Nina Katchadourian

Nina Katchadourian has put together the "Sorted Books Project" with lots of pictures.

An interesting place to linger and read book spines...

Also look around in her other portfolios, great concepts, wonderful results.

Sunday Shopping

Long Cool Drink Pin

A little tongue in cheek, or rather in the toilet, for your Sunday, from this wonderful site. Peace.

Shop to Benefit The Animal Rescue Site

and while you're there...

Click on the button on the main page to help provide shelter food!

Amazing things: May 2007

Click on the link for an incredible time...Amazing things: May 2007

Amazing? Yes! I've gotten pieces of this blogsite in email forwards.

What a great site, and what wonderful photographs. This is where I've spent the afternoon, looking at the archives.

Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Yesterday, at Emory University's Woodruff Library in Atlanta, a collection of letters written to Elizabeth Hester by Flannery O'Connor, were unsealed and made available to the public.

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From the Atlanta Journal Constitution article by Jeffry Scott,

"... a man who appears frequently and unflatteringly in the correspondence of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, showed up to take his medicine.

" "I was young then, in my 20s," said William Sessions, "and it's something to see myself written up by a master. Marvelous phrasing — with a stiletto." "

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From Wikipedia...
"An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and -- it is regularly said -- grotesque characters. However, she remarked "anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic" (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 40). Her texts often take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race looms in the background. One of her trademarks is unsubtle foreshadowing, giving a reader an idea of what will happen far before it happens. Finally, she brands each work with a disturbing and ironic conclusion."

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Milledgeville isn't too far from here, only a couple of counties away, and I'm familiar with her homeplace in Baldwin County. There is a website for the The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation, Inc., with information about the farm.

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My favorite short story and a good story to read just to get a feel for O'Connor's style, is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."

NPR : Humorist Sends Dispatches from "Up" South

I love Southern Writers, and here's one of my favorites...if you like to listen there's also a link on this page:

NPR : Humorist Sends Dispatches from "Up" South

A friend and I were talking this morning, and we agreed that this had been a glorious season for Southern Books. I'm not talking bodice rippers, or swooning dixie belles...I'm talking about killing and sex with cousins, rabid dogs and loose morals, shit on the shingle and thick grits with redeye gravy and fresh possum, and and all things disfunctional in ways that can only be Southern.

I've got a couple of days coming up, that I can sit, and write, and so I shall. And I will write of a few things Disfunctional, in ways that only a Southern Woman can.

The Bra Purse

The Bra Purse

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Craftbits sends out a newletter occassionally, and the latest one featured crafts from recycled stuff.

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I liked this one.

Here is the link for a project using a recycled Bra...a gentle reminder to "check ourselves!"

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I'd opt for needle and thread for the beads and lace additions instead of hot glue, but still this could be a very cool purse.

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Yes, Rhiannon, I'll make one for you!

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I'm still feeling like a nut. Obviously!

Sometimes I feel like a nut

Woodpecker Gourmet Food

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I got a message from Smutman the other day, apologizing for not getting by more often, but I can always get a daily jolly of sorts from the emailed jokes he sends around.

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But, getting right down to it, yes, I'm a nut, I suffer from the same sort of blues he gets (even though, right now, he's got some sadnesses he can name). I can't help it, drugs dull it, but don't completely stop it, I've had folks tell me that exercise will fix it (it doesn't when it's this bad), that I need to have a more cheerful point of view (hey, my buds think I'm plenty cheerful), and that I just need to buck up, and be happy. Bullshit. I dont' know what it is, why it is, or why I feel this way. I just do.

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Anyway. If you'll bear with me, I do enjoy coming around and reading, though, I'm bad about not leaving comments like I should, and I'm trying to come back around. Hey, when I'm happy, I'm one of the happiest people you'll ever know, when I'm down, I'm so down, well, you don't wanna come down here. I do know lots of my fellow bloggers here have the same problem, and I appreciate it when I am able to see I'm not the only one.

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Anyway...I am going to try to avoid peckers of all sorts right now, including the wooden types...if I feed them, maybe they'll go away.

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P.S. I will be back...what goes down, usually comes back up. Okay, that sounds a little nasty, but you guys know what I mean.