All I need is the air that I breathe to love you..

Unless I can’t breathe thanks to
proposed ‘clean air’ regulations proposed by W. and gang…here

Cue James Brown - ‘Living in America’ (Salemtown - the REAL America)

Today in the City Paper, reporter William Williams discusses the ‘Garfield Place’ project. I didn’t realize that we denizens of Salemtown live in the ‘REAL’ America, while the gentry of Germantown apparently reside and frolic in some faux America.
I’m not sure that ‘we’ are being complimented here because Williams vision of real America apparently contains [...]

Hurricane Porn

Hurricane Porn is a term, new to me, that is popping up in blogs around the country. Most of us are concerned about what has happened and is still happening on the Gulf Coast. Some of us will actually DO something about this. Along with compassion there is also a voyeuristic side endlessly fascinated with [...]

Music for a rainy Sunday afternoon

You’ve read the paper and you can’t take anymore bushbast. You know you SHOULD go out and do something approximating exercise, but, oh DARN, it’s raining.
If there were such a thing as musical intelligient design there would be certain songs, certain artists and certain sounds that were created for a rainy Sunday afternoon. My [...]

But, I don’t wanna drive the pink car….

Rumor has it that Quentin Tarentino is in Bristol to watch tonight’s Bristol Sharpie 500 race. Apparently he was ‘adrenalized’ by a ride-along with a real NASCAR driver for a few 180 mph laps recently at the 1/2 mile track known for wall-banging and paint transfers.
Any chance in the near future we’ll see ‘Bristol Dogs‘, [...]

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry..

Actually if you get on THIS train, you’ll be dancing - King Elio Boom’s infectious call to disorder and train jumping…I love the guitar.
After yesterday morning, we needed a laugh. A highly recommended path to laughter: The 40 Year Old Virgin. Too damn funny.
Post-movie (yeah, we love those ‘cheap’ matinees) we went Back [...]

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged the phone across my head..

When the phone rings at 5:00 AM there are only two possibilities:
1) Wrong Number. When we moved to Salemtown one year ago, we were given a phone number that had been assigned to Warner-Chappel Music Publishing Company, particularly to the section that dealt with song-pluggers. Warner-Chappel (WC) hasn’t used the number for over two years. [...]

Some of the news from 5th and Garfield

Some workers are putting up a sign on the empty lot that used to hold the ugly yellow market (as opposed to the ugly light blue market up the street which at least serves incredibly good cheeseburgers). I talked to one of the men a few minutes ago and he stated they were going to [...]

Another Salemtown gated offering from Terry R & Crye-Leike

This 4th Avenue gem can be yours for $67,000 (decent amount of money for what is really pretty much going to be a lot).

Too good to pass up

From AP wire photographer Douglas C. Pizac - A veteran attending Bush’s speech on Tuesday in Idaho.

More fun with 1618

After having so much fun with 1618 6th Avenue North both here, Enclave and Moocow’s, I thought we should take a look at the actual lot showcased by Crye-Lieke’s interesting semi-fictional webpage.
I apologize for the poor quality of the picture (taken using my phone, lol), but I’m thinking the quality of [...]

All the news that’s waste to print

Somehow, I missed the section of this morning’s Tennessean that carried the article about last night’s Metro Water’s meeting about the plans to reconstruct the waste treatment plant and contain the nefarious odor that plagues the Salemtown and Germantown and I’m sure other North Nashville neighborhoods. Channel 2 covered the event, but I don’t think [...]

Sludge happens..

One summer many years ago I worked with the Knoxville Water Service in their waste treatment plant. Among other discoveries, I found out that there really is a s**thook (you don’t wanna know!).
If you worked inside in the air conditioned offices where the suits labored, the product processed was known as ’sludge’. If you [...]

In the words of Yosemite Sam…WHATTA MAROON

Which one of the following statements did Pat Robertson not make?
1) The attacks on 9/11 were the fault of gays and feminsts.
2) the threat to the United States from activist judges was “probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings”
3) Re President Chavez of Venuzuela: “I think that we really ought [...]

Crye-Lieke a baby…

If you MISS this opportunity at 1715 5th Avenue North. The patina and aroma of burnt oak pervades each nook of this cottage not entirely without charm. Who among you wouldn’t fork over a tidy sum to live in Lieke-ville? We’ll even build a fence and a gate to keep the riff-raff out (or in) [...]

I’d be a lot more scared if Rush was under my bed…

except he might leave behind a few Oxy pills…
This recently published children’s book Liberals under the bed is not a joke.
Doesn’t anybody on the right understand the term ‘civil discourse’? No remorse about demonizing people who are not like ‘we are’?
I realize there are many sensible rational conservatives out there, but hey, do you [...]

Who WAS on first?

I’ve been thinking about the NCAA’s recent decision to ban mascots from tournaments of any university that uses a name referring to ‘nativeamericans/indians/amerindians/indiginous americans’ (NIAIA). Also the NCAA will not allow the nickname of the school to be displayed on air during tournaments if the name refers to any aspect of NIAIA culture.
In the spirit [...]

A cool mapping site (even though Salemtown not included yet)

Other than obvious physiological and emotional differences, I think I know two key differences between men and women: 1) admiration of the 3 Stooges 2) Fascination with maps. Yes, I know these are huge generalizations, but over the years I’ve found them to be pretty accurate.
When Google came out with their satellite ‘Earth’ [...]

Listen up!

Even though I can no longer listen to internet radio at work (that pesky bandwidth problem), I still am a regular devotee (at home) of the best internet radio station I’ve ever encountered
Radio Paradise.
Listed below is a playlist for a recent segment..not that playlists are such exciting reading, but I’ve never heard [...]

The waiting Game

When it comes to the battle between the forces of good and evil my two favorite recent fictional sagas are Joan of Arcadia and the Harry Potter series.
Alas, even Joan’s powers were insufficient to overcome the banality of the Neilson ratings, and her show was cancelled just when she was about to finally confront the [...]