I May Be Spending My Evenings with James Dickey

I won’t go into all of it, because, frankly, it’s none of your business and it’s craziness anyway so what do you care if you’re getting the whole delusion or just part?
But it was like this.  We were in a clearing and there was a dead deer and He was trying to put the deerskin [...]

Because I Love You

I just want to point out to the Bob Dylan fans that this version of “Mississippi” is good for your heart.
And free, which makes it good for your pocketbook.

We Are Not Owed Slaves

I’m not sure how to start this post other than to just start it.  Here’s the thing I believe to be true with all my heart.  I believe America was built with a fundimental flaw–and that flaw was the belief that some folks in this society deserve an underpaid or unpaid support system of laboring [...]

Random Things that Caught My Eye

1.  A 6000 year old homestead.
2.  Do not even try to win this, but tell me, is it not stunning?  All right, fine.  Try to win it if you want.
3.  Mark takes you to school on our “voter fraud.”  There is an underlying sense to this story of the self-importance of some Republican chatterers in [...]

Actual Sign in the Window at Noshville

A race for a cure for Diabetes–team name “No More Pricks.”
We can only hope it’s either a lesbian running team or one woman on an otherwise completely male running team.
I thought it was hilarious.  Neither NM nor the Professor seemed nearly as amused as I was.  Though, in all fairness, I also think it would [...]

Apple Cider

Some of my favorite memories from grad school, looking back, are of eating and drinking with Dr. J.  Sure, of course, I loved to drink Gin Ginnies (which was a drink I believe Dr. J’s mom invented), and I’ll never forget the time we sat in the porch swing, eating all of the potato salad [...]

Yes, More Woo-woo Crap, but World, You’re All I’ve Got

So, three nights down, six to go.  I sat outside.  I sat inside.  I sat outside again.
It’s weird.  It’s the same thing I do every October, but it’s completely new.  I don’t know.  I want to say something profound about it, but it’s hard to talk about.
Sometimes you go drifting around the internet, hoping to [...]