“The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it’s not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point”..Molly Ivins dead at 62

This is a really sad one for me…so many so-called liberal/progressive columnist writer types have the sense of humor of a computer desk. They make their points, often stridently, and then stride off waging war on the next conservative way-station.
Molly Ivins wasn’t one of those. She was funny as hell. You may [...]

If I could only get a raise here at Spacely Sprockets..

I’d buy me one of THESE!

Moussaka, or, no egg(plant) on my face..

 

I was on Long-uh Island last weekend. Whenever I go to L.I. I insist on at least one diner experience. The Diner experience doesn’t really exist in the south. We try occasionally, but our efforts are more nostalgia n’ burgers, rather than the multifaceted-multi-paged-multi-itemed honest-to-God, diner.
I always order moussaka (and an egg [...]

City braces for wintry onslaught

Snows of up to 1/2 inch expected tonight in the Music City area. 8th Avenue Kroger expects run on gallon jugged juice drinks.
Let’s be careful out there…

Sorry New Orleans, your money’s being thrown away in Iraq

The complete absence of ANY mention of Katrina and/or New Orleans in the State of the Union Address (I guess ‘never forget’ extends to about a year) is underscored by the latest spending follies from Iraq. According to THIS,
The U.S. government wasted tens of millions of dollars in Iraq reconstruction aid, including scores [...]

The bridge to WordPress, or, feed me, feed me, feed YOU

I’ve been on WordPress now for a little over a week. I’m loving it. When I went back over to the dark side aka Blogger to add comment filtering (I’m getting spammed like crazy over there now), I was told that I had to move my blog to the ‘New’ Blogger. [...]

Just when you thought Faux News couldn’t get any stupider or slimier..

They call Anderson Cooper the ‘Paris Hilton’ of cable news. Just for New Orleans/Katrina coverage alone, Cooper has more integrity and journalistic guts than most of the RNC members aka Fox news ‘journalists’ could even dream about.
If Jack Bauer wasn’t a character on the Fox network, he’d have blown them up just on general [...]

Am i jet blue, or, I am human, not a bovinian

Some people I know had a dreadful Jet Blue experience. My story is different. Anytime I can fly to NYC for $67 (one-way), listen to XM radio and watch a hockey game showing on front of my friend’s seat while sitting only two-on-each-side-of-the-aisle, I’m pretty happy.
Compared to the bovine bunching of the [...]

What if you woke up one morning, or, where is my beautiful house…

A blogger named frenchpress is in the process of ‘using photography and sound to attempt to capture a piece of those in and around the homeless community in Nashville’.
Her pictures are, in a word, amazing.
Thanks to my new acquaintance Reba and her blog ‘Fall Awake’.

VANderbilt COMM-o-dores, VANderbilt and one culinary item

The Salem’s Lots research team is busy researching the negative apathy meter and its readings re Brittney’s comeback and other such stories. Otherwise, I’d have them cracking on the following:
Has any Vanderbilt men’s basketball team defeated FIVE ranked opponents in one season before?
Somebody needs to give this team and Coach Stallings some props. They’ve [...]

APBA baseball, or the post that dares not speak its name

It’s okay if you skip right on over this one (Kat has a great post on Afghanistan and drugs and large money outlays) because I am going to pay homage to one of my passions (baseball has been very very good to me), or I should say, an offshoot of my passion.
Perfection on earth is [...]

Arrested Plagarism

I was reading your my Tennessean this morning, perusing the Living section when I came across this story about NBC’s ‘other show’ about Saturday Night Live – 30 Rock. Tina Fey, the star of the show, is discussing a comic turn in an upcoming episode:
The looniness of 30 Rock rings clear in the [...]

If you’re going to be a boob about it…

I haven’t stolen blog topics or pictures from my friend Parlancheq for awhile but, with this post, I’m renewing the practice. This t-shirt will be offered this year by the Susan G. Komen for the Cure (it doesn’t appear to be on their website yet) and is already raising hackles among the humor-impaired.
Personally, [...]

oh yeah, that place where the hurricane hit, or the house of the setting sun

This story made me realize that I continue to forget about the plight of our ‘brothers and sisters’ down in New Orleans. The story details that NOLA officials are begging for teachers to find their inner Peace Corp spirit and come on down to the bayou to teach in a city with a severe [...]

Quack, quack..born to be wilder

Tennessean columnist and bloggist, Gail Kerr tells a great story about our now former Lt. Gov. John Wilder circa 1991 or 1992.
I was assigned to cover the state Senate for The Tennessean. The leaders of the house and senate made a rather vague and loosey goosey attempt to clean up some of the [...]

what, whale meat again?, or, WARNING

4th floor men’s room, north end of Cordell Hull Building, ventilation.not.working., for the love of all that is edible, please send oxygen.
thank you for your time and attention

Finally, ‘If he does not, we will be showing him the way…’

Usually the Democratic response to the State of the Union affair has been as tepid and bland as Aunt Minnie’s tea. Normally, after watching the ‘response’ speech, I angrily stomp off, thinking – no wonder we’re the minority party…who’d rally behind THAT?
Last night was different. Newly elected Virginia Senator James Webb confidently offered [...]

Apparently they never heard ‘She-Bop’…please, please, somebody add the DiVinyls to this list

According to these guys, the following music is SAFE for your kids:

Safe Music:

Cyndi Lauper
Falling Up
Flyleaf
THE TURNING
Disciple
P.O.D
By The Tree
Scott Reed
Michael W. Smith
Jars of Clay
DC Talk
Danielson

As an aside, when did Oscar Wilde ever ‘reform’?
By the way, these are the bands that will make you go ‘gay’.
Should I tell my wife I’m a big, gasp, Wilco fan?

FT: NIT [...]

Oscar-lated..the nominees are…

For Best Picture: Babel, The Departed, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
I enjoyed Babel a lot more than at least one other person, even though ‘enjoy’ is probably not the right word. Haven’t seen ‘Iwo Jima’ or ‘The Queen’ (is that about Elton John?), but ‘Little Miss Sunshine is certainly [...]

A cat story (not mine), with keystone cops, rappelling and of course, the fire department

One of the best friends in my life (literally friends since the first grade way back in the late 50s and who is also the brother of the playwright) has a really wonderful step-daughter who pretty much schooled me on the current music scene when I visited them over the New Year’s Holiday. She’s [...]