Today’s serenity courtesy of Seven Islands State Park. (sound on for a gurgling French Broad River)

Trump's white whale. It's pathological. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

Wait for the surprise. (sound on)

I headed out of my flat this morning to receive a loaf of sourdough bread from a kind friend. I was intercepted by a reporter from WATE TV Knoxville news who promptly interviewed me in a parking lot that was underwater last night. Finally, I appeared on their 6:00 news. In an old Lucero t-shirt.

North Knoxville, TN. July 12. Flooding.

I was a watcher of the Saturday morning cartoon, as well. RIP Gage.

I recommend it. Good for people with mobility issues, too.

Calm. Seven Islands Birding Park.

From today's NY Daily News.

Advance Australia Fair in a Tennessee Biergarten. #socceroos

Published a memoir last year, too.

I was transfixed by the Some Girls cover as a kid. So I occasionally show my age by proudly wearing the t-shirt. #AT40

As I’m off to watch Australia play Paraguay at a German biergarten in Tennessee, here’s a photo I snapped today of one of the community cats I feed. Prost! #AT40

Don’t know why this clip of ‘Make Art Not Friends’ from March 2020 (just before the world ended) popped up on my phone today but I’ll take it as a sign that I should share some Sturgill Simpson this morning.

The antidote to UFC. #brunson #knicks

Finals MVP Jalen Brunson shoots over a shrinking Wemby in game 5 Saturday night. The night the Knicks sent the Spurs packing. LGK

Love the mention of Lily in this salient gift article.

OG is my guru. #LGK #Knicks

Hope. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

Doubt them at your peril. #brunson #kat #knicks

Racist filth in Tennessee turning back the clock with impunity. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

The Sophisticados have also announced they will not be performing at Freedom 250. They ask for privacy at this solemn time. #AT40

"... uncompromising in his role." Not cowardly. Not criminally negligent. Not unprecedentedly sycophantic to a president who proudly admits to putting loyalty above the law. UNCOMPROMISING IN HIS ROLE. It's getting more and more difficult to justify a NYT subscription for the games.

Working through my Aussie stash.

Here are the 11 former Knox County Sheriff’s Office employees indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit theft, theft of property over $250,000 and theft of services over $60,000. Notice any similarities?

Even the conservative Knox News Sentinel acknowledges the fury after Tennessee's gleeful restoration of Jim Crow.

The first time I heard a kookaburra in Australia in 2004 I thought, “I didn’t know monkeys lived in the trees of Western Sydney.” This video - taken in a parking lot during a visit in 2024 - captures the call of my favourite Aussie bird.

Holy fuck … this is priceless.

"The convicted felon president is using the formally independent DOJ to rewrite his history of felonious behavior." Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Came across this guy while feeding my neighborhood’s TNR cats. Alive, but not looking good.