Items by Aunt B.

• Oh, Hey, This is Cool

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  Andrew Sullivan linked to one of my Pith posts. [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:09pm EST
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• Is the New Cat Really that New?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 4
  People, if I could have gotten any picture for you yesterday, I wish I’d gotten the picture of the Butcher, gone into the garage to check on the new cat, when he was squatting down to pet it while it ate and he looked up and saw me looking at [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:07am EST
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• Thanksgiving

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  This morning, we heard a meowing the likes of which we had never heard before. My dad was all “What’s going on with the tiny cat?” And I looked out and saw a tiny cat, howling, in the garage. A cat not ours. People drop all kinds of animals of out [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:22pm EST
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• In Which I Spill NM’s Pie Secret

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 5
  People, I was at nm’s house this afternoon watching her make pie crusts WITHOUT A FORK!!!!!! I think I literally stood there slack-jawed. If I were not forbidden from making my world famous apple pie* for Thanksgiving, I would have totally come home and tried making pie crusts nm’s way. She mixed [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:35pm EST
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• Thanksgiving Blues

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  There’s nothing particularly stressful or weird going on with my family, but I am still down this holiday season, lonely for people who are long-gone and not coming back. I think it’s a side-effect of ancestor veneration, frankly, that you feel the in ability to be together face to face [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:52am EST
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• All Kleinheider all the Time

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  From a small heath field to America! Edited to add: It is now my goal to talk Tiny Pasture into smoking a corn cob pipe in honor of his ancestor. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:46pm EST
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• People, This is a Real Thing!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I was driving to work today and I saw two people walking down by Whites Creek and I craned my neck over and saw that they were walking on a path! So, I looked and god damn it if there’s not a Whites Creek Greenway! Right where I thought there should [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:34pm EST
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• Don’t You Dare Buy this for Me for Christmas

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 4
  Reindeer poop necklaces? I sense that at least five of you will consider buying me this piece of crap just because you think it’ll be funny.  Let me just say that that would be a really shitty thing to do. (And don’t you dare tell my dad about this.) [...][...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:15pm EST
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• Pith Stuff

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  1. I write about the book industry. And crack myself up with my youtube video description. 2. I write about the racist graffiti, which is less interesting than the weird-ass comments. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:20am EST
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• Plans A & B

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 10
  Okay, so Plan A is to find a small publisher who might be interested in the project. If that doesn’t work, Plan B is to self-publish. In the interests of Plan A, I have three packages to go out in the mail tomorrow. In the interests of Plan B, I read this. [...][...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:32pm EST
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• Suck My Butt, Kleinheider

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  So, Kleinheider has his column up today and in it, he writes this: That, in fact, may be what this is all about. There is a segment of elite opinion out there that believes arguing for reduced or restricted immigration is necessarily racist. But that’s an article of faith, not proof. I [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:37pm EST
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• “Life Partner”

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 14
  I was all ready to complain about what a stupid phrase “life partner” is and how we all ought to support gay marriage so that when a dude wants to talk about the dude who’s been his “life partner” for decades, he can either say “spouse” or “husband” or we [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:45am EST
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• Ooo, Wouldn’t It Be Cool If There Was a Gardener Signal?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  I could just go outside, light it up, and then you gardeners would know I needed your advice and you would come to Tiny Cat Pants. So, here’s the question. Could I get salvia apiana to grow in my perennial herb garden? It’s only hardy to zone 7 and we’re zone [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:02pm EST
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• Mrs. Wigglebottom and I Find the River!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  First of all, apparently either Mrs. W. and I walk at a pace of one mile an hour or I didn’t pay attention to when we got to the park or the people at Bell’s Bend have vastly underestimated the length of the loop that goes along the river. Because [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:46pm EST
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• The Butcher Keeps Me On Track

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 5
  Well, the Butcher cleaned the house from top to bottom, so I had no excuse but to work on my book proposal. It is done. I have some sample photos from Chris Wage. So, all I have left to do is print the stuff off and send it out. I’m already [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:28pm EST
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• A Vague Woo Hoo!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  I don’t blog about work, normally. So I will continue to not blog about work except to say that a project I worked on and loved just got a review in one of the top journals in its field describing it as invaluable and gutsy. I want to be all “in [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:43pm EST
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• Vikings!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 11
  Shane Rhyne is trying to start a Viking trend, to come after zombies fully replace vampires in the popular moment (of course, zombies and vampires are pretty much the same thing, except one you want to sleep with and one you don’t, so maybe I shouldn’t have distinguished between the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:11am EST
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• I’ve Pushed Newscoma into the Creek!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  Ha, it makes me so happy to read about Newscoma’s adventures in Whites Creek! I hope that, today, Squirrel Queen gets something to eat before dinner. There’s food all over the house, woman! Enchiladas in the fridge, bagels in the cupboard. Just don’t be sneaking off to the red store for [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:06pm EST
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• Bringing the Border to Nashville

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 8
  I was watching Nezua’s video yesterday and totally digging all the Nezuas in the audience and nodding along as you do when you already agree with what you think someone is going to say, when he said something that caught my ear, about bringing the “intensity of the border guard [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:13am EST
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• Christians, WTF?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  I just saw this at Gawker, about folks selling Cafe Press merchandise with “Psalm 109:8″ on it and the words “Pray for Obama.” The shop’s not up at CafePress any more, because as cute as folks might think it is to make veiled Christian death threats against the President, the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:23pm EST
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• Mrs. W. Has Lost Her Damn Fool Mind

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  People, after sucking on the seem of SquirrelQueen’s jeans last night, for no apparent reason, the SquirrelQueen was just standing there talking and all of a sudden, the dog (who was on the couch) started sucking on her jeans. I don’t know if there was spilled beer there or what, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:45pm EST
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• Augustus?!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 8
  Someone over at the Tennessean is calling Tiny Pasture “Augustus Kleinheider,” which made me laugh out loud. I was going to give this person due credit, but alas, the web design over at The Tennessean is so crappy that the individual’s name is not connected to his (or her) (okay, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:39pm EST
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• Coincidence?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  So, at the same time Hall was planning his trip to DC to speak to the rabid anti-immigrationists, he’s also participating in this Channel 4 I-Team investigation in which actual people are referred to as “illegals”? (Nobody over at Channel 4 has a Chicago Manual of Style? Or what?) But more [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:10pm EST
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• I Don’t Know About You, But I Want to Be Delighted

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 10
  First up, Goldni’s post. I’m going to declare myself the curly-haired woman in the cartoon, because I am a woman, with curly hair. Second, I squealed with delight upon reading this post and I now wish I had a problem that could be solved by a rageful woman. Third, what is this?! [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:29pm EST
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• Rounding Up the Morning

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I spent my morning doing the morning round up for Pith, but I couldn’t let go the chance to share Vivian Wilhoite’s snark with you. Seriously, someone get that woman a blog. They’re all “But the parks! Oh the humanity! They’re so over budget!!!!!” and she’s all “Hmm, but when [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:09am EST
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• Sheriff Hall Was Scheduled to Speak to Yet Another White Supremacist Organization

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 8
  (Assuming my post at Pith ever makes it up, consider this a companion piece that would flesh out what I’ve learned in the hours since my Pith post was written). So, Kyle Swenson is reporting that Sheriff Hall was scheduled to speak at a conference held by the Center for Immigration [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:21pm EST
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• Odin in Drag? Frigg in Her Rightful Place? Freyja Taking the High Seat for a Stroll?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  Looking at this figurine, recently pulled out of the ground at Lejre, puts me in mind of Ruth Hill, who, when she’s talking about the way race was understood by people living in Spanish America during the Bourbon period, repeatedly stresses the importance of remembering that we look back on [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 1:13pm EST
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• Bone-Chilling Acts of Babyness

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  Oh my god. Seriously, people, there needs to be a warning on Nate Rau’s article about the state of our parks, because the urge to go stick about 17 people in our city in corners until they can stop acting like enormous babies will completely overwhelm you. It’s literally all [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:14am EST
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• Instead of Doing Dishes, I Took Pictures (All Week)

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:50pm EST
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• In Which I Laugh a Hearty Feminist Laugh

  —Tiny Cat Pants

    Oh, Jim Cooper, did you not even have a moment when you looked at the other Democrats in your group where you felt weird, like something was strange about this, even though you could not put your finger on what it was? [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:54am EST
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• All I Have Are Questions after Watching Saturday Night Live

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  That had to be one of the worst episodes ever, right? I mean, every generation complains that their Saturday Night Live is worse than the generations before them. But then you see an episode like this and it’s like “Oh, so that’s what bad is.” Did we all sense that [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:38am EST
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• Oh, Hurray for Gardening!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  So, I am slowly working through the fall gardening, leaving the biggest mess for last, but number three on my list of ridiculous things that have gotten completely out of control, was the front flowerbed where the little tree that had all the caterpillars in it this spring is. It [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:07pm EST
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• Oh, Hurray for Gardening!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  So, I am slowly working through the fall gardening, leaving the biggest mess for last, but number three on my list of ridiculous things that have gotten completely out of control, was the front flowerbed where the little tree that had all the caterpillars in it this spring is. It [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:07pm EST
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• Six Thousand Copies

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 14
  I guess on a side note I should say that my doctor’s visit went fine. There is nothing else wrong with me on top of the PCOS and he’s happy with how the metformin seems to me working and I should continue to try to lose weight, but that was [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:15am EST
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• Full Freak Out Mode

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 11
  It’d be nice if I had a cool, funny, thoughtful post here. I do not. In fact, I am weirdly filled with rage. That is how freaked out I am.  I know that, no matter what, everything will work itself out, but damn. Go look at this cool gardening blog one [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:04am EST
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• I Might Argue We Should Be Able to Carry in Our Urban Parks

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  For Pith, I spent my lunch hour looking at how dangerous the rural parks in Nashville are. I honestly don’t care if people can carry guns in our parks or not. But I do care that parks that are demonstrably very, very safe are being singled out for an exception [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:01pm EST
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• Blue Moon of Kentucky

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  One of the greatest moments in American music is the beginning of The Stanley Brother’s version “Blue Moon of Kentucky.”  The backup singers come in first, all “Blue Moon,” “Blue Moon,” and you can guess that it’s a country song because the stringed instruments are a little twangy, but there [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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• Alaska, Damn It. Are You Trying to Make Me Cry?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  If you love dogs and getting teary-eyed, click this link. Otherwise, don’t. [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:56am EST
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• Google Wave

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 12
  I got my coveted Google Wave invite yesterday. Not that I had any idea what Google Wave really was, but whatever. When the future comes knocking, you don’t sit around wondering if you will need the future in the future, you know? Anyway, it’s neat. It like instant messaging and email [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:50am EST
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• One Benefit of Getting Older

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  Jesus, people, this has been a weird and, in many ways, sucky week. I’m hoping that’s not an omen for my trip to the doctor, but I am a superstitious fool and it’s hard for me to not read into these things. I tried to write about it last night, but [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:33am EST
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• Snickers Needs to Satisfy My Curiosity

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  I admit, it’s been a long time since I’ve had a full sized Snickers. Usually, the Butcher will bring home a bag of the miniature ones and then we’ll fight about who ate them all. But today I had a full-sized Snickers and I must ask, are Snickers smaller than [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 2:23pm EST
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• Is It a Rule that All Cat Rescues Must End in Blood?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 5
  People, it’s barely even seven o’clock in the morning and I have already had a cat dangling from my bare boob by one claw. Not that there’s an acceptable hour of the day to find a cat’s whole body dangling from a claw in your bare chest, but at least, [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:42am EST
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• In Which I Say Something Nice about Ghost Adventures

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  If you don’t watch it, Ghost Adventures is a show in which three giant douches (I used to think it was two giant douches and a poor put-upon sweetheart, but I was wrong) go around and, after a flurry of “Dude”s and “Bro”s, get locked into supposedly haunted sites in [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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• Whew, I am in Over My Head

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 14
  How it’s set up here at work, there’s a main IT department that gives advice to the people with IT duties in each department.  This is pretty hilarious because I am our office’s IT person. What’s hilarious about this, you might ask? Yesterday, I “solved” a co-worker’s computer problem by installing Vista. I [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:48pm EST
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• Sam Coleman Owes Some of Us an Apology

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  Holy cow! I came across this story while doing the Morning Roundup over at Pith, about how Councilmember Sam Coleman wants Nashville to allow guns in our more rural parks because they might be dangerous. And I really can’t decide which is worse–that at a time when the Parks budget is [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:14am EST
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• The Orange Cat Doesn’t Believe in Walking the Dog

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  So, I’m coming back from walking the dog and who is sitting at the edge of the AT&T lot, hollering away, but the orange cat. Whew and we got the stink-eye.  And then he herded us back to the house. From the outside, it certainly must have looked like I [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:13pm EST
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• Two Things I Have My Eye On

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  Ugh, I forgot to take my pill yesterday morning. Seriously, of all the things that wig me out about being medicated for the rest of my life, the ease with which it becomes such a part of your routine that it can just so easily slip your mind scares the [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:04am EST
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• In Which I Try to Guess Why the TNDP Won’t Aid Adrienne Pakis-Gillon

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  LeftWingCracker has a post about Pakis-Gillon, which you can read and be persuaded by, or not. I’m still a little suspicious that there are people in the party who would love to foist her off on the bloggers so that, if she loses, they can have their proof that the [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:27pm EST
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• For the Midwesterners, For the LOLZ

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  At the end of a post about Casimir Pulaski getting posthumous citizenship, John Arivosis adds: Note from John: Pulaski is a well-known street in Chicago. I never knew the history. Fascinating. For you non-Midwesterners, this is funny for this reasons: While Pulaski is indeed a well-known street in Chicago, that’s not actually [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 9:10pm EST
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• But, Fat, Fatty Fat Fat…

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  Today, Nicholas Krisoff is writing about BPA, a synthetic estrogen that’s in almost everything. The chemical companies have a study that says it’s safe. A great many studies not conducted by the chemical companies link it to everything from diabetes to malformed genitals to obesity. On average, apparently, we consume six [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 1:11pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Beautiful Early November

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:35pm EST
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• Bell’s Bend Park is in Need of Help

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  So, the dog and I just got back from Bell’s Bend Park. We normally go on Sundays but we were both in the mood for it today. The walk was great. The park was beautiful. All the things that want to prick you with their long prickly prickers can no [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:21pm EST
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• An Updatey Update

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  For those of you following along at home, I have a very rough draft of my book proposal done, because the Professor said she was going to look at it this weekend and I had to have something to show her. I have looked at thousands of book proposals in my [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:54am EST
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• Did I Tell You About the Hiestand House?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I don’t think I did. I think I just put up pictures. Anyway, we drove about an hour farther than I thought we should have.  Looking at a map, I’m convinced that going up to Bowling Green and cutting across on the future I-66, even if you can go 70 [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:44am EST
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• Looking at the Big Picture

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I’m going to look at this for a while, just to recharge my soul. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:13pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• The Thing that Really Bugs Me about the School System

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 9
  I’m not saying the accusations of trying to resegregate the school system don’t bug me. Obviously, they do. But at a level, I can almost appreciate it. You don’t want your kids to have to deal with some situation.  It may be fucked up. It may be evil, but it’s [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:09pm EST
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• All I Have To Say

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  All I have to say about yesterday’s incident is this–the burden of these wars falls unequally. A very small group of men and women return again and again to do something the vast majority of families in this country have kept their sons and daughters out of the way of. People [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:36am EST
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• Oh, Tennessee

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  The first book about Tennessee politics I’d like to will into existence is, of course, a history of the Memphis Fords, with a whole narrative arc about the minor tragedy of Harold Ford Jr. not having a snazzy hat. But after that, I swear, someone needs to write a book about [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:11pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Fowler, Revisited

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  I’m sorry, I got to telling folks about this at lunch and it just tickled me so much.  I mean, I spent my morning doing work and thinking about how nicely Coble phrases things, how delicious I find her writing. And all indications are that Fowler gets to spend his [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:11pm EST
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• Shorter David Fowler

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 9
  We have to discriminate against gay people now or we won’t be able to discriminate against other people in the future!!!!!!! I have two thoughts. 1. Why doesn’t David Fowler support the efforts of people to bring back true Biblical marriage? Does David Fowler think he knows better than God how [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Random Thursday Things

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  1. I now have a new theory about what happened to all my pumpkins. And possibly what my neighbors are constantly shooting at. 2. One of the things I like best about the internet is when you see people you know create something that kind of blows your mind. This picture [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:37am EST
  by Aunt B.

• A Book, The Book

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  I have to tell you that every time I sit down to write a post about the prospect of turning the ghost stories into a manuscript that could then be submitted to publishers who will then write me notes laughing in my face and telling me how stupid I am [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Decitement? Expression? Oh, Wait, Expression is Already a Word

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  Well, Maine. I’m bummed on the one hand. But on the other hand, I can’t believe that that many people came out in support of gay marriage.  Even ten years ago, would you have thought that would be possible? Can you feel like we lost and are winning at the same time? Because that’s [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:52am EST
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• Strange, Very Strange

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  I’ve been wondering about the “conversion” of the former Planned Parenthood director. Not just for the reasons Amanda Marcotte outlines, though I think she’s right about all the reasons this whole thing sounds so sketchy. But when someone threatens repeatedly to kill you and then you “mysteriously” start working with them, [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:14pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• News Laundering

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  I wrote a post about it over at Pith. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:53pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Something’s Not Right Here

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 8
  I came across this story while I was doing the Morning Round-Up over at Pith. It’s about how the woman who kidnapped that baby a few weeks ago is reportedly suicidal. I know. Your first thought, as is mine, is “Oh, cry me a thousand tears.” But she’s still innocent until [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by Aunt B.

• Democratic Leadership Continues to Advance the Cause of Picking on Children

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 14
  As if kids in our state don’t have enough problems (today we learned that half of all U.S. children will go on food stamps at some point), the Democrats continue their efforts to make fun of the fatties. First there was Andy Berke, wanting us to run around knocking the [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:28pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• Oh, TNGOP, Is It Truly Do As You Say, Not as You Do?

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  If you believe that handgun permit records should be sealed, then why are you using them for your mailing lists? Did you forget that you wanted them sealed? Do you think that gun owners meant that they didn’t want anyone but you to know who they were? Just how exactly do [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 1:47pm EST
  by Aunt B.

• The Internet is Going to be Trouble for Some Folks

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  As a preface to this post, I’ll just say that I have been unable to let go of something that happened when I was over at Casey’s thing in East Tennessee.  Some kid asked me a question, which I might have kind of punted the answer on, but in the [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:22am EST
  by Aunt B.

• All The Same Old Haunts, recap

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 2
  Well, I am completely bummed that that’s over. I don’t say this mildly, but that was the most fun I’ve had blogging in a long, long time. And I have some good times blogging. I thought they were fun, when I wrote them, but y’all really enjoyed them, which is [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:42am EST
  by Aunt B.

• 31. The Wait

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  In a little house on Venus Drive, she waited for him to come home from the war.  She passed the time making airplanes and when he got home, he told all his friends that she was a better mechanic than anyone in town. His car ran because of her expertise. Telling [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Happy Halloween!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 4
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 7:31pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Season of the Witch

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  I can only warn you not to watch the video.  I can’t stop you. [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:34am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• I’m Starting to Wonder if I Need Professional Help

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  Ha, not that kind. Professional genealogical help. Let us ponder the question of Luke Phillips from a new angle. The only people whose word we have that there was a guy named Luke Phillips who was born in 1808 in New York are Ole Luke himself and his family members, [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:06am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 30. The Demoss Hollow House

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 12
  There is a house in Demoss Hollow, just off River Road, west of town that is tucked so far back away that you can’t see it from the road. It has the twin chimneys and the low slung porch that say that it was built a while ago.  It has, [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• My Baby Brother

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 4
  Today is the Butcher’s birthday. I can remember when he was a baby, his chubby legs and his cute smile.  I remember when he was in little league and when he played high school football. I am so deeply honored to know him and to have gotten to know him his [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:53pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 29. Let Me Call You Sweetheart

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 2
  “Lookaway” is the name of the old house on Manila Street. It was a wedding gift from Mr. Whitson to his new bride, Beth Slater Whitson. You have probably never heard of her.  When the house was for sale a couple of years ago, the listing made no mention of [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Photos Relevant to Recent Posts

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:05pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 27 Redux

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I took a shot at fixing the story for the 27th. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 28. Hickory Hollow Mall

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 4
  Everyone says that the reason why no one goes to Hickory Hollow Mall is because it’s not safe, that it’s over-run with teenagers and gang members or teenagers who are gang members. There’s another reason, though, in addition to that. How many times can a woman be walking through the mall only [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Well, Damn

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  I just got bumped. No NPR for me. My dad will have to call and ungloat to my uncle. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 4:01pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• “So, Your Uncle Got in Some Crappy Paper and You Get to be on NPR?”

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  Well, so, I am about to fall over. Right over. I just got asked to be on the weekend All Things Considered, and read them a ghost story. They found them on Metafilter, because one of you was kind enough to stick them up there. I am so excited and thrilled and [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:56am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Yep, That’s My Uncle

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  We have a wide variety of political opinions in our family. Some of them make it into USA Today. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:27am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Our Hiestands

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  Henry came over from what is now Switzerland. He had a son, Jacob, who had a son, Jacob, who had a son, David, who had a son, Nathaniel, who had a son, George, who had a daughter, Ina Mae, who had a son, Hildreth, who had a son, Brent, who [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:48am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 27. 18th Avenue North

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 7
  No one is sure if the thing on 18th Avenue North actually constitutes a ghost. But no one is sure what else to call it. Some say that you can almost see it on rainy or foggy days, a shape, like a person, but not quite, around which the moisture [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Oh, Pith, How I Love You

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 3
  They let my oblique oral sex joke stand. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:39am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Luke Phillips, You Vex Me!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  On the Phillips side I have tracked me, my dad, Hick, Frank, Oscar, and Luke.  Oh, Luke Phillips. Claiming to be born in 1808 in New York to people who were born in Connecticut, I find no evidence for his existence prior to 1850, when he shows up on the [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:51pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 26. The Cat that Said “Ma Ma”

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  The women who worked Dickerson heard the cat days before they saw it.  The noise sounded enough like a human voice, words in the distance, not quite made out. But the working girls had, if they had been on the street any length of time, learned to ignore voices not [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• The Tennessee State Library and Archives

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I spent the morning at the state library and archives trying to figure out where Elizabeth Bennett’s tavern was. No luck. But all of the people there were a hoot–from the guard who was telling me his philosophy on women and why you shouldn’t run around on your wife (it [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:31pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Young Buck

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 2
  I was on my way to the gas station when a beautiful six point buck leaped across Clarksville pike and then across Lloyd (so I got to see him twice) and he leaped like he was almost begging to be chased. Even the truck coming the other way stopped to watch. [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:03pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• The Myth of the ‘Reasonable’ Discussion

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  I get tired of the dynamic of Kleinheider says something, I point out how stupid it is, he points out that I’ve pointed out how stupid it is, etc., etc., etc., but today he wrote something not so much stupid as nefarious. And that’s this column which is, in essence, about [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:27am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Creating in Fly-Over Country

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  I really love this post and the comments.  The thing that struck me, especially, though, is the fact that it’s not just New York and LA. It’s specific neighborhoods in New York and LA. Whole communities, even in those areas, aren’t seen as acceptable places for stories to happen. Hmm. [...][...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:09am EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 25. Adelicia Acklen

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  It works best if you have two young, suggestible pre-teen girls in your back seat.  You take them to Bobby’s Dairy Dip and then start filling their heads with ghost stories about Adelicia Acklen.  It doesn’t matter which stories you choose to tell. Start with the ones about how greedy she [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Booooorrrrriiiinnnngggg

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 1
  People, if there is ever another time when I have to pee in a cup for 24 hours straight, would you please just, I don’t know, at least make sure I have found my pile of books. I cleaned the kitchen and learned that the tiny cat, who claims to [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Take a Walk Down Lloyd Road With Mrs. Wigglebottom!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 24. The Strange Case of Scenic Drive

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 2
  There’s nothing unusual about the house on Scenic Drive.  Scenic Drive, itself, is quiet. On one side of the street is a wooded lot where people often walk their dogs.  On the other side are long, over-sized brick ranches.  And this one is no different.  It sits at the top [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Um, Everybody, I Found Timothy Demonbreun!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Just kidding. Not that Timothy Demonbreun, but some other one, not the Demonbreun I thought I’d find. [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 5:42pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Hunting Demonbreuns

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Today the dog and I are off in search of Jean Demonbreun, the youngest son of Timothy and Elizabeth.  I hear he’s up in Coopertown, which will be a lovely drive. Shoot, there’s a lot of good stuff going on this weekend here in Middle Tennessee. Horses at the Stones River [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• 23. The Home Depot Parking Lot

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 6
  Weirdly enough, the ghosts in the Home Depot parking lot on Gallatin may be the most upsetting ghosts in town. They don’t do anything particularly scary. They tend to walk across the open grassy area between the parking lot and the road, looking around like something is missing, and then [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  by Aunt B.

• Paganism, It’s Everywhere!

  —Tiny Cat Pants

  Number of comments: 15
  1. Poor Christian, discovers Satanism at a Christian venue. 2. I will never see “Antichrist,” but damn, I feel like this picture is true in some way. (Um, maybe NSFW) 3. So, the dude throws treasure into the river as a votive to the town… Ha, ha, ha. Even Christians love pagan [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
  by Aunt B.