Hobbs Opposes Newspapers’ Right to Post His Junk Mail List

I’ve now stayed up as late as I can to see what the reaction of the local gun-nut community would be to Bill Hobbs’s latest piece of nonsense, but my connect is strangely silent on the matter.
Here’s the deal.  We have a kind of fuckerly paper here in town and they pretty regularly post information [...]

Maybe I’ll Just Rent Forever…

So, I made the mistake of typing my numbers into the CNN “How Much House Can I Afford” calculator and it turns out that, the conservative estimate of how much house I can afford is -41,990.21 dollars and the aggressive estimate is -30,871.65 dollars.
I’m not quite sure what it means that I can only afford [...]

Putting Men Between a Rock and a Hard Place

So, I’ve been mulling over the exchange between Say Uncle and KAG about the new hair salon designed for [straight] men, Gentlemen’s Top Cuts.  I like both of them and I find that KAG has a homey kind of feminism that appeals to me, so when Uncle starts throwing around accusations of misandrist behavior on [...]

Ole Hank and Lefty and Willie and Waylon and the Boys

The best/worst element of country music–best in that when it’s done well it gives you a real sense of how an artist understands herself as a part of a larger artistic tradition and worst in that when it’s done poorly it’s hilariously bad–is the constant references to other artists in a list in a song.
Here’s [...]

Just Who Were These Dog-Headed Men?

I’m not a medievalist, and so I’m about to advance a theory that may be so bloody obvious that it’s the equivalent of someone coming up to you now and saying “You know, I’ve been watching Lost since the beginning and I’m starting to think there’s something funky about that island.”
But I’ve been giving some [...]

Random Things that Caught My Attention

–There is a noise at the top of the stairs.  Plish, shloshp, plisp… something like that.  The noise water makes when it’s dripping from your ceiling onto your carpet.
–Answer me this: when you read the following sentence, do you not wish with every ounce of your being that you’d written it?
Instead tonight there is the [...]