Tennessee Satanists, Your Fellow Citizens Need You!

Dear Local Satanists, I don’t know if you saw this, but the state legislature has become a hot-bed of proselytizing. Clearly, this violates the spirit of the separation of church and state and spits in the eye of all non-Christian Tennesseans. But here’s the thing–with the exception of you guys and us pagans–you know that [...]

Dear Deer

I really would like a deer skull, with rack, to put in my bedroom. I’m not sure about how to go about getting one, but I live in an area with a lot of hunters who shoot deer, so it seems like it shouldn’t be too hard to acquire one, if only I knew where [...]

The Pat Robertson Thing

Robertson’s little speech about Haiti was so appalling on so many levels that I imagine it’s a bit like looking up and seeing that you’re about to get hit by a dozen water balloons filled with mud–you just close your eyes and wait for it to be over, because it’s not going to be just [...]

Can’t See the Forest for the Trees

Here’s a cool thing I wrote about for Pith. I think they’re going to end up needing money as much as volunteers, in case you’re not that excited about going out in the cold.

The Dog People of Land Between the Lakes

I learned today that, even though many of you (West Tennesseans!) already knew all these stories about the dog people of the Land Between the Lakes, I had to learn about these fuckers all by myself, because no one told me. I look shifty-eyed in your direction, West Tennessee. Anyway, here’s what I heard. There [...]

Things are Hopping

–Good lord, people. I know I said I was glad to see tempers running a little hot on the Hill, but I didn’t mean for Mike Turner to start trying to tackle people on the Chamber floor! –Tiny Pasture has the skinny on some ridiculous Nashville Phillips who can’t behave when it comes to this [...]

The Great End-Tuck of Ought One, Ought Ten!

Every afghan I’ve had it in me to make for the past two months (and one that I made last year) is sitting here in the living room waiting to have its ends tucked in so that it can go out and join the world as a useful member of society. The blue afghan under [...]

Truck

I went up to the top of the ridge, to the little grocery store and I parked next to an enormous truck. You know the kind, so big that you’d have to hoist both me and Mrs. Wigglebottom into it. And it rumbles so loud when it first turns over that you can hear it [...]

Eh, Vegetables, Who Needs ‘Em?

I have to confess, I’m contemplating not doing a vegetable garden again this year. I think we can do watermelon, okra, and bell peppers up by the house and I was, honestly, more delighted by the whimsy of having a space that big filled with flowers than I was with having it filled with vegetables. [...]

Speaking of “Putting Yourself at the Front of Any Parade”…

Chris Sanders has a really thoughtful post about Harold Ford’s conversion from Tennessee’s idea of a Democrat to an actual Democrat. It’s hard for me to be that generous. I bristle at the idea of having someone kick you repeatedly in the teeth and then turning around and thanking them when they suddenly see the [...]

So Long, Morning Roundup

Woods is taking over all of the morning roundups over at Pith, which is fine. But I admit, out of habit, to having a longing to click on the Tennessee Tribune‘s website and wait five minutes for the PDFs to come up, like old times.

The Great Tea Party Convetion of Aught Ten

The only thing more fun in Tennessee right now than following the abrupt change of Harold Ford Jr. from a Tennessee Democrat to a normal Democra… Hey. Are we sure this is actually Harold Ford Jr.? Has anyone checked to see if he now has the tell-tale goatee that would signal the actual presence of [...]

A Brief Word on Verifiable Voting

Yes, we need it. Yes, they’re going to screw us out of it.

Oh, Tennessee, I Love You and Other Random Things

–My favorite thing about Tennessee is how, slowly, over time, you start to realize that everyone knows someone you know. I just sent an email to Newscoma because she’s going to run into the brother of a friend of the Butcher’s and I wanted to give her the head’s up. And it tickled me. –Here’s [...]

The Contest Afghan Hits a Snag, Almost Literally

So, I am in massive love with the yarn I’m using on the contest afghan. It’s so soft. It’s chunky in a really cute way. And it’s warm. It’s really, really nice (Lion Brand Yarn’s Homespun). But when I went to sew the strips together, I learned the terrible weakness of the yarn. It does [...]

The Kind of Sunday Where Someone Throws Up in the Cable Box

Ooo, a Ghost!

Jonathan has a ghost and some cool skills at putting up an italicy summary at the top of his post.

I Can’t Believe This is My Life

The orange cat in one dining room chair, the tiny cat in another. The new kitty in the office chair by the computer. You can drum your fingers on its plastic back and she will pounce into action, ready to hunt your hand, wherever it might pop out of. The Butcher was asleep on the [...]

The Contest Afghan!

I KNEW I had a picture of it. At least in part. Here part of it is. That gives you a good idea of how it will look.

Is Ron Ramsey Afraid the Retired Priests are Going to Have Abortions?!

Oh, dear lord, sometimes you read something over at Post Politics so stupid you wish you had someone in the room with you to read it out loud to. This was in a press release Ron Ramsey, who is running for governor, sent out today: Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region had received approval from the [...]

Oh My God! Is this already the crappiest contest in the history of the internet?

Is there not even a picture of the contest afghan in process? I can’t find one. You can see it in the corner of nm’s afghan here (look up in the far left of the bed). But I don’t see the picture I took of it kind of laid out.  Way to generate excitement, B. [...]

Oh, Snow

It is a city-wide pastime when we get snow to either go to the stores and buy up all the bread and milk or make fun of all the people buying up all the bread and milk, with Southerners getting mad at Yankees who invariably are like, “Oh, ha ha, it’s just a little snow! [...]

Snowman

I was on my way to lunch when I came out of the building and caught my co-worker crouched down between the building and the parking lot. He looked up at me with this enormous smile and this look of unmitigated joy on his face. “I’m making a snowman,” he said, with what I can [...]

The Plumber is Coming! The Plumber is Coming!

I’m going to lunch and then home to pay the plumber! And then? And then! To shave my legs! Although, the hair is now at the point where it’s laying over and is soft, so… Ha ha ha. Sometimes I write things I imagine are going to mortify me when I’m 60.

The Tiny Cat Has Eaten Tougher Things than You for Dinner

I don’t know why the tiny cat likes to spend cold nights under the house, but she does. No matter how much you try to keep her inside, she will find a way outside and under the house. So, when it’s breakfast time, you have to flush the toilet and open the back door and [...]