Mutha Is Half a Word Blind Woman" and "Smell the Sardines", bits she performed on TV later in her career. She also parodies the hit "Winchester Cathedral" in which she explains that a man working at a funeral parlor discovered a cork in a man's butt, taking the cork out only to hear the butt singing the song. The title of the book "Mutha Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)" is a reference to this album as it stands as a stereotype of modern black female humor. Mutha Is Half a
A City by the Light Divided the Shirts for a Cure tour, with support from Minus the Bear, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, and We're All Broken. On March 29, "At This Velocity" was made available for streaming via "Alternative Press". For most of April, the band went on the 2006 edition of the Taste of Chaos tour. However, on April 13, Rickly became ill, resulting in the band dropping off the tour. On April 18, "A City by the Light Divided" was made available for streaming via the band's Myspace profile, and "Counting 5-4-3-2-1" was released to radio. From late April to late May,