I Will Probably Never Say this Again

But good for Bill O’Reilly. Seriously.

Uncle Harry

This is my dad’s uncle Harry, my grandma’s brother. I’m guessing this had to be taken in the early 60s or late 50s, just looking at the women in the background. I love how he looks like a guy I would know now–overalls, goofy chin hair, cool hat, mischievous grin, and long duster. The weirdest [...]

Shook

This Obesity Task Force thing is giving me almost “going to a new doctor” levels of anxiety. I wrote a post about it over at Pith and I kept waking up last night thinking, “there’s still time to call Jim Ridley and beg him not to run it.” But what would be the point? Honestly, [...]

The Obesity Task Force, Part II

Because I don’t want this slide from their website, from a presentation one of them gave,  to get lost down the memory hole:

Bluebells, Well, a Bluebell, but We’ll Take What We Can Get

If the Solar System Were a Music Box

I’ve been listening for a long time, now.

The Obesity Task Force

Today is Obesity Task Force Day on the Hill and I have been trying to discern whether the obese will be able to use this task force to do tasks we need done (I, for instance, could use some help with weeding) or if the task force will give me tasks to accomplish. I have [...]

Yes, Another Post about the Tree

I don’t even care how ridiculous it is to blog about a tree. I am delighted by it. I went out last night to just watch the breeze pass over the leaves, to feel the trunk, and to just enjoy it. We’re wondering, exactly, how much to water it. They recommend you water a new [...]

Kleinheider

So, Kleinheider got let go today. I kind of want to say exactly what I said last time. It just bums me out, is all. I mean, really, JR and them are going to do fine. Post Politics will be fine and it will carry on. Blah blah blah. If you had to pick someone [...]

Bill Anderson’s Tour Bus is Haunted

Okay, really, what more do I have to say? Bill Anderson’s Tour Bus is Haunted. I am embarrassed that I didn’t have a haunted tour bus story last October.

Henry, The Magnolia

The Butcher just sent me these pictures. Which, of course, means that he planted the tree himself, because he kicks so much butt. I forgot to tell him that I named the magnolia “Henry.” Not that it matters. I named the new kitty, “Pumpkin” and he just calls her “New Kitty.”

Is Lefty Frizzell My Neighbor?!

In “doing research” (read: looking on Wikipedia) for my post last night, I learned that Lefty Frizzell’s final resting place is at the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville. If this is true, I have driven past this cemetery countless times. It’s right by our Jack in the Box. I know, it’s kind of unimaginable [...]

Always Late with Your Kisses

All it takes is listening to really talented artists turn in not-quite-right versions of Lefty Frizzell’s “Always Late (With Your Kisses)” to start a girl to wondering what exactly Frizzell is doing in this song that is so hard to replicate in any kind of satisfying way. I mean, when Dwight Yoakum, Merle Haggard, and [...]

This is a real quote from an actual Tennessee politician and not Stephen Colbert

“I can honestly say that I look at President Obama and never think of him as a black man,” said Ramsey, R-Blountville. “I mean that. I look at him as a liberal Democrat who I think is taking the country in the wrong direction.” I am not even kidding you. State Senator Ramsey a.) claims [...]

NooooooOOOOOOoooooooo

I know the last time we had a “NoooooooOOOOOOoooooo” in a gardening related post, I had just accidentally poisoned myself. I will tell you up front that this is not the case again. But the Butcher and I were headed out this morning to get some mulch and some stakes for the new tree so [...]

Places to Go, Things to Read

– A good one from Chris Clarke about lying. –Please, music industry, see the genius in this and DO NOT FUCK IT UP. I know, that’s too much to ask, but I’m asking anyway. –Casada goes nation-wide. And not in the fun way. More in the, “and this is why I have trouble identifying as [...]

The Dog and I Go to Look at Dead People

Weekend Gardening Update!!!

I planted some lily of the valley along side of the shed. They were some tiny, crappy, really dry rhizomes that I got from Lowe’s, so I don’t know how they’ll do. But they were cheap, so I guess if only one of them comes up, it’ll be worth it. And everything I’ve read says [...]

Mysterious Magnolia

So, I went to buy a magnolia today. It’s harder than you’d think it purchase a magnolia. All I knew is that I wanted one that would grow very, very large, like the magnolias on the campus of Wake Forest, which were my first introduction to the plants. Well, it turns out that there are [...]

My Chick Bad

I am a sucker for any song with a bass line that could easily be played by the best parts of a brass band (sorry, trumpets, but we don’t need more than two of you, one to make out with the flutes and the other to actually play your part. Not that we would have [...]

Sadly, Someone Deserves the Biggest Tool of the Day Award, but We Don’t Know Who

People, don’t make me defend Jason Mumpower. I should be able to enjoy him slinking off the stage of history without a pang of regret. But no, some asshole has to pull this shit and ask Mumpower if maybe it isn’t time for him to start a family?! How about that’s none of your goddamn [...]

Just a Reminder about the 60s

Oh, y’all, Blue Collar Republican is all worked up. That being said, I plan to misbehave. I have no issues what-so-ever with those tossing a few bricks through windows or other appropriately directed ‘civil disobedience’. The cutting of gas lines and other actions directed at harming people I do have issue with. The rest of [...]

Campbell County GOP, Don’t You Think It’s Time to Find a New Treasurer?

The treasurer of the Campbell County GOP is Mark Wells. He’s also on the Campbell County Board of Education, where, in his spare time, he spends years harassing a teacher and trying to get her fired because she didn’t want to date him. And this guy is still the treasurer of the Campbell County GOP [...]

The TNGOP is So Over Unemployed People. Perhaps It’s Time for Unemployed People to be Over the TNGOP

Just remember this, if you’re one of the one in ten people in Tennessee who can’t find a job or a member of a family of one of the 10% unemployed, when you go to vote in November. It was Democrat Sherry Jones who had your back this week. Republican Glen Casada is done with [...]

Mumpower Out of Power?

I’m still not sure what to make of Mumpower’s last-minute decision not to run for re-election. The filing deadline for candidates is in five days and the news, so far, has been conspicuously silent about who will run on the Republican side for Mumpower’s seat (and shoot, if there ever was an argument for the [...]