Psychic Blogging Continues!

I’ve got a busy week coming up some I was working yesterday on three things to put in the hopper over at Pith–a short thing on the other half of the Sara Evans restraining order, my park review, which includes a discussion of the Sureños graffiti in the park (in ways I don’t really understand, [...]

Things Peeking Up

The Professor wanted to come with me to review a park, just to see what it was like, so we went over to Seven Oaks and the dog acted like a huge puppy, which made us laugh and then she slept so hard the whole way home that when I pulled in the garage and [...]

In Which I Blew All My Grocery Money on Flowers

Red sunflowers from Beth Three packets of sunflowers I forgot from last year. White coneflowers Purple coneflowers Evening primrose Blue false indigo Delphinium Hollyhocks Columbine Lupine Poppies Daisies Black-eyed Susans Marigolds Foxglove Peppermint Morning glories (I think I’ve probably got enough seeds on the ground from last season, but I want to be sure). Catnip [...]

Bwah ha ha, Mark Maddox

Seriously, people, I am swear, I’m about five seconds from going into the psychic political blogger business. There isn’t such a business yet, as far as I know… Oh, no, wait! I am predicting with my psychic powers that psychic political blogging will be a real thing and that I will be the perfect pick [...]

Unpleasantness

The Varsity Grille broke me, people. I spent all afternoon wishing I could shit and since then being like “enough already.” And the Butcher ate my leftover Chinese and the last of my chocolate covered pretzels. Which, normally, I wouldn’t have minded or thought twice about, except that I thought all day, “when I get [...]

No Tree Planting Saturday

I just heard from Dave at Soundforest.org. Betsy, Good news and bad news. The good news is we have had so many volunteers that we are ahead of schedule on planting trees out at BB. The bad news is that we are almost out of trees to plant and don’t yet have the mulch to [...]

Things that Made Me Giggle

–The John Rich protest, even though, yes, I was afraid someone might get shot. –The fact that John Rich’s house is protected by the 2nd Ammendment. I’m going to have to remember to ask Say Uncle if there’s another blogger out there, perhaps Say Unncle, who is as passionate about 2nd ammendment rights as Say [...]

Varsity Grille

I don’t say this mildly, but I have just returned from the most awesomely hilarious terrible, oh, god, terrible meal ever, at the Varsity Grille on 21st. Our service was pretty terrible, but who could blame her? If I had to bring that crap to people for that amount of money, I could not have [...]

Americano

I drank an Americano last night. I haven’t ever had one before, so I don’t know if it’s always like this or just my mix, but somehow it was a perfectly fine drink ruined at the end by the quick but overwhelming taste of Nag Champa. I don’t want to narc on Campari’s Campari recipe [...]

Podcastic

Hey, you can listen to a podcast we did last night, if you want.

The “Protecting Parents from Greedy Children” Bills

People, I’m sorry. I was going to write a long post about how “glad” I was our state legislators are taking steps to protect divorcing parents from their greedy fucker children, but then I saw that most of these bills are being put forth by Representative Hardaway and I just had to laugh. Shoot, next [...]

There is No Diet Dr Pepper in the House!

People, I would like to write a thoughtful post for you. But I need certain things to get by in life–all this fucking medicine, a hose attached to my face at night, and some more pleasant things, like a swirl of sweet chemicals put together like something in Dr. Frankenstein’s lab, called Diet Dr. Pepper. [...]

Oh Hell Yeah, Don Williams!

I’m just going to say up front that, while I get that Ferlin Husky is an important figure in country music, he just doesn’t do it for me. So, congratulations Mr. Husky, but I just cannot get that excited. But Don Williams? I’m really emotional about it. Almost embarrassingly so. I think Don Williams just [...]

Three Cats Seems to Be the Same as an Infinite Number of Cats

I swear, everywhere I go in this house, there is a cat. I sincerely think that having three cats in a small space allows the cats to break the time space continuum and inhabit every inch of the house at all times. Even the Butcher was all “Ugh, I can’t wait for spring and the [...]

In Which I Make an Observation about Tennessee Politics

Things are in the shitter. Things are going to be in the shitter for a while.  Our state runs on sales tax and that means that people have to buy stuff in order for our state to have money. People can’t buy stuff if they aren’t working and a lot of us aren’t working. The [...]

Remarks at Harry Robinson’s Funeral

My Uncle B. just sent me these remarks that were given at his (and my dad’s) grandpa’s funeral. I don’t know by whom they were written, but I’m sharing them with you. —————————– HARRY HENRY ROBINSON, youngest son of John and Elizabeth Robinson was born August 8, 1871 in Summit Township – Jackson County, Michigan. [...]

This Awesome Tree I Saw Saturday

I was worried that being enthusiastic about a tree would seem dorky when up at Pith. And I was right. It does seem dorky. But sometimes you just have to go with unbridled enthusiasm. One thing that I’m really enjoying about the Park reviews is that it is just a chance to run around and [...]

Sunday Gardening Blogging: Back from the Dead

So, the Butcher is as enthusiastic as I am about devoting the whole garden to a ridiculous amount of sunflowers. I also like it because the planning for that is taken care of. We’ll just go in, pull up the dried up marigolds, till the whole thing lightly, and plant the sunflowers. I’m contemplating putting [...]

But I Have a System!

I have been rocking this awesome system where, when I get up in the morning, I take The Pill, and then set out the metformin I’ll need to take at dinner in a shot glass in the cabinet. That way, if ever I am wondering far after dinner whether I took my metformin, I can [...]

We Did This Day Like It’s Going Out of Style

First, we slept in. Then, Mrs. Wigglebottom behaved herself while I weeded the herb garden. It was already pretty full of weeds, but also the chamomile is spreading like there’s no tomorrow. So, I have an idea that, if I let everything spread as much as it would like, I’m not going to have much [...]

My State Rep and My Grocery Store: Combined Awesomeness

I give almost no thought to my state representative, Gary Moore. I can’t hardly remember his name half the time, just that he’s the fireman with the mustache. So, I’m completely screwed if Cobb or Turner ever grow mustaches. I’ll have no fucking idea who represents me, I mean, even worse that it is currently. [...]

A Girl and Her Beloved Cactus

Is the TNGOP as Screwed as the TNDP?

I admit, I’ve been so focused on Democratic problems, I’ve been almost completely out of the loop on the conservative soap opera in this state.  But today, as they say, the shit really hit the fan. First, it came out that the TNGOP state director is also running for office and conservatives took to the [...]

This Morning’s Scores

Last year, my mom and I found a couple of incredibly furry woolly worms. I was thinking about them as I was freezing my fingers of for, hallelujah, a second day this week, while out walking the dog. We have had an unusually snowy and cold winter for us. Score one for the predictive powers [...]

Shoot, I Need to Blog Like Andrew Sullivan

I went to a blogger thing at Vanderbilt and I wrote up a post for Pith when I got home and then I wrote Pith another post about the temporary suspension of Metro Water’s electronic billing. And then I thought, I ought to write something exciting for my lovelies at Tiny Cat Pants, but I [...]