A Short Thing

I’m swamped so I don’t  have the time to give this that I should. But I just want to remind folks, even some folks whom I love dearly, that one person is not another. Bringing down all the wrath of the internet you can generate on one person has little effect on the other. If [...]

The Neighborhood Story Project

Yesterday, I learned about a project so cool that it literally fried my brain. I’ve been trying to think of how to talk to you about it, but I can’t. I will just say this: Shouldn’t every city do this?

Illinois Earthquake Update

So, when I woke up and saw that the top story on the news was the earthquake outside of Chicago, of course I called Mom and Dad to make sure they were all right. “Are you okay?” “Yeah, we didn’t really get any of the ‘blizzard’.” “What are you talking about? You had a blizzard.” [...]

Historians, Could this be Luke Phillips?

My efforts to find Luke Phillips before 1850, even with his claims of being born in 1808 have, as you know, been rather fruitless. I could find him in one-line mentions in a couple of histories of Oakland County, arriving in 1828. But I have been through the 1830 Oakland County census and he isn’t [...]

Hmm, Why Isn’t There More Vocal Excitement about Mike Turner’s HB 0776?

You’d thinking women would be excited about equal pay, and yet, have you seen anyone but Trace mention it? I wonder why that is… Oh, right…

The Bordeaux Cemetery That the City Runs

I took pictures of it. I wrote a review that will someday be up on Pith. And yet, I’m still writing a post about it because it’s been since Saturday and I still have the heebie jeebies.  There’s a lot that’s heebie jeebie-inducing about it. First, the part to your right with the unmarked graves [...]

Is there a Librarian Signal? If so, Librarians, I’m Flashing You!

A reader writes: I know many of your readers are librarians and I wonder whether you’d be open to posting a question to them. I have a research librarian friend who is returning to work next year after a 5-year hiatus while raising her daughter to kindergarten age. She has an MLS and is interested [...]

Ooooo, Ooooo, Oooo, Football Conjure!

I could not love this story more and I feel cheated CHEATED that I have not gotten to meet a football rootworker. (I hope you all remember the awesome story of the hoodoo woman who got me a raise?)

Lots of Random Things

1. This is possibly the most irresponsible piece of journalism I’ve seen in a long time. Mosques in this state get burnt down for less and Channel 5 is hyping that these folks might be terrorists? If someone gets killed, that’s blood on Channel 5′s head. Speaking of murder, who gives a shit what Maury [...]

Butt Covering?

Pretty much everyone I’ve read or talked to about the majority of the Superbowl ads found them bizarrely hateful towards women (on a side note, I have to believe that, if you didn’t already know what the Tebow ads were about, you would have thought the Tebow family bought the time in honor of itself. [...]

The Butcher’s Theory of the Afterlife

So, I wanted to watch Ghosthunters as they explored Mark Twain’s house.  The Butcher did not. “But it’s Mark Twain,” I said. “We might see Mark Twain haunting his house.” “Mark Twain hated golf.” “Um… so?” “I’m pretty sure that a man who hates golf is not going to be a ghost.” “What?” “Well, if [...]

In Which I Have a Girl-to-State Talk with New York

It’s like when you hear about your new boyfriend from his ex.

All the Bordeauxes (Bordeauxs? Bordeauxen?)

Some of Us Must Get Out of the House

I was awoken today by the sound of a cat freaking the fuck out and a dog whimpering in confusion. I’m not sure what happened there, since it was in the Butcher’s room, but I eagerly await a report from him. I guess I should check to make sure that the animals didn’t kill him. [...]

Robert Johnson Knew

Do you know this artist, Kate Mann? I wouldn’t say that she’s good, but I like her because she’s something better than good. Her songs get on my iPod in one way or another and they just sound like a quiet room after a long evening of drinking and telling fortunes, when you have convinced [...]

Click click click

I have nothing to say other than that I’m happy to be saying it on a computer that works. The only thing I’m having trouble getting used to is that the control button is not quite where it was on the other keyboard and I keep hitting the wrong thing when I want to cut [...]

I Have to Go Eat At This Place

Yes, a burger joint with my nom de blog.

Photopalooza!

New Computer

If you are in any way responsible for me finally having a new computer, the wet slobbery feeling you’re getting right now is me metaphorically making out with you.

Trees are Creepy, in Their Own Way

Especially this time of year, the tress in the back yard are creepy. They all look a little like very slow mad scientists coming together to plan world domination. I’m not a painter by any means, but there’s something about the way the trees look against  the winter sky that makes me wish I could [...]

In All the Excitement, Let’s Not Miss the Funny

I woke up still laughing about this, so I just had to bring it up here. Yes, the comments on this post were very exciting, but it’s this part of the post that still has me tickled: This source adds something all Democrats probably would do well to consider: “We all need to come together [...]

Twenty Minutes Until I Can Take More Cold Medicine!

In the meantime, let’s all read along as we learn that all our favorite internet trolls are apparently the same dude. Very strange. Very hilarious.

If Anyone NEVER Wants to Date Me, Today is the Day to Tell Me

Blah, I’m still sick, but I’m past the point of sitting on the couch in a coma with kleenex stuffed up my nose waiting to be able to take my next round of medicine and onto the part where you kind of wander aimlessly through the house, like a drugged-up zombie. The book got rejected [...]

So Sick

They sent me home from work, said I looked terrible. I stopped by Kroger to get some cold medicine (my beloved Alkaseltzer Plus effervescent tablets) and as I was walking towards the check out, I thought, “I’ll be sure to get a $20 back so that I can give the Butcher money to go to [...]

Sickly

I don’t know if I am having some kind of massive allergy attack or the start of a cold that won’t quite come into being. But something is not cool with the old immune system today. I was thinking, though, that one benefit to the CPAP machine is that you have to be more stuffed [...]