Patrick has been researching knitters to create the fabric we need on a knitting machine, and his search actually led him to a convent here in LA. He was beside himself with glee that Stinky might be "hand knit by nuns!" and was hoping that they would do the job.

The other day, he finally got Sister Raphael from the Monastery of Angels in Hollywood on the phone, and she was having no part of it. "No nun will ever knit your sock!" she decreed. Even after Patrick explained that all he wanted was long panels of white knit, all the same color, that we would sew together ourselves, an easy job to do on a knitting machine. She then began to grill him about yarn ply. She was the expert, and made sure he didn't forget it. Not the attitude he expected from a nun, and we are taking our business elsewhere.

Judy of Topaz Knitwear will be knitting Stinky O'Sock. And we are happy to give her our business.

"Not hand knit by any nuns!"