I’ll show you the life of a mind.
The time is upon us. The election, you ask? Nah. The annual Memphis Halloween Party! For the first time in a couple of years, my costume is one that is guaranteed to offend people. There is a critical element to it that is only good for a couple of hours, after which my costume will [...]
Look. I am either overloaded or brain-dead. All I am reading about is the election, and all I am inclined to talk about is the election (and maybe Alabama football). The problem I run into while I’m perusing all of the various blogs and news articles during the day, is that I cannot possibly make [...]
I used to write at least a poem a day, and at my most prolific, I would probably write five to ten. Not that they were any good, mind you. Those bolts of inspiration hit at random intervals, and, looking back, even the pieces I thought were thoughtful and poignant at the time often look [...]
Time my wife and I woke up this morning: 8:00 am
Time my wife and I got out of bed: 1:00 pm
# of times my wife tickled me: 27
# of times I slapped her ass: 238
# of times I slapped her ass in public: 46
# of times she called me an “asshole”: 35
# of [...]
I cannot wait until this one is over. On paper we should not have any problems. But then, one could have said the same thing about Tulane or Kentucky or Ole Miss. I hope Nick has got these guys focused.
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UPDATE:
Alabama 13, Tennessee 3 at halftime.
I don’t really have any complaints. We are playing [...]
It is that time again. Didn’t we just do this?
Next Thursday I will grudgingly celebrate my birthday… alone. That’s right. My wife will be out of town on a business trip. Not only do I have to ponder what it means to be striding ever closer to the death that awaits us all, I [...]
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, audit season has begun. Today I was out in the middle of nowhere – which is located, surprisingly, about 45 minutes by car from downtown Birmingham. The school was seriously outdated. The library, where we set up, was the size of a regular classroom, and the shelves were around [...]
This will be a fairly transparent attempt to make up for not posting anything yesterday. I tried. The MSG in my thrice-warmed-over Chinese take-out finally caught up with me last night, and I ended up lounging, eyes bleary and half-closed, heart beating erratically, sleeping wife and dog and cat beside me, listlessly browsing through my [...]
Sometimes it’s fun to dig out the old notebooks and try to recapture my emotional state at a certain point in time. This piece, for instance, was written at a little sidewalk café. I do not remember what initially inspired me to write, or what exactly I intended it to mean, but I can read [...]
Was it not a beautiful day today? The little lady and I woke up (fairly) early and took a pleasant drive to Northport, AL for the 2008 Kentuck Festival of the Arts. I last frequented the festival back in 2004 and 2005 when I was manning the booth for the University’s Marr’s Field Journal (the [...]
