Saturday, December 03, 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
- Because, really, once you start with the boring st...
- I Kick Ass
- Trapped
- Camille Paglia, Guns, & Water
- The Shopping List
- Funny, Even if You Don't Know Her
- Blech
- "Do you bite your thumb at me, Sir?"
- The Polka
- Mrs. Wigglebottom and the Case of the Missing Pizza
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.
4 Comments:
I cannot tell you how badly I wanted to go to this show. Good for you. Glad you enjoyed.
Ryan
I'm like that too. I have more success when I talk about what delights me and less when I try to communicate why. I also don't want to kill the buzz by over-thinking it; by the time I get to the "joy recollected" stage, life has moved on.
Sounds like a great show.
Ryan, whenever I'm at this kind of stuff, I always look around wondering if you or Rex L. Camino are in the audience, too. I don't know how I'd recognize you if you were, but I keep an eye open anyway.
Hmmm, how to recognize a Ryan? Hair a bit too long for his age. Looks a little younger than he is--except around the eyes which are beginning to do that cool crow's feet thing that grant him an air of sadness or worldliness (depending upon the night). He would likely be sporting an unintentional smirk that borders on smug but really just masks his insecurity. His eyes were once blue but now favor sea water after a storm. A little murky. And he most definitely would not be referring to himself in the third person for there are few things he dislikes more.
I find myself doing the same thing. The pseudo-anonymnity is, perhaps, half the fun of this blogging business.
Ryan
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