friends Memphis Midtown music project 365 (2009)

Day 262: I Want to Be Alicja Trout When I Grow Up

I took the day off for Cooper-Young Festival so that I could help Planned Parenthood sign people up for e-mail alerts regarding state legislative action on reproductive rights. Lord almighty, I am terrible at working crowds. By some miracle, I signed up seven people. I got rejected by lots more than that. But still. I’m glad I did it. There are a lot of scary things coming down the pike soon, and Tennesseans who value…

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friends project 365 (2009)

Day 248: The Morrisons*

Aren’t they the cutest dang thing you ever did see? You can’t even tell from their expressions that earlier that day they had endured the intensely annoying sound of gravel crunching underneath the soles of the shoes of five of their not very punctual friends as they lumbered their way into the wedding congregation almost but not quite late while the bridal procession sashayed its way down the aisle. You Protestants with your short and…

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