Tracy Lea Carnes is the author of the humorous novel Excess Baggage currently available on Amazon.com. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana where she has contributed features and interviews on Leonard Nimoy and Matt Damon to SB Magazine. She also works in the thriving oil and gas industry as a consultant.

Useless Trivia – you can actually find her on disc 4 of the Project Greenlight/Stolen Summer boxed dvd collector's edition where she was a finalist in the "Chris Moore Challenge."

Blog Entries by Tracy Lea Carnes

Election Day iPod Shuffle

1 Comments | Posted November 4, 2008 | 01:16 PM (EST)


I was standing in line at the polls today, ipod plugged in and rockin' of course, and realized that the music I was listening to was so appropriate for today's election, an election day mix, if you will.

"I Kissed a Girl" by Kate Perry, an obvious reference to...

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Trying to Help This Country Makes Obama a Good Candidate, Not a Socialist

15 Comments | Posted October 24, 2008 | 07:54 AM (EST)


Since the phrase "pals around with terrorists" didn't stick, the Republican campaign has now begun slinging a little "socialist" mud tinged with communist undertones. They throw words around like "Obama is a Marxist" and "Obama is a Socialist" as if they want you to believe that you're going to wake...

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Clinging To Religion And Our Hotmail Accounts

14 Comments | Posted October 13, 2008 | 02:34 PM (EST)


I live in the South where the phrase "living in a small town, clinging to guns and religion" does accurately describe our way of life here. It is not necessarily a bad way of life. It is a simple life where ignorance can sometimes be bliss. We work hard, worship...

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