Decided to be a responsible citizen and handle my tax return early this year. That was regrettable. Ignorance, as it turned out, was comparatively blissful.
Also, there is no worse place to find yourself, in the first empty minutes after waving goodbye to a wad of money, than Rossville Boulevard. I found myself staring at the Check into Cash and title pawn shops, realizing that there is an increasingly fine line separating me from that level of degredation.
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Speaking of which, if you're not reading the Pulse Blog, you should be: Bill has some striking opinions on the Terry Schiavo case, while I offer some nearly unintelligible twaddle about Updike and Kierkegaard.
...and this is available on May 10. I just thought you should all be aware.
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From here on, I'll be gravitating more toward the Pulse Blog to post thoughts on media, Chattanooga news, movies and music. My personal life, random observations, church issues, bitterness and self-loathing will remain here. These boundaries are fluid; I expect to start developing multiple personalities by the weekend.
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New Pulse articles are up. Read them; you'll feel good. Well, you'll feel good maybe, but I'll feel better. Clean and calm.
The Pulse Blog -- Chattanooga's Daily Alternative to, you know, whatever else you were wasting your time reading when you should have been working -- is up and running. Tonight we're kicking off our domination of an extremely obscure corner of the Internet by sending me out to liveblog the Chattanooga election results. I'll be hopping between the three mayor mayoral candidates' "victory" parties, at least one of which will become morose and drunken by 9 p.m. (I'm betting on Dan Johnson's.) It should be a fun experiment -- and a good introduction to the kind of coverage, analysis and insight we're developing for the Pulse Blog. Or something.