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Lookin' for trashologists for blogroll 2007-03-03 03:49:00 You like trash? Me too. So send me an e-mail an' git yourself on the Trashologist blogroll. A link back to my Tallahassee.com Web page would be most appreciated.I ain't gonna be picky about who gits on the blogroll, but even Miss Trashahassee has to set some standards.You can't be a Trashologist (at least not here, anyways) if yore blog would git an "R" rating at the picture show. No nekkids! No cussin, no takin' the Lord's name in vain, an' no violence. Politics is OK ... Republican, Democrat, Right, Left, Middle. Family an' pet content is encouraged. Fashion, nostalgia, eBay, stupid stuff, more stupid stuff, random stuff, wacky stuff. But anything that focuses on being disrespectful to our service men and women is not something I'm looking for here. No nekkids!Jus' remember that a name on the Trashologist blogroll don't necessarily mean that Miss Trashahassee agrees with yore trash talk or beliefs.And each time you visit here, be sure to click the link to go to the updated
Would he wear these in a different color? 2007-02-27 06:42:00 Thirty years ago, when Deddy and Momma was payin' for our wardrobes, my sisters and I ain't had much say fashion-wise about what we wore.We were to dress decently. That meant "not like everbodder else." Deddy wouldn't let us get platform shoes or painter's pants because "working girls" wore them kinds of clothes, and we sho'nuff weren't leavin' home lookin' like streetwalkers.My friend had a pair of platform leather shoes just like the ones pictured above, except hers was a lighter tan color.Real bad is how much I wanted a pair of them shoes. I was gonna get 'em, too.Feelin' brave and totin' a red brick in my blue-jean purse, I headed to the Tallahassee Mall, where the glass display window at the entrance to Butler's Shoes showed off a pair in my size. I aimed directly at the chosen platform shoes but as soon as the brick left my hand and the glass shattered everwheres ...Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com Read more:different
FCAT 'Zing!' is a no-brainer 2007-02-20 03:34:00 A "Zing!" in today's Democrat sho'nuff deserves some special consideration by state education officials: If we want to know how well students are learning, give the FCAT on an unannounced, random date, allow no extra preparation, and the evidence will speak for itself.Smart Zinger. Wish I'da thought of that one, 'cause I believe that the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test ought to be used for gathering data only, not determinin' who ...Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com
Bag a buck anytime and stay out of jail. 2007-02-16 07:09:00 Them boys who found themselves in jail Wednesday after they was caught huntin' deers illegally in Millstone Plantation just gotta be a few points short of a perfect rack.Don't they know that nobody ain't got to do that illegal stuff no more to bag a trophy buck? Guns and spotlights ain't needed, neither. And anybody can do it.Click here to read more at our new home on Tallahassee.com!
Johnny Cash on partisan politics (repost) 2007-02-11 21:29:00 This song was on Johnny
's 1966 album titled Everybody Loves a Nut. Us youngins would sing while Deddy accompanied on the guitar, but none of us knew it was a heavy political ditty or what the lyrics meant back then. 'Cept for Deddy and Momma, of course.To us kids, a person who was "on the right" was "physically on the right side," and the same went for anyone who was "on the left." And the song was just a funny song. Politics ain't had nothin' to do with it.Is left bad? Is right good? Is right bad? Is left good? What about east and west?I ain't never been able to get my shoes on the correct foot the first time. But I be digressin'.Johnny's song makes a lot more sense now that I'm all growed up. I reckon. Read more:politics
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Waffles 2007-02-09 05:06:00 Reposting this here post!!I done moved to a new trailer court!Gonna reuse some of the old stuff in a new way at Tallahassee.com. But there still gon' be some stuff here that you may or may not see on the new site.Please click here and update yore links, if you wants to. Or just add a new link, if you be so inclined.Hug hug, kiss kiss! Read more:Waffles
Deer brains ain't Cairo Beauties. 2007-02-01 23:53:00 Deddy loved to hunt deers over off the truck route, down Tower Road by the power lines, long before them places was in town. Back then, just seein' a deer was a big deal. These days you lucky if you can ride out Highway 12 and not end up with one as a hood ornament.One chilly afternoon Deddy and my older brother came home after bagging two bucks in one day, which was unheard of. Naturally all the cuzzins and neighbor young'uns hadda come runnin' up to take a look at them dead stags hangin off the tailgate of the pickup. Cuzzin J.D., who is three days younger than me, was the first one there.Deddy was ready to git down to business. "You gals go play somewhere else," he said, "'cause we're fixin' to skin these here deer, and it ain't gonna be perty."We ain't went nowhere. How gross could skinnin' a deer be? If the boys could watch, so could us gals.And so the buck-prep began. When Deddy commenced to rippin' across the first buck's forehead with a crosscut saw, my two sisters l Read more:Cairo
Competition for Harry Connick Jr., Spyro Gyra 2007-01-06 06:19:00 Hey. You love HarryConnick
Jr.? Spyro
Gyra? Maroon 5? Grandpa Jones?Then you is the one armadillo what made it across Highway 319 unsquashed today, 'cause you in for a real special treat.Over in Switzerland they ain't sure what "genre" means so they mixes it all together and comes up with what they calls "The Flying Geetar Circus."Click here to visit The Flying Geetar Circus an' hear the amazing "Jazz or Country." Lissen all the way thru, now. That feller gots some mad, sweet guitar skills that my vokabulary ain't fancy enuff to describe.And the vocals? Well, that's where yore love for ol' Grandpa Jones comes in. Read more:Harry Connick
We gittin' a new governor in Florida tomorrow but why does he hafta be sweared at? 2007-01-01 23:55:00 Tomorrow's a big day in my hometown, Tallahassee, an' I jus' can't wait.When I wuz a little gal an' seen Gov. Rubin Askew ridin' in his inogulation parade on North Monroe Street, it wuz then I knowed I'd be at every intoxication/swearin' ceremony for every single Florida
governor since. I knowed in my heart I would keep that promise to myself, I jus' knew it.I ain't never got to no swearin' ceremonies after that 'cept to Jeb's second one, but that was only 'cause I parked my trailer on the front lawn of the Old Capitol, as you can see in the picture, above. The Capitol Policeses made me haul it off a few weeks later when some live pink flamingos started flyin' in and stinkin' up the place real bad.Know what really got me mad about the whole flamingo/trailer mess, though? I dragged my home right outta there when they asked me to. A few very short months later I went back to git my pink chickins and Hercules the three-legged dog, but them police boys told me they done co Read more:tomorrow
Trash diggin' for thrift-store rejects. 2006-12-21 03:39:00 Them who been around me knows I likes to take photographs of things I sees and things I imagines I sees whenever I gits a notion. Anybodder close to me can tell you I love to dig in me some trash, too. You fancy peoples call it dumpster divin'.I was downtown yonder to the thrift
store, an' they done throwed some stuff out the back door that they thought they couldn't sell. The lady there, she told me I was free to get any of the stuffs they tossed out, if I wanted.An old white metal can made out of the same stuff like the bowl Granny used to mix up biscuits in was amongst the reject stuffs. This here can had a nozzle thangy on it, and a rolled-up hose wuz stuck inside. The label said "hospital irrigator," so I figured you attached the hose, filled the can with water an' carried it around the hospital floor an' watered the plants.To me, the most important thang about that can wuz this here: I could see right away that it was antique, or at least vintage -- whatever vintage means -- Read more:Trash
In the real world, double-dippin' ain't nothin'. 2006-12-09 02:33:00 Somebodder wuz complainin' the other day 'bout how they was traumatized when people wuz double
-dippin' in the salsa at the Mexican restaurant.I just can't understand how people gits all worked up 'bout somethin' so petty. That there double dippin' is small stuff in the big scheme of things. Peoples whole lives has been seriously altered by stuffs worser than saliva-tainted tortilla chips, I'm here to tell you.One time, afore I met my ol' man in the parkin' lot of the armory 20 years ago an' felled in love at first sight, I thawt I done snagged me this rich boy to marry. I carried him home for supper. Momma brawght out the good paper plates -- Chinet even -- and real Solo-brand plastic cups for ice tea, not them cheap Family Dollar brand.Well, somebodder fergot to write they name on they cup with the Sharpie pen Momma put on the table, an' my Prince Charmin' accidently picked up my brother-in-law Larry's cup an' took a big ol' long drink.Brother-in-law Larry loves a chaw
Why we have so much 'free' time 2007-03-10 21:06:00 The ol' man had some business to take care of in the Capitol when the Legislature opened this past Tuesday, so I tagged along to make sure he ain't started no riots or nothin'.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com.
Who says we ain't got no shopping here?! 2007-03-19 03:31:00 An anonymous commenter on Stacey's March 16 blog post had a big beef. Well, actually, it weren't just a beef, it was a whole dang cow.Mr. or Ms. Commenter said this:What is up with the shopping? The shopping is terrible around here. The mallsare a joke. I am forced to shop on the internet. Now, I just wonder if that commenter lives in Tallahassee or Two Egg? 'Cause if they's in Two Egg, they got a beef. And some eggs. But Tallahassee? We got it all and then some. Wal-Mart here, Wal-Mart there. Two malls. Pharmacies on every corner. Grocery stores out the ears. Thrift shops for every charity. Car dealers. Home improvement centers. Boutiques for this, boutiques for that. Book stores. People selling junk on the corner. People selling theyselves on the corner. People selling stolen junk on the corner. ... Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com...
Would you like some Dumfries with that? 2007-03-26 06:46:00 The Ol' Man an me an' a young'un got in the truck and went ridin' the other day. Matter a'fact, we still ridin' around somewheres.On a highway in Virginia we drove by a house where we seen this couple playin' on their yard tractor. They was happy to let me take a photo after I jumped outta the truck -- right off the road -- an' went runnin' up on their lawn with my camera.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com
Once again, no parade for Miss Springtime Trashahassee 2007-03-31 03:44:00 Well confound it, here it is Springtime
Tallahassee, and once again I ain't gonna be ridin' in no antique vehicle in the big parade, grinnin' and wavin' at all my fans.Every year since 1975 I been sendin' the parade peoples this here picture of the old Chevy an' my baby sister (she's bigger now but just as perty) for approval to have it in the parade with all of the other antique automobiles. Every year my entry comes back to me by the U.S. Postal Service marked "RETURN TO SENDER, ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN."Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com
Easter traditions 2007-04-07 06:44:00 Momma always dressed me an' one of my younger sisters like twins at Easter
. Lil' sister is only 13 months younger and we were pretty much the same size once she reached toddlerhood, so her dress and mine were usually cut from the same pattern an' fabric.Our other little sister always got an Easter dress made from the leftover material from Momma's dress.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com Read more:traditions
Gov. Charlie Crist is the ideal candidate to update 1949 book 2007-04-11 03:43:00 My name ain't Miss Trashahassee for nothin'.I love me some thrift-store shoppin' and have even been known to go through a trash can or two if the Treasure-o-Meter thingy starts to dingin' in my head.Yesterday I was browsin' through some junk books at a local thrift store an' found a signed copy of How to Win in Politics by Fuller Warren, Florida's governor from 1949 to 1953.Gov. Warren served one term an' didn't win a bid for re-election to the office in 1956, but I reckon the political experience he gained before movin' into the Governor's Mansion -- he served in the Florida Legislature an' on the Jacksonville City Council -- made him plenty of a winner to know enough to write a 205-page book on the subject.While in office, Gov. Warren had some laws enacted to get cows and pigs off of our roadways.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com Read more:Charlie
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Godby Cougar wishes Leon Lions a happy Grand Reunion 2007-04-14 23:20:00 Them Grand
Reunion planners over at Leon High School got it right when they invited everybody in town to the big shindig markin' their 100th year.That's because anybody with family roots in Tallahassee has a connection to the city's oldest school.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com Read more:Cougar
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Miss T's Grammar Skool Lesson 1 2007-04-18 06:29:00 Welcome to Miss T's Grammar
Skool.Lesson 1 is about two commonly misused words:lead and ledLead: as a verb, "lead" is the present tense. As a noun, it is a metal or that black stuff in pencilsLed: (verb) past tense of leadI seen somebody done used these here words the wrong way the other day, and dad-gone it, it effected me real bad. I got choked on a chaw of chewin' tobacco before I could find a wastebasket to spit in an' ended up havin' to use the trash can in the office next door.Click here to read more at Tallahassee.com
Joe Hill's 1961 Ugly Man Contest photo an inspiration to future pop royalty? 2007-04-26 06:00:00 The Florida Memory Project, administered by the Florida Department of State, is sho'nuff awesome.The other day I was there searchin' for Tallahassee photographs, and man they had plenty, at least a zillion-forty. One of 'em was a shocker: 1961 Ugly Man Contest
participant Joe Hill by photographer Harvey Slade.Now, at first I thought it was a joke an' that some state employee might've put it online jus' for snicks an' giggles. But the credits tells me it ain't no fake. Click here an' see for yourself..By the way, that's Joe Hill on the left.Y'all reckon Joe had a crystal ball back in 1961? A magic mirror? He couldn't have fashioned his look from a vision of the future "Man in the Mirror," could he? Dang. I need me a beer.WANT TO POST A COMMENT? PLEASE CLICK HERE AND POST IT AT TALLAHASSEE.COM. THANKS! Read more:royalty
J.M. Fields: Tallahassee's original supercenter 2007-04-25 02:45:00 Ever wonder how we managed before ol' Sam built a Super Wal-Mart on every side of town, giving us the luxury of gettin' our groceries, pantywears an' fishin' tackle all at the same time in just one stop?If you can, go back to the 1960s and 1970s -- to the corner of North Monroe and Tharpe -- and recall Tallahassee's original "supercenter": J.M. Fields
. If you're too young or didn't live here back then, you can cheat an' use the photograph.Part of a chain, J.M. Fields had most everything in its department store, and connected to it was the grocery store where the house brands were "Food Fair" an' "Pantry Pride." A service station/tire department was located way down on the edge of the parking lot. Can't get more "supercenter" than that.What a cool store J.M. Fields was. They had balloons an' a snack bar with those clear fountain-drink thingies where the colorful punch continually pumps up to the top an' goes back down the side of the container. Tallahassee's best popcorn wa
Dry cleaners court case worth $67 million? Former counter clerk says ain't no way 2007-05-03 05:23:00 Former
dry-cleaning counter clerks is smart, an' they know when somethin' stinks.My clerkin' days were at one of Tallahassee's long-gone Big B Cleaners locations, an' I speak from experience. I sho'nuff have some heavy-duty sympathy for the owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington, D.C.If you don't know the details, well, a judge is sueing Jin and Soo Chung an' their young'un for -- get this! -- $67 million
. Why? 'Cause they lost His Honor's precious britches after he dropped 'em off and caused him scores of pain and sufferin'. It gets crazier than just that, so if you ain't heard about it, click here to read the story.I worked at the cleaners
during my last two years of high school. The afternoon hours were perfect for a high-school student, and the Saturday hours were flexible if I wanted time off to go to the beach. The job was fun, too, an' I 'specially enjoyed gettin' to know some of the regular customers.We had some interestin' customers, sho'nuff, but nobody n
The New Legend of Lake Jackson 2007-05-12 22:29:00 In her book Tallahassee of Yesterday, published in 1924, Sallie E. Blake included a local newspaper’s version of a Muscogee legend describing the formation of Lake Jackson
.The legend says the lake was created when a doeskin fell from the sky and covered a young brave and his betrothed. A beautiful fountain emerged from where the couple had stood and flowed until the valley was filled, and it’s said that when the conditions are right, you can see the “…Indian brave and his fair bride fleeing across the clear water.”I’m a Tallahassee native, and I remember Lake Jackson in its glory days, when it was possible for something to “flee across the clear water."My siblings and I skipped many a stone across the clear water.We paddled Dad’s bass boat across the clear water.We swam in the clear water.But that was when the lake had water.This past Tuesday the Leon County Commission approved a proposal to exempt some areas around Lake Jackson from certain restrictions on development. Read more:Legend
FCAT Haiku 2007-05-25 14:26:00 FCAT scores are flawedHuman error blamed for dropI need me a beerPOST A COMMENT AT TALLAHASSEE.COM! Read more:Haiku
'Here we mark the price of freedom' 2007-05-28 09:42:00 The Ol' Man, a young'un and I visited the National World War II Monument in Washington, D.C., earlier this year.I've done some studying on service flags, better known as "Blue Star Banners," and so the monument's Freedom Wall and its field of gold stars was particularly interesting to me.For those who aren't familiar with Blue Star Banners, here's a little background info:Blue Star Banners were created during World War I but weren't widely displayed until World War II. Military families display them as symbols of family hope, pride and support for their service members. Each blue star on a banner represents one service member. If a service member dies while serving, a gold star replaces the blue star, as shown on the banner in the lower left corner of the photograph, above.As I snapped this photograph of the Freedom Wall, which contains 4,000 gold stars to honor the over 400,000 Americans who died during World War II, I briefly thought of those who also sacrified their lives in Read more:price
Crist brothers discuss the fairer sex in vintage (1952) paperback novel 2007-06-02 00:11:00 Yep, y'all, I reckon I got me an OK deal at the thrift store today.I ended up squandering almost half of my Florida Lottery scratch-off winnings for this week on used books, confound it.But I walked out of that shop with some fantastic titles in a plastic Winn-Dixie bag for a grand total of 39 cents, starting with The Florida Handbook 1991-1992 by Allen Morris, originally valued at $39.95, and a first edition of the late Shel Silverstein's very first book for young'uns, Lafcadio: the Lion Who Shot Back.Now, I've got to tell y'all, Lafcadio doesn't look like it's even close to the same condition it was in when it first hit the shelves in 1963, and its dust jacket is long gone, but so what? Shel Silverstein wrote it, the same feller who wrote "A Boy Named Sue" and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone." That alone makes my tattered copy easily worth 10 times -- maybe 15 times -- what I paid for it, even with the turquoise rubber-stamped sow with "Nana T." handwritten in Magic Marker on Read more:Crist
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'Got Beer?' 2007-06-14 19:44:00 Monday's post on Doug Blackburn's "Got Beer?" blog sent me back to the Seventies, a time when Miss Trashahassee had not a care in the world.In the beginning of that decade, before the Bee Gees recorded their first disco hit, I was often a shoeless little gal, running around the trailer park with my siblings, cousins and friends -- all barefoot, too -- doing what young'uns did before video games, organized sports or studying for the FCAT became the center of every Florida child's universe.Oh man, we loved swinging on the tire swing that Dad hung from a branch in the big oak tree, screaming our version of Mouth and MacNeal's "How Do You Do" until each kid's turn was over. We rode our bikes until the tires were flat. Monkeys couldn't climb trees better.Nobody could call us wimps, either. Summertime rain rarely kept us inside unless it was a thunderstorm, and then it was Momma or Dad who made us stay indoors.The games couldn't be beat: Freeze Tag, Swinging Statues, Red Light/Green
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