I Might Have Been a Little Premature About Picking Out Paint

But let’s not dwell on that.
Instead, let’s dwell on the other important news.  The guac signal worked!  And the Professor and I were able to go to the store and procure fixings and eat it all up.  Well, mostly me.  Even now, my lips are all a tingle from the yummy of the jalapenos.
I was [...]

Doing Anything Else Today

I know 8:26 is too early to call the Professor, but I want to be doing something completely different today.  I don’t know what “completely different” looks like, exactly, but I know that, if the Professor’s not busy, she’ll be game for it.
I’m starting to wonder if the Clinton game plan, to just push ahead [...]

No! Not the Earl of Oxford?!

I’ll admit, I’ve had a soft spot for the theory that Edward De Vere is secretly Shakespeare ever since I read a book in grad school that purported to show how the Earl left all kinds of clues in the text, such as writing his name over and over and over again in some kind [...]

When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse, out of the corner of my eye

When I was a kid, I had a friend, K. whose dad was an urepentant Southerner in the middle of Illinois married to a woman with the same name as his mother, which was a pretty uncommon name.  K’s mom, the aforementioned woman, was one of the first people who talked to me like an adult, [...]

Just one Question

Pesky Fly has what may be my favorite post of the day today.  Informative, fun to listen to, and… well, that’s it.  It’s the kind of post I wish I knew enough about a song to write.
But here’s my one question.  Don’t you hear a little of this:

in this?
[...]

I’m Antsy

One weird side-effect of the whole house-hunting thing has been witnessing people’s weirdness about the Butcher.  And, honestly, I can’t decide if it’s weirdness about the Butcher or weirdness about money.  Maybe a little of both.
See, I’m waiting to make an offer on the house until after the Butcher sees it.  And, apparently, this is [...]

Songs that Sound Better in Summer

There are certain songs, I believe, that sound better when the weather is hot.  Two spring immediately to mind for me.  One is Madonna’s “Ray of Light” and the other is Sublime’s “Doin’ Time.”  Neither song is of any interest to me once the weather starts to turn cold.  But on days like today, when [...]

Resegregating Nashville Schools

Anyone who lives in Nashville can tell you that it’s still a pretty segregated city.  I wouldn’t say that it’s segregated with the same kind of brutality as northern cities.  For all our talk of bad neighborhoods that white people don’t go into, I’ve never met a black person in Nashville for whom I’m the [...]

In That Case, I Will Oppress the Mexicans, Chinese, and the Eastern Europeans!

Whew, I’ve got a big day ahead of me, if I’m going to prove myself to be a true-blue American with a righteous sense of history and the refusal to learn from the mistakes of my ancestors.  I’ll start by reading this book.  And then I’ll get on to repeating the exact same shit folks [...]

Signs and Portents

I had two dreams last night.  In one, I was putting a compost pile in my back yard and wondering if I could put dwarf lavender along the side fence.
In the other, I realized that Bridgett wasn’t just showing up to chat about the Civil War but that I was taking a class from her [...]

Maybe… Mayay…beee…

The only thing worse than watching a cute man go through your iPod with a furrowed brow is watching a man go through all the houses you’re considering buying and pointing out things like “They don’t appear to have actually put any support there” or “Hmm. That’s some mold they’ve got there” or “Is [...]

Wait? Why Was Smith on that Commission to Begin With?

I swear, sometimes this state makes me laugh so hard.  You may remember Robin Smith, who is Bill Hobbs’s boss over at the TNGOP, and who has been very public in her support of Hobbs’s efforts to inform the whole world that Tennessee is a state that hates Muslims and likes to pick on women.
Well, [...]

We’ve Looked at Thirty-Six Houses?!

Kathy T. has the update.

Why They’re Trying So Hard Right Now

John McCain on Ellen last week:
he opposes gay marriage and believes in “the unique status of marriage between and man and a woman.”
“And I know that we have a respectful disagreement on that issue,” the likely Republican presidential nominee said
Jenna Bush Hager on Ellen last week:
“So, can we borrow it for our wedding,” DeGeneres asked. [...]

The Goats

Thor has two goats who pull his cart–Tooth-gnasher and Tooth-grinder.  You can eat them, and as long as you put their bones and hide back in a pile, complete, Thor can make them whole again.  Other than that, I assume that they’re ordinary goats.
But I’ve been watching Mack’s goats with an eye towards Thor, wondering [...]

Recount

I watched part of “Recount” yesterday but couldn’t stand to watch the whole thing.  I won’t go into all the reasons I didn’t like it, but I do want to get on one: the portrayal of Katherine Harris.
To me, Katherine Harris is a really interesting figure.  She’s motivated by deeply held religious beliefs, but she’s [...]

I’m Going to Get Kicked Out of Drinking for Admitting This

But I went to bed at seven last night.  And slept until six thirty this morning.

Need to Sleep. Sleep Won’t Come

I am so tired.  I can’t even begin to tell you.  I blame the 100 proof vodka.  But I’m trying to stay up until at least 8 p.m. so I can sleep through the night.  Here’s a cartoon I wish was about me.  But none of my cats would stand for shit like that. Kathy [...]

I Wondered if They Looked at the House before They Priced It

Usually, Kathy T is like a real estate sherpa.  She walks into a situation, instantly finds her bearings, and can expertly guide you around.
But yesterday, we saw a house so ridiculous that I came into the living room to find her sitting in a dazed confusion.
They wanted one-thirty for the house, in a nice, but [...]

“Marriage licenses are just going to be another way to legitimize people who aren’t supposed to be here in the first place.”

In a way, I’m embarrassed to admit that it took seeing that Tribe and Play had been singled out for scrutiny under our bizarro anti-immigrant laws for me to start to wonder how the two things–hatred of homosexuals and hatred of Hispanics–might be linked.
But I saw this post over at GoldenI’s about how, for the [...]

Missing One Thing, Finding Another

I usually put in a good chunk of time at the International Country Music Conference every year, but this year I got to be there for a grand total of six hours.
Still, in that time, I got to talk to Michael Betrand (who, you may recall, is brilliant), hear all about Hank Williams deeply, deeply [...]

With Democrats Like This, Who Needs Republicans?

Listen, I’ll say right up front that I think Clinton should stay in the race as long as she wants.  She would be an excellent nominee and, if that’s how the party goes, I’m ready to vote for her.
But this?
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary [...]

Oh, Hobbs

Yeah, and the TNGOP hired a Muslim-bashing, Harris-Teeter-shopping guy who likes to pick on women to be their voice to the outside world.  What of it?

Cottage Gardens

Folks, I have been looking all over the internets to find out what an “English Garden” is an coming up more and more confused by the seeming disconnect between what people are calling an English Garden and what an English garden seems to be.
But I just discovered, it’s a cottage garden.  They mean a cottage [...]

The Man from GM Sent me Roses!

I just walked into the office (I was a little late because I was on the phone with my spiritual adviser having a fight about how I never answer my phone.  Perhaps the Man from GM should call him and they can commiserate.) and found a big pile of roses on my desk from the [...]