I guess I don’t have to point out to anyone who lives on the East Coast that this is the coldest winter on record; a winter that comes after the hottest summer on record. (Memo to Ken Cuccinelli: It’s global warming STUPID.) When I’m confined to our Humble Little Cottage for any length of time [...]
Entries from January 31st, 2011
if you can’t take the cold, get in the kitchen
January 31st, 2011 · No Comments · appalachian history, food, recipes
Tags:appalachia·foraging·Ken Cuccinelli·squirrel gravy·venison sausage·wild game
i wish i could write like roy blount, jr
January 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · musings, Uncategorized
Roy Blount Jr. is the dean of American humorists and a modern day renaissance man. He is a reporter, an author, an actor, a lecturer, a rock’n’roll musician, an artist, an NPR panelist, a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion, and the epitome of a Southern gentleman. He has published some 22 nonfiction books [...]
Tags:A Prairie Home Companion·Garrison Keillor·Guns and Garden Magazine·H.L. Mencken·Mark Twain·NPR·Roy Blount Jr·Time Magazine·W.C. Fields
happy elvis presley’s birthday!
January 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · music, musings, news
On this date in 1935, a Mississippi white-trash couple changed the world. In a two-room shack overlooking the truck road in E. Tupelo, Mississippi, Vernon Presley’s wife, Gladys Love, gave birth to a set of twins; one stillborn, and one destined to become the King of Rock’N’Roll. Elvis Aaron Presley would have been 76 today. [...]
Tags:blue suede shoes·elvis presley·Gladys Presley·peanut butter and banana sandwich·rock'n'roll·vernon presley·white trash