The daughter speaks..(her monthly blogpost has arrived)

The daughter, as a lot of you know, is in Peru. My wife recently returned from a visit with the daughter filled with the luxury of a great visit. The daughter is really an adult, but as you parents know, they’re always your kids, and that emotion you feel may not really be [...]

Salem’s Lots Hijacked!

While John is in the bathroom having a naked men party (hey-it’s cool, we’re at the Mothership), the 2 lovliest ladies in Nashville have hijacked Salem’s Lots. No, it’s not Kate O and Brittney, silly! It’s Ginger and Ivy!
John is now listing words we are not allowed to say. Amongst them are the “c” word, [...]

Can the RIAA smell the Brylcream*, or, trouble in paradise

I’m sitting here in Centennial Park on an incredibly beautiful, if not perfect day. I’ve got the breeze, the sun, the water fountains, the kids feeding the ducks and broadband courtesy of our city fathers (and mothers). I’m listening to my favorite radio station on the planet – Radio Paradise. You [...]

What she said..(Ginger)

If you haven’t read Henri Nouwen*, you should. Ginger did. Wow.
*Yeah, Nouwen is a Christian priest and writes about Christianity. I don’t care if you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Buddy Holly or Satre/notmuch, he’s worth reading, esp. the ‘Wounded Healer‘.

I’m not all a’twitter, or, it’s just another mundane monday

Jason got his taxes done. Neil is considering shaving his head. Kashlove may be watching television, but I’m not sure considering her entire post consists of the word ‘television’.
I realize I’m probably late to the game here, but something called ‘Twitter‘ has been popping up on blogs and is apparently creating some kind [...]

Putting the Salem back into Salem’s Lots

A little over 2 and 1/2 years ago, my wife and I sold our home in the greater Green Hills area (not the posh side, believe me!) and moved into a brand new house in a little-known neighborhood called Salemtown. The way I identified my new environs to my friends was (and still [...]

Just as I am, or, waiting on that Fred Thompson altar call..

First of all, does James Dobson not have anybody in his organization that can take the man behind closed doors and testify:
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR BONEY-ASS POWER-HUNGRY EAR-BLEEDING MONO-MANIACAL MIND?
I say that based on what I first picked up in Krumm-ville about Dobson claiming that Fred ‘Gasm’ Thompson isn’t a Christian in the [...]

I had a dream, along with FEARLESS Idol predictions..

I won’t belabor my illness any further, at least beyond this post, but I’m asking any of you who watched American Idol last night (I THINK I did):
Did Frederico Fellini take over the contest and somehow make Sanjaya’s head look like something out of a bad Patti Labelle hair look-a-like contest? I may have [...]

If you’re ever laying around too weak to get off the couch or switch the channel, and this movie called London comes on, and you think,….oh, Jessica Biel…don’t bother.

Everyone knows that your standard of acceptable TV watching dips into the sub-Maury levels when you are on your not-quite-spinning sick bed. Food and drink do not tempt, but the TeeVee gapes…I’m only typing this as a warning to all you youngsters out there..I don’t care if you do drugs or drop out of [...]

I used to hate being sick because..

well, number 1…being sick is not a whole lot of fun, especially when you are really really sick and having to spend time in the hospital.
Another obvious reason is that one is not feeling good enough to enjoy any good thing that may be passing you in the street of life, and then there’s the [...]

Rocking the joy in Ashland City, or, I’m seeing a lot less of Slartibartfast these days..

Friends, let me testify. Those scales that Slarti keeps showing on his blog are accurate. The man is disappearing before our very blog-eyes. He really is nearly at fighting weight. If his thick hair keeps growing it may soon outweigh his torso!
We saw ‘his’ band last night. Little group of [...]

Going to Ashland City tonight…More cowbell with Slartibartfast

I’m heeding the call Were heading up to Ashland City to hear Slarti’s band (X-Alt) play tonight at the GBH Coffeehouse, right smack dab in downtown Ashland City. Slarti is promising that he’ll be snging more lead tonight..Slarti has a ROCK n’ ROLL voice. The band is actually loaded with great voices, but [...]

The Alberto Gonzales ’smell test’..

Let’s start with the pure legal truth. I’m going to use Nathan Moore’s quote on this issue as a touchstone:
The US Attorney fiasco makes me sick only because it was completely unnecessary. Nothing was done wrong – these are all political positions. You really don’t even need a reason to fire a US Attorney. [...]

Where in Nashville – Part III

I posted this one before as well, before I realized I could re-size pics in WordPress (d’oh!). Previous winners (Ceeelcee and my son, Josh, who despite innuendo from certain circles did not win the contest based on nepotism) may guess the location but are not eligible to win until July 1, 2007 when [...]

I can’t even talk about it….but, it was a great year..

Good times, Vandy…good times. I’m really going to miss Mr. Byars.

What rocks!!*..I’ll take 32-24 at the half..

Vandy came into tonight’s game with Georgetown mighty as a lion, and though their roar subsided, they didn’t leave the first half like a lamb.
I get way too nervous watching the big games that Vandy plays.  I guess the cumulative rooting of 45 years helps make this matter more than it probably should, but I [...]

Learning to read, or, A VERY special cattle call..

This morning when I was perusing your and my Tennessean, I was reading the restaurant column and I came across a story about a new franchise heading into East Nashville called Hamburger Mary’s.   I thought I read they were serving gay-friendly hamburgers, and I must admit, my curiosity and general lack of knowledge about cattle [...]

Nearly barefoot in Nashville, or really, where do they go..I mean really..

This one is really for the Home-Ec 101 women. This one has been the subject of every two-bit-brick-wall-lame comedian that has ever appeared on the comedy channel. Where do the socks go?
Some of this story may relate to the fact that my wife has been missing from the house for over a week [...]

ah, to be with you, in Machu Picchu, or, arrrrghh, green-eyed in Nashville

My wife and sister-in-law have been spending a lot of quality time down in Peru visiting our daughter (serving in the Peace Corps in a town called ‘Bataan Grande’ – try to find THAT on your Google Earth!). I’m trying not to be gobbled by the green-eyed monster, but it has been difficult. [...]

A brief history of Presidential Privilege

Early 1970s: Nixon in throes of Watergate. Privilege absolutely necessary say the Nixon-ites. How can we do bizness if the public knows our secret inner workings?
Republicans: Hell ya!
Democrats: Hell NO.
Supreme Court in U.S. v. Nixon: Not so fast there, tricky Dick
Mid 90s: President Clinton invokes privilege vis’ a vis’ Whitewater [...]