Yesterday morning, three of the most beatuful, historic buildings in downtown Memphis burned. No one was hurt as the church was empty, and the Lincoln American Tower and the Rhodes-Jennings Building were being renovated, but damn. I loved walking by them in the summer, and listening to The Colin tell me about them, and how he used to explore them ( Read more... )

I can't wait until I can have a whole house. It would be an older house, like the ones along Eastern St. in Louisville (by the Dennys, if you need an easy point of reference, as we did), or like the ones in Cooper Young in Memphis. I want to be able to paint, and to decorate, and to leave my shoes in the living room. I want book shelves (the floor ( Read more... )

Oh, god, has today been awful ( Read more... )

I really should be working on my historiography of female spies in the Civil War (it's due on Friday). I should also be writing my newspaper column (due tomorrow night). Or maybe reading the whole, intact-inculding-the-Sunday-magazine New York Times that I found abandoned on a table at Starbucks, but I'm just not motivated right now. I've got other ( Read more... )

Maybe I just love it because it was shot at the Lamplighter in Memphis, or maybe it's the song, but I really really love this video. And they made the Lamplighter look pretty!

Anyway....

- It's super nice out today. Yay ( Read more... )

Here's some back story, because I realised tonight that not many people that I know now know about this, and it's recently come up again. So, here you go ( Read more... )

Longest day ever, y'all ( Read more... )

So has anyone else seen the OK GO video for "Here We Go Again"? Grown men dancing on treadmills totally crack me up ( Read more... )

Who wants to go see Snakes On A Plane with me on Saturday?

-k