Saturday, October 22, 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
- Let's Let Mike Jones Take Care of Syria
- The Good, The Bad, The Weird
- Music, Conversation, and Me in Heels
- Maybe Boys are Just Stupid
- Topics of Conversation at Lunch
- The Butcher and Mrs. Wigglebottom
- If I Told Them To You, They Wouldn't Be Secrets
- Audacity
- Getting Home
- Peaceable Assembly
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.
6 Comments:
How dare you enjoy music by British bands when they had us under the yoke of oppression 200 years ago?
How do you justify buying consumer electronics from the Japanese after the atrocities they committed sixty years ago?
What kind of nerve does it take to go eat at a Vietnamese restaurant considering their abhorrent treatment of John McCain?
Were his ribbon magnets tilted to the side so they looked like Jesus fish?
You're extraordinary. In the split second it takes to flip someone off, you had the patience and intelligence to think things through.
Okay. I'm an idiot. I never could have gonr fron A to B to C. I would have just gone fron A to F.
Well, I had more than that split second. I had the seconds before where I was slamming on my breaks and trying to keep the dog from flying into the windshield.
We bought Tootie a car harness just a few minutes ago. Only took one time of me hitting the brakes and seeing her fly into the floor to seek one of those out.
We put it on her and just let her walk around in it to get used to it. She looked very safe.
Brittney, can she still get her head out the window? Or does it keep her pretty fixed in one spot?
It does not allow head out the window. Which is a definite negative. But Tootie is almost too short for that anyway, so no big loss.
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