Thursday, October 27, 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.
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WHERE TO DIRECT YOUR HATE MAIL AND LOVE LETTERS
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BEER
THINGS I SAID RECENTLY
- Short Notes to Various Folks
- The Oxford American Music Issue
- Suicide Saves Us Money (or I read Salon so you don...
- Nashville is Talking Utter Lunacy
- Headed Home
- My Proudest Moment
- Short Funnies
- Afghan Weather
- Fox News: Home of Immorality
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.
10 Comments:
I'll second that nomination.
And Uncle Ted being in charge of the NRA might make me change my non-joiner stance on that organization as well.
He actually IS a lawyer, AND he plays one on TeeVee.
Plus, he's got an awesome middle name, all Old West-y and stuff.
Thanks to the creative acting choices he has made over the last twenty years, it really isn't a stretch for anyone to imagine him as one of the Supremes.
He'd be great. I mean, shoot, if he can keep Jack McCoy in line...
Plus, Peg, I totally agree that there's something nice about "Dalton" as a name.
S., they've simply got to let Ted be president at some point, right? He'd be great.
During Supreme Court deliberations, they could play the Law & Order music in the background. That would rock.
Interesting choice, I never thought about ole Fred.
I agree that he would make an excellent choice. I've heard him speak before and he isn't a rabid uber-religious radical right winger. He's more down my alley in terms of his commitments to conervative ideals as well his understanding of social realities. And anyone who can survive in Hollywood as an outspoken conservative republican would be able to handle whatever the congress throws at him.
Nice choice Aunt B, but are you really ready to make that kind of commitment?
Now, Tman, you and I both know I need have no fear of anyone in the Bush White House making such an inspired choice for the Supreme Court.
Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
I'm actually surprised that Bush buckled on Miers. I'm also ecstatic that she withdrew. What a miserable choice after Roberts.
Let's cross our fingers and hope that Junior got the message sent across the bow.
I'm not terribly excited about Roberts, but I thought that he was a wise choice.
And compared to him, Miers was so strange.
I really can't wait for the tell-all books to start coming out about this period in the administration. I'd love to know what the heck is going on behind the scenes.
Good call. There will be some damn good reading coming out in 2009.
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