Do Unto Others

I don’t believe there’s a single member of either of these churches that is saying to him or herself right now, “You know, I hope that, if I’m ever in a tragedy so immense that many of my friends and family are dead, I am without a place to live, and I’m not sure which, [...]

When the Accessories Don’t Behave

I was reading Katie’s amazing post on Elizabeth Edwards. And I was just going to come over here and tell you to go read it. But I had to throw some laundry in the dryer and what was sticking with me from her post is that, in a way, it reminded me of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s [...]

Hank

I love this picture of Hank so much that I had to share it with you.  I love the tiny grin, like he’s thinking about pie or something. Someone should paint this and we can hang it next to the Mona Lisa.

It May Be a Mess Elsewhere, But Here, It’s Beautiful

It’s weird the things that are in your bones, the things you don’t even know. Last night, I woke up twice expecting the noise of the snowplow. There has been no snowplow. We live on the road that curves so far north it eventually becomes Lake Shore Drive. A major, in its day, thoroughfare between [...]

It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing! The Old Man is… Um, Something-ing

I went into work, even though we are having what is supposed to be another apocalyptical snow. But then no one else was at work and I got done everything I could get done without having input from anyone else, so I headed home.  It was definitely snowing more downtown than it was up here, [...]

Two Legal Things

–Goldni has a good post about the Tiller case and how the judge has ruled that Roeder’s jurors can’t consider the lesser charges of manslaughter or second-degree murder. Roeder has admitted to planning Tiller’s murder, hunting him down at church and shooting him. It should be a clear-cut case. But I am terrified that Roeder’s [...]

Pinnacle Building

It was just yesterday that I realized what it is about the Pinnacle building that strikes a wrong aesthetic chord for me.  It’s really a beautiful sight, but it looks like some of the other buildings got together and buried it in the mud up to its shoulders. If we all wake up one day [...]

We Need a Three-Tiered Tornado System

Right now, we just have two things–tornado watch and tornado warning. Tornado watch means “head’s up. Conditions are favorable for a tornado possibly form.” Tornado warning means “Hide in your closet now!!!!!!” But with the rise of better technology, we get alerted, with a tornado warning, for cloud rotation that isn’t even yet on the [...]

Today, I Love You

–Pictures of past pictures. –Learn here about the gang of miscreants ruining America. Yes, you, Rachel. I mean you!!!! –Alabama anti-gambling taskforce head wins big gambling in Mississippi. You can’t make shit like that up. Well, you can. But you don’t have to. Life did it for you. First librarians are ruining the publishing industry [...]

The State of the Blah blah blah

I didn’t watch it. Went out to sit and crochet while the knitters knitted. I saw an awesome technique for joining ends, drank some wine, and hung out and worked on my afghan. I’m not in love with it. The idea is that you have a cool side and a warm side and the cool [...]

iPad

I don’t really have insightful things to say about it. I just wonder if this made the Kindle obsolete. It sure seems like it (even if the price is initially high). So, you know, I wonder what it will mean for publishing. I still think that we’re on a course where publishers have no warehouses, [...]

An Update on the Whole TNDP Thing

So, I talked to Devin Brady last night about stuff, starting with the fundraiser and moving through the state of the blogosphere and whether progressives really were welcome in the Democratic party or if it was going to continue to be a case of us arriving at the front door with food and gifts, lavishly [...]

Hurray!

Just got an email notification that the new computer has shipped! Soon, very soon, I will be able to have more than one window on my computer open at a time! I will be able to post photos again (which y’all will be very grateful for because I have a picture of a seed pod [...]

If I Ever Give Money to the TNDP Again, Please Smack Me Upside the Head

It was bad enough when this anti-Palin nonsense went out virally, but today we get the official email from the TNDP. Did you hear? Sarah Palin’s coming to town – and you’ll never believe who she’s speaking to. OK, it’s not that much of a shock. Sarah Palin, known for her outrageous lies, is speaking [...]

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is on On-Demand, so I watched it. For the first time in years. And I realized, it makes no sense that John Cusick’s character doesn’t get together with Lady Chablis, at least at a narrative level.  He buys her flowers, he takes her for car rides, he [...]

Child of Opryland?

Rumors are flying fast and furious all over town that, now that the new convention center has been approved, that Gaylord is looking to reinstitute a theme park over in their neck of the woods, in order to keep from losing conventions to the downtown. Which proves that I was right this last summer when [...]

Yes, It Immediately Went on My Amazon Wish List

Look at this! Which brought me to this awesome poem, which I will link to, though you can’t read it unless you’re sitting at a computer with a JSTOR subscription, which kind of sucks, but what can you do? “Faubourg Study No. 3: The Seven Sisters of New Orleans” by Brenda Marie Osbey. I have [...]

Over at Pith, Another Park Review

The commenter has some necrophilia concerns.

In Which I am Exceedingly Jealous

Kleinheider got a nice shout-out for his column from Ta-Nehishi Coates.

Argh! I Had Myself Convinced This Was an Irrational Fear!

A North Nashville man hears gunfire off in the distance and comes to realize he’s been shot. That’s the whole story, but it’s given me the heebie jeebies all morning, because I have this irrational fear of this very situation. And yet, here it is in real life. Dude, I don’t know who you are, [...]

Why, yes, it does make me crabby

It does indeed make me crabby when men brag about all the free parking downtown. I, too, wish that I could take advantage of the free parking downtown, but I don’t have a dick, so I don’t get to believe I can walk where I want with impunity. And, if something goes wrong, I get [...]

The Pepsi Candidate

Here’s my question. Say the Supreme Court had, somehow, passed this ruling five years ago. And I’m Pepsi. I decide to throw all in for Edwards. You see anti-Clinton and anti-Obama ads paid for by Pepsi. You see pro-Edwards ads paid for by Pepsi. Edwards is Pepsi’s guy. Pepsi is Edward’s drink. But say, in [...]

Things I’m Mulling Over, Including Such Exciting Topics as “Gardening”

1. Today is my dad’s 65th birthday, thus securing his spot as the longest lived Phillips man in three generations, maybe four, if you want to get the nephews in on the coversation. My mom bought him a coffee maker. My dad, however, does not drink coffee. This is very much in the vein of [...]

The TNDP is Breaking My Heart

1. Don’t advertise conservative cultural movements for them. 2. Don’t spend money that should be going to recruiting and promoting candidates on making fun of Sarah Palin. 2a. If you have a good idea for how to make fun of Sarah Palin, pass it along to some bloggers with whom you’ve fostered an amicable relationship [...]

Takes the Sting Out of Not Winning the Cruise

Air America is no more. We were talking yesterday about why it couldn’t make a go of it and the truth is, I know people from all over, but I don’t know anyone who listened to it. So, there’s that. I’m not sure why left-wing talk radio isn’t more appealing to liberal people. But we [...]