Tommy Karr

Category: Family

  • Bristol Palin – Delusional Like Her Mother

    Bristol Palin has decreed that President Obama is a bad parent and poor leader because he “made a massive change in a policy position that could affect the entire nation after consulting with his teenage daughters”. First, he did not change policy. He voiced his personal opinion. Second, if he did listen to his daughters…

  • 1988 Ford Ranger

    That Time My Truck Blew Up

    Yes, for a very brief period of time I owned a pickup truck.  But the universe didn’t think this was a good fit for me and decided to end the, at best, tenuous relationship. Roughly fourteen years ago, the 1988 Ford Ranger (red) and I became acquainted because of need. I needed a VERY CHEAP…

  • Theme Songs that Terrified Me as a Chld

    I’ve been busier than usual lately so I haven’t posted much, short of some Instagram moments here and there but I was listening to a podcast this morning and one of the panelists mentioned the theme to Unsolved Mysteries and it reminded me that, while I loved the show, the song itself terrified me! Something…

  • The Night My Mother Got Peed on at the Theatre

    In 1998 I was enjoying a two-week run of Cabaret at the Clarence Brown Theatre.  This was a University production (not to be confused with the professional company on the campus of UTK) and I was excited for my mom and stepdad to see this sort of naughty, sort of sexual, very-much-in-the-vein-of the Roundabout’s Broadway revival that I was…

  • Huskey Cemetery

    I saw this image on Facebook today and laughed because it churned up this filed-away  memory of driving the country roads of Tennessee with my mom. We were travelling along Highway 321, roughly ten miles beyond the entrance to my high school, in search of some sort of adventure.  I’m not entirely sure what we…

  • Baby August on Broadway: A Painting

    Ok, so Baby August isn’t on Broadway, but this weekend I finished a painting for some of my dearest friends who recently welcomed their baby boy to the world.  Since both work in and around the theatre district I created this scene of “baby Broadway” characters standing on a cartoon rendering of the Red Steps…

  • GetUp! Australia’s Amazing Ad for Marriage Equality

    The folks at GetUp! Action for Australia, an independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into their democracy, have created this ad in the hopes that it inspires more understanding in people who would otherwise deny the right of marriage to same-sex couples. You can sign their petition HERE so hopefully…

  • Sears Wish Book: A Lexicon of Jubilation

    There was a book that I cherished more than all others and it arrived in our home just once a year.  When it arrived I quickly tore through it, though careful not to damage it.  Sitting on my bed I would flip past pages of epicness and awesomeness, drooling over the newest and greatest toys I…

  • Still Loving Lucy 60 Years Later

    It is hard to imagine that there was TV sixty years ago today, let alone that I Love Lucy, the most beloved sitcom of all time (my opinion but I have little doubt it isn’t true), premiered that long ago.  Yes, for those who were there sixty years may not feel so long ago, but when…

  • Tennessee Homecoming… and the Thing on the Wall

    I went home to visit family a few weeks ago and to help get the house in order, in the hope that we can sell it sometime in the next year or so.  The trip was good… if not exhausting.  But the house is looking great and just needs a little T.L.C. to get it…