@ShowerheadSerenade: When I was probably four or five I loved to run around singing "Angel in a Centerfold." My blood runs cold indeed.

My favorite bead-related piece of functional art. I so wish this was for sale. I can imagine the little *click* of each falling bead.

For anyone contemplating registering for their first marathon or half, I'd like the suggest the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincy. Every time I go I'm impressed by the course and all the support from the community. Plus, although a popular race it's not huge, and with a mascot like the Flying Pig no one is taking anything…

I wish I could afford a good farm raised or heritage breed turkey, but I just can't. So I brine, not to add moisture, but to replace the flavors you just don't get in a corn fed bird. My brine recipe uses spruce, sassafras, juniper berries, even acorns and other wild edibles to help make the bird taste more like wild…

@Chris Braak: Not from Kentucky are you. Voter fraud and vote buying are quite common in our more rural counties. Not that registration rules do much to prevent it.

My pet peeve about hot glue is the way it is only hot enough to burn your fingers (say when setting or clamping a piece) is when you've got a buildup of dried on glue on your finger tips. So long as your fingers are clean, the temp is not quite hot enough to burn .(at least the low temp stuff. I avoid the high temp…

@kentuckienne: I think we may need to arrange a post-election meetup for Kentucky Jezebel readers. I for one am gonna need a barrelful of bourbon on Nov 3rd.

@quagmire: Didn't watch the show, so I can't really disagree with you. But, at my public high school in Ohio (yes, with absolutely insane show choir ) the drama club was the first high school to produce Galati's adaption of Grapes of Wrath. Complete with creepy final scene. And that was more than 10 years ago. …

The news report this evening on the University of Kentucky's NPR station said that Profitt was until today not just any random campaign volunteer, but actually the head of the campaign organization in nearby Bourbon County.

Update: According to the Lex. Herald Leader's website, this person wasn't just a random supporter outside the debate site, but actually was a volunteer for the Rand Paul campaign. Although the article doesn't say it or give names, the fact that the campaign is able to "cut ties with a volunteer" suggests that they…

@Flackette Goes Retro: Ironically, the older urban core neighborhoods surrounding the area where this happened are probably some of the most hardcore democratic/liberal leaning places in the whole state.

Maybe just because its autumn. Or maybe its this huge storm coming our way, but I'm beginning to worry. This sense of anomie has been growing in our country for decades. Now it seems that politicians (and their backers) are intentionally twisting this disaffection into blind rage and violence. I'm beginning to…

@Wit is periodically disensouled: Don't forget Egypt, NY. Burg outside of Rochester. And somewhat sadly, I think I have been to all of those places.

@Ofmyself: If you figure this out, or even find others who are trying, let me know. I think this really is the crux of our problem as a society. We no longer train thinkers. I don't know of anyone who has taken classes in rhetoric or logic. Those are just the skills we need to combat these charlatans. Instead our…

@HRH Your Cuntness aka likepenguins: Actually, my wife and I are considering this. We have one child, I'd like more,but she isn't to keen on being pregnant again, nor is it a good timing for her career. We have seriously been considering adopting or even fostering (despite all the horror stories we hear about both…

The old console TV and radio cabinets were often very well made pieces of fine furniture, meant to last for years and be the focal point of the room. You can find them in just about every style from 1930s mahogany with lots of scroll work and intricate veneer cuts to very contemporary, clean designs. How different…

@NtotheItotheCKY: Sorry, living in Kentucky you get hypersensitive to all sorts of people who think bringing back things like DDT and alar are great ideas...and while we're at it let's put the women back in the kitchen and take back the gubbamint.

@NtotheItotheCKY: Most US bed bug infestations are nearly 100% DDT resistant. In fact the first DDT resistant bedbugs were found in the US in the 1940s, and by the time it was banned in 1972 DDT was ineffective or close to it for killing bedbugs and many other insects. Of course bugs that survive DDT only make the…

@KalamataInterrobang: one for Lexington. I believe there are others.

@Monty: flint and steel is pretty easy to master. Using a bow and spindle is annoying. My pride will be wounded for months if on a camping trip I require anything beyond two matches.