look i planned a wedding, y'all!

"kiss me thru the phone"

oh young aj (map of arkansas written across yr face). please don't go and suffer on our account. we love you, and we really love how you twice refuse to blame joe g. for yr poor performance when pressed. what a yankee.

OUR HERO

Hey Pretty

Best (and Worst) Thing (Going for Monday)

Memphis, Tenn-a-key was the featured destination on last night's episode of Man v. Food, that show on the Travel Channel about a winsome, roadtripping bulimic dude. They stopped at Gus's (saintly, genius, nothing-compares fried chicken), The Rendezvous (famous and mediocre BBQ), The Arcade (old and quaint spot with awful food, service and prices), and The Kooky Canuck (originally, the Big Foot Lodge), the scene of his big binge, the central premise. This restaurant specializes in a cartoonish 7 lbs. "contest" burger, cookies the circumference and depth of skillets, and 34 oz. cocktails (for $9.99!!). It is foul and dangerous and terrible, a den of shame with a totally inexplicable Pacific Northwest theme. And I have become OBSESSED with their website. Pages and pages of snaps. The most miserable people and that damn burger.

Folk Art for Thanksgiving (Sweet Lucy)

Stranded in Canton (Level Third): Black Oak "Blocked Memory" Arkansas

I recovered a memory (with a little help from Pillow). Evidently, last year, a few days post Thanksgiving, I saw Jim Dandy (pictured center) and Black Oak Arkansas (note the hilariously long list of former band-members) open for friends of ours at cavernous college dive, Newby's. This photograph was taken a few short months before that night; so, I think it is an accurate description of his appearance in November, 2007. I will also attach a video, because the sound of him, along with the unseemly vest and pants, account for the memory loss I experienced thereafter. This is a special instance of "Stranded in Canton," a bridge between the past and present, a document of the constant, forgettable madness that goes on down Memphis way . . .