Today, we have the Lovable Liberal, Trailer Park Refugee (who’s had a hell of week and is digging out of a storm) and go see Badger’s new redesign. It’s groovy.

Okay campers.

In honor of Weekly World News, in honor of all the good that happened during its print days, I present you this.

The PsychoZilla Tribune.

PZT for short.

Add us to your feeds and give us some linky love.

 Because BatBoy deserves a legacy.

And, I also dig crap like this.

What are you waiting for? Get on over there now.

There was a conversation over at Music City Bloggers yesterday about terminology regarding what kind of blogger a person is.

I am playing armchair pundit here, but I think this sort of goes back to Joe’s post from earlier this week.

So, in trying to determine what kind of blogger I am, I think I determined this:

Bigfoot/RuralMedia/Left-LeaningPolitics/Zombie/IncrediblyLargeVegetables

BIG BREATH:

/MiddleAgedCrazy/CivilRights/Movies/Television

/MainstreamMediaCritique/Abunchofjustwhatcatchesmyeye

***panting***

Yeah, Joe, that quirky lefty, is right. We are more than just one thing.

I tease because I want to.

And #223 why people start blogs, which of course, I approve of:

So, I’m going to do something about… I’m going to setup a blog that no one will read so that I can vent about my personal, vainglorious, narcissistic perceived injustices in the world.  If you don’t like it, go setup your own blog.

Stray Thoughts, but I think he’s got the right idea.

I have a feeling people will give it a chance, if they don’t feel that it’s a place to feel like they too can say their peace. I say that to say this: He’s angry, and by Golly-Help-Me-Santa. he has the right to say it. Found this over here at TN Blog Watch. 

This is what blogging, as I perceive it, is about. An online journal to say what one needs to say.

Just saying.

Life working for the man. Wyldebrat makes me laugh about the saga of Chair Hunter:

Chair Hunter again arrives early enough at work to have her pick of any chair in the building. It has also occurred to me that this episode is coming a bit late in the week but because of school Chair Hunter has been using No Back Chair because that seems to be the only chair that will stay at the desk. Well not today Chair Hunter has grabbed Wonderful Chair and now the Chair Hunter has found another use for No Back Chair. 

In a series. It’s pretty funny.

Check out her new blog.

Let us dance and then I must work on a Sunday, because that’s become my way of life lately. ***sigh***

It’s going to end, betcha your last dollar ’cause getting a bit sick of it.

Let’s roll:

• I don’t think they let people go to awards shows where there is a ton of drinking, you know, when they are in rehab. Lindsey Lohan, what the hell are you doing?
• Rudy, Hillary and 16 more months to go. Woot and another bone rattling sigh. Joe is right, you know.
• Do you have any idea how many local politicians I know that bought a red truck. Not red flannel shirts, but a red pick-up? Don’t ask.
• I am unable to Haiku because there are screwed up synapses in my brain. Or maybe I have no talent. I’ll go with door number two. But I love it when Atomic Tumor does it. Especially about his time with Pigpen.
• Hee and Haw.
• David’s back. And he’s wondering what the heck happened during his time away.
• For Scratchy Throat, this might help in what we were talking about to get you started.
• Courtesy of Katie Allison Granju, I spent a lot of time looking at these old ads. The hog ad was my favorite, in all it’s disturbing weirdness, too, KAG.
• Has Lebron James lived up to the hype? Yes, yes he has. He’s 22 damn years old. Groovy.
• It’s better to burn out, then to fade away. Although I hate this is the last season for Battlestar Galactica, I think it’s probably the best way to go.
• I watched this all day yesterday. And I liked it. Hex on BBC America is fun. But I agree with the Pop Culture Gadabout because the scheduling was sort of weird. I watched it anyway. Go Thelma!
• Telling mom about the new tattoo.
• Wow. Just go. I dug it. Seriously.

Going back to work because due to circumstances that no one really cares about, I’ve become a drone.

Fun Vampires live in my world. Wish me well.

My colleague, Freezertroll, who is the IT guy at our little cluster of newspapers, and I have started a blog together describing our quest to develop a new online site for our newspapers.

If you so choose, you can read the atrocities. Actually, we thought it might be interesting to show how both departments must work cohesively as we work together to come up with something fabulous. Ironically, although it is a work project, much of what we are doing is being required of us in our free time.

We are tired. Very, very tired.

Yeah, we get headaches and are currently seeking some sort of medication therapy to get us through this.  But we agree its worth our time.

Anyway, we wanted to show the importance and perspective between someone who works in the newsroom and the IT department, how our roles are different and how we honestly need each other to create this puppy.

Head on over the Tastes Geek, Less Filling. 

Big Stupid Tommy has tagged me on a food meme. Here’s the thing, I live in Hooterville, but I’ll give it a shot.

The rules:

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Joe (NE Tennessee, USA)
10K Monkeys (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
Big Stupid Tommy (Athens, Tennessee, USA)

And now me:

Newscoma (Weakley County, Tennessee, USA)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.

Five huh? Umm, okay. At my location, okay this might be a bit more difficult but I’ll give it a shot.

I’m going to have to stretch a bit further around Northwest Tennessee, so bear with, mmmkay.

1. Austin’s Pizza: The cheese is blended, the crust is tight. For a couple of bucks a slice, you can’t go wrong. Located right beside the University of Tennessee at Martin, Austin’s is the stereotype of a rural college town pizza place, and it backs it up because the pizza is really good. And the Cheese breadsticks might make you slap your momma. Oh, yeah, Austin is usually in the back cooking. It has that vibe about it.
2.  Damron’s Barbecue: Featured on the Today show, this humble little place serves as a butcher shop/restaurant and BBQ shack. I mean, you can have all you can eat steak on Friday’s for $9.99, the BBQ is usually tasty and it’s been around forever. I think it’s sort of charming.
3. Cadillac’s: Don’t get me wrong, Cadillac’s is a juke joint. But, if you want a pool room cheeseburger dripping with everything bad for you that tastes like heaven, Cadillac’s is your place of destiny. They’ll even grill the onions for you if you want it. And you can wash it down with a $1.50 beer during dinner. Let me repeat, these cheeseburgers will hypnotize you.
4. KN: Yes, you sit in your car. Yes, the same family has owned this little Drive-In for years. Yes, they have slawburgers, Cheese Dogs and a Ham and Cheese sandwich which is just awesome. And the Onion Rings are so good you just won’t be able to stand it because the tears you shed from their sheer wonderfulness will make you just throw yourself in the road. Honestly, they are that good.
5. Hearth: Best Lemon Ice Box pie ever made. Real good meat and three veggies which is the dietary staple for small town America. Seriously, the Lemon Ice Box Pie is awesome, and when they bring it to you, it’s almost frozen. Thus, the term of Lemon Ice Box Pie.

Just like Big Stupid Tommy, there are more but these were the places that come to my mind and I tried to keep it local. These restaurants are all scattered around UT Martin.

I think I’m supposed to tag other people, so I’m going with people I know that dig food. So I’ll go with Kerry Woo, John H., Finn,  Eric at Pound of Thoughts and for our point guard position will head across the state to Russ.

To Meme or not to Meme. The choice is, of course, yours.

In my sleepless revelry, I like to go to blogs I’ve never been to before. I also just like reading blogs. So there you go.

Tonight (or is it this morning, who knows at this point) I’ve gone to a few.

I think it goes without saying, and that’s only if you go over there, that Loser with Socks is absolutely the bomb. Go Vols.

Resonance has a thoughtful post about the “IMess” and some commentary about how this whole story will fall of the radar within just a matter of minutes.

I’m back on Lefty Blogs. Several folks asked why I wasn’t back on there when I made the move from Blogspot to Wordpress and I guess I was denied for awhile but it appears I’m back. I’m sort of surprised. I was on, I was off and now I’m back on. Yay.

As we had a chat over here yesterday about blogging, Forty + Two has a post about blogging etiquette and things to do to get your blog noticed. Found this over at Top Posts from Wordpress.

I can only tell those of you who don’t get the Jackson Sun newspaper (print version)that they are reporting daily what Mary Winkler is wearing in a special jumpbox. Squirrel Queen and I think this is sort of a waste of newspaper real estate.

This should be an interesting week.

Thanks to Miss Millie. Millie is Lowe Finney’s first cousin and is ten-years-old. Her mother, Lisa, has just won a baking competition, and last night, Millie brought cookies over that she made Herself (thank you very much) and saved me a few because I’ve been sick. Also, big thanks to Sa-Rah and Sabrina from the office, who sent me a huge bouquet of flowers. I was moved by both gestures and it reminded me how kind people genuinely are.

Now if I can just actually get some work done today without my body falling apart and the world will be a good place.

So now the steroids have kicked in and my eyes look like an iguanas, jumping all over the place and not able to go in one direction.

I’m literally itching out of my skin, and there was a skunk in the front yard a while back so Homer is going to wake up to some nastiness tomorrow. She had a bad day which I couldn’t help her fix, so I’m hoping that the skunk smell is gone. Thought I’d share another “charming” day in northwest Tennessee.

Skunks smell, if you didn’t know and it’s about as bad as that episode of The Partridge Family where a skunk got in the bus and everyone had to take a bath in tomato juice. Yeah, they don’t make shows like that anymore. Skunks smell bad when they get freaked out and I have no doubt the dogs going apeshit didn’t help the situation.

Sometimes I think when a person is sick, either temporary like I am or chronically, getting toward a cure taking this confound drugs wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the side effects of the medication which can be difficult. I have it easy though, this is fixable with a little rest (which I’m not getting) and some down time. It’s nearly two a.m. and I’ve been pondering some things and I’m itching. And I’m hot. But I’m not hacking up organs like I was and that is of the good.

So my travels this evening:

• Why is wrestling on the Sci Fi channel? I don’t get it. I realize that there is some tangible possibility that Vince McMahon is from outer space but we are still waiting for scientific proof.
• I found this blog of an intern in the 105th General Assembly here in the state. His name is Eric Freeland Fox. He hasn’t updated in a couple of weeks, but I still found it interesting.
• In looking at blogs I’ve never read before on the Tag Surfer and I found this one called QueensMabsmuse and I liked her quote of the day which I recommend to everyone.
• Interesting first post at Ogden Blogden, that I also found on Tag Surfer on why he started his blog which appears he just started yesterday or today.
• Boing Boing has the scoop on the BBC documentary on Westboro Baptist Church. I watched the Google video up and I have a seen a family suffer at WBC’s hands. I suggest people become educated on what the Phelps family is trying to do, because having seen it up close, it truly sickens me.
• Some people don’t like snakes. I don’t like spiders. It’s phobia level and cave crickets are also on the list. So I found this over at Boing Boing too and I’m completely and totally freaked out. I’d rather have another shot of these nasty steroids zooming through my body than deal with spiders. This, to me, is terrifying. I’ll hold and chill out with a snake, but no spiders for me.
• Short and Fat… There is no one like him.
• Modern Fabulosity is new to me, and by golly I like it.
• Shakespeare’s Sister has moved and changed their name. The new address is here at Shakesville.

So here are my midnight ramblings around the blogosphere. I’m still itching. The skunky smell seems to have lightened up. Wonder if I need to get the tomato juice out. I’ll try to avoid hydrochodone blogging tomorrow.

Or maybe not.

The title of this post is an Irish Proverb.