Mary Mancini, You Can Call Me Anything You Want. Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner.

I was listening to Liberadio this morning and had a thought. Here’s what came of it. (Yeah, I, too, wish today weren’t filled with half-assed posts, but everyone and their uncle has come here from all corners of the internet to learn about my awesome vagina and I always find it hard to write when [...]

Krauss is Living My Dream

I don’t even know what to say.  I just find this so charming and delightful.

I’d Rather Not Go Blind

For the past three nights, I’ve had this dream that I have to go to the Nashville Knucklehead’s house and make him and his daughter dinner so that we can then go to a strip club he wants me to invest in.  And, frankly, it’s the kind of strip club I would invest in, like [...]

Can You Even Do That?

I’m not normally one to argue that there should be requirements on who can run for office.  Shoot, I’d like to see the House of Representatives run like jury duty.  You vote, you have a chance of being picked to serve. But it’s things like discovering that four of our state representatives have so little [...]

An Open Letter to My Dad

Dear Dad, When something goes shittily wrong with something a member of our family was doing, please tell me so that I don’t, when talking to them, ask them how that thing is going and thus causing them to have to recount all the ways it’s gone terrible and causing me to feel like a [...]

Spending Sunday with Dead Strangers

Marigolds and Other Garden Matters

This is what I’m thinking about as a layout for the garden, leaving three feet between rows, but doubling up the rows of stuff that don’t need as much room. I’m a firm believer in the miraculous properties of marigolds and have purchased some French marigold seeds to rim the garden with.  My question now [...]

The Edmondson Exhibit

We went out to Cheekwood to the Edmondson exhibit.  There are, maybe, ten pieces, but the other exhibit on the floor–of local high school kids–is really, really good, too, so it’s cool. Still, I was hoping for more than one room. The pieces are mostly statues but there is one headstone, which both the Butcher [...]

WTF, Google?

Is it just me or is Google Reader not working?

It’s Those Little Things

–The Professor emailed me about this, but I didn’t see it.  Jagosaurus says most everything smart there is to say about it.  I would only add that when you run down Appalachia, you’re running down Dolly Parton.  So, think on that, America. –Jane Q. Public, how I wish I were you, tonight.  I must, however, [...]

Beautiful Things to Look At

I was looking for pictures of watermelons and discovered Boris Kustodiev, who is a Russian artist from the turn of the last century.  Did I ever tell you guys about my brief attempt to learn Russian?  See, I went to some piddly high schools and I got to college and everyone had taken Spanish, so [...]

I Almost Wish My Vagina Were as Mysterious and Powerful as Campfield Thinks It Is

You know how “sacred” has that sense of both “holy” and “cursed” in it?  That the sacred thing is something so powerful and weird and not of this world that it has to be set aside and only talked about under certain circumstances and in certain ways and that it has special powers able to [...]

Campfield’s Anti-Fatherhood Campaign

Rachel wrote about Campfield’s nonsense last night, too.  And she noticed something interesting.  Campfield has submitted a bill (HB0807) that replicates state law 68-3-504.  And when I say “replicates,” I mean “is almost word for word the same in the short form” in that it requires all miscarried pregnancies later than 22 weeks to be [...]

I Have a Bud!

NM said I couldn’t have daffodils until I had not only green above ground, but a bud that would then develop into a blossom. Well, science folks with your science logic, I am delighted to report that I have a bud!  One bud among the green stuff out by the rose. How soon until it [...]

Won’t You Help Campfield Get His List of Sinners?

So, yes, Campfield has once again submitted his “Issue Death Certificates for Abortions” legislation. Let’s recap why this is a terrible idea. 1.  The State already keeps records on the abortions performed in Tennessee.  We don’t need another piece of llegislation to accomplish something we already do.  39-15-203 says “A physician performing an abortion shall [...]

Campfield Apparently Has Some Kind of Certificate Fetish

At the same time Stacy Campfield has filed legislation requiring Death Certificates for aborted fetuses, he has signed on to be the plaintiff in a lawsuit requiring Obama to produce his “real” Birth Certificate. You just can’t make this stuff up.

How soon? How soon?

So, I guess the crocuses I planted were a bust, or something ate them, or something.  No sign of them at all.  But the daffodils are all over the yard and the flower beds and they are all up and all about a pinky finger tall and how soon until they bloom?  How soon?!

My Mom v. Rushing and Reeves

I spent all night reading the Rushing and Reeves book, which, on the one hand, is a bit of a scam, because clearly they wrote some parts of the book to be slapped into any book about gardening in any Southern state.  But it’s a scam I can appreciate.  But on the other hand, the [...]

An Open Letter to Kenny Chesney

Dear Kenny Chesney, A lot of gay men our age have slept with women, even a lot of women.  Claiming that you cannot possibly be gay because you have slept with over a hundred women is like claiming that you cannot possibly like chocolate ice cream because you have had over one hundred bowls of [...]

Whew, Doggie, What a Day!

I will say that I got a big bag of seeds from Beth, who it turns out knows a German woman I am almost sure is the Professor’s Austrian friend.  How small is this town? And the Professor brought me a book, The Tennessee Fruit and Vegetable Book (Induding Herbs and Nuts!), by Felder Rushing [...]

An Open Letter to Jeff Woods

Dearest Jeff, Yes, I know how simply gauche that these little bloggers and their readers have the audacity to give money to the Democrats in such small number.  Why, just last night, I was at a cocktail party at the Frists and we were laughing over this very thing.  Who do these people think they [...]

WTF?! LOL

I think this may be the most brilliant, funniest thing I’ve seen all day. Somehow it exactly captures the absurdity of the whole thing.

The Things Going in My Garden

Some people may have a little problem in the seed acquiring department.  I’m not mentioning any names, but you may be reading the blog of one of them (and her brother, who’s all “Let’s have four kinds of tomatoes!). So, here’s the list Vegetables Broccoli Regular tomatoes Cherry tomatoes Hot peppers of some sort Banana [...]

Change v. Exchange, again

I had a big fight with the Man from GM on Sunday, though it was one of those fights where I’m sure I hung up the phone going “Whatever, motherfucker,” and he hung up the phone going, “Yep, B. just has to do x, y, and z and she will be on her way to [...]

More Science Stuff

1.  An announcement.  Since I cannot magically pull a gardening blog out of my ass for Middle Tennessee staffed by the brilliant people I know working under my thumb for no pay while I plot the downfall of the world, maybe we just make Sundays here an unofficial official gardening discussion.  I’ll let y’all know [...]