Coffee with Cooper

It was a nice mix of the usual suspects–S-Town Mike, Mack, me, Braisted, Southern Beale, and Laura Creekmore (and Laura’s son, who was so cute I about had to put on blinders to force myself to pay attention to anything but him). As predicted, we did spend a lot of time talking about his healthcare [...]

Off

I’m off to ask Peter Cooper about going all supersize French fries on Toby Keith.  Wish me luck. Edited to add: Oops.  Wrong Cooper.  I guess I’m off to ask Jim Cooper about what we can do about the TVA while he’s trying to talk about his new health care proposal.  That’s my guess, anyway, [...]

Coneflower Drama

So, the last of the coneflowers arrived today, seedlings with shallow roots, packed upside down and scattered all over the bottom of the box in a thin layer of dirt.  I was hoping to not have to plant them until we’d figured out a solution to the deer problem but when I saw the state [...]

Isn’t This Weird?

John Aravosis is pissing and moaning because liberal groups don’t buy blog advertising, thus making it difficult for him to blog for a living.  Well, him and other, you know, important, big-name Democratic bloggers, who are bigger and more important than the rest of us.  They’re grass-roots, but not as grass-roots as the rest of [...]

The Butcher Sends Word from a Happier Place

The Orange Cat joined him in the hammock. And Mrs. Wigglebottom wiggles her… well, her whole self. Thanks, Butcher, I needed that.

On Whose Watch Did This Happen?!

I read over at Joe Powell’s this nonsense about how the investment advice given to small Tennessee communities by Morgan Keegan is going to wipe them out.  This is bad enough, but I invite you to ponder this: In Lewisburg, after Mr. Overman pitched the swap idea for the sewer project, Kenneth E. Carr, a [...]

The Truth is Out There, Now

I wanted y’all to see what Representative Favors did yesterday, because it’s important.  She stood up in front of her fellow legislators and said, “I was there when the women came in … dead on arrival or hemorrhaging.” Rep. JoAnne Favors, D-Chattanooga and a registered nurse, passionately objected to the resolution and told committee colleagues [...]

The Plant Update

The daisy is still in the window, waiting for a slightly warmer day to be transplanted.  But holy shit that thing is sucking up water like there’s no tomorrow.  The other set of coneflowers should arrive today. And then that was supposed to be it. But my co-worker tells me she has a line on [...]

Me v. Whatever’s Eating My E. Tennesseensis

I’m guessing a deer based on the size of the poop I saw, but it could be a rabbit.  Obviously, I lost Round 1. Round two is “Make the garden smell too much like humans for the comfort of any plant eating animal.”  Rather than pee outside where it’s already quite cold, I peed in [...]

Sprouts, of Sorts

1.  Beth has some genius gardening experience. 2.  Coble speaks the truth.

The Farmer’s Curst Wife–Proto-Feminist Hero

Every day on my way into work, I think about “The Farmer’s Curst Wife” and I wonder why we don’t talk about it and then I get distracted or I decide I don’t have anything to say about it that you couldn’t figure out yourselves. But fuck it.  I just want to say that I [...]

Keep Up, Gentlemen

We were talking about “supersize French fries” yesterday.  If y’all spent more time reading Tiny Cat Pants, you’d be up to speed on this stuff.

“Finally Made Forty, Still Wearing Jeans”

Via Donnell Alexander, you can hear the new Eminem song.  I’ll just say up front, I love Eminem.  I can tell you where I was the first time I heard “My Name Is,” exactly.  I can even tell you how the sun was setting and everything was that weird black and blue and red it [...]

Another Brief Post on No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

I watched the second episode last night and I don’t know how I’m going to swing it while they’re here, but I am determined to watch this show with my mom.  I would gladly watch it with my mom and grandma, if my grandma traveled.

I’m Half Crazy, All for the Love of You

My daisy arrived today.  I watered it and stuck it in the window. I have been reading up about how to dissuade the deer from eating my echinacea and the two things the internet recommends are human hair and human pee. Days like this, I’m glad the Professor insisted I learn to pee outside.  I [...]

Why Being Macho Rarely Works as Well in Real Life as It Does on Paper

So, Toby Keith confronts Peter Cooper because Peter Cooper spread some story Ethan Hawke told without bothering to verify it. Before we go any farther, let us meditate upon the funny ways the Universe works, because somehow Ethan Hawke is able to get any kind of writing gig here in the late early 2000s.  We [...]

You Ask; I Deliver

I’m afraid you have to make it larger, to perceive it in all its glory.

What to Do about the Impending Cold Snap?

Y’all, today I have learned something so perfect, so artistically “right” and yet so improbable that it makes the fact that I regularly get seeds from a woman who’s great great grandpa shot at my great great grandpa who shot back hundreds of miles from either of our homes seem downright ordinary.  Due to the [...]

Is There Some Other Karl Dean?

Karl Dean is the mayor of Nashville.  Yesterday someone came here quite a few times looking for “Karl Dean’s Penis.” WTF? Edited to add: I did the Google search so you don’t have to.  Yes, there is another Karl Dean who does indeed have a penis.  And that’s all I care to say about that.

A Brief Open Letter to the TNDP

Hi, Here’s the thing.  I suck it up and go to church with my parents because they are my parents and I have a duty to them.  An obligation to them, which I take very seriously, even though it often causes me heartache. But I will not pray to your god with you.  And I [...]

We Must Talk Briefly About The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

In its favor, it has two of my favorite HBO staples–terrible accents and Idris Elba (though I could just be imagining a striking difference between the locals and the out of towners)–and Jill Scott, whose got this way of wiggling her butt that gives me such great pause I about can’t bother to continue typing. [...]

Because Who Doesn’t Love a Little Silliness?

Y’all asked and I provide.  Here’s the thing.  When I do the drawings of me, I do them in Paint and with my right hand and at the size I need them to be to fit this space.  So, I couldn’t blow up the John Rich outrage picture and put it large on the front [...]

One More Word About the Phlox

Oh, I meant to tell you this morning that we just went around the corner to Bates Nursery to get our phlox and we put it in the ground and I watered it a little and I went out today and I swear it was like it grew over night.  I have never seen anything [...]

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Yesterday, I did everything I wanted to do and nothing I didn’t.  I got the phlox planted and replanted the herbs that failed to thrive (yes, hello, 30 degree, I am not happy to see you coming) which I will probably end up replanting again in a couple of weeks.  I took pictures of all [...]

Exhausted After Day of Goofing Around