Three Crows

Oh, you sciencey-types.  I wander around out there in all that science not knowing what any of it means, being just my plain old superstitious self, and today I was marvelling at the fact that it was just this weekend that I learned that the mysterious calendula I see in all my magic books is [...]

In Which I Attempt to Fix the Tiny Cat

So, yes, the tiny cat.  She’s in bad shape.  She’s pulled out all of the hair along both sides of her body and much of it on the top of her spine  (basically, on Thursday and Friday; it’d been thin, but she went to town on herself at the end of the week).  The skin [...]

Government Workers Stimulate My Economy

So, I’m at the post office on Church Street and I go up to the counter and I ask for 40 postcard stamps. “Oooo.  Fruit, that’s nice.” “Yeah, and the coolest part is that, when you lick the back, they taste like the fruit they are.” “Really?” And then, a slight grin teases the corner [...]

It’s Hard to Kill the Devil

Oh, y’all, I swear, I am still convinced that the TNGOP is better than any soap opera on television today.  I thought that the Williams thing had died down somewhat and we were left to see how it played out.  Would the reporters dispatched to Williams’s old stomping grounds find similar complaints from other women [...]

It’s the Nipples that Do Me In

How cute is this? The Professor tells me you can buy this on t-shirts.  Which, of course, I must now locate.

This Film is Not Yet Rated

So, last night we ended up watching “This Film is Not Yet Rated” which is kind of a boring documentary about a guy’s strange obsession with trying to find out who the people on the MPAA ratings board are, in which is hidden the hints of a very interesting feminist film. The thing that stood [...]

Two Different “Oooooooo”s.

1.  Oooooooo, that is exactly the look I’d have on my face if Robert Plant leaned over and gave me a soft smooch like that. 2.  OOOooooo, damn, that’s a good poem.

My Pretty Baby

We didn’t watch the Grammys, so I only have one Grammy thought that doesn’t involve spending four hours discussing the asshole move of beating up your girlfriend–which is a whole heaping pile of bullshit in itself–the day before one of the most important events of her professional career, thus rendering her unable to participate. Anyway, [...]

Hold My Body Down

The dog and I went to look at things.  We were fairly unsuccessful.  But we did see these things, which you should see, too The tiny cat has pulled all her butt-hair out again and has taken up living on this pizza box.  It’s funny, but I feel terrible for her. I’m just saying, Nashville, [...]

The Hammock is Sounding Better and Better

I have a lot to do today–laundry, clean the bathroom, get dressed, um, did I mention “get dressed”?  Okay, so it seems I don’t actually have that much to do today, but I’ll be damned if I can bring myself to do it. We went to Home Depot yesterday to procure a sledgehammer to bring [...]

A Couple of Letters to Some Things Around Here

Dear Creeping Charlie, Good god!  Is there any place in my yard that you are not?  I hate you and took great pleasure in pulling you out. Aunt B. Dear Roses, Wow, I don’t think parts of you are just supposed to break off in my hands. Concerned, B. Dear Cats, Thank you for leaving [...]

Where is Your Reward?

Over at Kate Harding’s, they’re talking about how there’s some joker at a gym who’s going to gain a bunch of weight and then lose it so that he can appreciate what his fat clients go through.  Then, over at Amp’s, they’re talking about Carol Lay, who lost a bunch of weight and then wrote [...]

What is the Difference Between Blackberries and Raspberries?

When I was growing up, my absolute favorite cousin was my cousin M., who was two years older than me and a dancer, and lived down the street from a little market with bottled Coke and a McDonalds.  And she had tons of Barbies and a cool basement and a Barbie pool where we would [...]

Flowering Flowers of Flowerdom

Burpee is the Devil.  They send me an email and I dutifully begin to put things on my wishlist, which, so far, consists of peppers that range in color from white to purple, a mix of hot peppers, string beans, blackeyed peas, cucumbers, cantaloupe, snow peas, pumpkins, tomatoes, catnip, coriander, basil, oregeno, sage, rosemary, thyme, [...]

Go About Your Day Like a Cowboy!

Is it too late to ask that we all try to imitate the folks in this photo today?  Just think of how much more fun your meeting would be if you could sit like that guy on the left?

A Homage to Roger Abramson

1.  You wonder how Kellogg’s can do something like this with a straight face.  You own Keebler and you make Frosted Flakes.  Who do you think is your largest adult non-kid-having customer base? 2.  Where are my crocuses?  Have I angered them?  Did I plant them wrong?  Is there still time for them to come [...]

That Sound You Hear is the the Death-Gasp of Scholarly Journals

For you academics, from Google. We intend for the peer-review web to do for scientific publishing what the world wide web has done for media publishing. As it becomes increasingly practical to evaluate researchers based on the reviews of their peers, the need for centralized big-name journals begins to diminish. The power is returned to [...]

Shaking My Head

So, the independent progressive Tennessee blogospheric fundraising efforts continue.  As you remember, the goal was to raise $1,000 by Friday.  Those funds were raised by the end of lunch on Wednesday.  Now, the goal is to raise $3,000 from 100 people by Friday.  The little thermometer sits at 70 contributors who gave $2,724. The nay-sayers [...]

Fire Walk With Me

This morning, everything is covered in a heavy frost–all the grass under our feet and everything up to fence-height.  The frost is hard enough that we don’t crunch through it when we walk and I slip a few times.  We head out right as the first pink is pushing into the light blue sky. And [...]

A Question

So, everybody’s complaining because, if they take money from the government, they’re now going to be limited to a $500,000 salary and can’t cash any stocks until after the government is paid back. “We’ll loose all our best minds!”  They complain. And here’s my question.  Am I misunderstanding the direness of the economy or do [...]

Good News

Rep. Jeanne Richardson is trying to get “gender identity added to the hate crimes statute.  I’d be glad to see this anyway, but I’m doubly glad to see it considering the situation in Memphis. Oh, I know, “But B., just yesterday you were saying ‘fuck “intent.”  “Intent” doesn’t count for shit.  It’s the results of [...]

Ha, Well, I Wonder What This Bodes?

So, a bunch of progressive bloggers decided yesterday to hold a fund raiser today with the modest goal of raising $1,000 by Friday evening.  Like I said this morning, $1,000 doesn’t seem like a lot, but when you look at the bare-cupboard of the TNDP coffers, it’s quite a bit. Well, they got their $1,000 [...]

Barbara Mandrell

Weren’t one of you just advocating for throwing Barbara in the Hall of Fame? Looks like you got your wish.

Isn’t There a HIPAA Issue Here?

I was reading and snickering, as I do, because I am evil and I suck etc. etc. etc., at Say Uncle’s post about gun owners wanting a right to privacy when two things occured to me.  One–I don’t have a gun.  As easy as it was for folks to map all the Prop 8 donors, [...]

Having Been Burned by Free Elections, Mumpower Signals His Next Move

Talking about how, maybe in these tough economic times, we can’t afford to have a paper trail for voters. Funny how that works.  Just when the Republicans really need to win–in 2010–so that they can redistrict the state and solidify their power, there’s talk of making it hard for people to know if their electronic [...]