Two unrelated football notes..

I would put these on the Staggering Prophets, but they’ve switched to Blogger ‘Beta’ and I refuse to follow suit.
1) Coach Jeff Fisher should be the NFL coach of the year. Show me any other coach that has done what he has with similar talent including a lot of young players (and of [...]

Festivus for the rest of us, or, my name may be Earl…

Ok, this is a purgitive hoping to release the bad mojo I seem to have accumulated. This second stupid winter cold (sorry, Sarcastro) is bringing me down, so I will not be able to perform the traditional feats of strength. That leaves us with the airing of the grievances:
1) damn cars. You [...]

Life as high school – freaks, geeks, and Friday Night Lights

If adult life is REALLY a replay of high school, this guy would not be the least bit happy. Even though there are some high-school-like-moments in every day adult life, I’d like to think we have progressed somewhat.
One of my honest-to-God theories of TV script writing and creation is that really good writers [...]

Elementary, my dear Bush, and Nixon, and Ford

I came across this insightful comment while reading Wonkette.
Ever notice that when Bush does one of his “condolence” speeches, he always looks and sounds like he’s giving a fourth grade book report?
“Gerald Ford was a decent man. He was president in 1974. He lived for 93 years. He had a dog once. His friends [...]

Gateway to hell….

Into my christmas-ey spirit there is now an intruder,
my hatred and loathing for my Gateway computer,
oh how badly I long for an artful fisk,
aimed at the corrupted FAT and the ailing hard disk.
Damn you and your cow-hided advertising ploy,
your clunker-de-clankers have stolen my joy.
But of these problems, there will be no rid,
as long as the [...]

Two chairs, or, a different take on that old John Waite song…

On my wife’s side of the family there are 9 ‘kids’ including our three. Every even number year we trundle out to Kansas (this year we flew*) to be with the ‘Ownby’ side. We play board games, we go to movies, we watch football and mostly tell stories (many of which I can repeat [...]

Peep THIS!

I made it to 25 Peeps. I probably won’t last long considering that I’m missing two key assets….
Take a look – and you better move fast!
25peeps.com
My picture is courtesy of Wonderdawg and his thumb!
Update: Thursday, December 28th..I’m about to be un-peeeeped! It was fun while it lasted!
Update: Friday, the 29th (AM): Reprieve from [...]

Merry Christmas from Wichita…

That tall white edifice is a grain silo, and I’m NOT kidding.
Christmas is actually great out here, but I’m missing my daughter like crazy.* Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holiday to each and every one.

*the daughter is in Peru serving in the Peace Corps

Take me to the bridge, Maceo..

If you’ve never listened to James Brown – Live at the Apollo, please find a copy and pay heed. Never anything like it before or after. Pretty much every rapper/hip-hop artist stole something from that album/CD.
Hope you’re feeling good wherever you are now, JB.
Thanks, and Rest in Peace.

What’s flatter than flat, or, it’s the reverse Wizard of Oz Christmas trip

Dorothy (and many other sensible people) dreamed of LEAVING Kansas. Just to be contrarians, we’re heading Kansas-ward. I’m always glad when we get to Wichita (our Christmas destination), but if you’ve ever seen Wichita, you’ll know the irony of Shawn Colvin’s wonderful song: Wichita Skyline. A skyline, Wichita has NOT. I [...]

I wouldn’t be Sean John, I’d be doggone, or, what’s next Diddy, kitty?

Whoops..looks like Diddy’s Sean John’s clothing line has more bark than faux bite. Coats advertised as ‘faux fur’ actually were made with fur of the doggy (not the Snoop kind).
I guess it’s kinda like taking songs from Sting and Led Zeppelin and putting a little rap over em’ and calling them originals. [...]

Tower-ing bankruptcy inferno, or, We still have Grimeys!

In the early 1980s when Cats/Turtles was the only semi-cool record in town and Nashville was yearning for Hard Rock/Tower/major league status, the news that Tower was searching for a location in Nashville was happy-making news. I actually knew the person who was the ‘location scout’ and she told me that the old Graces [...]

Our governor’s a card, and ’surging’ in Iraq…

To the 43 people who are upset about ‘the’ card and the 167 people who still equate the debacle in Iraq with the real war on terrorism, I don’t understand you, but I wish you the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of holidays.
Here is kind of an explanation…Wishing peace on people all over the [...]

Why would you trust your kids with this man?

Apparently this kid didn’t have to wait until Christmas dinner to get the Christmas goose. Sister is apparently reeling from the after-effects of the goose.

This is a bank Santa. I’m guessing that Santa is going to be ‘asking’ for a ‘loan’ as soon as he ditches the kids.

Santa’s got a in a brand new [...]

To the kids who fabricate the Scene’s Fabricator

BITE ME. We had fun. Damn shame that Nemesis Boy has outed himself herself and didn’t appear, or else we could have once again been exposed as solipsistic witless dupes…oh, wait a minute….we didn’t name Nemesis Boy as the blogger of the year…

Seeing the forest…or, Ok, even though I like to schedule my own thankful days, I’ll do the thankful Thursday thing…

I’ve written a lot lately about the many wonderful people I’ve met (especially in my West Tennessee Blogger Tour disguised somewhat as a work trip*). I’ve been really lucky to get to know (and I’m not going to attempt to list them all) folks like Kerry and CLC and Sista and so many more. [...]

Hope I die before I grow up, or, tell me about the tacky sweaters George, tell me…

My usual up-to-date radar on what is trendy was jarred when I read MY Tennessean and discovered the smart set were scouring Goodwill and their weird aunt’s closets and chiffarobes for ugly, tasteless, LOUD, sweaters to wear for their trendy outings to trendy clubs. Actually, I now realize that if I read MY [...]

Dear Jameson Suites in Jackson

Thank you, thank you, thanks. This is not snark. This is no sarcasm or disco. That amazing full-force-astro-blast-kick-ass shower head and power-blast water flow was magnificent. It beat the hell out of that weak-shit-flow in the Memphis Sleep Inn.
I used to have a birthmark on my left arm. Your shower took care [...]

The blogger gods must be crazy, or the West Tennessee blogger tour continues..

I’m actually occasionally glancing skyward, expecting to see a laptop fall in a nearby parking lot. This evening as I was driving eastward into Jackson, I decided on a whim to call Newscoma to see if there was ANY chance she was near Jackson and if there was ANY chance she’d want to have some [...]

Getting schooled, or, Sometimes there are some pretty large cracks…

I came across this devastating article about public schools thanks to CLICKED. Before I write about the article I should say that my wife is a public school teacher, all three of my kids went to public schools from 1st through 12th grade, we have many friends who are teachers and another good friend who [...]