Demonologist

They’re having some big thing up in Kentucky which I am neglecting to link to because I closed the tab and cannot figure out how to get it back, though it seems like it should just be in my history, and… I don’t know. Clearly I’m fucking it up somehow. It’s there, I just don’t [...]

Feel Good Friday

I must warn you that the following song contains an ear-worm so effective that a girl will wade through pages of videos for Poison’s “Cry Tough” to find this and inflict it on you.
“How can a man be tough, tougher than the world?”

World, Fix This Crap

1. I don’t have a million dollars, but if I did, I would pay a million dollars to figure out how to make this woman aware of this and this. Let me be as clear as I can. If you disapprove of someone’s lifestyle or the choices they make, but it does not affect you, [...]

While We’re Contemplating

I have a new post scheduled at Pith, for supposedly 12:15, though I can’t ever work that fucker right. Every time a post of mine actually shows up, I about die of shock.
Anyway, I think it’s a good one, some funny stuff and some thoughtful stuff.
But I wonder if I’m not wrong. I mean, I, [...]

Do I Have Goals? I Don’t Think I Do.

So, we were sitting around drinking Monday night and my drinking buddy was going on about how he and his other drinking buddies sometimes sit around and shoot the shit about what their goals are and how they plan to achieve them.
Then he asked me, “What do you want?”
And I was a little frozen in [...]

Gaze Upon My Beautiful Roof!

Sorry, that’s not a euphemism.

In Which I Complain about Books

So, for work I’m supposed to be reading Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, which is written in this tone that can best be described as “I am really happy to be writing this book for idiots.”  Maybe that’s not fair, but I kind of feel like I’m being talked down to a little bit. I’m [...]

In My Dreams, I Need a Ferry

So, I dreamed that the dog and I had to go grocery shopping and we were trying to get some food for us and then some food for the folks who were working on our roof.  But we were at Walmart, so we had to go by all these aisles of clothes and other junk [...]

Shoot, I’m Running for Office

So, I think this morning was the moment when you could watch the Republican strategy shift from “Smear Morrison” to “Smear Stanley.”  This morning, Morrison was a homeless, trashy crack user. By lunch, Stanely was a serial affair-haver who drinks too much and (warning, hard to take scandalous conduct about to be mentioned) charges it [...]

Hugs from Strangers?

Oh, I forgot to tell you the weirdest part about the whole roofing thing (which, did I mention, looks amazing?  It makes our house look just a little sharper, like when you get a new haircut and it makes you feel all sassy. Our house keeps checking itself in the mirror, it’s so cute.) is [...]

The Roof

The new roof is on and it looks very nice. I should take a picture, but I don’t guess it’s actually that exciting to anyone but me. Also, I feel like a complete chump because I was supposed to have coffee with John Lamb at three yesterday, which I put on my calendar as three [...]

Tennessee Virtual Archieve, Consider Yourself Virtually Made Out With

So, my curiosity about the Congress Inn remains piqued.
Here’s the Google view of the house we’re talking about:

As you can see, the house has a certain pre-Civil War appearance to it, with the book-end chimneys and the looking like it’s been added on to, but it’s hard to say.  So, I go to the Tennessee [...]

Four Things

1. I’m getting new shingles today. I couldn’t afford a whole new roof, and I have been waiting through every single storm hoping we would get enough “storm damage” to get some insurance help, but alas, you can pull near tornadic conditions on my roof repeatedly and the thing is like “Is that all you’ve [...]

Am I Actually Home On Time to Watch True Blood?!

I wonder if we’ll see vampires flying at some point. I really would like to see flying vampires.  I would also like to see the Stackhouses become less dumb-ass, but I don’t have a lot of confidence in that.
Is Eric depressed?!  He seemed a little down with his blood hooker.
You know, a girl wonders if [...]

Mysterious Things

So, yes, if you have seen me two or three times since you handed me this bag, and if you’ve even been to my house once, you should know that, though your bag is not being used to save the environment, it is being used.

I saw this weird building in Cross Plains yesterday and I [...]

Oh, You Know How Men Are…

Some days you are planning on happily lounging around in your pajamas and contemplating maybe doing a little weeding when you read something that causes you to have to think seriously about going down to the State Capitol and flailing around where everyone can see you and making a big scene.
World, look upon this bullshit:
Connie [...]

The Tiny Cat as Art Director

Here’s something fun. Try to find the tiny cat in the following pictures. She’s not in them all, but…

Simple Gal

I was feeling bad about going to the freezer to eat the last ice cream bar at nine in the morning, but then I realized I had miscounted and I was only eating the second to the last ice cream bar.
Maybe I’ll have that at ten.
I don’t know.  I’ve got to tell y’all that I’ve [...]

“Lady Blogger”?

Weirdly enough, you only have to change about ten words to make Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy appropriate for a lady blogger.
Tom Humphrey himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of ladies
Into the blogosphere. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick [...]

While We’re Busy WTF-ing on Plants

Let me ask you about your morning glories. Mine took forever to get going.  Forever.  And for a while, before they really took off, I had one lone ground flower.
But now, I have a lot of green leafiness but no flowers.
I also have to tell you, much to my shame, I am not yet an [...]

Who Cares?

I love that the discussion has now turned to whether Paul Stanley’s intern/mistress is a dirty slut.  As if there’s some “dirty slut” get-out-of-trouble-free card?
“Oh, yeah, Stanley abused his position of power and proved himself to be a hypocrite by trying to legislate morality for the rest of us while he was busy acting like [...]

Dear Editor

The other day we were talking about the role of a good editor.  Not a copyeditor, though they’re nice, too, but a good developmental editor.  Someone who can say “Um, yes, wasn’t that character a girl 30 pages ago?” or “I think you’d be better served by moving chapter 6 up some,” or if you [...]

My Best Bell’s Bend Post

Over at Pith.  I’m not convinced it will do any good.  But I still think it outlines a lot of the problems with the TSU gift.

Tomatoes

Okay, fellow gardeners, nm and I have both realized that we have now had a garden full of green tomatoes for two weeks. Tomato plot to drive us all mad?  Not enough sunshine to turn them red? What?
Are we alone?
Also, let’s have some consensus on turning pumpkins and watermelons. I say unnecessary and bound to [...]

Born in Boston in 1587

So, yes, I love Geneology.com, but you have to be aware that, in many cases you are just trading one family myth for another.
I set out, for instance, to try to figure out who my earliest American-born ancestor is.
And I came up with this line–me, my dad, Grandma Avis, Sadie Robinson, Abraham Sanborn, Abraham Sanborn, [...]