We sold a lot of stuff today. Starting early this morning, people came in to tell us we had nice stuff, make a pile, and then start backing up about it not being that nice. That’s why I don’t price anything, it doesn’t really matter. I do, however, judge a man by his negotiating skills. [...] Continue Reading »
I’m going to talk to a man about a little pony
3the fiesta verdict, peeking in a Serro Scotty camper, and kentucky bound in the morning
4In the calm after the storm yesterday we drove to Sevierville to the Rebel Dish Barn. It’s the largest Fiesta store in the South, new and vintage. I compared my stuff with his and I do have exactly what I thought. We stopped on the way home at Camper World. They don’t have Airstreams [...] Continue Reading »
more on how the little hipster ship floats
0Yesterday I burned the first copies of my new CD “Hope of the Seen and Unseen.” They went out with our final issue of Good Packaging, closing an important segment of this blog’s existence. I gave another copy to my old friend Barrett Holloway who came through Knoxville with his band out of Nashville, Mockingbird [...] Continue Reading »
an old north knoxville utopia, the consumption, and why i grow tomatoes
0My brother gave me a 55 gallon drum last summer. He made an excellent compost bin with one, it hangs sideways between two posts and spins so you don’t have to stir, then dumps right into a wheel barrel. I’m making a rain barrel out of mine. To do that, it took me a year [...] Continue Reading »
i must have got hit by a car this morning, or bit by a rabid dog last week
0I waited until I heard the birds to get up. This is the part where I write out everything wrestling in my mind and then either hit publish or delete. On the file cabinet across the room is a completed packet to give DHS and sign up for Tenn Care. We’ve already met and are [...] Continue Reading »
Mexico at 29
4A couple days ago I turned 29 and I’m taking it very seriously, not because it’s any closer to 30 or some kind of reaction to age, but because I had a hard time with 28. 28 was a struggle, a constant rewording of failure in order to see around it. I was rolling tubes [...] Continue Reading »
voices of a Cajun sheriff, the president, and Jay Z
4One day, when I am a famous musician, whose trade presumes a marriage to the endless and ageless passage of road and country, my map pages will have long been feathered, my jeans wrinkled behind the knees, and my nose sighted between the rim of my knuckles. I was swerving through Baton Rouge when a [...] Continue Reading »
song 7 of 14
007 Life Experience mp3 This one dates back to about 2006 and was written during an insurance sales/ waiting tables/ banking transition that rattled me up. It was for a musical I was writing that needs some work and rehearsals, but could otherwise be pulled off if I had to. For anyone who frets over [...] Continue Reading »
brothers travels
2My brother and I went to visit our grandparents last week in Dukedom, TN and Salem, KY. It was just like getting dropped off as kids, except my not so little brother drove, we left our Ashleys at home, and Ryan went to work everyday at his new appointed State Farm agency in Murray, KY. [...] Continue Reading »
to those of us who aspire
0Inside each of our heads is an idea. In thoughts, we have the ability to see our intentions fully glorified. The idea is established here already or we wouldn’t be chasing the details and learning the actions to support it. But on the outside we appear to scramble. Establishing generally means hoop jumping, chasing loose [...] Continue Reading »