A Fond Farewell from the Tennessee Blogger
I’m a little worried, looking back on it, that I’ve made Tennessee seem like a toxic waste dump full of scary racists which you should avoid at all costs. I just want to state explicitly that this is not the only thing happening in Tennessee, which is a beautiful and fun place to visit and [...]
...read moreTrue Blood, My True Shame
I think that True Blood may be one of the cheesiest, most terrible shows ever, and yet, I love it. I have completely succumbed. Tonight, I even have a reminder that I set yesterday on my TV and it set up to record, even though it will be on On Demand tomorrow. My biggest complaint [...]
...read moreWhat is The “Heritage” in “Heritage, Not Hate”?
So, Andrew Sullivan is posting about the “We Love America, We Just Hate the President and Most of the People who Live Here” rally in Washington D. C. today and he says, I certainly think pent-up anger at Bush (which partisanship and religious devotion meant they could never vent) is a part of this; but [...]
...read moreCan You Re-segregate an Already Segregated School System?
So, as I think I mentioned in passing, Nashville’s school system is embroiled in a huge lawsuit in which it’s contended that the city conspired to resegregate the public schools, which would then have the foreseeable consequence of putting a lot of black kids in a lot of shitty schools (though the other truth is [...]
...read moreThe Women of Country Music
I have to tell you, as much as I like country music and as much as I sit around and piss and moan about how great it used to be, it’s sometimes very difficult for me to listen to the women of country music. It’s almost a relief that the industry is turning itself into [...]
...read moreThe Greatest Country and Western Song, Ever, and How Rosanne Cash Ruined It
Hands-down the best country and western song ever, ever, ever is “Long Black Veil.” It sounds like the kind of song that should have always existed, been sung by lonely men wandering Scottish moors or something. It was, though, written by some folks whose names we know–Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin–and first recorded by Lefty [...]
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Reading Tarot
I’m pretty convinced that tarot card reading is just an organized framework for letting your intuition loose (today, anyway; talk to me some other time and I’m convinced that it’s all woo-woo). And there’s a lot about it as an experience that’s appealing to me as a woman. I can speak with authority, because I [...]
...read moreEarly Nashville Women’s History
There’s lots to love about living in Nashville, but the thing I love most is that there’s all this rich history all around. On my way home from work, for instance, I can see the window Harry Burn climbed out of at the state capitol after he cast the vote that gave us women the [...]
...read moreB. v Mothra
Late last night, I looked up in the corner of my kitchen and there was an enormous moth. Like the size of a small station wagon. I could see little 1970s children looking out a window in that moth’s butt waving to me for help, that’s how big it was. I know we’ve talked about [...]
...read more287(g): Can White Privilege Ever Be Exercised for Good?
(In this post, I’m going to be talking about how the 287(g) program plays out here in Nashville, Tennessee, because that’s what I’m most familiar with. This stuff may be applicable in other communities–I suspect it is–but I’m not going to presume to know.) Like many Southern cities, Nashville’s predominate racial make-up was white and [...]
...read moreMy Great-great Grandmothers Had No Choice
Allow me, just for a second, to speak broadly about the South. One of the things I still haven’t quite gotten the hang of is figuring out what the hell, in any given conversation, we’re actually talking about. Take, for instance, the current brouhaha in Nashville about our resegregating the school system. In the course [...]
...read moreSo, Let’s Talk Paganism
(I probably don’t need to do this, but let me just say that the following post is going to contain a bunch of woo-woo crap. If that’s not your thing, please don’t make a big issue about how stupid it is or how I’m going to Hell or how we all need to embrace Christianity [...]
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