My Done List

Bank? Gone to. Groceries? Bought. Drain? Unclogged. Park? Walked around. Park review? Written. Second chapter? Felt better about. Laundry? Done. Well, except that I need to go rescue it from the dryer. We went to the Goodlettsville Kroger instead of our own, because I needed to go to the bank and that’s the easiest to [...]

Mind-Boggling

Oh, well, now we see why Ron Ramsey wants to pressure our state into joining this nonsense. I give you Maine’s new governor: The governor-elect said his major concerns are overreaching policies — LePage identified education and health care as areas he thinks the federal government goes too far — and how much, and in [...]

More Belmont Links

Gail Kerr: “Make no mistake about it: This is a turning point for Belmont. Is it really the progressive university Fisher has strived to create? Or a campus where adults are treated like children and lies are official administration policy?” A commenter at Jezebel says discrimination against gay people is just standard Belmont practice. It [...]

Lloyd Road and Marrowbone Lake

The Blehs

I’m depressed over the Belmont situation. I really do think, while they can do what they want, it’s time for institutions and powerful people who are GLBT friendly to stop working with them. The students alone can’t bring enough pressure to get this changed. But, frankly, I don’t think it will change. People love to [...]

The Oxford American Music Issue 2010

I haven’t listened to the music yet. But where is Hank?! (I was looking for that picture of Hank where he’s sitting next to the gal with her panties just barely showing, because I just think it’s so cool, but I couldn’t find it. So, the OA issue is missing Hank and this post is [...]

Belmont Wishes to Move Foreward Without Further Media Distraction

Yes, I’m sure having to endure the righteous anger of the whole country because you magically unemployed your gay soccer coach is distracting. Really, it’s too bad we can’t just go back to the good old days when you could fuck a gay person over as hard as you wanted and everyone kept quiet about [...]

A Brief Review

I am really digging the new KORT album, Invariable Heartache. If you’re looking for a way to purchase a rainy, lazy day for someone for the Holidays, I recommend just given them this album.

Belmont over at Pith

You can read my other thoughts there. A big thanks to Jim Ridley who came up with the first paragraph. I’m ashamed to admit that I hadn’t put “run mom/run Mary off” together.

Belmont University Discriminates Against Gay People

Which is their business. But I think it’s past time that we start asking if that’s a policy the people who work there and perform there support. Just how much cover is the creative community in this city going to continue to give to a place that fucks over their peers? Also, if Belmont ever [...]

One Just for My Non-Nashville Readers

Believe me, everyone in town has been laughing about this, so I share it with you. Though I do feel bad for the beaver.

It Turns Out that I Actually Didn’t Want to Write That

Even with my awesome outline outlining the false story of how the Martins became birds and the actual true story of what happened out east and even with an empty house and an awesome fire, it still took me a good three hours to write the pages that tell that story. Every part ended up [...]

My Favorite Christmas Decoration

Sorry it’s so dark, but I’m having a fire and writing, which requires ambiance. Ha ha ha. Anyway, I know this is supposed to be Santa, but I just don’t believe it for a second. The great white beard, the outfit made for wandering, the tree hanging by his side as, perhaps, he once hung [...]

Being Your Friend Doesn’t Mean I Cover for Your Mom

So, this is mildly interesting if you’re into Palin gossip. It’s also completely unsurprising. I just think this has got to go to prove how much we are no longer a rural society because, people, of course. Jesus Christ, of course. Do people actually not know women like Sarah Palin? Do they just not exist [...]

Woman Assaulted in Jackson

I’m just going to be honest, stories like this scare the shit out of me–people just standing around watching a woman being beaten, the police seeming to decide it’s not a crime worth investigating once they learn she’s a trans woman. I have seen too many women just this fucking week discover that the police [...]

But Life is Pretty Weirdly Awesome

So, this morning we learned that NASA is about to announce they’ve discovered a new life form here on earth. But then we learned that the truth, though not as exciting in some regards, is even stranger. Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues designed an experiment to take a particular type of salt-loving bacteria called GFAJ-1 from [...]

I Almost Wish Life Were as Awesome as Conspiracy Theorists Think It Is

So, some Tea Party members over in Cleveland, Tennessee think that utility companies have the power to control your appliances. Now, I don’t want them resetting my alarm clock for earlier, but damn, think of how handy it would be if you could call NES and be all “Um, I’m on my way to the [...]

Mud Blossoms

You know, a funny thing about life is that you do get to points where you feel like you’ve seen it all. I mean, no, not Paris, but within your little realm, that you have seen or at least imagined every possible thing that might happen. So, this morning, I was out walking the dog [...]

If the Butcher is Going to be Sick, I need a Sound-Proof Study

Yes, the rumors are true–the Butcher ate the last of the apple pie. I can’t blame him, though. It was delicious. Still, I am sad that I didn’t get to eat the last of the pie. On the other hand, I must say that, when you just use store-brought crust, making apple pie is embarrassingly [...]

The Butcher’s Bad Luck

Not only does the Butcher now have my cold, he spent all yesterday cleaning up the garage so I could put my car in there only for me to discover that the garage door won’t open. He said he’d try to figure out what was going wrong today, but I told him that it could [...]

The Most Interesting Catfight

So, the Butcher is coming down with my cold and we’re sitting here on the couch, me working on my Pith post, him working on trying to breathe, when the cats had the weirdest fight. The orange cat was on the table looking out the window when the new kitty, who didn’t know the orange [...]