This is for those in Chattavegas. Tuesday is International Death Penalty Abolition Day and the Chattanooga chapter of TCASK will be observing it with a Write-A-Thon. We’ll be meeting at 6:30 at Panera Bread on Broad Street. Please join us to write letters, get more information, or just to hang out with other human rights activists!
I’m back! It was a great weekend, but now I’m exhausted and not feeling all that well. While I get some rest, check out the final moments of the mayor’s race:
Enjoy The Oscars!
At one time, I had hoped to have a photo of a bluebird to share with you here today, but that hope was dashed in a ditch full of mud. Fortunately, I still have a few birds in reserve, so without further whining, I give you the noble, and very noisy, carolina wren. Have a great weekend, everyone! Check out the other critters on the ark and then get outside to enjoy the last days of February… 
UPDATE: Check out Bubba and Fletch and their fancy-pants “I’m not laying in a ditch full of mud” bluebirds. harumph! ;-D
My (windows) computer at work spent today in wheezing death throes (ugh!), so it looks like I finally have an excuse to start using a Mac at the office (yay!). Since this G3 I’m working on here at home actually belongs to the office, I think I may be getting that new powerbook sooner rather than later. And I’m leaving tomorrow for a quick trip up to Boone this weekend, so except for a Creature post in the morning, don’t expect much around here until Sunday…
Sometimes I wish I had taken a few more photography classes while I had the chance in college. Then maybe I’d have a clue as to what I’m doing now. It was a gorgeous, sunny day today and I took a walk in the cemetery during lunch. The intense light was creating fun shadows and deep contrast and I felt like I was missing all kinds of cool photos, if only I had a better eye for composition.
Also, if I were a decent photographer, I could justify spending money on equipment that would help me be even better. I spotted a bluebird in a tree on my walk and it was a great shot, but the bird was too far away for my camera’s lens. I started stalking the bird, trying to get in close enough, but I was so intent on keeping a bead on the bird as I followed it, I didn’t notice that I was headed for a muddy ditch… and… well, you can guess the rest, I suppose. It was pretty damn funny, actually. It cracked me up and I bet it’s been a while since all those dead people had such a good laugh.
At the end of my lunch break, I had a blurry photo of a tiny blue splotch, a handful of cemetery landscapes, and really muddy pants. I think tomorrow I might try to find a change of scenery for my walk. Part of my problem today might be just that I’m getting a bit tired of graveyard scenes. And I think I will start to keep an eye out for a good deal on lenses…
I don’t see movies in the theatres much. Other people are noisy and annoying, some kid is always kicking the back of my seat, they don’t sell beer at most cinemas, rarely will they stop the film when I need to go to the bathroom, and I’m not quite as comfortable at the theatre as I am at home on my couch in my pajamas. And by the time you’ve paid for a few tickets, you’ve spent enough to have purchased the DVD. But every once in a while, something comes out that motivates me to actually visit the local theatre. This may just be sufficient incentive.
There’s not necessarily a lot of sympathy for the AARP as they get the Rove Treatment:
Others are willing to cut them a little slack:
One thing everyone agrees on, though, is that the SwiftBoatLiarsforRove are beyond the pale:
Personally, I think the Bushites are desperate to get people to talk about anything but the Gannon/Guckert scandal, even if it means they have to shamelessly dive into the gutter again.
This is the Bank of America Building reflected in the Tallan Building here in Chattanooga. I hardly ever just take a picture of the Tallan Building itself because I always get distracted by the images I see reflected in it. There’s a parking garage on the other side of the building that goes up seven or eight stories and the top level is a cool place to take photos of the reflections of all sorts of things in the downtown area. I’ll have to see if I can dig out some more photos this week…
Could Doug Jackson be any more of a worthless jackass? First he tries to write hate into the TN constitutuion and then he follows that up with this stupid bill? Please, Dickson, TN — do something. MAKE HIM GO AWAY.
Egalia over at GuerillaWomen shares a letter from the City Paper this morning that begins:
What a vicious and pathetic bunch of mouth-breathing hillbillies we Tennesseans are. So we’re going to forbid gay marriage? What alien danger shall we root out next — subject-verb agreement? If our children want to understand the mindless instinct that put Jews into concentration camps, they need only look across the dinner table.
Click on over and take a look. (For the record, you can see where each state’s congressional delegation stands on gay issues by downloading the HRC Scorecard.)
Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, G-Dog (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). We have one kid (that we know of) -- a daughter, Emmie, who plays a supporting role on the blog. She's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. G-Dog and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant, arugula-eating, progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
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