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  • Hey, I’m Cute, Too!

    Number of comments: 2
    Over at Jezebel, they’re having this discussion about Ellen von Unwerth’s photos. In fact, her whole book of photos of women is available for free on the internet. It is completely not safe for work. Not even a little bit. Boobs, gals comparing pubic hair, touching themselves, touching each other, [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:26pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Whew, Things Got Ugly at the Convention Center Forum

    Number of comments: 13
    At Steve Gill’s convention center thing, Liz Garrigan reports that restaurateur Randy Rayburn attacked Metro Councilperson Emily Evans. He called out another panelist, project skeptic and Metro Council member Emily Evans, saying that while his businesses create jobs, “Council Lady Evans has not created any jobs in the marketplace that I’m [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:55am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The 11th Annual Southern Music Issue of the Oxford American

    Number of comments: 5
    A wiser woman than me would not court controversy two years in a row. But I can be nothing other than myself. I’m not going to repeat myself about the music. This is as true this year as it was last year– The music is always so damn interesting.  It’s not always [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:15pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Hot Tamales

    Number of comments: 2
    I was nerding up on Robert Johnson when I discovered this site about hot tamales in Mississippi. I especially love the speculative history about how tamales caught on–”Hey, your food is still hot? No fair!” I also love it because a century of tamales in the Mississippi Delta is just proof [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:04pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Fair Warning

    Number of comments: 2
    I have my hands on the new music issue of the Oxford American. I believe we all remember what happened last time. [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:36pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Zombie Kitty!

    Over at Pith, I complained about people who drop their animals off in the country. [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Swedes Introduce Cooter Beer!

    Number of comments: 2
    Okay, not really, but I learned today that the Swedes are making an effort I believe everyone should support to replace the word “hymen” with the term “vaginal corona.” The goal seems to be to make sure that people living in Sweden understand what this body part is and how it [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:05pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Mrs. Wigglebottom is Thorough, I’ll Give Her That

    Number of comments: 5
    Bless Mrs. Wigglebottom’s heart. She has a hard time seeing in indoor light. She can see things when they move, but if, say, a treat drops on the floor, it is all but invisible to her and she has to spend ten minutes sniffing for it. So, she’s clearly sussed out [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 8:23am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The New Convention Center

    Number of comments: 11
    Here’s the thing. It’s not that I don’t have sympathy for the arguments. Clearly, the old convention center is inadequate. And, yes, people are always going to want to go someplace where they can see all the new boats or all the new RVs or what-have-you. But, as I said [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:02pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Hurray For the Robert Johnson Post

    Number of comments: 2
    Oh, lordy, people, I have all kinds of nerdy nits to pick with this post, but I’m not going to. Instead, I’m just going to enjoy reading someone writing about music he loves. (I will say that I’m on the side of the graveyard north of town.) [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:19pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • My Trip to Liberadio!

    Number of comments: 2
    So, I got up this morning and rushed almost completely soaking wet over to the WRVU studio to be on Liberadio. It was awesome. First, they gave me these giant headphones, which were too big for me. Now, I mention this because, as you know, I had been living under [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:09pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Chaos in the Kitchen!

    Number of comments: 4
    I had been feeding the two big cats in the kitchen and the new kitty in the Butcher’s room, in part to make sure that the new kitty would take her medicine. But today she came galloping into the kitchen to eat with the other cats. So, I put her [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:07am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Hey, Listen Up!

    Number of comments: 3
    I’m going to be on Liberadio tomorrow morning at 8:10. That should be awesome good fun. [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 8:46pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Sunday Stuff

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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:59pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Watch the Cats with More Scrutiny

    Number of comments: 2
    Ever since Saraclark mentioned that cats’ relative height in a room tells you about their place in the hierarchy, I have been watching the cats. Ha remember when Tiny Cat Pants had nary a mention of cats on it?  When it was a place where you could read my theories [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 10:50am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Sadly, I Will Not Be Going on a Cruise

    Number of comments: 11
    In spite of the monumental efforts of the city of Knoxville (you know who you are) and folks from across the whole state, I am not in the final five. Which, yes, sucks, but how cool is it to have come that close? I love you guys. [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:42pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Heat is On

    Number of comments: 8
    Well, one drawback to the new kitty is that the rest of the animals are out of sorts and, apparently, how you get into sorts, if you are an animal, is by smothering me. People, we keep our house at 69 degrees. And about 5:30, I woke up because I [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:22am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh Drama!

    Number of comments: 6
    The Butcher has left the bedroom door open, though the new kitty seems to prefer to stay on his bed. When I came home, she came out to see me. She hissed at the dog.  The dog hid behind me. The two older cats sat on the counter, paws tucked [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:22pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Please, Tim Rudd

    Number of comments: 15
    So, Grantham went and asked Rudd about this ridiculousness. Rudd says– “This wasn’t about Jason Mumpower as much as it was about the entire caucus and party,” Rudd told NIT. “Anyone making statements like that is ridiculous and trying to change the subject. He lied to us. He betrayed us. He [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:12pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • It’s As If She Wrote It For Me

    Number of comments: 3
    A story all about Nashville’s past and our sorry relationship to it. I should also note that there’s a small but significant chance that Timothy Demonbreun is buried behind this building. [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:11pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Feel Bad Again for Tennessee Christians

    Number of comments: 4
    When a Tennessee Christian votes for a politician who has assured said voter that said politician is a good Christian, sure, that voter might assume that he or she is voting for a politician who puts Christian values into state politics. But does this Christian voter realize that she is voting [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:12am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Two Quick Things

    1. Can someone explain to me why Robert Johnson has the ability to make Alabamans proud? Is he just that powerful? Did Mississippi annex Alabama over the weekend? I tease, but folks, if you want people living in the South to take your concerns about the goings on in the [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:41am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • To the Person Searching for “Suicide Beaman Park”

    Number of comments: 2
    I’ve seen you here a couple of times and I hope you’ll pardon me for addressing you publicly.  If you’re just searching for news on whether there’s been a suicide in Beaman Park, the answer is I don’t know. If you are, by chance, contemplating committing suicide in Beaman Park, please [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:32am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Day One at Home

    Number of comments: 5
    The cats are only in mild revolt. They expected wet cat food at night, which they know they only get in the morning. And the orange cat is throwing things on the ground. The new kitty (which the Butcher insists he’s going to call her, even though I had to name [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:59pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Since I’m Speculating…

    Number of comments: 4
    In academia, when one sees that a person has been unable to replicate his previous successes and has to hire someone to co-write his own memoirs, one wonders if there isn’t a brilliant but unheralded ex-wife or two who “helped” with the earlier work and that’s why it’s been unreproducible. [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:55pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Did Laugh When I Read This

    One of Say Uncle’s readers is all “Kelsey won because of guns!” which, I have to admit, is better than, “… because progressives can’t win elections.” or “…because bloggers have no real influence.” which is what our side has been hoping they can pedal. [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:59pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Let’s Speculate about Tennessee Politics!!!

    Number of comments: 6
    So, John Tanner is retiring. And Roy Herron is no longer running for governor; he’s going to run for Tanner’s seat in the House of Representatives. How’s that going? I’m going to give it a C-. Now, I know you’re saying “A C-? But I just heard about this. How could [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • A Quick Cat Update Update

    Number of comments: 11
    So, we picked up the cat from the emergency care place, and she is doing much better. She is not out of the woods yet, but she is lurking around the edge of the woods, peaking at “good.” Ha, that’s not a great metaphor, is it? But she is eating and peeing. [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:16am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Cat Update

    Number of comments: 11
    So, I went and got her from the vet and took her to the emergency vet, where she can spend the night supervised. The situation is pretty dire. Her heart is pumping very fast but her gums are white, which is an indication that she’s not getting enough oxygen to [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Cat Update

    Number of comments: 3
    So, I went and got her from the vet and took her to the emergency vet, where she can spend the night supervised. The situation is pretty dire. Her heart is pumping very fast but her gums are white, which is an indication that she’s not getting enough oxygen to [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • God Damn It, Cat, I Have a Lot of Money Sunk Into You

    Number of comments: 14
    I just heard from the vet and things are not very good with the new cat.  She got through surgery just fine (and, thank goodness, wasn’t pregnant, but did have an infected uterus). But as they were waking her up, her heart went into an arrhythmia and they had to [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:04pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Houston Charities Find Jesus

    Number of comments: 2
    Let us recall the words of Jesus in Matthew 25:35-40: “‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:25pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Things to Delight Your Eyes

    Number of comments: 7
    1. Before reading the rest of this paragraph, I ask you to go look at this photo. Cool, huh? Now, let me ask you a question about said photo. Is that horse drinking a beer? 2. Every once in a while Mary Mancini will post something from the Smithville Review to [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:53pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Morning Roundup Roundup

    My weekly morning roundup is up over at Pith.  I mention this because even non-Nashville folks will love the last two stories, I think. And had I seen this over at Say Uncle’s, I surely would have included it. Oh Lt. Governor Ramsey, I kind of love you a little bit, [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The New Cat, an Update

    Number of comments: 1
    So, while everyone else was learning this crazy cruise news, I was busy taking the new cat to the vet. Here’s what I learned. Pumpkin (who will need a pseudonym) is probably two years old. She is free of feline leukemia and fHIV. She doesn’t seem to even have worms. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:54pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Um, So, Folks Weren’t Kidding About This

    Number of comments: 11
    I just got an email from Jim Ridley asking what they could do to help me win a cruise and I was all “A cruise? What?” And then I remembered that this came up on Twitter. And it seems that someone mentioning it on Twitter was enough to put me [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:36pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Did the KKK Just Send Out a Press Release About Me?

    Number of comments: 6
    My post. Their press release. Coincidence? I don’t know. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 4:15pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Going from Two Cats to Three

    Number of comments: 15
    Okay, internet, assuming the Butcher tracks down the new cat so that I can take her to the vet, we will be in possession of three cats. So far, the two cats we have have responded thusly to the new cat in the garage–the orange cat (who my nephew calls [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:48pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Fox Ran Out on a Chilly Night and Prayed to the Moon for to Give Him Light

    Number of comments: 10
    In my head, these two things are connected–”The Fox” by the Waco Brothers, which you can find on this awesome CD (Let me tell you, if you have kids and need music that won’t drive you to drink while you’re driving them around in the car, this CD will be [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:43pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • On a Lighter Note, I Have Some Questions

    Number of comments: 5
    Look here (I think this is SFW, but it may cause you to look perplexed all day). 1. Is it weird that a werewolf doesn’t at least have arm pit hair? 2. He looks like he’s 14, right? 3. Is that a weird, subliminal face in the tree right over his shoulder? 4. Speaking [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:02am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Phone Call After I Went to Bed

    Number of comments: 5
    I still pray. It’s a habit I haven’t given up. I don’t know if my gods are used to being prayed to, but I tell them that this is the way that I know and so that’s what I know to do. I pray, though, to all of my loved [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:54am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Fire and Chocolate Milk

    After my parents left, I got in the car once today, to get some chocolate milk. The Butcher played video games and I sat next to him shouting words of encouragement. After he left for work, I built a big fire in the fireplace. I haven’t seen the new cat today. [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:51pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Things Wind Down

    Number of comments: 4
    My brother and nephews left this morning. My parents leave tomorrow morning. It’s been a nice but rough visit. The dog behaved and we may have acquired another cat. There is, at any rate, a cat curled up in the garage, who has not been allowed in the house until [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:02pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Hey, This is Cool

    Number of comments: 8
    Andrew Sullivan linked to one of my Pith posts. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:09pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Is the New Cat Really that New?

    Number of comments: 4
    People, if I could have gotten any picture for you yesterday, I wish I’d gotten the picture of the Butcher, gone into the garage to check on the new cat, when he was squatting down to pet it while it ate and he looked up and saw me looking at [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:07am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Thanksgiving

    This morning, we heard a meowing the likes of which we had never heard before. My dad was all “What’s going on with the tiny cat?” And I looked out and saw a tiny cat, howling, in the garage. A cat not ours. People drop all kinds of animals of out [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:22pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Spill NM’s Pie Secret

    Number of comments: 5
    People, I was at nm’s house this afternoon watching her make pie crusts WITHOUT A FORK!!!!!! I think I literally stood there slack-jawed. If I were not forbidden from making my world famous apple pie* for Thanksgiving, I would have totally come home and tried making pie crusts nm’s way. She mixed [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:35pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Thanksgiving Blues

    Number of comments: 1
    There’s nothing particularly stressful or weird going on with my family, but I am still down this holiday season, lonely for people who are long-gone and not coming back. I think it’s a side-effect of ancestor veneration, frankly, that you feel the in ability to be together face to face [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:52am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • All Kleinheider all the Time

    Number of comments: 15
    From a small heath field to America! Edited to add: It is now my goal to talk Tiny Pasture into smoking a corn cob pipe in honor of his ancestor. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:46pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • People, This is a Real Thing!

    Number of comments: 1
    I was driving to work today and I saw two people walking down by Whites Creek and I craned my neck over and saw that they were walking on a path! So, I looked and god damn it if there’s not a Whites Creek Greenway! Right where I thought there should [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:34pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Don’t You Dare Buy this for Me for Christmas

    Number of comments: 4
    Reindeer poop necklaces? I sense that at least five of you will consider buying me this piece of crap just because you think it’ll be funny.  Let me just say that that would be a really shitty thing to do. (And don’t you dare tell my dad about this.) [...][...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:15pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Pith Stuff

    Number of comments: 7
    1. I write about the book industry. And crack myself up with my youtube video description. 2. I write about the racist graffiti, which is less interesting than the weird-ass comments. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:20am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Plans A & B

    Number of comments: 10
    Okay, so Plan A is to find a small publisher who might be interested in the project. If that doesn’t work, Plan B is to self-publish. In the interests of Plan A, I have three packages to go out in the mail tomorrow. In the interests of Plan B, I read this. [...][...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:32pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Suck My Butt, Kleinheider

    Number of comments: 15
    So, Kleinheider has his column up today and in it, he writes this: That, in fact, may be what this is all about. There is a segment of elite opinion out there that believes arguing for reduced or restricted immigration is necessarily racist. But that’s an article of faith, not proof. I [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:37pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • “Life Partner”

    Number of comments: 14
    I was all ready to complain about what a stupid phrase “life partner” is and how we all ought to support gay marriage so that when a dude wants to talk about the dude who’s been his “life partner” for decades, he can either say “spouse” or “husband” or we [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:45am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Ooo, Wouldn’t It Be Cool If There Was a Gardener Signal?

    Number of comments: 6
    I could just go outside, light it up, and then you gardeners would know I needed your advice and you would come to Tiny Cat Pants. So, here’s the question. Could I get salvia apiana to grow in my perennial herb garden? It’s only hardy to zone 7 and we’re zone [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:02pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Mrs. Wigglebottom and I Find the River!

    First of all, apparently either Mrs. W. and I walk at a pace of one mile an hour or I didn’t pay attention to when we got to the park or the people at Bell’s Bend have vastly underestimated the length of the loop that goes along the river. Because [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:46pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Butcher Keeps Me On Track

    Number of comments: 5
    Well, the Butcher cleaned the house from top to bottom, so I had no excuse but to work on my book proposal. It is done. I have some sample photos from Chris Wage. So, all I have left to do is print the stuff off and send it out. I’m already [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:28pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • A Vague Woo Hoo!

    Number of comments: 7
    I don’t blog about work, normally. So I will continue to not blog about work except to say that a project I worked on and loved just got a review in one of the top journals in its field describing it as invaluable and gutsy. I want to be all “in [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:43pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Vikings!

    Number of comments: 11
    Shane Rhyne is trying to start a Viking trend, to come after zombies fully replace vampires in the popular moment (of course, zombies and vampires are pretty much the same thing, except one you want to sleep with and one you don’t, so maybe I shouldn’t have distinguished between the [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:11am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I’ve Pushed Newscoma into the Creek!

    Number of comments: 3
    Ha, it makes me so happy to read about Newscoma’s adventures in Whites Creek! I hope that, today, Squirrel Queen gets something to eat before dinner. There’s food all over the house, woman! Enchiladas in the fridge, bagels in the cupboard. Just don’t be sneaking off to the red store for [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:06pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Bringing the Border to Nashville

    Number of comments: 8
    I was watching Nezua’s video yesterday and totally digging all the Nezuas in the audience and nodding along as you do when you already agree with what you think someone is going to say, when he said something that caught my ear, about bringing the “intensity of the border guard [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:13am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Christians, WTF?

    Number of comments: 15
    I just saw this at Gawker, about folks selling Cafe Press merchandise with “Psalm 109:8″ on it and the words “Pray for Obama.” The shop’s not up at CafePress any more, because as cute as folks might think it is to make veiled Christian death threats against the President, the [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Mrs. W. Has Lost Her Damn Fool Mind

    Number of comments: 3
    People, after sucking on the seem of SquirrelQueen’s jeans last night, for no apparent reason, the SquirrelQueen was just standing there talking and all of a sudden, the dog (who was on the couch) started sucking on her jeans. I don’t know if there was spilled beer there or what, [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:45pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Augustus?!

    Number of comments: 8
    Someone over at the Tennessean is calling Tiny Pasture “Augustus Kleinheider,” which made me laugh out loud. I was going to give this person due credit, but alas, the web design over at The Tennessean is so crappy that the individual’s name is not connected to his (or her) (okay, [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:39pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Coincidence?

    So, at the same time Hall was planning his trip to DC to speak to the rabid anti-immigrationists, he’s also participating in this Channel 4 I-Team investigation in which actual people are referred to as “illegals”? (Nobody over at Channel 4 has a Chicago Manual of Style? Or what?) But more [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:10pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Don’t Know About You, But I Want to Be Delighted

    Number of comments: 10
    First up, Goldni’s post. I’m going to declare myself the curly-haired woman in the cartoon, because I am a woman, with curly hair. Second, I squealed with delight upon reading this post and I now wish I had a problem that could be solved by a rageful woman. Third, what is this?! [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:29pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Rounding Up the Morning

    Number of comments: 1
    I spent my morning doing the morning round up for Pith, but I couldn’t let go the chance to share Vivian Wilhoite’s snark with you. Seriously, someone get that woman a blog. They’re all “But the parks! Oh the humanity! They’re so over budget!!!!!” and she’s all “Hmm, but when [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:09am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Sheriff Hall Was Scheduled to Speak to Yet Another White Supremacist Organization

    Number of comments: 8
    (Assuming my post at Pith ever makes it up, consider this a companion piece that would flesh out what I’ve learned in the hours since my Pith post was written). So, Kyle Swenson is reporting that Sheriff Hall was scheduled to speak at a conference held by the Center for Immigration [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:21pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Odin in Drag? Frigg in Her Rightful Place? Freyja Taking the High Seat for a Stroll?

    Number of comments: 7
    Looking at this figurine, recently pulled out of the ground at Lejre, puts me in mind of Ruth Hill, who, when she’s talking about the way race was understood by people living in Spanish America during the Bourbon period, repeatedly stresses the importance of remembering that we look back on [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Bone-Chilling Acts of Babyness

    Number of comments: 15
    Oh my god. Seriously, people, there needs to be a warning on Nate Rau’s article about the state of our parks, because the urge to go stick about 17 people in our city in corners until they can stop acting like enormous babies will completely overwhelm you. It’s literally all [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:14am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Instead of Doing Dishes, I Took Pictures (All Week)

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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:50pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Laugh a Hearty Feminist Laugh

      Oh, Jim Cooper, did you not even have a moment when you looked at the other Democrats in your group where you felt weird, like something was strange about this, even though you could not put your finger on what it was? [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:54am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • All I Have Are Questions after Watching Saturday Night Live

    Number of comments: 3
    That had to be one of the worst episodes ever, right? I mean, every generation complains that their Saturday Night Live is worse than the generations before them. But then you see an episode like this and it’s like “Oh, so that’s what bad is.” Did we all sense that [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:38am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Hurray for Gardening!

    So, I am slowly working through the fall gardening, leaving the biggest mess for last, but number three on my list of ridiculous things that have gotten completely out of control, was the front flowerbed where the little tree that had all the caterpillars in it this spring is. It [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:07pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Hurray for Gardening!

    So, I am slowly working through the fall gardening, leaving the biggest mess for last, but number three on my list of ridiculous things that have gotten completely out of control, was the front flowerbed where the little tree that had all the caterpillars in it this spring is. It [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:07pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Six Thousand Copies

    Number of comments: 14
    I guess on a side note I should say that my doctor’s visit went fine. There is nothing else wrong with me on top of the PCOS and he’s happy with how the metformin seems to me working and I should continue to try to lose weight, but that was [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:15am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Full Freak Out Mode

    Number of comments: 11
    It’d be nice if I had a cool, funny, thoughtful post here. I do not. In fact, I am weirdly filled with rage. That is how freaked out I am.  I know that, no matter what, everything will work itself out, but damn. Go look at this cool gardening blog one [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:04am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Might Argue We Should Be Able to Carry in Our Urban Parks

    For Pith, I spent my lunch hour looking at how dangerous the rural parks in Nashville are. I honestly don’t care if people can carry guns in our parks or not. But I do care that parks that are demonstrably very, very safe are being singled out for an exception [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:01pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Blue Moon of Kentucky

    One of the greatest moments in American music is the beginning of The Stanley Brother’s version “Blue Moon of Kentucky.”  The backup singers come in first, all “Blue Moon,” “Blue Moon,” and you can guess that it’s a country song because the stringed instruments are a little twangy, but there [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:11pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Alaska, Damn It. Are You Trying to Make Me Cry?

    If you love dogs and getting teary-eyed, click this link. Otherwise, don’t. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:56am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Google Wave

    Number of comments: 12
    I got my coveted Google Wave invite yesterday. Not that I had any idea what Google Wave really was, but whatever. When the future comes knocking, you don’t sit around wondering if you will need the future in the future, you know? Anyway, it’s neat. It like instant messaging and email [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:50am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • One Benefit of Getting Older

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    Jesus, people, this has been a weird and, in many ways, sucky week. I’m hoping that’s not an omen for my trip to the doctor, but I am a superstitious fool and it’s hard for me to not read into these things. I tried to write about it last night, but [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:33am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Snickers Needs to Satisfy My Curiosity

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    I admit, it’s been a long time since I’ve had a full sized Snickers. Usually, the Butcher will bring home a bag of the miniature ones and then we’ll fight about who ate them all. But today I had a full-sized Snickers and I must ask, are Snickers smaller than [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Is It a Rule that All Cat Rescues Must End in Blood?

    Number of comments: 5
    People, it’s barely even seven o’clock in the morning and I have already had a cat dangling from my bare boob by one claw. Not that there’s an acceptable hour of the day to find a cat’s whole body dangling from a claw in your bare chest, but at least, [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:42am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Say Something Nice about Ghost Adventures

    Number of comments: 3
    If you don’t watch it, Ghost Adventures is a show in which three giant douches (I used to think it was two giant douches and a poor put-upon sweetheart, but I was wrong) go around and, after a flurry of “Dude”s and “Bro”s, get locked into supposedly haunted sites in [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:00pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Whew, I am in Over My Head

    Number of comments: 14
    How it’s set up here at work, there’s a main IT department that gives advice to the people with IT duties in each department.  This is pretty hilarious because I am our office’s IT person. What’s hilarious about this, you might ask? Yesterday, I “solved” a co-worker’s computer problem by installing Vista. I [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:48pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Sam Coleman Owes Some of Us an Apology

    Number of comments: 7
    Holy cow! I came across this story while doing the Morning Roundup over at Pith, about how Councilmember Sam Coleman wants Nashville to allow guns in our more rural parks because they might be dangerous. And I really can’t decide which is worse–that at a time when the Parks budget is [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:14am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Orange Cat Doesn’t Believe in Walking the Dog

    Number of comments: 6
    So, I’m coming back from walking the dog and who is sitting at the edge of the AT&T lot, hollering away, but the orange cat. Whew and we got the stink-eye.  And then he herded us back to the house. From the outside, it certainly must have looked like I [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Two Things I Have My Eye On

    Number of comments: 3
    Ugh, I forgot to take my pill yesterday morning. Seriously, of all the things that wig me out about being medicated for the rest of my life, the ease with which it becomes such a part of your routine that it can just so easily slip your mind scares the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:04am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Try to Guess Why the TNDP Won’t Aid Adrienne Pakis-Gillon

    Number of comments: 3
    LeftWingCracker has a post about Pakis-Gillon, which you can read and be persuaded by, or not. I’m still a little suspicious that there are people in the party who would love to foist her off on the bloggers so that, if she loses, they can have their proof that the [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:27pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • For the Midwesterners, For the LOLZ

    At the end of a post about Casimir Pulaski getting posthumous citizenship, John Arivosis adds: Note from John: Pulaski is a well-known street in Chicago. I never knew the history. Fascinating. For you non-Midwesterners, this is funny for this reasons: While Pulaski is indeed a well-known street in Chicago, that’s not actually [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:10pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • But, Fat, Fatty Fat Fat…

    Number of comments: 3
    Today, Nicholas Krisoff is writing about BPA, a synthetic estrogen that’s in almost everything. The chemical companies have a study that says it’s safe. A great many studies not conducted by the chemical companies link it to everything from diabetes to malformed genitals to obesity. On average, apparently, we consume six [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:11pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Beautiful Early November

    Number of comments: 1
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:35pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Bell’s Bend Park is in Need of Help

    Number of comments: 1
    So, the dog and I just got back from Bell’s Bend Park. We normally go on Sundays but we were both in the mood for it today. The walk was great. The park was beautiful. All the things that want to prick you with their long prickly prickers can no [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:21pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • An Updatey Update

    Number of comments: 1
    For those of you following along at home, I have a very rough draft of my book proposal done, because the Professor said she was going to look at it this weekend and I had to have something to show her. I have looked at thousands of book proposals in my [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:54am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Did I Tell You About the Hiestand House?

    Number of comments: 1
    I don’t think I did. I think I just put up pictures. Anyway, we drove about an hour farther than I thought we should have.  Looking at a map, I’m convinced that going up to Bowling Green and cutting across on the future I-66, even if you can go 70 [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:44am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Looking at the Big Picture

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m going to look at this for a while, just to recharge my soul. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:13pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Thing that Really Bugs Me about the School System

    Number of comments: 9
    I’m not saying the accusations of trying to resegregate the school system don’t bug me. Obviously, they do. But at a level, I can almost appreciate it. You don’t want your kids to have to deal with some situation.  It may be fucked up. It may be evil, but it’s [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:09pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • All I Have To Say

    Number of comments: 15
    All I have to say about yesterday’s incident is this–the burden of these wars falls unequally. A very small group of men and women return again and again to do something the vast majority of families in this country have kept their sons and daughters out of the way of. People [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:36am EST
    by Aunt B.
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