i.e., Ghetto Halloween … i.e., Halloween in the ‘hood
Why those little sh*ts! Someone stole my candy bowls. Granted, they only cost me 49 cents, but still, how rude. Next year? No candy for anyone. I’m just going to hide in the dark with my lights off.
Archive for October, 2007
Halloween in the “Transitional Neighborhood”
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Halloween, Holiday, the 'Hood, Thefts on October 31, 2007 | 5 Comments »
There is no joy in Mudville, but f*ck it, I’m “hip.”
Posted in Feminism, It's My Life, Wifely Wisdom, pop culture, tagged Costume, Dogs, Football, Halloween, Suicide Girls on October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And let me tell you, Mudville it was. The Coach’s team went down …. again. This time, they were only down 3-0 until the final 4 minutes of the game. It was wet and sloppy. So wet, in fact, that I went to the game in one set of clothes … and came home in [...]
Bad Juju.
Posted in It's My Life, Louisiana, Wifely Wisdom, tagged Football, Kentucky, LSU on October 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
By now, everyone has heard about how Kentucky played the role of “king killer” and took down LSU in three overtimes. {sniff} I guess the people with the sign were right, eh? I blame the Coach. He has bad juju these days. His team lost again Friday night; man, when they fall, they fall hard! [...]
Decision Time
Posted in Travel, tagged Decisions, Germany, Mexico, Netherlands on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Okay, let’s recap. I used frequent flyer miles to book a trip to the Netherlands and Germany in March. The exchange rate sucks. If I go, I’ll spend a significant amount of time alone, wandering around by myself — and I’m a pretty social person. Now, I have the chance to go on a spring [...]
Cognitive Dissonance
Posted in Travel, tagged Battlefield, Civil War, Nashville, Opry Mills, Opryland, Stones River, Trail of Tears on October 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This weekend’s trip was really quite the study in cognitive dissonance, from start to finish. The Coach and I headed out on Saturday morning and made our first stop at the birthplace of Jefferson Davis. For those of you who have forgotten your Civil War history, ol’ Jeff Davis was the first president of the [...]
Bloody.
Posted in Travel, tagged Civil War, National Park, Stones River, Tennessee, Travel on October 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We’re back from our road trip, but I don’t have much time to blog about it today. I can say that: (1) it was a well-deserved and much-needed trip; (2) many of the sites we stopped to see were kinda’ sad; and (3) I’m pretty sure that every Civil War battlefield claims that it is [...]
The Shin-Kicker
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, Wifely Wisdom, rants, tagged Core Curriculum, Football, Freshmen, poor sports, Shin-Kicker, Superhero, Vigilante on October 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Over the course of the summer, I had the chance to read Bill Bryson’s The Thunderbolt Kid. I loved that book; the whole concept of being able to smote people into a pile of dust really just appeals to me. I, too, would like to have super powers. I, too, would like to smote those [...]
Changing Plans.
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged Cancellation, Dogs, Travel on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, we were supposed to go on a 7 hour road trip tonight … but that just seems so unappealing right now. Who wants to spend 14 hours in the car (granted, it’s a nice car, but …) over a 48 hour period? Yes, we’re cancelling that particular trip. The upside is that we are [...]
Banned Books Week
Posted in Politics, Wat Stom!, pop culture, tagged Banned Books, Books, Politics, pop culture, Reading on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Banned Books Week and I plan on celebrating by reading a book that it sure to piss off the Republican Right. Thanks to the ALA, I have this nifty list of the 100 Most Frequently Banned Books from 1990-2000. I’ve put all of the books that I’ve read in bold.
