Category: Life
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Obama Endorses Marriage Equality
Thank you President Obama, for standing by your beliefs and making them heard. As ThinkProgress is reporting, the president announced his support of marriage equality in an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts this afternoon: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family…
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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…
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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…
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Musical Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-Star Robert Sherman passed away at 86
The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Sherman, one half of the legendary Sherman Brothers, passed away Monday in his home in London. The Sherman Brothers were “unknown heroes” to me as a child. I knew their songs by heart, sang them relentlessly, and wore new grooves in my Disney LPs, listening to their music over…
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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…
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Apple Failed Me
My iPhone has been having problems lately. While I love it, in theory, it has been giving me problem after problem. The Home button routinely sticks or becomes unresponsive, the system slows to a crawl making productivity nearly impossible, and, in general, it has become more of a paperweight than technology. Then, on January 3rd,…
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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…
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Campfield Claims Breast Cancer Caused by Abortions
I was so sure Campfield had reached the peak of Mount Ignorance with his “Don’t Say Gay” vitriol and his dangerous and false claims against the gay community. The people at Knoxviews.com shared his latest, baseless and classless blog post in which he now suggests that abortions cause breast cancer. He’s certain of this because he read…
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Bigotry Kills – Rolling Stone’s “One Town’s War on Gay Teens”
Rolling Stone just published an article on the inexcusable rash of teen suicides that have ravaged the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota. I won’t rehash it here but it deserves a thorough read as it reveals what most of us already knew… stigmatizing the LGBT community creates an unbearable sense of defeat and feeling of utter…
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An Open Letter to Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield from Michael Wiseman
A friend shared the following open letter on Facebook today and, considering how Campfield’s idiocy annoyed and terrified me yesterday (yes, terrified… ignorance is terrifying) I felt compelled to share his letter which you can read on Mr. Wiseman’s (aptly named) Facebook page here. Thank you Michael Wiseman! I was taken aback earlier today after…
Tommy Karr 