Category: Around the World
More Grief
This is kind of like how I feel about my (possibly four) upcoming surgeries: I don’t want to do this,
Dean Allen, RIP (Jan. 2018)
Because so much has been messed up and unstuck during the first half of this god-awful year, I just discovered
That Curtain-y Feeling
That feeling you get when you hang your first curtains in the first house you ever owned? Priceless. Posted by
Welcome to the Neighborhood
The moment when you close on your house and your new neighbor welcomes you with a giant batch of chocolate
Shooting Up the Waffle House, Naked
In all this pouring (and pouring and pouring) rain, how difficult is it to find a naked man running around
Closing Tomorrow
Closing on the new house at 11 a.m. tomorrow! VERY happy. His Majesty is preparing final addresses for the Cats
Entitle This
Rep. Larson Slams GOP for Labeling Medicare and Social Security 'Entitlements' Congressman John Larson (D-Conn.) scolded Republicans in a fiery
Moving to Donelson
On the road again … Moving packing has begun! Heading back to Donelson (yay!) to a smaller house (yay!) with
Deer Tracks
With the recent freeze/heat weather cycle, the Saddlebrooke Deer Herd are a little pressed for food, it appears. The… Posted
Snow at Hermitage Station
Hard to tell in this pic, but it’s snowing to beat the band in Music City. Thoughts and prayers to
On Shitholes
Every single day is a new low. How low can we go? There is no bottom. So pretty goddamned low. Shithole low.
Snow in Dixie
Snowing to beat the band in Music City and they’re as panicked as if General George Thomas and his Yankees
Shuttling Between Failures
The story is sordid and long, but the details were made clear by Matt Viser’s excellent Globe piece. To wit: Lorenzo sold the Donald the Eastern Shuttle for an overvalued $365 million (if DT had created a brand-new shuttle from the ground up with brand-new planes, not old worn-out 727s, estimates were that he could have done it for $300 million.) Of course, the money was all borrowed. It was 1989; Eastern (and Continental) were already almost dead from Lorenzo’s sledgehammer and the economy was tanking. Pan Am 103 was bombed, the first Gulf War was about to begin. It was incredibly bad judgement to overpay a bunch of other peoples’ money for something that was guaranteed to tank.
They Don’t Like the New ‘America First’ As Much As They Did the Lindbergh Version
So let’s see if I’ve got this. Germany, a country in which there are still many women alive who were raped by invading Russian Red Army soldiers and in which the human products of those rapes are still living, now trust … Russia more than the United States.
Questions. We Got ‘Em.
Why? Because, as reporter Anne Kingston notes, women are “female reproductive vessels” and not human beings. And because Long Dong Silver has always, and will always, get a free pass. And both of these are realities for reasons which surpasseth understanding.
American Carnage: 3-Dec-17
Nazis are just “the normal people next door” and nothing bad should happen to either them or the New York Times for pointing this out, says The New York Times.
Dressing Up
Newschannel Five must have seen my previous post about dressing Steve Layman like an Easter egg the other night…. Posted
American Carnage: 17-Nov-17
The Diddler’s Club What we learned this week: • Al Franken is the latest member of the “People Who Diddled
Dressing Down
As an old print journalist, I have little regard for tee-wee “news” – it ain’t news, it ain’t journalism; it’s
Vandy's Gorgeous Afternoon
Gorgeous autumn afternoon on the campus of Vanderbilt University. Posted by Steve Pollock on Friday, October 28, 2016
New Swirly Lights
Bought new LED swirly lights for the front of the house. They have a remote that can change the colors
Another Hermitage Sunset
Hermitage I-40 sunset. Posted by Steve Pollock on Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Books Arrived
The wonderful folks at McFarland did a special rush printing for me and as soon as I get them signed
Back to Churl Status
Home again! Glad to be here. It was a wonderful weekend. His Majesty #IAmTheRoux immediately assigned me back to General…
Home Again
Great to be back home in the Volunteer State. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, August 8, 2016
Almost Home
I knew I was close to home when I encountered a truck carrying Brad Paisley's "Life Amplified" Tour headed for
Tennessee River Bridge
Bridge over the Tennessee River, at Paducah/Grand Rivers/Land Between the Lakes. Not far from where the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers
Tennessee River Rolling On
The Tennessee River flowing out of Kentucky Lake and dam rolling on to its meeting place with the Ohio. That
Four Rivers HD
Not a great pic, but in Paducah, KY, there's a Harley Davidson dealership shaped like a riverboat. Who knew? fourrivershd.com
Arch from MLK Bridge
The Arch from the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge on the way out of Missouri. Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday,
Thinking Big
Lying on the bed looking out. Thinking Nashville needs one of them things. Maybe a 700-foot gee-tar? Or an obelisk
Casino Queen
I almost stayed at Casino Queen across the river since there were good reviews. Until I found out a room
Left Behind
In some hotel around here, some kid is crying (him/her)self to sleep. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Shimmering Arch
The Arch is shimmering in the last light of the sun. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7, 2016
Red Kitchen
Dinner has to be close because … drunken Cards fans. So Red Kitchen in the Hyatt lobby it is. Posted
Looking Through the Gate
Over the construction site and through the gate lies home. 333 miles away. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday, August 7,
Mark? Twain!
Are they on a three-hour tour? Will they get shipwrecked in Illinois? Am I feeling all Mark Twain-y and wanting
Bad Timing
The intersection I took thirty minutes to get through? A half-hour later, two cars. Oy. Posted by Steve Pollock on Sunday,