If I Ever Get to Wales…

I have to go to St. Tecla’s well. I wonder if one Teckla walking down the street in Llandegla is considered a parade in honor of their patron saint?

Well, This is Sure to Win Over the Youngsters

I pass this along without comment, because I’m too busy laughing. Wade and Matt and [sic] perfectly nice young men but neither has the experience, background or competence to administer the technical aspects of the Party’s institutional functions (county reorganization and upcoming 2012 Delegate Selection to name just two critical institutional functions that must be [...]

Did My Quilt Fix Chapter Four?

I was working on my quilt last night and it was kind of going like hell. But it gave me time to think about the book. The main problem in the book is that nothing happens. I just didn’t find anything that resonated with me emotionally about any emotional struggle Hannah has with turning into [...]

Oh, Democrats, Never Change

So, as I said, I was caught up in working the debate, so I didn’t really have an opinion about who won. But I came home to find the general internet consensus was the Wade Munday had out-performed the other two candidates. I thought he did fine, don’t get me wrong, but, if the response [...]

Oh, Huck

I think that, if the word “nigger” appears too many times in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to make it appropriate for school-children, it’s better to have them wait to read it when they’re ready than to give them a sanitized version. It goes back to our discussion this morning–let’s not bear false witness to [...]

In Which the Butcher’s Car about Killed Me

As you recall, our neighbors’ were recently broken into. So, I’m sitting there on the couch last  night when I hear what sounds like a short series of whistles by the front door. “Twee-twee-twee-twee” and then the same thing over by the dining room window. The dog is freaking the fuck out. I am freaking [...]

False Witness

I’m talking about Nathan Bedford Forrest over at Pith this morning. And I’m thinking about this post I read yesterday or the day before but can’t now find about bearing false witness. In the post was this discussion about how the perniciousness of bearing false witness lies not only in the lie and the harm [...]

The Debate

Yes, there were some audio problems and yes, the dinging on the phone was not fun. But I thought it went pretty well. The thing that struck me the most about the whole process was that all those questions (and more) came from Democrats all across the state and they’re the same questions Democrats I [...]

That’s 6:30 Central Time

The Democratic Party Chair candidates are having a debate. Braisted will be live-blogging it. Weirdly enough, I will be co-moderating it. No, really.

Fable III

The Butcher every once in a while comes home with one of the Fable games. Right now, he’s suffering from a stomach ache and I still have the remnants of this headache, so we’re both hanging out on the couch (much to the dog’s disappointment) while he plays Fable III. One thing that I just [...]

Another Day Another Migraine

The eye doctor asked me if I wanted to overnight my new contacts and I was all “Oh, no, I don’t want to pay for that.” But I pay for that anyway. The folks came through on a return from Georgia. It was fine last night and not good this morning. My dad actually made [...]

Antioch Park, I Think (There Was No Sign)

Vast Regional Generalizations Ahead

I don’t want to embarrass anyone, so I’m not going into specifics, but I also want to write about this, because I’m totally stealing it as a tactic. So, I’m out with friends, one of whom has been noticeably down and not in the “I’m going to write poetry and listen to the Cure” way [...]

Happy New Year!

I resolved to get a movie deal. For what? Hell if I know? Will I put any effort into it? No. So, why resolve it? I think, if you don’t throw ridiculous things out there just to see whether it catches the Universe’s fancy, ridiculous things never happen to you. Good things, Universe, ridiculous good [...]