Learning about Death

I swear, y’all would think that I’d never been outside before, the amount I sit around now blogging about my outside, but the truth is that I really don’t feel like I ever had to think about it before.  About my place in it.  Here, we’re really stepping in after long decades of someone loving [...]

Daron “Smoochy” Hall

You know how it is.  You’re a loveable children’s character (or the sheriff of a major metropolitan city, in which you grew up) and you’re invited to speak some place and you don’t bother to check the group out and the next thing you know, you’re performing in front of neo-Nazis, or in Hall’s case, [...]

How is a Lie Better than the Truth?

I am still fuming about SB0078, Stanley’s bill to ban all unmarried couples from adopting.  It’s not just the language about how adoptive parents must “foster an appreciation for the policies of the state.”  It’s not just that it pisses me off that Stanley thinks it’s an appropriate use of the State’s time and money [...]

Welcome, New Convention Center!

I swear, I once read in the New York Times them calling Nashville the Home for Wayward Architecture and yet, when I google it, the only result is me making that claim.  Nothing from the Times itself.  Did I imagine it?  Could I have coined a phrase so awesomely fitting of our great city and [...]

Feel Good Friday, Because It’s All You Can Do

Just so we’re all on the same page.  Under Stanley’s plan, the people in the following songs would be be allowed to adopt children in Tennessee–

But this girl would not–

Hurray! Cancer! (Or Superpowers! Let’s Be Optimistic.)

So, it turns out that the fly ash the TVA couldn’t bother to properly contain is full of arsenic and radioactive materials.
Oh well.  When all the people exposed to it get cancer and get sick and maybe die, then they’ll be bearing the full weight of the cost of coal and then maybe they’ll force [...]

It’s Here

The bill to ban unmarried people from adopting children is here, submitted today by Senator Paul Stanley.
Yes, Citizens of Earth, the very day after the House had to hold a hearing because Representative Williams didn’t seem to understand he wasn’t being elected by his constituents to represent them at a giant frat party, some other [...]

I’ve Reached that Point

I guess there comes a point in every feminist’s career when being a feminist just ruins it for her and today, I have reached that point.  I want to drive up to the capitol and kick in the shins every person who is walking around all “Oh, don’t risk yourself, Lynn.” “Oh, this accussation will [...]

You Don’t Often See Headlines Like That

Over at The Flypaper Theory, Jeff points us to the story of a girl taken over by God during school in December.
My favorite parts are the headlines.  On the article itself

Was High School Girl Possessed In Class?
Girl Spoke In Tongues, Made Predictions For Future

and on the video

Was Student Possessed By God, Satan?

Because clearly she was [...]

Weddings, Funerals, and the Internet

We have this relative, C., who is the grandson of our grandpa’s sister.  So, his dad and my dad are cousins.  And we see C. only at weddings and funerals, but it’s understood that at said weddings and funerals, he will sit with us and our parents will sit with his and those two places [...]

In Which Our Hero Again Raises One Eyebrow

At this:
During the apology, the legislator tried once more to assure me of the sincerity of his remarks. This upset me and I expressed to Leader Mumpower that this was not really an apology. Leader Mumpower stated to the freshman legislator than this was upsetting me and that he should stop repeating his sincerity over [...]

Those Emotional Hurricanes

Today was a little crazy.  We had some work drama in the morning that concerned me but wasn’t directed at me and then in the afternoon, we learned how close we all came to not getting paid in September, and then got a semi-reassuring email about how our workplace was going to stay afloat, hopefully [...]

In Which I Ask the Least Popular Question in Nashville

But isn’t Jamey Johnson over-rated?  Don’t get me wrong, he’s talented.  And he’s hot as sin.  And I’m trying to listen carefully and understand what folks are hearing but I just can’t get past the sense that I’m listening to an artist playing a country singer.
What am I missing?

Robin Smith Loves the Thugs, Apparently

I swear, who needs soap operas when you have the GOP?  You’ll remember, when last we visited, Robin Smith had decided not to endorse Chip “I love parodies about Negros” Saltsman for chair of the national party and had instead thrown her weight behind Katon “I got into politics because the government made me go [...]

Because I Love You, I Link to the Creepy

Ooooooo.

One More Thing about Josephine

She was born on my dad’s birthday, which means her birthdate is almost as cool as my dad’s.
She will, forever, be born on 01/23.
Why is that only almost as cool as my dad’s?
Because he was born on 01/23/45.
(Also, I don’t want to reveal Josephine’s last name, in order to protect her privacy, but it starts [...]

Well, Beaman Toyota, You Have Lost My Business

1.  Lee Beaman gives $2,000 towards Prop 8.
2.  Lee Beaman gives $6,000 towards English Only.
Man has a right to spend his money how he wants.  I have a right to spend mine how I want.

My Super Power

Oh, I forgot to tell you that I’ve decided what superpower I would choose, assuming I could choose one.  And it’s a good one, so don’t be stealing it:
I have the power to grant immortality to whoever sleeps with me for as long as they sleep with me.
No, not sleep as a euphamism for fucking.  [...]

In Other Republican News

Remember how there was a guy who thought that sending everyone “Barack the Magic Negro” would convince them that he was right for the job of RNC chair and the whole nation laughed and said “What?!” except for the few folks who sulked and said “What?”  You may recall that for no other reason than [...]

Ride on, Josephine, Ride On

You know it’s a good portent when you enter the world with a Bo Diddley song ready and waiting for you.
Welcome, baby Josephine!
Congratulations, Shill and Legal Eagle!

I Listened to You and I Heard You

So, the folks over at The 9513 point us to the new Johnny Cash video.  It’s a remix of “Folsom Prison Blues.”
And I’m just going to state for the record that it’s terrible.  There are many reasons why it’s terrible–the “remixing” adds nothing to the song, just some syncopated rhythms and a busy mishmash of [...]

Thoughts, I Got ‘Em

1.  I just read Coates quoting Sullivan–
…self-confident political groupings seek converts – look at Obama. Failed and failing political groupings seek to punish and list heretics.
and was thinking, “Well, then, shit, by that standard, all Tennessee has are failed and failing political groups” when I saw that Vibinc seems to have reached a similar conclusion [...]

A Shawl

Do people wear shawls any more?  I don’t know.  But I’m making one for Mag and I’m so excited about it.  Plus, I figure, if anyone could pull it off, it’s her.

Probably More Proof of My Dangerous Hypocrisy

I swear, a girl could get a big head from all the folks practically hyperbole-ing themselves to death in order to denounce her.  Honestly, folks, I put my skirt on one leg at a time, just like you.  I sit next to a farty dog and cats that don’t respect that a person likes to [...]

The Rest of the Day

Here are a bunch of other pictures I took today, most of them of the bulbs that are sprouting all over the yard.  One of them of a dog’s butt, which, when you own a dog, you spend a lot of time looking at, and one of the Butcher refusing to let the dog pet [...]