You are currently browsing the monthly archive for January 2007.
Here are some photos of the grilled, mostly nude, woman. Photos taken by a coworker/friend: Niki Conolly
Well, walked outside and there was one police officer in his car waiting for the event to start. People were starting to mill around in anticipation of a nude woman right here on 4th and Church, downtown Nashville!
A minute before noon, 3 officers pulled up on their scooters, and I noticed a PETA guy with the woman who would be grilled. She was wearing a black trenchcoat with what appeared to be nothing on underneath. Her skin was painted red and black as if she were charred meat.
Larger crowds started to gather and mill around. Another guy soon appeared with the “grill”, a wheeled cart on which she would lay, surrounded by cardboard flames. The crowd suddenly seemed to swell with people, as she took off her socks and began to disrobe. I was at a vantage point behind her and saw as she took off her coat that she was wearing a thong.
As she lay on the “grill”, it appeared she had pasties on, probably to avoid immediate arrest for indecent exposure, so they had more time to make their point. She lay down and one of the guys with her began spray painting her more, giving her more resemblance to charred meat. She lay there with her eyes closed as one of the Tennessean’s photographers (John Partipilo) began taking photos and as a video journalist with one of the stations here was filming.
I just went back down there and she was gone. They were still passing out flyers, so I took one to see what it was. Your basic PETA flyer: cute pigs on front, text on back describing the cruel ways food animals are treated, etc.
Photos are to come…..hopefully today but maybe more likely tomorrow
P.S.: I never did see them slather her in BBQ sauce 
According to Tennessean.com, a mere few hundred feet from where I am there will be a noon protest. Apparently some PETA folks will be protesting the eating of meat by “charring and cooking” a nude protestor on some sort of grill and slathering him or her with BBQ sauce.
I plan on being there to see what happens and report back here
Kevin Miller on 99.7 WTN this morning was discussing some study that says women are safer drivers than men. He didn’t agree with it at all.
Personally I think most drivers are bad or unsafe drivers regardless of gender. But I do think men have a personality trait that could make them more unsafe than women. Men, especially here in the South, seem to have this macho attitude that makes them feel as if driving is a competition. They have to be the fastest one out there and be ahead of everyone else.
You also see men who seem to think being passed is an affront to their manhood, as if someone passing them makes them less of a man. Just some good old cro-magnon type thinking.
So I was sort of prepared to call in and put my two cents in about this issue when I was thisclose to being hit by, you guessed it, a woman. Here’s the situation.
We’re driving down 8th Avenue just after having turned from Wedgewood. No one is in the right lane at this point, and I can see that the 3 cars dozens of feet in front of me in the left lane are going slower than I would like, so I signal and get into the right lane.
By the time I am about to pass those folks, the lead car in the slowpoke caravan decides to signal a left turn. The lady genius immediately behind this guy knows that he will have to wait to turn, so she will have to wait as well. Well, by God, this is unacceptable! She shouldn’t have to wait for anyone else! Don’t we know this is her world and we’re just living in it?!
So without looking to see if it’s clear, she whips over and I have to slam on my brakes and my horn at the same time. It was a close one….she whipped back into her lane and I was pretty shaken up. Of course, she just looked at me with a mixture of, “What are you doing over there where I want to be?!” and, “How dare you honk at me as if I did something wrong?”
No concern, no apologetic wave or look. Just basically, “oh well”.
Some people…..almost cause a wreck because you can’t even bear waiting behind someone long enough to just look and see if it’s clear before you get over!
I detest bad grammar. I loathe bad grammar. It really makes one sound ignorant. I also hate when companies use bad grammar in their advertisements, because that just perpetuates peoples’ use of bad grammar.
The latest example: H&R Block’s new ads, where people get their tax refunds (loans anyway) without their W-2 because, “I got people”. What is this, the ebonics ad campaign? Why not go farther and say, “I gots peeps”?
