An appreciation, after the cascade, of Patty Griffin

Anyone who can read and/or hear in any fashion knows that we’ve been deluged with a cascade of famous people passing on..many of us have faced loss on a far more personal and poignant level. We often declare to others and to ourselves that THIS TIME we’ll treat others better, appreciate the small things, live [...]

The Angina Monologues – Chapter 1, in which the narrator is asked to ‘Turn it Down’ (repeatedly)

I’m 12 years old and I hear ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ on the radio and I rush over to Zibart’s in Green Hills and I buy the single, and I play that sucker about 200 times in a row trying to figure out what this mad genius is talking about and then I turn the [...]

What kind of idiot are you? It’s a pseudo Facebook quiz!

I’m not expecting you to answer any questions, because why would idiots answer questions (not that anyone reading this is an idiot)? They would assume, make silly-wild-ass guesses, postulate based upon nothing more they heard on talk radio or something their uncle told them when they were nine and it stuck for no other reason [...]

Magdalene House – A great way to designate your United Way contributions

I don’t know about you, but where I work, it’s that time of year where we have a chance to donate to the United Way. If you haven’t specified your United Way donation, or haven’t decided to donate yet, I urge to consider the Magdalene House. Magdalene was started in 1977 by Becca Stevens. [...]

Oh dear lord, the liberals are coming, the liberals are coming..

Scene: A seemingly forsaken warehouse somewhere in the south side of Chicago. We see stairs leading to the basement..if we look closer, we see a sign – ‘Terrorists Entrance’. We peek inside…around a red-stained round table sit a dazed looking Barack Obama, William Ayers, the ghosts of Huey Newton and Harvey Milk sharing [...]

And you want to be my ‘Help America Vote Act of 2002′?

Like George Costanza running for the phone with his pants down to his ankles, voting officials in six states are displaying the competence of FEMA in New Orleans in their rush to ‘help voters’ and comply with the ‘Help America Vote Act of 2002′.  According to the New York Times, officials in six states are [...]

If this is an alternative universe, I wanna stay – GO VANDY!!

I can see the Head Start Building from my front porch!

Katie Couric: What does that have to do anything?
JH: Katie, it’s about the start, it’s about the head, if you don’t have a head, you really can’t start, can you?
KC: Have you ever even been IN the Head Start Building?
JH: Katie, I know there are heads in there, and I know that kids are starting. [...]

Carolyn Maddux

Carolyn King Forrister Maddux

‘Come on up for the rising‘ – Bruce Springsteen
The mother of some of my closest friends passed away last Saturday night. To some of you, she was the mother of ‘the playwright’ (Vali Forrister). Others knew her from her church. Many of us knew her as a [...]

What has caffeine and lives in Germantown?

Hallelujah, coffee at last, coffee at last.  The coffee has come to Roos(t), in the Kat haus known as ‘DrinkHaus’ (the owner is Kat Roos, who also lives in Germantown), down on Madison in downtown Germantown.  I’ve been living in the general neighborhood for four years now, and for each of those roughly 1,460 days [...]

When God teaches patience, or, Job never went to the 8th Avenue Kroger

I suppose I have many faults. Probably a few I can’t name, but ones my family could probably recite in their sleep. I’m often quick to anger, but in my heart of hearts, I’ve gotta believe that lack of patience is my top-of-the-charts, slow burning, double-grinding-stomach-churning crime of gnashin’.
To teach me and my [...]

Why I love baseball part 285

Foul play!

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Ting ting, uh, attention please..I’d like to interrupt this prolonged blogging hiatus

by proclaiming that the best summer song of many seasons is ‘That’s Not my Name’ by the fabulous ‘The Ting Tings‘.  I’m not kidding.  It starts out a little like ‘Hey Mickey’, but it quickly moves into infectious compulsory-dance mode after a minute or two.  The last two minutes of the song just kills me.
You [...]

5:46 seconds of late-night zen

Sigur Ros…mmmmmm
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Lima or bust, or, Don´t EVER travel with me

We made it to Lima late last night, unbelievably.
If you are ever tempted to request me as a partner for The Amazing Race, don´t.  The same luck I regularly bring to the Predators (attended 9 games this year, coinciding with 9 losses), I bring to travel.
Earlier this year,  I missed the Super Bowl after being [...]

I Will Follow You Into The Dark – Kinagrannis

A little late night zen..I like these sister harmonies.
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Once a month…

I’m wrong.  Just wanted to acknowledge my mistake and move on…you know, like professional athletes and politicians do..say I was wrong and ask the nation to move along.

Damn, I had January 4th*…

And, in other Titan news, Pacman allegedly punched a lawyer at a strip club down in way-too-hot ‘lanta on January 3rd. Happyhappy New Year. Good to see the Pac is still making it rain…
*joke stolen entirely from Vic Bowker

Peace, y’all

They’ll stone you when you’re trying to be good, or Following the Brooksian logic to its logical end

A woman walks across Bicentennial Mall late at night. Some guy had asked her for a light sometime earlier that evening on 5th Avenue. When she walks past the bandshell area of the mall, that same man rapes her.
Kay Brooks says:
She should not have been walking through the park alone and late at night.
No, that [...]