Thanksgiving

This morning, we heard a meowing the likes of which we had never heard before. My dad was all “What’s going on with the tiny cat?” And I looked out and saw a tiny cat, howling, in the garage. A cat not ours.
People drop all kinds of animals of out in the country assuming… I [...]

In Which I Spill NM’s Pie Secret

People, I was at nm’s house this afternoon watching her make pie crusts WITHOUT A FORK!!!!!! I think I literally stood there slack-jawed.
If I were not forbidden from making my world famous apple pie* for Thanksgiving, I would have totally come home and tried making pie crusts nm’s way.
She mixed it with her hands. Then [...]

Thanksgiving Blues

There’s nothing particularly stressful or weird going on with my family, but I am still down this holiday season, lonely for people who are long-gone and not coming back. I think it’s a side-effect of ancestor veneration, frankly, that you feel the in ability to be together face to face because you are acutely aware [...]

All Kleinheider all the Time

From a small heath field to America!
Edited to add: It is now my goal to talk Tiny Pasture into smoking a corn cob pipe in honor of his ancestor.

People, This is a Real Thing!

I was driving to work today and I saw two people walking down by Whites Creek and I craned my neck over and saw that they were walking on a path!
So, I looked and god damn it if there’s not a Whites Creek Greenway! Right where I thought there should be.
I don’t know who at [...]

Don’t You Dare Buy this for Me for Christmas

Reindeer poop necklaces? I sense that at least five of you will consider buying me this piece of crap just because you think it’ll be funny.  Let me just say that that would be a really shitty thing to do. (And don’t you dare tell my dad about this.)

Pith Stuff

1. I write about the book industry. And crack myself up with my youtube video description.
2. I write about the racist graffiti, which is less interesting than the weird-ass comments.

Plans A & B

Okay, so Plan A is to find a small publisher who might be interested in the project.
If that doesn’t work, Plan B is to self-publish.
In the interests of Plan A, I have three packages to go out in the mail tomorrow.
In the interests of Plan B, I read this.

Suck My Butt, Kleinheider

So, Kleinheider has his column up today and in it, he writes this:
That, in fact, may be what this is all about. There is a segment of elite opinion out there that believes arguing for reduced or restricted immigration is necessarily racist. But that’s an article of faith, not proof.
I invite you to give three [...]

“Life Partner”

I was all ready to complain about what a stupid phrase “life partner” is and how we all ought to support gay marriage so that when a dude wants to talk about the dude who’s been his “life partner” for decades, he can either say “spouse” or “husband” or we can all click our tongues [...]

Ooo, Wouldn’t It Be Cool If There Was a Gardener Signal?

I could just go outside, light it up, and then you gardeners would know I needed your advice and you would come to Tiny Cat Pants.
So, here’s the question. Could I get salvia apiana to grow in my perennial herb garden? It’s only hardy to zone 7 and we’re zone 6. But I was thinking [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom and I Find the River!

First of all, apparently either Mrs. W. and I walk at a pace of one mile an hour or I didn’t pay attention to when we got to the park or the people at Bell’s Bend have vastly underestimated the length of the loop that goes along the river. Because we were at the park [...]

The Butcher Keeps Me On Track

Well, the Butcher cleaned the house from top to bottom, so I had no excuse but to work on my book proposal. It is done. I have some sample photos from Chris Wage. So, all I have left to do is print the stuff off and send it out.
I’m already planning my book trailer. “Oh, [...]

A Vague Woo Hoo!

I don’t blog about work, normally. So I will continue to not blog about work except to say that a project I worked on and loved just got a review in one of the top journals in its field describing it as invaluable and gutsy.
I want to be all “in your face” to yesterday about [...]

Vikings!

Shane Rhyne is trying to start a Viking trend, to come after zombies fully replace vampires in the popular moment (of course, zombies and vampires are pretty much the same thing, except one you want to sleep with and one you don’t, so maybe I shouldn’t have distinguished between the two).
I, of course, am all [...]

I’ve Pushed Newscoma into the Creek!

Ha, it makes me so happy to read about Newscoma’s adventures in Whites Creek! I hope that, today, Squirrel Queen gets something to eat before dinner. There’s food all over the house, woman! Enchiladas in the fridge, bagels in the cupboard.
Just don’t be sneaking off to the red store for burgers without me!
It’s been a [...]

Bringing the Border to Nashville

I was watching Nezua’s video yesterday and totally digging all the Nezuas in the audience and nodding along as you do when you already agree with what you think someone is going to say, when he said something that caught my ear, about bringing the “intensity of the border guard situation and the borderlands to [...]

Christians, WTF?

I just saw this at Gawker, about folks selling Cafe Press merchandise with “Psalm 109:8″ on it and the words “Pray for Obama.” The shop’s not up at CafePress any more, because as cute as folks might think it is to make veiled Christian death threats against the President, the Secret Service tends to not [...]

Mrs. W. Has Lost Her Damn Fool Mind

People, after sucking on the seem of SquirrelQueen’s jeans last night, for no apparent reason, the SquirrelQueen was just standing there talking and all of a sudden, the dog (who was on the couch) started sucking on her jeans. I don’t know if there was spilled beer there or what, but it was strange, Mrs. [...]

Augustus?!

Someone over at the Tennessean is calling Tiny Pasture “Augustus Kleinheider,” which made me laugh out loud. I was going to give this person due credit, but alas, the web design over at The Tennessean is so crappy that the individual’s name is not connected to his (or her) (okay, let’s not kid ourselves, his) [...]

Coincidence?

So, at the same time Hall was planning his trip to DC to speak to the rabid anti-immigrationists, he’s also participating in this Channel 4 I-Team investigation in which actual people are referred to as “illegals”? (Nobody over at Channel 4 has a Chicago Manual of Style? Or what?)
But more to the point, should we [...]

I Don’t Know About You, But I Want to Be Delighted

First up, Goldni’s post. I’m going to declare myself the curly-haired woman in the cartoon, because I am a woman, with curly hair.
Second, I squealed with delight upon reading this post and I now wish I had a problem that could be solved by a rageful woman.
Third, what is this?! How can a video be [...]

Rounding Up the Morning

I spent my morning doing the morning round up for Pith, but I couldn’t let go the chance to share Vivian Wilhoite’s snark with you. Seriously, someone get that woman a blog. They’re all “But the parks! Oh the humanity! They’re so over budget!!!!!” and she’s all “Hmm, but when the PR for the new [...]

Sheriff Hall Was Scheduled to Speak to Yet Another White Supremacist Organization

(Assuming my post at Pith ever makes it up, consider this a companion piece that would flesh out what I’ve learned in the hours since my Pith post was written).
So, Kyle Swenson is reporting that Sheriff Hall was scheduled to speak at a conference held by the Center for Immigration Studies, which has more than [...]

Odin in Drag? Frigg in Her Rightful Place? Freyja Taking the High Seat for a Stroll?

Looking at this figurine, recently pulled out of the ground at Lejre, puts me in mind of Ruth Hill, who, when she’s talking about the way race was understood by people living in Spanish America during the Bourbon period, repeatedly stresses the importance of remembering that we look back on the past through the lens [...]