Oil would be well if it ended well, but oils not well..or a bigHola to Burton comes up dry

In another case of YOUR tax dollars at work, the LA Times reports here that oil production in Iraq is still lower than in the pre-war days, and that future oil production has been seriously harmed thanks to bungling by Halliburton and KBR.
Is this the case of the gang that couldn’t drill straight????
My favorite is [...]

The Tennessean got our name right!!

In today’s North Davidson section of the Tennessean that actually contained North Nashville coverage in three pages out of eight, Nancy Deville wrote a story about the new brownstone development in our neighborhood and she actually got our neighborhood name right – Salemtown. We’ve apparently graduated from being in ‘the Germantown area’.
The City Paper managed [...]

Tennessee Rubes – What the Gas Guy really thinks..

I blog-strolled over to the Gas Guy’s alter ego blog earlier tonight and happened to read his post on the Stones, along with a few of the comments..this one by The Gas Guy aka Evil Jeremy caught my eye:
You guys can, as consolation, all feel special that you know the answer to the [...]

Reaching out to my Republican friends

Are you lonely? Do you need a date? Are you having trouble meeting people who don’t start foaming at the mouth when they hear the name Bush? This site is an answered prayer.
Thanks to MSNBC.

If you’re not watching Veronica Mars…

you are missing one of the best shows on TV. Kristin Bell, the actress who plays Veronica, may be 25 but she plays 17 quite well.
The writers know how to work a story arc over the course of a season without sacrificing the ‘watchability’ of individual episodes (check out Season 1 on DVD whenever [...]

Yet another theory – Salemtown name game

My friend Gary responded to an earlier posting about the naming of Salemtown. His theory makes as much sense as any I have heard or read:
The now named American Tobacco Company, makers of snuff and stuff in plant(s) in the area of North Nashville ajoining Salemtown was originally part of the original American Tobacco Company [...]

North Nashville – Salem’s Lots helps out the Tennessean

I realize that I, a North End resident, may be a little bit sensitive on the following issue, but, is it too much to ask for the Tennessean to print at least one news item from North Nashville in their North Davidson edition?
I’ve included a terra-map of Nashville to help the Tennessean. The area below [...]

Baseball blog neglect – where’s the LOVE?

I know there ARE some Nashville bloggers who profess their love of baseball. I read your profiles. I also know that Nashville is more of a football town than a baseball town, and I have to reluctantly accept that. I love the Dores (NOT bandwagoning here, i’ve been a fan since freakin’ 1960 and yes, [...]

My God, Flipper’s got a gun and he’s swimming this way…

At first I thought I was reading the Onion when I read this story. Apparently we’ve been training dolphins to pinpoint and shoot terrorists.
Hurricane Katrina has liberated these killer dolphins. I knew that the genetic makeup of said dolphins implies intelligient design, but I gotta wonder how they know the diff [...]

Sharon Cobb

I had the privilege two weeks ago to hang out with blogger extrordinaire Sharon for an evening at the Australian Festival in Centennial Park. Prior to that evening I had talked to her approximately three minutes on the phone. We spent about three hours talking, walking, being grateful we didn’t spend $15 to [...]

The ‘Rep’ is channeling Martin Luther King..

Representative Campfield has devoted a post to the eloquent ‘I have a dream’ speech. Sadly, he left out the part of the speech that proclaims, ‘I dream of a day when a white state representative will become a member of that state’s black caucus’.
We can always dream can’t we?
I was wondering how this particular [...]

Not enough sense to get in and get out of the rain

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Reporters who stand out in the wind and rain during hurricanes are idiots, but more importantly think WE are idiots.By now most two year olds know that HURRICANES ARE BAD and they REALLY BLOW. Point your camera out from a window or porch if [...]

FDA Head resigns – I’m sure there’s some horse show official..

out there ready to step in and take the reins..
FDA head Lester Crawford resigned today. The former vet’s lowlights included the approval of Vioxx and the political decision (vs. the medical decision) to not approve the sale of emergency contraception and recalls of malfunctioning heart devices.
Stomp twice if you think that emergency contraception [...]

It was SUPPOSED to be the summer of George

I have a theory that pretty much every situation in life has some analogy or corollary from Seinfeld. If you have seen all the episodes (in some cases multiple times), you will recall a line or a scene or a plot twist that somehow relates to the current mise en scene.

“You know ….if you had [...]

Now HERE’S an ad

This ad sure beats the heck out of those demographically diverse pseudo-cool dweebs singing about Coke on some rooftop!
Click yes on that security pop-up window.

My dinner with Van Hilleary, er, Ed Bryant

I got to be a part of the bloggers bash with Ed Bryant today at the Sunset Grill (I think we are supposed to call it Nashville Area Political Bloggers group, but how do you say NAPB??).
First of all, thanks and props to Sunset Grill for allowing the bloggers to meet in a private dining [...]

And the answer is: The fastest way to lose any street cred I have left

The answer lies within. What’s that giant sucking sound coming from the west?
Ice, we hardly knew ye…

We CAN be heroes

Along with the snafus, multi-level layers of blame, and Brownie-you’ve-done-a-heckuva job palaver, there are Katrina heroes, including a Wal-Mart manager who stole a bunch of boats and brought supplies to hundreds of people and one federal ‘agency’ who got it right: The United States Coast Guard.
According to the Boston Globe, the Coast Guard had rescued [...]

I can’t remember what this is about

According to this, Chinese scientists are working on a way to block memories, a la Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, by messing with the pre-frontal cortex of mice. Treated mice forgot about a shock related to a certain piece of music, and repeatedly listened to the same piece of music without flinching. Untreated mice [...]

The name game – Salemtown mythology revisited

Last night when we out walking the hyper-dog Sparky, we stopped to chat with long-time Salemtown resident Patsy Gidcomb (Patsy lives on the 1800 block of 5th). Patsy has lived in her current house for 46 years, and for most of her preceding years, she lived across the street. She remembers Freeman’s Restaurant on Buchanan [...]