Betsy Phillips

I feel like Gatorade is the trick. Get any vaccine, chug a Gatorade. Get on with life.

A Deep Dive on WSMV's Herb Fritch Report WSMV's Jeremy Finley reports that the former majority owner of the Predators might have paid bribes to conceal his paternity of two children

From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: WSMV's Jeremy Finley reports that the former majority owner of the Predators might have paid bribes to conceal his paternity of two children.

Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939 – Vanderbilt University Press To escape the heat of an August day in Madrid, Maite Zubiaurre ducked into an antique shop and there among world globes and old maps, she discovered a peculi...

And last but not least, the book that made me the only pornographer in history to lose money on it.
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Cervantes in Algiers – Vanderbilt University Press Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured ...

Holler "You will die like a dog in the streets of Algiers" at any prisoners you have in your house and then throw this book at them.
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Tilting Cervantes – Vanderbilt University Press Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -- Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor's Last Sigh, among others -- by reflecting them against...

Pick a side in the eternal fight about whether this is our best book cover or our worst.
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The Golden Leaf – Vanderbilt University Press A Choice Reviews Editors' PickThrough the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an endur...

Dads love books about cigars!
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Architecture of Middle Tennessee – Vanderbilt University Press First published in 1974, Architecture of Middle Tennessee quickly became a record of some of the region's most important and most endangered buildings. Based...

Pick up this new edition of an old book, all about old buildings in Middle Tennessee. Cry a little at the part about 2nd Avenue.
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We Should Soon Become Respectable – Vanderbilt University Press Jacques-Timothe Boucher Sieur de Montbrun (anglicized to Demonbreun), born 1747 in Quebec, set the bar for country music's stories of cheating, gambling, dri...

This book about Timothy Demonbreun is great and yet you all are acting like you don't need a book about a charming womanizing fur trader and his influence on Nashville: www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650448...

Nashville Native Orchids – Vanderbilt University Press Hidden in the greenways, parks, and backyards of Nashville are several varieties of stunning native orchids. The vibrant, three-petaled flower has been rever...

What are you getting for the orchid lover in your life? I've got a suggestion:
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The Lives of Women – Vanderbilt University Press Recovering voices long relegated to silence, The Lives of Women deciphers the responses of women to the culture of control in seventeenth-century Spain. In t...

You want to read about a person who grew a penis, became a doctor, lost his penis, and got sent to a nunnery? Look no further.
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No Limits to Their Sway – Vanderbilt University Press Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coas...

You want pirates? We have pirates.
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Black Bride of Christ – Vanderbilt University Press Teresa de Santo Domingo, born with the name Chicaba, was a slave captured in the territory known to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Spanish and Portugues...

Did you just finish Charlie Strobel's book and wonder "Does Vanderbilt have other books about cool Catholic figures?" Check out the store of this African nun in Spain.
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Threads from the Web of Life & The Shark and the Jellyfish – Vanderbilt University Press Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy. The stories in Threads from the Web of Life an...

Do you have a nerdy science kid in your life? Check out our cool double volume. You read it one way for one book. Flip it over, read it the other way for the other.
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Many of you have not shopped the VUP Holiday sale and it shows. I'm going to walk you through a few more titles you might be interested in.

A Deep Dive on WSMV's Herb Fritch Report WSMV's Jeremy Finley reports that the former majority owner of the Predators might have paid bribes to conceal his paternity of two children

This is a weird situation and one that raises troubling questions: can you sell off any potential responsibility you might have to a kid? And can a parent make a legal agreement about children that harms the children without someone weighing in on their behalf? www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Well, at least there’s no chance of there being some weird age gap and alarming power imbalance between the rich guy and everyone els—fuck again!

WSMV4 Investigates: Judge considers unsealing lawsuit against former Nashville Predators owner Actor Frank Monroe said Fritch, who is now a minority owner of the Nashville Predators, paid him approximately $400,000 through multiple settlement agreements to prevent disclosure that Fritch is the ...

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What a lovely morning. I sure hope I won’t read any news stories about a millionaire and a criminal working together to steal children’s inheritances.

The new Sip chairs are very nice.

My strategy will be to grab Klein by the ankles and swing him around helicopter style.

Which, granted, will be the first time in his adult life Ezra Klein is useful to me.

At one point, I threaten to beat @bradengall.bsky.social with Ezra Klein.

Brought to you by green beans: the one green vegetable that can fake being a meat dish.

Genuine Sense of (Democratic) Optimism Podcast Episode · The Aunt B Radio Hour · 12/05/2025 · 50m

Do you need any excuse to not work this afternoon? Check out the Aunt B Radio Hour. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Honestly, my dad’s late stage turn to “fuck who you want” is wonderful. It’s just also confusing.

My dad’s 40 year old self is ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE.

My dad is now saying “Why do you care what anyone does unless you want to it, too? Kiss a guy. See if it makes you happy. Why is this still an issue? No one cares.”

If she needs someone to shake my fist at Joelton, just let me know.

What if I just covered my whole shoes in glitter? Rather than trying to remove the spot?