Archive for August, 2006

Today the lede story on my metro front was about Eudora Baptist Church being on the verge of partial demolition and renovation (I’ll link when we go live). And, as my mind is pretty much a rickety hamster wheel that keeps turning even when no rodents are running on it, throughout the night the words [...]


Random and kinda scary!


I’ve never done a Thankful Thursday before, but I’ve seen it around at other blogs and I say it’s about time I ponied up my own slice of gratefulness.
I’m thankful for:
• a car that works• a good job and a steady paycheck• the ability to see color• air conditioning• good parents• funny friends• the [...]


There’s a certain Middle Tennessean-turned-New Yorker who occasionally leaves long, rambling, booze-and-drugs-fueled messages on my voice mail regarding existential crises, and, while I get an infinite kick out of hearing these messages and coming up with wholly inappropriate advice for the aforementioned existential crises, I’m thinking this Middle Tennessean-turned-New Yorker might actually get some usable [...]


Forbes said you shouldn’t marry me.
Shocker, right? People like me make fabulous Susie Homemakers!
But Forbes says you men should steer clear of a woman who has “a university-level (or higher) education, works more than 35 hours a week outside the home and makes more than $30,000 a year.” By all means, that sounds like a [...]


My sincerest thanks for the excellent job you did clearing off the folding table and taking out the trash, which probably hadn’t been emptied in months and was overflowing with lint balls and innumerable grains of washing powder and gooey bottles of liquid detergent and the occasional ripped sock.
But did you have to throw [...]


The latest installment of The Ricky Gervais Show costs two bucks and is considered an audiobook instead of a podcast, but it’s still a good deal for thirty minutes of Karl-bashing funny.


There’s this.
Bush has virtually never in his political career made a decision that he didn’t think was the right thing to do and the right way to do it. Conservatives who are piling on the anti-Bush bandwagon should consider that this trait—which makes the Bush family historically great—is a historical rarity to be treasured. [...]


Gonzo, left, just before getting all hopped up on the juice.
We took Gonzo to the vet today to get sort of a quality-of-life report since it’s hard for us to tell if he’s in pain or anything like that, and we’re about a third of the way through the time he was projected to Make [...]