You’re Welcome, Nashville Gardeners

I am going to meet Jo from The Modernity Ward this afternoon and I am bringing her a zucchini. I told her that it was traditional for Nashvillians to give each other vegetables as a way of welcoming each other to our homes and our neighborhoods. Now, you non-gardeners, I know, are saying “Oh, that’s [...]

In Which I Make a Few Corrections

1. The animal whose picture accompanies this story is almost certainly a Lab/Lab mix of some sort, not a pit bull.  The ear seems to be naturally folded down, is quite long, and is very round at the end, not pointed.  Also, note how the front legs and chest are situated.  Rather than a broad, [...]

This Week’s True Blood

The previews do remind me of how much I love seeing Eric smile in the last episode. Can’t Bill get some better hair? But I am glad to finally see Bill be a little bad ass.  Good lord. I suspect Eric is total… Ha, he is totally faking it. I love Eric. Love him. Except [...]

Last Week’s True Blood

I already miss Godric’s sexy dreds. The not-so-sexy George Clooney is not doing it for me. The Judas line made me laugh out loud. I think crazy Mrs. Reverend thought Jason was a little hot, there. Eric remains my favorite character. “Don’t use words I don’t understand.” I don’t think that Bill taking a television [...]

Help, Dear Readers

I’m sorry to do this to you, because I know the song will get stuck in your head, but I need you to view the first five seconds of this commercial: Why is the second guy putting on his clothes as the commercial starts?!  Every time I see this commercial, all I can think about [...]

Fresh Garden Risotto with Shrimp

Holy shit. I just made a risotto so delicious that I had to call the Butcher home to eat some so that I would not eat it all. Here’s what it had in it–okra from the garden, a pepper from the garden (very mildy hot, very very mildly hot, yum), cherry tomatoes from the garden, [...]

Isn’t There a Difference Between Public Service and a Job?

I don’t know if I’m getting soft in my old age or what, but I think I would normally be outraged by this story of our legislators taking huge per diems and then pretending that they deserve to be paid for their hard work, as if they are not already paid. But today I find [...]

New Weird Things

In Which I Complain About Things I Can’t Do Anything About

I don’t like wearing my glasses! I don’t like driving in them. I don’t like moving around in them, because I still can’t make my brain do that trick where it stops seeing things as curved. And when I take them off, not only is everything blurry (unsurprisingly) but I’m dizzy in the opposite direction. [...]

Rotten Tomatoes

So, I had made some arrangements to deliver to Lesley a whole bunch of tomatoes from the garden. And when I went to pick them up off the counter this morning, every single one of them was rotten. Like the mold had found them all at once and managed to seduce them as a crowd [...]

“You Should Have Married Steve”

I was talking to the Man from GM the other day.  I haven’t talked to him in a while, which is on me. It’s good to have friends who’ve known you since you were sixteen, but I like people with a rough edge and sometimes, over the course of half of your life, that rough [...]

Oh, Pith, How I Love You

Today I posted twice at Pith. In the morning, I came up with some ideas for what we could have used the $600,000 our city has gone over budget on consultants and PR people for, and then, in the comments, we hit upon the perfect use for the May Town Center site, and I lament, [...]

Cindy Walker is, Sadly, Not a Zombie

When I heard that Cindy Walker was leaving something to the Country Music Hall of Fame, I admit to being briefly hopeful that Zombie Cindy Walker would come and eat some brains in need of eating in the country music industry. However, it turns out that she left the songwriter’s portion of 500 songs to [...]

Sean’s Accidental Threesome

I swear, I’m going to start collecting the search terms that land people here and selling them as prompts for writers. In other news, I have to wear my glasses for four days before I get my new contacts. Today is day one. If I didn’t ever have to move, I’d say it’s going swimmingly.  [...]

One More Thing about El Rey Azteca

There’s this heavily brass and accordion-based music playing and no one bats an eye if you take your nephew by the hand and polka around the lobby with him.  In fact, it seems just what the music, the space, and the nephew were created for.

Lefty Frizzell

I heard “If You’ve Got the Money” this morning on the radio and it was like a revelation, one of those moments where you hear a song you’ve heard a million times, but somehow it strikes you just right, so you can hear it again anew. And there’s something about how his voice hiccups that [...]

Hmm. Did I Ruin Whites Creek?

From the City Paper today, I learn that home prices in Whites Creek have, even in this economy, risen 61.3%.  Even after the lengths to which I went to convince y’all that this is a terrible place to live!

These Short Thoughts of Mine

1. As a side note to what Southern Beale is saying here, the more I think about it, the more I do find it deeply weird that we hear from “Christians” (and I use the quotes only because it’s a specific segment of Christians, almost exclusively) whenever there’s an issue of homosexuality or abortion, but [...]

August is Settling In Around the Yard

It Would Be Wrong to Play “Guess the Young Republican”

But hard not to.

WTF?!

Go read this and explain to me how this can happen.

Straight Men of Tennessee, Gather ‘Round

I have read this post at Tiny Pasture’s and I have read your comments and I am stunned that “Be discerning in who you fuck” is novel advice, but it is, apparently. Therefore, as your internet aunt, I have taken it upon myself to dole out for you a little advice similar to the advice [...]

Let Me Speak Frankly

The surprise is not that Brooks & Dunn broke up.  The surprise is that it took twenty years for it to happen.

Ha, God, I’m Such a Wimp

So, I had two goals today. One, complete a whole day of work. Which I failed at. Because, America, when you sleep for nine hours, go to work, drink two pops, and still fall asleep at your desk, you are too sick to be at work. The other was to broach with my parents the [...]

Navel Gazing through History

So, I’ve been thinking a lot about this discovery that parts of my family have been here since shortly after English-speaking people started arriving here. It’s a little disconcerting, because our family myth has always been basically “Somehow we arrived fully formed in the Midwest, land of values and some small amount of ridiculousness.”  I [...]