last monday

Even though my column doesn't show up in the paper until Wednesday, I usually write it Monday morning -- just kind of a brain-awakening exercise to prime me for the rest of the week. So last Monday,...

When I showed off Fuzzball the other day, I didn’t mention “her” measurements.

It appears that Janell Ross's recent report on North End neighborhoods is not the only time she has been accused of not being factual. Shelbyville Times-Gazette reporter Brian Mosely also questioned the accuracy of the statistics that Janell Ross reported in an August piece regarding the clash of Somali and American cultures in Shelbyville.

..and then one day you find
ten years have got behind you
no one told you when to run
you missed the starting gun..
Pink Floyd's Richard Wright died last Monday. I've not posted on Wright's passing, but I suppose I should, given that Pink Floyd has my consideration as the best band/musical group I've seen in concert. Or listened to in a dorm, or on countless sets of speakers, going back, what,

This is the last Monday before I go on vacation…hooray!!! Until then, it is still a crappy Monday and we must show it the respect it deserves. Yep, here comes another sad song. This is one of my all-time favorites from The Black Crowes called “Bad Luck Blue Eyes Goodbye“:

Last Monday, I was researching a story about the advertisers who bought advertising during the Olympics. The purpose of my research was to tell you who they are, and to boycott them because Of China's support of genocide in Darfur.

Well, to my surprise, I found out Barack Obama's campaign had purchased 5 million dollars worth of ads to run during the games.

I‘ve been told that when this bunch of Bunco Broads gets together, they actually place the dice game. After spending the evening on a house boat. I’m just not quite sure.

First, I have to brag, I got to take part in an interview with David Maraniss on our radio show Freestyles last Monday. This is what you guys are missing when you’re listening to them drone on about pottery on NPR.

Now then . . .

Tennessean Mayhill Fowler, the woman who exposed Barack Obama comments about “bitter” rural Americans clinging to guns and religion, went and made news again provoking Bill Clinton to lash out at a reporter and is now a subject of a Washington Post profile pie