The Bathroom Monster

This is what I believe to be an accurate representation of how the tiny cat spent last night, head in the toilet, front paws on the seat.  I’m sure that, at some point, it ended up with her on the seat. But when I went into the bathroom this morning, the floor was covered in [...]

Wanting “Young People” to Participate

I’m going to be as vague about this as possible, both because my point is not to gossip and because I have certainly heard people complain about this in other organizations. But let’s say there’s this liberal bakery.  And their specialty is baking a large amount of chocolate cakes, which they then sell to raise [...]

Wait, Regular People are Allowed to Marry the Irish Now?

When did that happen? Ha. This clip from Fox & Friends could not be any more funny and yet mind-bogglingly appalling.  You know when a dude starts talking about the wonderful purity of the Swedes that it’s going to be a trainwreck, but listen closely for the contemp in the “If I only had a [...]

Unsquare Dance

I sat in the back seat while my dad watched with delight as the Butcher tried to figure out the time signature to this song as we were driving along.  I wish I had a picture to show you how carefully they were listening and how the way their necks arched to give their ears [...]

News Flash: David Fowler Makes Stuff Up Because His Cause is More Important than the Truth

Chris Sanders writes a very thoughtful post today about how David “You might remember me, I make shit up about abortions because I hate them” Fowler is now rallying against Nashville passing a non-discrimination ordinance. I have lost all capacity to be thoughtful about the man. Anyway, just what the fuck is going on in [...]

Distracted

Ugh, sorry. I’m distracted. Something strange is going on with me. The past two days I’ve been feeling terrible after lunch, I mean, crazy depressed and down. Emotionally terrible, not physically.  And then right about 3:30 it starts to clear up and I feel like myself again.  I’m trying to decide if it’s the beef. [...]

Lunch Things

1. I think I’m making this cat the unoffical mascot of Tiny Cat Pants. 2.  Great post about Jimmie Rodgers by Nathan Rabin over at the Onion A.V. Club. which mentions Barry Mazor’s book and reminds me I need to ask Mazor if he’d submit to another interview now that I’ve finished the book. 3.  [...]

One More on McNair

Shoot, I guess I’m going to have to write about Steve McNair one more time, because Kleinheider keeps writing about him. Here’s the thing, as far as I’m concerned. People do stupid shit. It was stupid of McNair to mess around with a twenty-year old girl.  It was stupid of Jenny Kazemi to believe that [...]

Sharing the Funny

1. This post over at Jezebel, about the Michael Jackson ghost video and how many of the YouTube commenters are ready to believe that the most logical explaination is that it’s a demon, is not to be missed. 2. I’m arguing for Lawler for Mayor and for The Scene to endorse him.

Love Stinks?

So, Kleinheider is all “Blah blah blah. Sanford wasn’t in love and anyone who thinks he was doesn’t understand love.” Love is not easy, it takes work. And, although I admit I am no expert, it almost certainly does not come during jaunts to Buenos Aires. Come on, folks. If ever there was evidence that [...]

Mildred Shute and Steve McNair

Yesterday, I drove down Mildred Shute and I came home wondering who the hell she was.  All I could discover on my own about her was that she also had a park named after her.  After asking around, I learned that she was a community activist, who did a lot of good for the projects [...]

What?! No True Blood?

Since there’s no creepy TV on this evening, I’ve decided to share with y’all a very rough version of a ghost story I’ve been working on. I should just say up front that though many of the people in this story are actual people who lived in Nashville, I have taken great liberties with them [...]

Some Things I Saw

I know a cool ghost story about this monuement, but it’s not true. The question you always should ask yourself is if you are walking into a working cemetery.  I keep my eyes open for signs. And I am for sure wondering about those white marks that look like crosses. Here’s the front. Somewhere in [...]

One of the Young Cemeteries

There are two Young family cemeteries in my neck of the woods. I found them both, but only went to one, since the other is on private land and they say no trespassing. I feel like I live in the land of cool cemeteries.  No, I doubt anything will ever top the Barnes cemetery, with [...]

Gifting and Gardening

So, one thing that my ancestors spent a lot of time worrying about was how to rightly distribute things.  Stealing was no good. We see from the stories that stealing has negative consequences for the person being stolen from (stealing Idunn’s apples resulted in the gods growing old) and negative consequences for the thief (as [...]

Things to See

Fireworks

We live nestled between three large stands of hills, the row out the front door, the row over back, and the cluster to the north. In effect, we live in a little bowl. When I got home last night, the across the street neighbors were setting off fireworks. The dog didn’t like it, but I [...]

Me and Mary

This is just a reminder that I’m going to be yakking with Mary on Liberadio this morning at 9. In the meantime, I will be nervously peeing and trying to figure out where I can plug my phone in and talk so that I don’t run out of juice in the middle of things. Listen [...]

Feel Good Friday–the Just Listen to Kathy Tyson Edition

Folks, if Kathy tells you to listen to a song, just listen to it, and then buy the album. I did that with Hombre Lobo by Eels and I am not regretting it.  I hope these will embed, but if they don’t, you should still click through and watch. First, “Prizefighter,” which, if you don’t [...]

The Greatest Country & Western Song, EVER

No! Don’t even start to fight with me, because I am so right.  What does it have going for it? 1. It’s awesome. 2. It’s about drinking. 3. It’s about a disgruntled woman. 4. It’s by a Frizzell. 5. “Just as long as you keep tipping, I’ll laugh until you’re broke” is surely one of [...]

Ants Take Over the World

When I was in college, one of my professors said that, if you were to just objectively look at which life form this planet seems set up to support, you would never assume that it was humans, but bug–that they flourish in all kinds of environments and are adapted to the world and the world [...]

Selling Yourself Short?

So, it turns out that, unbeknownst to Editorial, the Marketing Department at the Washington Post has been selling exclusive access to them.  Turns out Editorial wasn’t that thrilled and it’s been cancelled. But folks, if you’ve got $25,000 sitting around you don’t know what to do with, I can give you exclusive access to the [...]

The Tiny Cat Has Lost Her Damn Fool Mind

So, the tiny cat has taken to hanging out on the toilet seat when she’s in the house.  Fair enough.  And as you remember, she taught herself to pee in the toilet, also fair enough. Well, I go in there this morning and there’s liquid on the floor and liquid on the seat and I’m [...]

But We Are This Way

So, as you may have heard, we tortured upwards of 100 people to death in what appears to have turned out to be an effort to get someone to confess that al-Quiada was linked to Saddam Hussein, so that our leaders could channel our righteous anger over 9/11 into their clusterfuck.  And many folks I [...]

I Amuse Me

I have been a writing fool this evening, first about our Ty Cobbs and then a little more on the Paleo Indians in the Bend (and don’t miss the cute revelation of how Professor Anderson spends his time). My neighbor and I went strolling around my garden and I gave her some cucumbers and we [...]