When Your Online Acquaintances Find Jesus

Two of the people in my feedreader have recently returned to the church.  I have no knock against anyone returning to the church, but if you’re suddenly and abruptly going to refocus your blog on your newfound renewed love of Jesus, I think you owe your readers a slight explanation.
I know this stuff can be [...]

And Her Autobiography Practically Plagiarizes “Annie,” Too, but No One Seems to Care about That

You’d think that a story involving two acts you don’t care about would somehow be even less interesting than each individual act alone, like how, if The Black Crows elicit a “-2″ on the B.’s Scale of Interest and Gretchen Wilson is also a “-2,” that together, they must form a “-4″ of interest from [...]

If You Wanted to Make an Analogy

So, yeah, I loved The Dark Knight.  As did everyone, it seems, I thought Ledger’s performance was amazing.  I think what’s most amazing about his performance is that he makes you feel as if the Joker is real, not just in the context of the movie, but really real.  Almost everybody else, from Batman to [...]

The Dark Knight

We went to see the new Batman movie tonight on the IMAX screen… in the IMAX format… um, it was a big screen.
It was amazing.
And anyone who thinks that it’s some easy analogy to the state of conservatism… well, first of all, that would make you a moron.  Second, even if you believed that it [...]

Are We Being Poisoned?

It’s a simple enough question and one that seems like it’d be simple enough to answer, but I’ll be damned if I know.
Would it be wrong to start harassing the new editor of the Scene about this or would he think I’m a crackpot?
One of my many sources* sent me the press release and media [...]

Lunch

The Professor came by the office and we had salad with pears, some kind of cheese, walnuts, and my beloved dried cranberries.  Then we had the most delicious tamales in the history of tamales.  And then we had cupcakes.
We discussed injustice and bags.
And Dr. Phil.
In unrelated news, I’m considering taking up a collection to get [...]

If This is the Future of Pith, Color Me Delighted

Pith in the Wind, the blog by our local alternative newspaper–and lets be honest, folks, when the mainstream newspaper runs news items about potential closings because of snow in the middle of July, “alternative” doesn’t have to be any more radical than just “the paper that knows what season it is”–has always been a slightly [...]

Because I Love You

I bring you this.

I Feel Alright Tonight

One of my favorite private pleasures is to lift my foot off the gas just as I get to the last gas station out of town so that my car rolls slowly to the edge of the ridge.  Sometimes, I’m not sure if I’m going to make it to the top of the crest without [...]

“Hate Crime” or Domestic Terrorism?

I have become more and more convinced that the whole “hate crime” debate has become so heated as to be ridiculous and meaningless and that, in the end, it’s not necessary to have a distinction of a crime as a “hate crime” because such crimes are already covered under the terrorism statute of the Federal [...]

Decency

In the comments to my last post, Rachel says:
Just another comment, because I feel kind of disjointed about this, too – going to veer slightly from your post here. I understand what people are saying about the hate spewed by those who authored books found in Adkisson’s home. As a librarian, it sort of troubles [...]

Heroism

There’s lots I keep thinking about what happened over in Knoxville, like of course he is an abusive asshole stalker of his ex-wife and of course if you were going to target good liberal folks, you’d find them at a UU church, and of course all the rhetorical hatred of gays and liberals we’ve seen [...]

Because Who Doesn’t Need a Smile?

 
 
 
Man, what good taste the Church Secretary’s kid has in shirts, don’t you think?

Let Me Just Set the Scene

In other news, dinner tonight consisted of me, the Butcher, the tattooed friend, my mom, my dad, and Mack.
It turns out that some folks refuse to read the blog and others refuse to comment on it.  So, I could pretty much say whatever I wanted here about how it went, and there’d be no one [...]

I Hear Huntsville is Nice

I continue on my quest to get my parents to reconcider their plan to move to Georgia when my mom retires.  It’s a fool’s errand to try to tell people what to do with their lives, but an errand I’m on anyway.
What I said to my mom is that I’m afraid of what will happen [...]

We See Now Why You Have to Buy a Ticket to the TNGOP Fundraiser

It’s just so unseemly when the speaker at a fundraising event for the folks who like to parade around in the mantle of religious rightness is in danger of being put under citizen’s arrest by religious folks acting on their consciences.

We See Now How Chris Wage Plans to Take Over the World

Since he took a picture of it, he knows where this place is.  If he has any inkling of how bad most of us want to utilize that place, he’s going to trade maps to there for wealth and power.
It does not surprise me to see that this place seems to be some place sketchy.  [...]

Well, Apparently the EPA isn’t Monitoring My Blog

Because no one has showed up to locate the smell in my kitchen yet and I have made no progress towards even starting to discover it.  I have, however, spent the day listening to the litany of things the Mexicans in the tattooed friend’s shop tell him to say to each other.  One will say, [...]

Can’t You Smell that Smell?

Something in my kitchen smells so bad that I long for someone, anyone, to come to the door and say “Ma’am?  We’ve been sent by the EPA and we are here to clean up your kitchen.  Please put this gas mask on and show us where the fridge is.”
And my shoulders would slump in relief [...]

More Proof Mexicans are Ruining Our Culture

So, the tattooed friend has a job that involves putting things that “nothing runs like” together, not for farmers, but heavier equipment.  Like any good union man, he’s a Democrat.  There are quite a few Mexicans who work in his shop and I asked him how he felt about that.
He said that he liked and [...]

It’s 14 Year Old Boyland Here

So, the boys are going to some wine tasting, which for some reason involved the tattooed friend running around with no shirt on while digging around in his bag for something.
He then stands up and proceeds to spray this god-awful aerosol crap in a low swinging arc.
“Are you spraying your crotch with that shit?” I [...]

The Tattooed Friend’s Visit

I have seen things I cannot unsee and I have heard the term “beef sleeve” more often than one person should be required to.
But my dog is delighted and it will be worth the flashbacks to the afore-mentioned un-unseeable things to have my dog happy.
She has been sitting in his lap, licking all on his [...]

Footloose, The Explicity v. the Implicit

So, I was thinking about it, what bugged me about Footloose, which I still think you should go see.  And again, I keep coming back to this thought that everyone involved in this production is better than the source material.  Especially when it comes to casting choices (though, I might have just gone ahead and [...]

Footloose

I took the Butcher to see Footloose tonight.  In revenge, he says that he hopes our tattooed friend fights with my friend at lunch tomorrow and then takes her into the bathroom and “knows” her so loudly that everyone in the restaurant stares.
That being said, I think he liked it.
I’ll say this for it.  It’s [...]

Wedding Plans

My intern has the most beautiful handwriting in the whole world. I shit you not. And I was marveling over it today at work and accusing him of developing such beautiful handwriting so that he could game the system in school, where he could write something like “Just adding three parts hydrogen to [...]