Thursday, June 16, 2005
About Me
- Name: Aunt B
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Like Donnell Alexander says, "It's about completing the task of living with enough spontaneity to splurge some of it on bystanders, to share with others working through their own travails a little of your bonus life." But, it's mostly the kind of place that folks looking for "girls and cars" stumble across by accident.
I'VE MOVED. COME CHECK OUT THE MOST RECENT STUFF HERE.
WHERE TO DIRECT YOUR HATE MAIL AND LOVE LETTERS
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BEER
THINGS I SAID RECENTLY
- The Fucker With the SS Tattoo on His Neck
- I Stayed in Mississippi a Day too Long
- In Which I Admit a Deep, Dark Secret
- The Butcher Makes Me Smell Pretty
- For Those of You Who Like to Keep Score at Home
- The Butcher's Troubling Question
- The Trippin' Leopard
- Shoney's
- Fair Warning
THE CAST OF CHARACTERS
Aunt B.--Your kind host.The Butcher--My youngest brother, who lives with me and works as, you guessed it, a butcher. He knows everyone in town.
The Recalcitrant Brother--Our middle brother, who lives in rural Georgia and has a kind of movie star life, if that movie star is Burt Reynolds in Deliverance.
The Reverend--Our Dad, a Methodist minister, perpetually three years from retirement.
Mom--Our Mom. She doesn't get a funny nickname because our mom will not stand for funny nicknames.
Mrs. Wigglebottom--My dog. She's got terrible manners.
The Corporate Shill--Or The Shill, as we call her. My friend from college who was constantly getting me into trouble and going to parties she neglected to tell me about where cute boys would ask her "Where's Aunt B.?"
The Legal Eagle--The Shill's husband.
The Super Genius--She lived next door to me my freshman year of college and we've been friends ever since my first day on the floor.
Miss J.--My first adult friend, meaning the first lasting friendship I made after college. She was my roommate in grad school.
Her Lover--Her Husband.
The Divine Ms. B.--Miss J.'s sister and one of my heroes, because she's brave and funny and mystic and fearless.
JR--My oldest friend. I've known her since I was in the second grade.
Elias--JR's husband and the person who's musical tastes have most strongly affected my own. Oh, how I long to be cooler than him!
The Professor--My closest friend here in Nashville. She's a genius, but she'll never tell you that.
The Man from GM--I've known him since I was 16 and he still hasn't forgiven me for telling him I was a vegetarian when I wasn't.
The Redheaded Kid--No one knows where he comes from or where he goes when he leaves here. I assume he's the Butcher's friend. The Butcher assumes he's mine.
5 Comments:
Oh, Bailey used to do that all the time. Sometimes she'd paw at the air, too. I liked to think she was dreaming about chasing the critters back by the creek.
One of my three thankless dogs makes that noise in her sleep, and paws at the air like peggasus' dog. I always say she's dreaming she's at the dog track chasing a fake rabbit...
My dog does this all the time. Whimpers, barks, snuffles, twitches, makes these funny little running motions and then goes back to sleep. And snores. Oh does she snore.
I truly suspect that Mrs. Wigglebottom dreams about flying--in her dreams, she can get the squirrels that mock her.
You're hired! What a great reading. Jon Edwards has nothing on you.
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