Okay, Now. There’s Gun-nuttiness and then there’s ‘Lost Your Damn Mind.’

I tend to be agnostic on the whole “argh, guns everywhere! We’re all going to die!” argument, which I know makes me a bad liberal, but there it is. I am not worried about y’all having guns in restaurants or parks.  Maybe the gun nuts have worn me down or just convinced me, I don’t [...]

I’m Proud of This One

I have a new post up at Pith, all about some of the dead folks in Bell’s Bend.  I am pretty proud of the thematic coherence.  I have the dead folks just found at the ramp where the ferry used to be, the folks who first put in the ferry, and the folks who worked [...]

It’s Like Being on Vacation in Your Own Back Yard

A Curiosity about Jack Macon

So, I thought, since I’m paying for this geneology.com membership and since I’ve about learned all there is to know about my dead people, why not put Dr. Jack through their search engines and see what they come up with. As you will be unsurprised to learn, it was nothing. But I had the good [...]

Am I Dogging a Relative?

You know, my mom’s maiden name is Rich. … … … I’m just going to assume there are a lot of Riches in the world and that John and I are in no way related.  Still, I would feel better to learn that none of his people are from Colorado.

A Side Note

It tickles me that you can get a good idea of where in the yard the orange cat is, even if you are sitting inside, by listening for where the birds are grouching the loudest.

The Pill Kills Day

So, tomorrow is “The Pill Kills Day” among anti-abortion activists.  Some of them will even be protesting at the Planned Parenthood here in Nashville. On the one hand, of course this makes complete sense.  Anti-abortion activists do not believe that a woman should have control of what happens to her body.  And The Pill gives [...]

What’s Going on with the Republicans?!

Tiny Pasture asked me on Wednesday if I thought they’d get rid of Hobbs and I was all “No.  He might choose to leave, but they’ll never get rid of him.” Consider the crow eaten. Corker’s people come on board and Hobbs is out. Jackson Baker’s got some good analysis, but here’s my question. Smith [...]

In the Movies, It’s Never a Good Sign When the Dead Leave Their Graves

But it real life, it’s harder to tell if it’s an omen when they find 6,000 year old bones at Clee’s Landing, there at the end of Bell’s Bend (speak of the Devil). The Nashvillest asks, “Who the heck was in Tennessee 6,000 years ago besides the dinosaurs!?” and I am happy to report that [...]

Three Cool Things

This and this from Cabbage Babble.  (God, I am hungry to hear some poetry read out loud, today.) And here you can look at some four hundred year old pee!

What a Cute Bellybutton I Have!

The main difference that strikes me between what I do here and what I do at Pith is that here I feel very confident in my abilities.  I know what I know and I feel good about saying what I know and admitting what I don’t know and letting that be good enough, and interesting. [...]

Morning! Where Have You Gone?!

Citizens of earth, I did not mean to neglect you this morning, but I was busy putting the polishing touches on the May Town post I have been researching the hell out of for the past four days.

Feel Weird Wednesday

Can we just talk about how weird it is, when you get to be a certain age, and you realize how fucking hot Dick Van Dyke was?  How did I not notice this before now?  I literally cannot take my eyes off him.  I find myself kind of blushing in spite of myself when he’s [...]

What “Peaceful Protests” Consist of

The anti-abortion activists were in front of the Planned Parenthood again today and it literally made me sick to my stomach.  The idea that these folks could not, for one week, imagine what the people at Planned Parenthood must be feeling, and not show up and add to their terror, considering what happened on Sunday, [...]

An Open Letter to Mrs. Wigglebottom

Dear Mrs. Wigglebottom, Okay, yes, I’ll admit, the look of delight on your face when you figured out how to get the bandage off your ear was charming. But damn it, dog, you were not supposed to take the bandage off your ear yet.  And I don’t want to have to haul your grouchy ass [...]

I’ll Be Brief

If one more person on the internet pissed and moans about how liberals are all upset about Dr. Tiller’s murder, but not about the murder of William Long, I will drive to their house and kick them in the shin with my own foot. You want to know why I find your pissing and moaning [...]

Wait a Second, Why is John Rich at Cafe Coco in the First Place?

This whole thing is very strange.   And yet, hilarious.  And he’s building a house right down the road, so Cafe Coco, welcome to your new neighbor! For those of you not from Nashville, Cafe Coco is where you’d see the likes of me sitting on the front porch eating hummus and reading tarot cards.  It’s [...]

In Which I am Easily Amused

Here and here.

Why Pitbull Has It Easier than Most Rappers

After sitting transfixed through his new video, it’s obvious that he writes half the lyrics any mono-lingual rapper has to write and then just repeats those same lyrics in the other language he knows. The chorus of the song is, and I shit you not– One, two, three, four Uno, dos, tres, quatro. Well, I, [...]

I Pithed All Over

First about how I spent yesterday. And then about how I spent today. I left out the crying part, but did a little more feministing.

In Which I Fail

The truth is that Mike Turner made me cry. And now I’m hiding in the bathroom to type about it, so that, if I die of mortification, the Butcher can at least tell people I went out like the King.  I wasn’t upset; I was mad.  But as you know if you are a woman, [...]

Monday Morning Coming Down

1. I read this over at Andrew Sullivan’s and I think it sums up what scares the shit out of me about discourse in this country–”The second point is the fact that despite the fact that his material is so readily available at the click of a Google button, so many people rely on ideologues [...]