Dr. Lover

I just got word that Dr. J’s lover has successfully defended his dissertation and become, as such, Dr. Lover. Dr. Lover has one of those last names that, no matter how strongly you feel about keeping your family name, you might stick on your exception list and so Dr. J and Dr. Lover are [...]

The New Adam

The description reads:
Visitors to the Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, in early 1963 were hardly prepared for the painting that greeted them: a colossal, 40-foot-long male nude, precisely and sensually rendered in full anatomical detail. In Paris and later in New York, Chicago, and L.A., the work was greeted with “shock,” recalls Harold Stevenson (b. 1929, [...]

Well, So Much for That

We lost the house.
It sucks.
It’s sketchy.  The old buyers, who the sellers had assured us were out of the picture, are not.  They close Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.  I feel a little like they just put it back on the market to try to force the hands of the people who are buying it.
Well, fine.  [...]

Campfield Makes Some Stuff Up. Passes It Off as True. Water is Wet. Sky is Blue.

Often, when talking about Campfield, it’s hard for me to not be snarky because he just says stuff that is obviously untrue or proposes bills that are obviously crap that couldn’t withstand a court challenge or whatever and I find that insulting.
Not personally insulting, but insulting to the voters of Tennessee. Every time he [...]

The Butcher Returns

My Dad calls and he’s all like “Where’s your brother?” and I’m like “I don’t know.  I haven’t seen him since Thursday.”  And my dad says “He is aware that he’s not supposed to go on the honeymoon with them, right?” 
“I don’t know, Dad.  Maybe it’s one of those group marriages where the Butcher married [...]