To echo my spousal unit, there’s a new book in town. Wish I’d written it — but then again, I can buy it and enjoy it — and utilize the fruits of someone else’s labor. For the uninformed, there’s a free alternative to Microsoft Word. Chances are, if you’re reading this blog, you already know [...]
We interrupt this entry for a quick message… Check this shit out… the RNC at work. Now, back to our regularly scheduled blogging.
How to Submit a Short Story Collection
A MacEwan Primer
With any submission, one must include a discussion of the themes of one’s work. It is of paramount importance to wander, as far as humanly [...]
The True Southern Design Book
Prologue
Quite a few people raised in the South try to forget, or ignore, what they lived and knew when they were growing up. It’s not just dropping “ya’ll” from their dialog. They seem lose both their accents and their sensibility. To them, to be southern means to be a hick, a [...]
We’re getting ready to paint our 100 year old house. Choices are so varied, I thought the best thing to do would be to follow the US government’s representational rainbow hue directive, AKA the Homeland Security Advisory System color chart.
The main structure, window frames and regular wood siding, will be painted Bright Red. [...]
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue and a great nation is particularly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God’s favor, conferring upon it a special responsibility for other nations — to make them richer and happier and wiser, to remake them, that is, in its own shining image. Power [...]
Hegel and Southern Yard Art: A Brief Discourse on Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis as Applied to Cement Chickens
By applying the Hegelian Dialectical form of analysis to the subliminal urge to acquire and prominently display cement animals in a landscape setting, one can clearly comprehend the Southern affection for yard art. The thesis (ideational entity) is [...]
Assuming people actually visit this blog on more than one occasion, I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you — No, you are not crazy.
And … yes, the blog became afflicted with Blog Blight last week. This tragic malady occurs when two family members, usually bound by the bonds of matrimony, help maintain a [...]
