Help Me, My Brainy Readers!

What is a word that means “The Study of Letter Writing”?
Epistolism?
Help!

Rush Limbaugh: Advocate for Women?!

Did I hit my head at lunch or something?  Reading this makes me feel unmoored from reality.

“Woman Left Home with a Brown-eyed Man and I…”

I’ll admit that yesterday, upon saving the pork roast (which, for the record, included no garlic because we don’t have any in the house and I was hoping the garlic in the ketchup would do. I think it did okay, but you, America, should not be thwarted by my success.), I had half a mind [...]

Have I Already Ruined My Jalapeno Pepper Plant?

Am I overwatering?  When I got home from work today, both the bell pepper plant and the jalapeno were drooping and kind of wilty looking.  And the jalapeno had black spots where the branches, you know, branch out from the stems.
So, I didn’t water them and they appear now–I just went out and checked because I [...]

Our Salad Days

This year, the Butcher made roughly what I made when I first moved here in ‘99. He had to move in with me (yes, in part to keep on the good side of Johnny Law) so that I could pursue my career. I wouldn’t have been able to afford to stay here if [...]

Stupidity at Home

We have all of the windows shut to keep the rain out and it’s so damn hot in here I’m about to have to go to take a long cold shower just to bring my core temperature back down under boiling.  And yet, our roof leaks and water runs down the walls.
So, why are we [...]

Raising the Wind

At lunch, the wind came in from the east and tangled itself in my hair and because of that, I can’t quite shake the feeling that the coming storm is going to be ferocious.  There’s something about that feeling, of your hair and the wind dancing around your head, that I just love.
Fraizer, in The [...]

Quick Things

–I have a huge crush on Neil deGrasse Tyson.  In fact, I cruise the Science channel and the History Channel just hoping he’ll be on and being all like “I don’t care if they redeclare Pluto a planet.  It’s not going in my museum!”  Anyway, if it turns out that he’s secretly a huge dick, [...]

This is Censorship, Folks

Here is a real, true example of a Federal agency deciding they don’t like something someone is saying and attempting to keep folks from hearing it.

In Which I Use Self-Promotion to Promote Myself

(sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum!) 
Oh, Nashville Scene! Oh, Nashville Scene!
How lovely is your website.
Oh, Nashville Scene,  oh, Nashville Scene,
I read it every day and night.
And I would be so greatly charmed
If you would take me in your arms
And link to me for all to see
Oh Nashville Scene, I’m begging.

I Took a Shower! I Took a Shower!

For the first time since Tuesday.  It was warm and showery and felt so good.  I had to take it very slowly, because I still get dizzy when I stand up for too long, but it was worth it.  Now, I’m going to take a nap.  Though, I may need to rest for a second [...]

Peppers, Oh Glorious Peppers

Mmm.  Peppers.

Not Replacements for Normal Children

Over at Alas, Kay Olson is talking about the weird ad campaign for the NYU Child Study Center which seems clearly designed around the idea that there are a whole host of things–ADHD, autism and related things, eating disorders, and OCD, for instance–that rob you of your normal children and replace them with fucked up [...]

My Sure-Fire Way to Get Lee…

What’s that?  There’s no one to one correlation between what a person listens to and what kinds of deeds they’ll do?
Dang.

My Sure-Fire Way to Get Lee to Worship Satan–A Playlist

“Devil Went Down to Georgia”–Charlie Daniels (come on, we all know who really won that)
“Sympathy for the Devil”–The Rolling Stones
“Stairway to Heaven”–Led Zeppelin
The “Holy Diver” Album by Dio
And everything by Slayer

My Sure-Fire Way to Get Lee to Give Me All His Money–A Play List

“Money”–Pink Floyd
“Money”–The Beatles

America, I am a Wimp

I hurt my back moving laundry around yesterday.  It hurts to walk.  It hurts to sit unless I sit with my knees as high off the ground as I can get them.
I have drawn a picture to illustrate:

Can you justifiably leave work early because your back hurts?
We’ll see.  I wish we had some Bengay at [...]

Seriously “Find a Baby”?!

Bekah’s baby is my favorite online baby.  Look at that smile.  Tell me a big ole fat smiling baby doesn’t make you smile, too?

Freedom and the Alleviation of Suffering

Yesterday I watched Trudell, and I have to say that it’s had me thinking since then about just what it is that I’m working to accomplish, if anything.  I mean, what is it exactly that I want from the world, what am I working towards?
I think what I want is freedom and the alleviation of [...]

Well, Shoot

I have to go in for a CAT scan on Monday because I have a mass of some sort in my right lung.
Seriously, if I had known my lungs were going to go to shit anyway, I would have taken up smoking when I was in junior high.

In Which I Take It Very Slow for Representative Campfield

Let’s say I’m a jackass.
And let’s say that I’m involved in a very lucrative dog-fighting operation. And let’s say that I don’t even have to fight dogs to get in on the lucre. I just have to breed me dogs that I can sell to fighters for thousands of dollars.
Say I never [...]

Yet Again, Martin Brady Chaps My Hide… or is it Chafes My Hide? No Matter.

Is this Martin Brady the same dude who writes for the Scene? If so, I have half a mind to take Mrs. Wigglebottom down to their new headquarters and let her meet him.
Once he’s charmed and enamored with her–as most folks quickly become–I’m going to pick her up and knock him upside the head [...]

Passed Along Without Comment

Comments I considered making:
Reason #538 why this is not a family-friendly blog.
How else is a man supposed to see if a cock will fit in his coop?
A real man always makes sure his tools hang right where he can grab them.
Ha, my readers tickle me.

Boston, In Retrospect

Getting on the internet has been a bit more of a challenge than I thought it would be. One of Ms. B.’s neighbors has an open wireless connection, but it’s not very stable. So, I’m sorry for the lack of posts. I imagine I’ll be filing this one from the airport.
On Saturday, [...]

Some Like It Hot

So, yes, I should have bothered to learn the name of this ice cream place, but I’m just going to tell you to go there anyway.  Right next to Beyond the Edge over in East Nashville.
They have this ice cream called “Some Like It Hot” which is Mexican chocolate, cinnamon, and hot peppers.  You put [...]