Stings and arrows of a coffeehouse-less neighborhood

According to this site Death by Caffeine, not only will caffeine kill ya, but you can calculate how quickly caffeine will spin you off this mortal coil. But, as W.C. Fields said about a man who drowned in a vat of whiskey, ‘oh death, where is thy sting?’.
I’ve lived in Salemtown for one solid year, [...]

Yep, Senator Frist is running for Pres…

According to MSNBC, Frist is touting that ‘Intelligent Design’ be taught to school children as an antidote (my wording) to evolution. Personally, I think if there was intelligent design, there wouldn’t be a designated hitter in baseball and McDonalds would only serve coffee and french fries.
I believe in God and I certainly think He/She was [...]

Elvis still dead, marriage goes on

Back in 1977 on August 14th, Lynn and I tied the proverbial knot. We had a short honeymoon (we were soooooooooooooo broke) that ended two days later when Elvis died. The death of the King didn’t really curtail our honeymoon so much as the lack of honeymoon financial endowment, but it did put a strange [...]

How about starting in Salemtown?

Google taking over the world??
If this worries you, you might want to check out the previous post…

Tired of those mind-control rays infiltrating your brain?

Your troubles are over!

Forget the Anglo-Saxons..we’ve got Normans

Norman’s Market that is..in all its powderblue-graffitied glory.
I used to live in Brooklyn in the hood and I’m not kidding about the hood. Anytime when the weather was near decent there would be loads of people hanging on the corner, some up to no good but most just chilling, chatting, domino’n and being [...]

Listen up!

For a good time, listen to Amadou & Mariam, a blind couple from western Africa who I guarantee will make you dance (or if you are like me, move somewhat rhythmically to the beat without veering into the art form known as dance). In fact, I’ll guarantee that if you listen to at least two [...]

“You don’t have to look, you don’t have to see..

You can feel it in your olfactories” (line from Loudon Wainwright’s song Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road). It’s high summer in Salemtown and our friends at Metro Water are sharing their ‘Eau de Salemtown’ (or as Tennessean writer Nancy Deville might call it - ‘Eau de Germantown Area) with the greater Salemtown [...]

I sing the voice mail Electric - lost in the ohm-zone

The lights started to flicker around 9:30. The central air was switching faster than Senator Frist in a stem cell debate. I was thinking that maybe the wiring in the new house had the ‘haints’, but I looked outside and saw the streetlight shimmering like sister Kate. I called NES and after a few rings [...]

I know 1618 6th Avenue North, and this is no 1618 6th Avenue North

According to an MLS website, the house in the picture will be built on ‘this’ lot on 6th Avenue North. I spent a lot of time walking my dog Sparky in the neighborhood and I’ve yet to see a yard/pasture that looks quite like this in the neighborhood. Will anyone be fooled by this?
I’m wondering [...]

Nuts and Boltons…

I’m working on the theory that the Bolton ‘recess’ appointment is actually encouraging. I don’t mean it’s encouraging in the sense that it is a rational non-divisive ‘we are the world’ kind of thing, but there are two points that need to be made: 1) Conservative presidents do this kind of thing - Nixon appointed [...]

Donnie Baseball

Before his back went out, this man’s (Don Mattingly) swing was the prototype. Currently the hitting coach for the Yankee and former Nashville Sound, Donnie baseball is the epitome of grace and class in the world of baisbol (the only sport that really matters).
I’m posting this because I love this game and love the way [...]

Proust in Salemtown

I live in (and love), the Salemtown neighborhood in north Nashville. Other than distilling the essence of truth from baseball box scores, there are few things that give me more pleasure than walking around my neighborhood. I’ve lived here since last August and have learned that for a true community to exist two things are [...]