A Hat with Ears & The Towel Dance

I’m finally getting around to making Plimco the hat with ears that she requested about one million years ago.  I’m concerned that this may be a little small, but it’s just a prototype so that I can get a feel for how making such a hat works, so I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s [...]

How Much Makes a Garden?

NM advised me to plant herbs.  She thought that would improve my situation and I thought, well, why not?  I’m trying to learn to take people’s good advice. On the other hand, I’m not the world’s greatest tender-to-er of anything and so I thought I’d just start small.  I planted some basil (mmmm), some rosemary [...]

Sitting Around the Kitchen Table

All right. So, as previously reported, Mack’s got this amazing kitchen table in his cabin and I have an overwhelming desire to stick some women around it and eat and talk and just see what happens. So, happily, he’s willing to make the table available on the 21st. I’m not sure what kind of gathering [...]

Is there anything better?

Is there anything better than coming home from a long evening of drinking to discover a dog happy to see you and a couple of Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs? I’m not sure there is.

Why Mrs. Wigglebottom Got Divorced

Bridgett sent me a story so lovely that, upon hearing it, I realized that this is probably the story of why Mrs. Wigglebottom got divorced. See, a while ago, there were two dogs who were great friends, Jake Wigglebottom, a regular yellow dog, and Tiny Pastures, a German Shepherd.  They liked many of the same [...]

The Narcissistic Princess Has Her Say

Here.

Who Has it in for the Concordia Lutherans?

Someone did a number on the Concordia Lutheran street sign last night.  Yesterday, it stood on its metal pole pointing you to the Concordia Lutheran Church just two blocks off Murphy Road. Today, the pole is a twisted mess and the whole thing is sitting in a heap next to the hole it used to [...]

My Constant Companion

I just got off the phone with the Professor, which I highly recommend to everyone who’s feeling out of sorts. I, of course, was feeling quite out of sorts after being called a narcissistic princess by a man whose praises I spent all Tuesday singing, but I chose not to burden the Professor with that. [...]

Stacey Campfield

I’ve been thinking a lot about Stacey Campfield (not in that way, you perverts) and I’ve been mulling over our encounter.  Okay, the encounter between him and Don Coyote, which I had the pleasure to observe. We’ve talked some about the differences between conservatives and liberals, just in their mindsets–what they choose to emphasize and [...]

Little Girl, Big World

It’s grandefille’s niece’s birthday today and I am madly in love with this photo, which seems to me to be one of those photos that, the longer you look at it, the more you think about. We were watching USA, I think, the other day and they had some promo on there for the WWE [...]

Don Coyote

“Don Coyote” “Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.” “See, I knew it’d be awesome.” “No, B.  No.  It’s not ‘Daan Cai-otee’ [imagine, if you will a flock of geese calling to each other across a flat, empty corn field in the early evening: Daan, Daan, Daan Cai-otee].” “Are you making fun of [...]

What Do You Want from Writing?

We were talking writing today, what its purpose is, how it should work.  I’m still mulling it over. I feel like how I was taught how to teach writing was inherently supremacist–that there’s some objective standard for what makes “good” writing and that everything else that falls short of that objective standard sucks. That’s just [...]

Mack Needs a Nickname

I’m not asking for suggestions.  I’m just saying.  I’m thinking on it. He’s over there right now suggesting that he can conjure shit and cure toe-nail fungus, but won’t.  I’m not sure that’s really fair to people who suffer from toe-nail fungus.

Remedial Feminism

It’s come to my attention that even well-meaning men still believe that feminism is somehow all about them–that it’s about hating men or how we’re the victims of men or how we’re trying to be the same as men (I mean, seriously, Bob Krumm wrote a postbasically mocking women’s desire for equality and not one person gave [...]

Best Nap Ever

I just woke up from the best nap ever.  That is all.

Parting Thoughts

Even though they didn’t want to initially, I thought it was very kind of the Republicans to invite us liberal folks, who ended up being just me and Mack. One thing I found really disturbing is that because the legislative branch of the government is part time, it really limits who can even run for [...]

Notes on Tort Reform

10,000 doctors in TN 9 OBs in Memphis to serve all of the TennCare . Tort reform… Access problem to doctors because doctors leave practice because they can’t afford insurance. Some folks paying $120,000 to $200,000 a year in insurance. OBs’ insurance rates have gone up 90%. 70% of doctors have been sued. We export [...]

An Unholy Alliance

I’ve just been told that I must remain here until Mack and Carter get back from smoking.  The two of them together, plotting, makes me nervous.  Hopefully they’re just discussing where to get good tamales.  But imagine if they find common ground of some sort. Also, I need a haircut. You know what tickles me?  [...]

Live Blogging the AG Meeting

We’ve all been told that the AG committee meeting is going to be contentious so the computers are out and I’m typing away. I can’t tell if Kleinheider has managed to get online yet. Mack has his usual look of detached interest going on. And the room is full of kids all dressed in red. [...]

P.S.

I did learn that Terry Frank is not Stacey Campfield’s mom.  In fact, she is younger than Representative Campfield, who is thirty eight.

I Have Failed You

I met Stacey Campfield and his evilness sucked the life out of me.  I’m going to bed so I can get up and finish up Blogger Day on the Hill.  I think I’ll be able to live blog from Legislative Plaza tomorrow.  Maybe more about Campfield then.

Blogger Day on the Hill Eve, the Eve

Well, here we are at the state capitol.  Fittingly, we’re practically sitting on the window ledge, which is, I believe, the space they reserve for everyone who believes in the rights of women. Kleinheider is sitting behind me stewing because he’s not in the press box.  Oh, breaking news, he claims he’s not stewing and [...]

Well, If It’s For My Health…

Exador sent me a link to this story about how being equal to men is bad for women’s health.  Well, golly. Clearly, we must immediately do away with feminism! I have taken some steps. 1.  I’ve called all the major credit companies and listed myself as Exador’s wife on his accounts.  While he’s working hard, [...]

Clearly My Phone is Trying to Tell Me Something

All right, technology geniuses.  I have a cell phone.  It’s one of those kind you have to flip open to answer.  When it’s shut, there’s a little screen that usually just flashes the time.  Sometimes, though, there’s an icon of an arrow pointing to a phone on there as well. When I get just the [...]

Blogger Day on the Hill Eve

Today is Blogger Day on the Hill Eve and so the festivities start this afternoon at about 4:30. I need to email Kara Watkins and ask her if we can bring our laptops and, if so, if it’s possible to blog from the capitol. If so, then I will bring you up to the minute [...]