Friday, February 03, 2006
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
- Revisiting Elvis Costello
- Woo-hoo, Naked Men!
- She Just Smiled and Turned Away
- A Mad Haiku for the Dar(l)ing Elias
- In Which I Order You Around
- The Good Thing is that They Probably Can Already H...
- Yes, Again with the Libertarianism
- Most of It is My Fault
- Why Hippies Hate Meetings
- More on Men
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.
8 Comments:
I'll have you know that we have an MP3 player, which the Butcher stole off the guy who's forever showing me the firework scar from when he almost blew off his penis.
I just don't know how to work it.
Watch, as the new hippies are slowly acclimated to late 20th century technology....
After they become confident enough to strike the device with a femur, we will slowly introduce the MP3 player...
And, apparently, I have the ability to travel back through time and comment on your comment before you even make it.
Time travel. Top that, gun-nut.
What do we have for the runners-up, Johnny?
You got the CD player because I freely choose to associate with you. As such, I can't have a friend who just sits around playing a drum made from dried foreskins.
In your little utopia, you got the CD player because I am obligated to help the least fortunate of the society. You didn't have a CD player, yet you felt you deserved one. Ergo, the more successful members of the society are compelled, by force if necessary, to provide for those unwilling to provide for themselves.
Or, it has been sitting in a box in my office since christmas, and I wanted to get rid of it.
Pick the one that sounds more like justice.
Oh, and by the way, you're welcome.
Hippy ingrate.
I said 'thank you' and I posted a thank you post. What more do you want? A song? Poetry?
Dear god, fine, from now on, whenever we're together, I'll look down instead of looking you in the eyes, so that you know I know you're better than me.
Start walking three feet behind me, now that I think about it.
Or else I'll post that photo from yesterday.
Please. Where are you going to post that? On your blog? Shoot, that's barely a threat. It'll take anyone who gives a shit fourteen days to get it to download, and that's if they have some kind of ultra-high-speed internet connection, because you post all your photos at such amazingly high dpi.
And, I believe I walked three feet behind you on Wednesday, as is proper when a young lady is out with her older chaperones.
You might want to make some new demands on me.
Silence, gamma.
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