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  • The Bordeaux Cemetery That the City Runs

    I took pictures of it. I wrote a review that will someday be up on Pith. And yet, I’m still writing a post about it because it’s been since Saturday and I still have the heebie jeebies.  There’s a lot that’s heebie jeebie-inducing about it. First, the part to your [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2010, 1:42pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Is there a Librarian Signal? If so, Librarians, I’m Flashing You!

    Number of comments: 5
    A reader writes: I know many of your readers are librarians and I wonder whether you’d be open to posting a question to them. I have a research librarian friend who is returning to work next year after a 5-year hiatus while raising her daughter to kindergarten age. She has an [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2010, 8:49am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Ooooo, Ooooo, Oooo, Football Conjure!

    I could not love this story more and I feel cheated CHEATED that I have not gotten to meet a football rootworker. (I hope you all remember the awesome story of the hoodoo woman who got me a raise?) [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2010, 6:31pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Lots of Random Things

    Number of comments: 9
    1. This is possibly the most irresponsible piece of journalism I’ve seen in a long time. Mosques in this state get burnt down for less and Channel 5 is hyping that these folks might be terrorists? If someone gets killed, that’s blood on Channel 5’s head. Speaking of murder, who [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:41pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Butt Covering?

    Number of comments: 14
    Pretty much everyone I’ve read or talked to about the majority of the Superbowl ads found them bizarrely hateful towards women (on a side note, I have to believe that, if you didn’t already know what the Tebow ads were about, you would have thought the Tebow family bought the [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:49am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Butcher’s Theory of the Afterlife

    Number of comments: 2
    So, I wanted to watch Ghosthunters as they explored Mark Twain’s house.  The Butcher did not. “But it’s Mark Twain,” I said. “We might see Mark Twain haunting his house.” “Mark Twain hated golf.” “Um… so?” “I’m pretty sure that a man who hates golf is not going to be a ghost.” “What?” “Well, if you [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2010, 10:57pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Have a Girl-to-State Talk with New York

    Number of comments: 1
    It’s like when you hear about your new boyfriend from his ex. [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2010, 6:45pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • All the Bordeauxes (Bordeauxs? Bordeauxen?)

    Number of comments: 3
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    Posted: February 06, 2010, 1:15pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Some of Us Must Get Out of the House

    I was awoken today by the sound of a cat freaking the fuck out and a dog whimpering in confusion. I’m not sure what happened there, since it was in the Butcher’s room, but I eagerly await a report from him. I guess I should check to make sure that [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2010, 10:45am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Robert Johnson Knew

    Number of comments: 5
    Do you know this artist, Kate Mann? I wouldn’t say that she’s good, but I like her because she’s something better than good. Her songs get on my iPod in one way or another and they just sound like a quiet room after a long evening of drinking and telling [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2010, 3:39pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Click click click

    Number of comments: 3
    I have nothing to say other than that I’m happy to be saying it on a computer that works. The only thing I’m having trouble getting used to is that the control button is not quite where it was on the other keyboard and I keep hitting the wrong thing [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2010, 8:53am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Have to Go Eat At This Place

    Number of comments: 1
    Yes, a burger joint with my nom de blog. [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2010, 10:00pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Photopalooza!

    Number of comments: 1
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    Posted: February 04, 2010, 7:33pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • New Computer

    Number of comments: 2
    If you are in any way responsible for me finally having a new computer, the wet slobbery feeling you’re getting right now is me metaphorically making out with you. [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2010, 6:22pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Trees are Creepy, in Their Own Way

    Number of comments: 2
    Especially this time of year, the tress in the back yard are creepy. They all look a little like very slow mad scientists coming together to plan world domination. I’m not a painter by any means, but there’s something about the way the trees look against  the winter sky that [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2010, 1:35pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In All the Excitement, Let’s Not Miss the Funny

    Number of comments: 7
    I woke up still laughing about this, so I just had to bring it up here. Yes, the comments on this post were very exciting, but it’s this part of the post that still has me tickled: This source adds something all Democrats probably would do well to consider: “We all [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2010, 8:46am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Twenty Minutes Until I Can Take More Cold Medicine!

    Number of comments: 3
    In the meantime, let’s all read along as we learn that all our favorite internet trolls are apparently the same dude. Very strange. Very hilarious. [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2010, 8:44pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • If Anyone NEVER Wants to Date Me, Today is the Day to Tell Me

    Number of comments: 15
    Blah, I’m still sick, but I’m past the point of sitting on the couch in a coma with kleenex stuffed up my nose waiting to be able to take my next round of medicine and onto the part where you kind of wander aimlessly through the house, like a drugged-up [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2010, 3:24pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • So Sick

    Number of comments: 4
    They sent me home from work, said I looked terrible. I stopped by Kroger to get some cold medicine (my beloved Alkaseltzer Plus effervescent tablets) and as I was walking towards the check out, I thought, “I’ll be sure to get a $20 back so that I can give the Butcher [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2010, 5:35pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Sickly

    Number of comments: 3
    I don’t know if I am having some kind of massive allergy attack or the start of a cold that won’t quite come into being. But something is not cool with the old immune system today. I was thinking, though, that one benefit to the CPAP machine is that you [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2010, 1:31pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Jennifer’s Body

    Number of comments: 2
    You know, life is weird. Somehow Tiffany Theissen ends up being the actor from Saved by the Bell you most look forward to seeing in other stuff and Brian Austin Green ends up being the most interesting actor from 90210. And, somehow, a girl’s newly positive feelings towards Green can [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2010, 8:45am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Do Unto Others

    Number of comments: 11
    I don’t believe there’s a single member of either of these churches that is saying to him or herself right now, “You know, I hope that, if I’m ever in a tragedy so immense that many of my friends and family are dead, I am without a place to live, [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2010, 10:27pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • When the Accessories Don’t Behave

    Number of comments: 15
    I was reading Katie’s amazing post on Elizabeth Edwards. And I was just going to come over here and tell you to go read it. But I had to throw some laundry in the dryer and what was sticking with me from her post is that, in a way, it [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2010, 11:45am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Hank

    Number of comments: 1
    I love this picture of Hank so much that I had to share it with you.  I love the tiny grin, like he’s thinking about pie or something. Someone should paint this and we can hang it next to the Mona Lisa. [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2010, 10:24am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • It May Be a Mess Elsewhere, But Here, It’s Beautiful

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s weird the things that are in your bones, the things you don’t even know. Last night, I woke up twice expecting the noise of the snowplow. There has been no snowplow. We live on the road that curves so far north it eventually becomes Lake Shore Drive. A major, in its [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2010, 10:07am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • It’s Snowing! It’s Snowing! The Old Man is… Um, Something-ing

    Number of comments: 2
    I went into work, even though we are having what is supposed to be another apocalyptical snow. But then no one else was at work and I got done everything I could get done without having input from anyone else, so I headed home.  It was definitely snowing more downtown [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2010, 2:09pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Two Legal Things

    Number of comments: 8
    –Goldni has a good post about the Tiller case and how the judge has ruled that Roeder’s jurors can’t consider the lesser charges of manslaughter or second-degree murder. Roeder has admitted to planning Tiller’s murder, hunting him down at church and shooting him. It should be a clear-cut case. But [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2010, 8:58am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Pinnacle Building

    Number of comments: 2
    It was just yesterday that I realized what it is about the Pinnacle building that strikes a wrong aesthetic chord for me.  It’s really a beautiful sight, but it looks like some of the other buildings got together and buried it in the mud up to its shoulders. If we all [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2010, 8:46am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • We Need a Three-Tiered Tornado System

    Number of comments: 4
    Right now, we just have two things–tornado watch and tornado warning. Tornado watch means “head’s up. Conditions are favorable for a tornado possibly form.” Tornado warning means “Hide in your closet now!!!!!!” But with the rise of better technology, we get alerted, with a tornado warning, for cloud rotation that isn’t even yet [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2010, 7:09pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Today, I Love You

    Number of comments: 3
    –Pictures of past pictures. –Learn here about the gang of miscreants ruining America. Yes, you, Rachel. I mean you!!!! –Alabama anti-gambling taskforce head wins big gambling in Mississippi. You can’t make shit like that up. Well, you can. But you don’t have to. Life did it for you. First librarians are ruining [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2010, 12:29pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The State of the Blah blah blah

    Number of comments: 8
    I didn’t watch it. Went out to sit and crochet while the knitters knitted. I saw an awesome technique for joining ends, drank some wine, and hung out and worked on my afghan. I’m not in love with it. The idea is that you have a cool side and a warm side [...]
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    Posted: January 28, 2010, 8:35am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • iPad

    Number of comments: 15
    I don’t really have insightful things to say about it. I just wonder if this made the Kindle obsolete. It sure seems like it (even if the price is initially high). So, you know, I wonder what it will mean for publishing. I still think that we’re on a course [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2010, 2:17pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • An Update on the Whole TNDP Thing

    Number of comments: 6
    So, I talked to Devin Brady last night about stuff, starting with the fundraiser and moving through the state of the blogosphere and whether progressives really were welcome in the Democratic party or if it was going to continue to be a case of us arriving at the front door [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2010, 9:12am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Hurray!

    Just got an email notification that the new computer has shipped! Soon, very soon, I will be able to have more than one window on my computer open at a time! I will be able to post photos again (which y’all will be very grateful for because I have a [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2010, 8:39am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • If I Ever Give Money to the TNDP Again, Please Smack Me Upside the Head

    Number of comments: 5
    It was bad enough when this anti-Palin nonsense went out virally, but today we get the official email from the TNDP. Did you hear? Sarah Palin’s coming to town – and you’ll never believe who she’s speaking to. OK, it’s not that much of a shock. Sarah Palin, known for her outrageous [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2010, 5:53pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    Number of comments: 11
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is on On-Demand, so I watched it. For the first time in years. And I realized, it makes no sense that John Cusick’s character doesn’t get together with Lady Chablis, at least at a narrative level.  He buys her flowers, he takes [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2010, 1:48pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Child of Opryland?

    Number of comments: 9
    Rumors are flying fast and furious all over town that, now that the new convention center has been approved, that Gaylord is looking to reinstitute a theme park over in their neck of the woods, in order to keep from losing conventions to the downtown. Which proves that I was right [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2010, 8:53am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Yes, It Immediately Went on My Amazon Wish List

    Number of comments: 1
    Look at this! Which brought me to this awesome poem, which I will link to, though you can’t read it unless you’re sitting at a computer with a JSTOR subscription, which kind of sucks, but what can you do? “Faubourg Study No. 3: The Seven Sisters of New Orleans” by Brenda [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2010, 6:06pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Over at Pith, Another Park Review

    The commenter has some necrophilia concerns. [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2010, 1:41pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I am Exceedingly Jealous

    Kleinheider got a nice shout-out for his column from Ta-Nehishi Coates. [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2010, 1:11pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Argh! I Had Myself Convinced This Was an Irrational Fear!

    Number of comments: 13
    A North Nashville man hears gunfire off in the distance and comes to realize he’s been shot. That’s the whole story, but it’s given me the heebie jeebies all morning, because I have this irrational fear of this very situation. And yet, here it is in real life. Dude, I don’t [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2010, 1:00pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Why, yes, it does make me crabby

    Number of comments: 15
    It does indeed make me crabby when men brag about all the free parking downtown. I, too, wish that I could take advantage of the free parking downtown, but I don’t have a dick, so I don’t get to believe I can walk where I want with impunity. And, if [...]
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    Posted: January 24, 2010, 11:04am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Pepsi Candidate

    Number of comments: 15
    Here’s my question. Say the Supreme Court had, somehow, passed this ruling five years ago. And I’m Pepsi. I decide to throw all in for Edwards. You see anti-Clinton and anti-Obama ads paid for by Pepsi. You see pro-Edwards ads paid for by Pepsi. Edwards is Pepsi’s guy. Pepsi is Edward’s [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2010, 10:34am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Things I’m Mulling Over, Including Such Exciting Topics as “Gardening”

    Number of comments: 14
    1. Today is my dad’s 65th birthday, thus securing his spot as the longest lived Phillips man in three generations, maybe four, if you want to get the nephews in on the coversation. My mom bought him a coffee maker. My dad, however, does not drink coffee. This is very much in [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2010, 10:21am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The TNDP is Breaking My Heart

    Number of comments: 8
    1. Don’t advertise conservative cultural movements for them. 2. Don’t spend money that should be going to recruiting and promoting candidates on making fun of Sarah Palin. 2a. If you have a good idea for how to make fun of Sarah Palin, pass it along to some bloggers with whom you’ve fostered [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2010, 1:54pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Takes the Sting Out of Not Winning the Cruise

    Number of comments: 13
    Air America is no more. We were talking yesterday about why it couldn’t make a go of it and the truth is, I know people from all over, but I don’t know anyone who listened to it. So, there’s that. I’m not sure why left-wing talk radio isn’t more appealing to liberal people. [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2010, 8:42am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Want to Help Plant a Forest?

    Who: Us What: Planting trees in Bells Bend park to help them get a hardwood forest started. When: Saturday, February 27th at 1 p.m. Where: Bells Bend Park, off of OHB, off of Ashland City Highway, down in the Bend. Why: Why not? People, they’re trying to plant a whole forest. How fucking cool [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 7:50pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Want to Help Plant a Forest?

    Number of comments: 4
    Who: Us What: Planting trees in Bells Bend park to help them get a hardwood forest started. When: Saturday, February 27th at 1 p.m. Where: Bells Bend Park, off of OHB, off of Ashland City Highway, down in the Bend. Why: Why not? People, they’re trying to plant a whole forest. How fucking cool [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 7:50pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Think I Could Subsist on Rice and Cupcakes

    So, I’m having this issue with trying to figure out when and how much to eat. The thing is, if I don’t eat, it’s not pretty. I get really physically ill. It’s not a problem not to eat, except sometimes I want lunch at 10:30 and sometimes I forget to [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 7:36pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Think I Could Subsist on Rice and Cupcakes

    Number of comments: 1
    So, I’m having this issue with trying to figure out when and how much to eat. The thing is, if I don’t eat, it’s not pretty. I get really physically ill. It’s not a problem not to eat, except sometimes I want lunch at 10:30 and sometimes I forget to [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 7:36pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • My Cruelty Knows No Bounds!

    Ways I have been ridiculously cruel today: 1. I kicked new kitty out of the computer chair so that I could type this very missive. She’s off pouting in the other room. 2. I will not let Mrs. Wigglebottom eat poop right out of the kitty litter box. She is pouting right [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 7:16pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Crap. I’m an Idiot.

    Number of comments: 4
    People, I just remembered. In my manuscript, I say that, by the time someone reads it, the bus station has probably been torn down. I should have been supporting the convention center or I had no guarantee the bus station would be torn down. Ha, if the Tennessean hadn’t beaten me to [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 1:22pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Two Announcements of Little Importance

    Number of comments: 2
    1. I love to burp. 2. Though I could not get up on them to confirm, because my front yard is a vast, shallow in-land sea, I believe I saw crocuses pushing up in the bed I put them in this fall.  One quick question–will they spread or, if they turn [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 12:31pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Dear Commercial Appeal, He Raped Her

    Number of comments: 8
    I just want to stand with Lindsey here, because the Commercial Appeal fucked up. There is no difference between “rape” and “forced sex”. If you force someone to have sex with you, you are raping them. Actually, no, I take it back. There is a difference between “rape” and “forced sex.”  And [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2010, 9:06am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • A Few Random Things about Why I Love Blogging

    1. One of you sent me a link to this website, ostensibly because I could get a deer skull, but people, they have squirrel baculum! I didn’t even know squirrels had penis bones! I am so tickled. 2. This is the most insightful analysis of the whole Massachusetts debacle you’re going [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2010, 12:55pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Ev Speaks Truth

    Number of comments: 15
    I have long said that a goal of people in power is to keep us squabbling amongst ourselves while they continue to have power. This–what Ev writes–is the hard lesson we, as a country, just won’t learn. And so we sit through the lesson again. When they said they were taking [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2010, 8:52am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Roger Abramson, For the Win!

    Just go read. [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2010, 8:33am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Really, TNDP? Really?

    Number of comments: 9
    You woke up today and said, “You know what the state needs? To know where the TNDP stands on Harold Ford Jr.“? That’s what you thought was the pressing need of the state today? Tennessee Democrats really were concerned that they didn’t know where the Party stood on the issue of [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 8:04pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Tennessean is Disgraceful and Stupid

    Number of comments: 5
    The new convention center has not even broken ground and already The Tennessean has mud on its face. At the same time the paper was covering the convention center debate and filling their editorials and columns with pro-convention center boosterism, it was also shelling out $15,000 in support of the [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 7:38pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Woo Hoo!

    Number of comments: 5
    I got my first rejection letter! And it had a hand-written note at the bottom! So, yeah, on the one hand, that sucks. On the other hand, someone took the time to be all looks-promising-not-for-us. [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 7:28pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Don’t Get My Hopes Up, Daffodils

    Number of comments: 8
    I have yet to see any sign of the crocuses I planted in with the irises under the tree that got all the caterpillars last spring. But I will be damned if the daffodils are not stretching upwards and out of the dirt already. Even the ones in the front [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 1:36pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Speaking of the New Kitty

    Number of comments: 8
    Don’t worry folks. At the end of the day, she’s just a cat. Soon, she will run out of things to do that aren’t things the other cats have done a million times (and, please, no one but the tiny cat can truly excel at bizarro crap you’ve never heard [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 1:31pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Harold Ford–Advocating Child Abuse?

    Number of comments: 15
    When Harold Ford Jr. went to church on Sunday, he gave a little speech and in that speech he said the following: Mr. Ford spoke about his childhood in Memphis, describing a grandmother who used the extension cords from living room lamps to discipline him and his brother. “I am always [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2010, 9:08am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • “What the Heck?!” Starring New Kitty

    Number of comments: 1
    I wish, with my whole heart, that New Kitty had a TV show. She just cracks me up. “Hey, what’s going on up there? What the heck are you doing?” “Can I eat that?” “Where’s the dog?!” It’s so cool to watch her react as if everything in our lives is [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2010, 7:15pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Why Isn’t Zach Wamp a Better Asshole?

    Number of comments: 15
    I’ve been contemplating this since I watched the first gubernatorial debate on education. Wamp is clearly an asshole. He drops names like they’re going out of style (shoot, at one point, he even name-dropped himself). He has this vaguely contemptuous look on his face like “I came back from Washington [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2010, 1:18pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Right Before Sleep

    I really love that moment when you’ve just come in from taking the dog out for the last time, Orion making his way across the sky, hopefully, on his way to your house, the cold of his wintery body set off only by the pricks of heat from the stars [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2010, 12:55pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Let Down Your Hair

    Number of comments: 2
    I can only begin to hint at the unfun of blogging on this computer. The screen’s too close. The computer’s too slow. You sometimes type a sentence and it takes five seconds for it to appear on screen. After which, it unfurls like some flag of your own words from [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2010, 8:58am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • In Which I Ask the Obvious

    Number of comments: 1
    When I open up my Yahoo mail and it asks me what I’m doing, in some ill-designed attempt to compete with Twitter, isn’t the answer always “Opening my email?” I can understand how Twitter kind of faids into the background. When you open up Twitter to use it, the application isn’t [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2010, 8:48am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Who Bit the Cat?

    Number of comments: 7
    Someone bit the new kitty and took a large chunk of fur out of her neck. Based on bite-mark analysis provided by a girl who watches a lot of CSI repeats (me), I believe it to be one of the other cats. No one is very eager to confess, as you [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2010, 10:21pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Help Me in My Moment of Idiocy

    Number of comments: 10
    The good news is that the ancient Gateway in the den works.  Kind of. The bad news? The laptop seems to be dead. But I don’t know. Internet, I need your help.  When I left yesterday, it was behaving normally. I spent all afternoon running errands and delivering afghans and I returned [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2010, 9:57am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • And the Winner Is…

    Number of comments: 8
    The random number generator at Random.Org picked 18. This, by my count, means Kitty from Cleveland won. Congratulations, Kitty.  Shoot me an email with your name and address and, once I get my ends tucked… ooo, I mean your ends tucked, I will ship it right out to you. [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2010, 2:53pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Contest Afghan Contest!

    Number of comments: 15
    Yes, I forgot. No, I don’t yet have pictures. No, there are no ends tucked. But we will carry on with the contest anyway. If you want to win the contest afghan, just comment in the comments of this post. Please only enter once. Please only enter if you’re willing to give [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2010, 10:19am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Tennessee Steves, We May Need You!

    Number of comments: 12
    So, the efforts to enroll a brave Satanist are so far a bust. Don’t let this color your impression of Satanists. It could just be that no Satanists from Tennessee read my blog. But the Butcher, the Redheaded Kid and I were watching the Daily Show last night as I was [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2010, 9:09am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Tennessee Satanists, Your Fellow Citizens Need You!

    Number of comments: 7
    Dear Local Satanists, I don’t know if you saw this, but the state legislature has become a hot-bed of proselytizing. Clearly, this violates the spirit of the separation of church and state and spits in the eye of all non-Christian Tennesseans. But here’s the thing–with the exception of you guys and us [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2010, 9:14pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Dear Deer

    Number of comments: 6
    I really would like a deer skull, with rack, to put in my bedroom. I’m not sure about how to go about getting one, but I live in an area with a lot of hunters who shoot deer, so it seems like it shouldn’t be too hard to acquire one, [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2010, 1:49pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Pat Robertson Thing

    Number of comments: 15
    Robertson’s little speech about Haiti was so appalling on so many levels that I imagine it’s a bit like looking up and seeing that you’re about to get hit by a dozen water balloons filled with mud–you just close your eyes and wait for it to be over, because it’s [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2010, 9:15am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Can’t See the Forest for the Trees

    Here’s a cool thing I wrote about for Pith. I think they’re going to end up needing money as much as volunteers, in case you’re not that excited about going out in the cold. [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2010, 8:24pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Dog People of Land Between the Lakes

    Number of comments: 3
    I learned today that, even though many of you (West Tennesseans!) already knew all these stories about the dog people of the Land Between the Lakes, I had to learn about these fuckers all by myself, because no one told me. I look shifty-eyed in your direction, West Tennessee. Anyway, here’s what [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2010, 8:12pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Things are Hopping

    Number of comments: 1
    –Good lord, people. I know I said I was glad to see tempers running a little hot on the Hill, but I didn’t mean for Mike Turner to start trying to tackle people on the Chamber floor! –Tiny Pasture has the skinny on some ridiculous Nashville Phillips who can’t behave when [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2010, 12:14pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Great End-Tuck of Ought One, Ought Ten!

    Number of comments: 3
    Every afghan I’ve had it in me to make for the past two months (and one that I made last year) is sitting here in the living room waiting to have its ends tucked in so that it can go out and join the world as a useful member of [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2010, 8:52am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Truck

    Number of comments: 3
    I went up to the top of the ridge, to the little grocery store and I parked next to an enormous truck. You know the kind, so big that you’d have to hoist both me and Mrs. Wigglebottom into it. And it rumbles so loud when it first turns over [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2010, 8:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Eh, Vegetables, Who Needs ‘Em?

    Number of comments: 14
    I have to confess, I’m contemplating not doing a vegetable garden again this year. I think we can do watermelon, okra, and bell peppers up by the house and I was, honestly, more delighted by the whimsy of having a space that big filled with flowers than I was with [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2010, 1:50pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Speaking of “Putting Yourself at the Front of Any Parade”…

    Number of comments: 15
    Chris Sanders has a really thoughtful post about Harold Ford’s conversion from Tennessee’s idea of a Democrat to an actual Democrat. It’s hard for me to be that generous. I bristle at the idea of having someone kick you repeatedly in the teeth and then turning around and thanking them [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2010, 9:10am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • So Long, Morning Roundup

    Woods is taking over all of the morning roundups over at Pith, which is fine. But I admit, out of habit, to having a longing to click on the Tennessee Tribune’s website and wait five minutes for the PDFs to come up, like old times. [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2010, 8:34am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Great Tea Party Convetion of Aught Ten

    Number of comments: 10
    The only thing more fun in Tennessee right now than following the abrupt change of Harold Ford Jr. from a Tennessee Democrat to a normal Democra… Hey. Are we sure this is actually Harold Ford Jr.? Has anyone checked to see if he now has the tell-tale goatee that would signal [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2010, 1:40pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • A Brief Word on Verifiable Voting

    Number of comments: 1
    Yes, we need it. Yes, they’re going to screw us out of it. [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2010, 12:56pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Tennessee, I Love You and Other Random Things

    Number of comments: 6
    –My favorite thing about Tennessee is how, slowly, over time, you start to realize that everyone knows someone you know. I just sent an email to Newscoma because she’s going to run into the brother of a friend of the Butcher’s and I wanted to give her the head’s up. [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2010, 9:16am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Contest Afghan Hits a Snag, Almost Literally

    Number of comments: 3
    So, I am in massive love with the yarn I’m using on the contest afghan. It’s so soft. It’s chunky in a really cute way. And it’s warm. It’s really, really nice (Lion Brand Yarn’s Homespun). But when I went to sew the strips together, I learned the terrible weakness of [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2010, 10:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Kind of Sunday Where Someone Throws Up in the Cable Box

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    Posted: January 10, 2010, 2:30pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Ooo, a Ghost!

    Jonathan has a ghost and some cool skills at putting up an italicy summary at the top of his post. [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2010, 11:55am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • I Can’t Believe This is My Life

    The orange cat in one dining room chair, the tiny cat in another. The new kitty in the office chair by the computer. You can drum your fingers on its plastic back and she will pounce into action, ready to hunt your hand, wherever it might pop out of. The [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2010, 5:30pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Contest Afghan!

    Number of comments: 7
    I KNEW I had a picture of it. At least in part. Here part of it is. That gives you a good idea of how it will look. [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2010, 7:23pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Is Ron Ramsey Afraid the Retired Priests are Going to Have Abortions?!

    Number of comments: 15
    Oh, dear lord, sometimes you read something over at Post Politics so stupid you wish you had someone in the room with you to read it out loud to. This was in a press release Ron Ramsey, who is running for governor, sent out today: Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region had [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2010, 1:27pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh My God! Is this already the crappiest contest in the history of the internet?

    Number of comments: 5
    Is there not even a picture of the contest afghan in process? I can’t find one. You can see it in the corner of nm’s afghan here (look up in the far left of the bed). But I don’t see the picture I took of it kind of laid out.  Way [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2010, 1:08pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Oh, Snow

    Number of comments: 15
    It is a city-wide pastime when we get snow to either go to the stores and buy up all the bread and milk or make fun of all the people buying up all the bread and milk, with Southerners getting mad at Yankees who invariably are like, “Oh, ha ha, [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2010, 8:58am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Snowman

    I was on my way to lunch when I came out of the building and caught my co-worker crouched down between the building and the parking lot. He looked up at me with this enormous smile and this look of unmitigated joy on his face. “I’m making a snowman,” he said, [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2010, 9:10pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Plumber is Coming! The Plumber is Coming!

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m going to lunch and then home to pay the plumber! And then? And then! To shave my legs! Although, the hair is now at the point where it’s laying over and is soft, so… Ha ha ha. Sometimes I write things I imagine are going to mortify me when I’m 60. [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2010, 1:05pm EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Tiny Cat Has Eaten Tougher Things than You for Dinner

    Number of comments: 1
    I don’t know why the tiny cat likes to spend cold nights under the house, but she does. No matter how much you try to keep her inside, she will find a way outside and under the house. So, when it’s breakfast time, you have to flush the toilet and [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2010, 8:49am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • Is This My Crowning Achievement at Pith?

    Number of comments: 2
    Sure, I’m very proud of all the Bells Bend stuff, but people, they put a warning in the headline of this post. A park review that needs a warning! Shoot. [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2010, 8:45am EST
    by Aunt B.

  • The Dimple

    I was thinking that I have never told you about The Dimple. The men in my immediate family all have it. This is not a normal dimple. My dad has great big normal dimples and neither of my brothers have normal dimples. But they all have, as if a warning from [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2010, 8:37am EST
    by Aunt B.
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