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About Me

Southern gentleman of Irish extraction; Cathowic (either a Catholic of Wiccan tendencies or a Wiccan suffering residual Catholicism, depending upon the day); formerly an English teacher, library clerk, short-order cook, offshore worker, Naval petty officer, police officer--and stopped there.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Poets, painters, musicians, dancers, and anyone else who can read the words in the water and converse with the spirits in the fog. . .

My Blog

Twenty questions--wtf?!

I'm tired, and should be asleep.  I'm just too angry for that to happen.  Toward my shift's end at the PD this morning (shortly past 5am), I encountered a subject collapsed in the roadway at a busy in...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Spring's first mowing!

Oh, yeah!  I just finished the first grass-mowing of the new Spring.  I always enjoy breaking out the mower, stoking the engine to life, and especially the bulk of the thing as I push it across the ya...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Dignitary Protection

Happy happy, joy joy!  I'm being used at the PD as part of a dignitary protection detail.  Now, while I've never exactly seen this duty as enviable, I've noticed a very disturbing trend.  The higher t...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Converter Box

Well, I finally worked up the courage today to install my digital converter box onto (into?) my TV.  In spite of all the wires that came tumbling out of the box's box, it only took two connections to ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:30:00 GMT

The fall of Little Saigon

     I moved to Memphis in 1997.  Various elements of my life made me quite comfortable within different Asian communities, and I took my first Memphis apartment right on the corne...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:52:00 GMT

Mixed bag

As happy as I am that the Supreme Court finally clarified an individual's right to bear arms (and only 200-plus years after it became a Constitutional riddle!), I am deeply saddened and angered by the...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:02:00 GMT

Where’s the Race-Baiting Now?

Well, now that non-Southern cities are having levies break and people displaced, not to mention property destruction, I can't help but notice that nobody is screaming about how the white folks are try...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:34:00 GMT

Blech!

Sick.  Really sick.  New flu strain this year or what?  Trying to return to work today--we'll see.
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:13:00 GMT

Isn’t life just plumb!

Well, I just finished replacing the faucet in our bathtub, and spent the whole time congratulating myself that I don't do this stuff for a living.  Of course, if I were a professional plumber, my...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:49:00 GMT

You might be a redneck if I really wanna kick your ass. . .

My definition of a redneck?  Some stupid asshole who thinks he's better than the rest of the world because he's white and drives a truck tall enough to let him peep into second story windows.&nbs...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:47:00 GMT