Too Tired to Go to Bed

And I am troubled by things.
1.  Is the dog cleaner than she was this morning?  So, the Butcher cleaned the whole house and the dog?  I know I shouldn’t admit this out loud, but shit, if I actually had the money to support both of us, I could happily go to work and pay for [...]

Lilacs

Oh, y’all, remind me that I need to take a picture of the bush I was able to determine was a lilac based on the arrival of the gift lilac from Liz.  Because it has flowers!  Mrs. Wigglebottom and I saw them when we were walking around this morning.  I looked at her and said, [...]

The Old, Weird America Blog

If I had an altar devoted to indespensible music blogs, right next to ninebullets would be Honey, Where You Been So Long?  And today Honey delivers something so big I about can’t stand it–The Old, Weird America blog.
If you have any question about why I feel like I just got hit upside the head by [...]

In Which I Make Like a Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist

I’m going to admit, I’ve given up on reading any threads at Pith or at Post Politics in which Heatseeker, Harrison, Morpheus, Dr. Jellyfinger, etc. participate, because usually by about four comments in, I can no longer understand what the hell they’re saying.  Chimpanistas, Captain Queequeg (am I missing something?  I have to be one [...]

Some Quickies

–Bunch and Campfield are unhappy about royalties.  This made me laugh out loud about three different times this morning.  One because they’re attacking academics’ royalties.  Oh gosh, boys!  Some people who take a penny never leave a penny! You’d better write up some legislation about that, too.  Two, because “required” doesn’t mean “legally obligated to.”  [...]

White Zambia?!

I would have had a post this morning, but I got busy picking on Pete.

Mrs. Wigglebottom and I Go for a Drive

After our disasterous morning, the dog and I decided to go for a drive, in part because we prefer to not listen to the Butcher shout words of encouragement so loud at Michigan State.  We decided to follow Old Clarksville Pike and how I wish I were some kind of forensic historian, because I felt [...]

In Which I Almost Have to Shoot My Dog

So, Mrs. Wigglebottom and I went out to take pictures for your enjoyment.  This involved me taking pictures and her…
Oh my god… It makes me mad to remember it…
her running through all the places I planted yesterday and peeing on my roses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the fuck?!
Anyway, if you want your chance to have a dog less devoted [...]

Sunday Gardening

I’ll have pictures later on, but I thought we might talk about two things.
1.  Have I ever told you about our efforts to grow cactuses from seed?  Let me just say that they are about the opposite of tomatos in terms of ease of growing from seed.  But I think that we are finally having [...]

Is This Jamie Kennedy’s Attempt to Get a Free Meal?

We watched Heckler last night, which is a documentary about heckers, incuding douchy critics and douchebag bloggers.  The filmmakers interview a lot of folks about heckling, but the thing the film coelesces around is Jamie Kennedy going around reading or saying back to the hecklers/critics, “Why are you so mean to me?”
In lesser hands, this [...]

Now, Let’s Have Some Rain

Y’all, I totally busted my hump gardening today.  I got bluebells, foxglove, and lupin all along the side of the house.  I put marigolds by the parsley, the peas, all the roses, and marigold seeds spread everywhere.  I have some sunflowers in one of the beds.  I pulled up all of the stuff in the [...]

Southern Bred

Nashville, have you been to this restaurant before?  It’s a meat and three on Trinity Lane right off Ellington and it is fabulous.  A meat and three sides is $9 and it’s a huge amount of food.  Huge.  And everyone is very nice and the food is fantastic.
The Butcher insisted we go there for lunch [...]

“Cornell West Can’t Help You Now, Mos Def”

Mos Def on Bill Mauer is the most awesome thing I’ve seen all day, and I found a cool blue flower hidden in some crap in my yard, so that’s saying something.

Marigolds

Okay, gardeners, I was reading this post by Chris Clarke and it reminded me of my problems with marigolds.  As you may recall, I was stunned to learn that the mysterious and powerful calendula was, when I found it at Home Depot, just regular old marigolds.  But I went to Wikipedia and learned that regular [...]

Hendersonville

We had to go to Hendersonville yesterday and it reminded me that I’m still not quite used to living up here.  Before, having to go to Hendersonville was like “Oh god, no, Hendersonville!  It’s so far away.”
So, when we had to go to Hendersonville yesterday, I was all “Ugh, Hendersonville, no!”
But, it’s really just right [...]

Two Questions

1.  How can the same person who pronounces Pulaski “pew-lass-key” pronounce Buchanan “Buck-cannon”?
2.  Do you remember when seed companies used to give away two different baseball caps?  How the caps for women had a poofy ball on top?  Do they still make those?

The Cats Hatch the Opposite of an Escape Plan

An inscape plan?  A break-in?  Hogan’s Heros for the feline set?
I don’t know what you’d call it, but we have it.  Here’s the problem.  Since the neighbors’ break in, we’ve been keeping the door from the garage to the outside shut and locked at night.  Which means that, when some brat… er, cat wants to [...]

Feel Good Friday Begs the Question

Why is it that, in my mind, Kid Rock can do no wrong and John Rich can do no right?  Are they not two sides of the same coin?

Why is this Person Telling this Story?

I don’t know if you clicked through, but earlier Prin posted a link to this story about how there are rumors of girls in Wisconsin taking livestock drugs to induce abortions.  I was all prepared to write a post being all “Holy Jesus, how could this be happening?”  But then I read the story and [...]

You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry, You’ll Laugh Again

Laugh–Jesus’s drunken brother gardens in Mississippi.
Cry–DNA evidence showed that Europe had a cop-killing criminal on the loose.  Turns out, it was just the DNA from the woman who made the swabs to sample DNA.  But by god, let’s not put a man on a birth certificate until we test his DNA against the kid’s, because [...]

A Few Gardening Questions

1.  Is there any good way to tell a weed from a perennial the last owners of your house may have left you or do you just have to kind of let it go and see what it becomes?
2.  My amazing gardening book says that raspberries don’t have berries in the first year.  But it [...]

We’ll Travel ‘Round the World. We’ll Dress Like Minnie Pearl. ‘Cause…

Ha, it brings a smile to my face to know that, if you recognize the title of this post, by this point in your reading of this very post, you’re saying to yourself, “If you don’t have Mojo Nixon, then your store could use some fixin’.”
Anyway, I wanted to report that, thanks to my awesome [...]

It Boggles the Mind

And, really, thank god for Campfield’s mind-boggles, because after this afternoon only a mind-boggle like he delivers could unboggle my mind from discovering that I’m spouting Republican talking points.
So, anyway, I’m reading along about his exciting adventure with his “presumption of joint custody” bill when he says
Currently 95% of contested custody cases go to the [...]

Clearly the End-Times Are Here

Oh sweet and tender Jesus, I just got an email from Bill Fucking Hobbs containing a link to this press release and I…
I…
God damn it, am I on the same fucking side of an issue as the god damn TNGOP?!!!!!!
I only have minor quibbles with this press release.
Have I lost my mind?
Am I drunk and [...]

Is the Governor’s Sentiment Un-American?

Kleinheider reports that Colby Sledge reports that the Governor says:
Bredesen says we’re “upside-down” when it comes to community colleges; there are too few people in two-year programs and too many in four-year programs.
This is irritating enough, but Sledge further reports:
On cost savings in higher education: “I think you can reduce some administration costs within the [...]