I wanna Dance!

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV. 

Seriously! What happened to the good old days? I miss getting up every morning, drinking my milk out of an old mason jar, waving hello to Jimmy, the neighborhood paperboy and then working a honest days work at the old mill to only to come home to a nice pleasant evening of quality American television. I also miss the quality songs from the band Kool and the Gang. ‘Get down on it’, ‘Tonight’, ‘Celebration’, and ‘Too Hot’. Man those were the jams! Nowadays their ain't any songs that make you want to shake loose and boogie! Ok… Lady Gaga is in exception. Her song right now on the radio actually has the words “Just Dance”. I mean… that genius. It tells you that we as a collective group should just dance. Brilliant. Another thing that’s brilliant is the way cotton is made into jeans and t-shirts. How do they do it? Well I will tell how. At the textile mill, the bales are opened by machines, and the lint is mixed and cleaned further by blowing and beating. The short lint that comes out usually is separated and sold for use in other industries. The best part of the lint consists of fibers about 1 inch to 1 ¾ inches long. The mixed and fluffed-up cotton goes into a carding machine, which cleans the fibers some more and makes them lie side by side. The combing action of the carding machine finishes the job of cleaning and straightening the fibers, and makes them into a soft, untwisted rope called a sliver (pronounced sly-ver). On modern spinning frames, yarn is mare directly from the sliver. The spinning devices take fibers from the sliver and rotate it up to 2,500 revolutions in a second twist that makes fibers into a yarn for weaving or knitting into fabrics. Machines called looms weave cotton yarns into fabrics the same way the first hand weaving frames did. Modern looms work at great speeds, interlacing the length-wise yarns (warp) and the crosswise yarns (filling). The woven fabric, called gray goods, is sent to a finishing plant where it is bleached, pre-shrunk, dyed, printed and given a special finish before being made into clothing or products for the home. Other machines make knits for use in shirts, sweaters or blankets.

 

Joey