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― andrew m., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
(xpost) Ah, "is currently great' -- I feel like I'm doing cryptic crosswords. That's very cool.
I still look back at that Junior Kimbrough show with such amazement. It wasn't on the main stage at King Biscuit, we sat along the levee at some farm implement dealership amongst backhoes and such, whilst Kimbrough droned psychedelicly. Bizarre and awesome.
― Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
lets face it, its a hot dump
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Dr. Dirt used to be the cohost of a gardening/horticulture radio show on MS Public Broadcasting. The host is a southern-horticulture expert and a real dick. (I used to work with his brother at Ole Miss; unsurprisingly, he too was a dick.)
Will otm about Tupelo. But somebody has opened a new bar there with 20 taps and 100+ bottled beers, which is real progress for that John Birch Society Southeast Regional HQ.
― the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly, visiting that town pretty much killed any vestigial desire I had to live someplace that wasn't a large, major city
― DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wait I thought you lived in boston
― iatee, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
parse the sentence, iatee...
― the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oh come on at least we're SUBTLE about our racism up here in the mid-atlantic suburbs
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait, I see what you did there (maybe) xp
― the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
like, maybe I don't know 95% of my neighbors, but on the flipside they aren't organizing a mob to run me out of town so I'm basically all good
several xps: lol NYC, how ya doin'
― DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the drive dang perry out of somerville chapter i attempted to launch never really got off the ground :/
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Mississippi is one of twelve states in which I've had sex.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
D. Kimbrough used to come kick it in Oxford and jam with some of my musician friends. he was a good-looking, smooth-talking SOB (circa 95-96). used to bring us moonshine, too. saw Junior in his old juke joint Junior's Place before it burned.
― je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Mississippi, the state where things like this still happen
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean jeez at least in Oakland we make sure the racists murdering black guys wear uniforms
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I bust out the same schtick every time there's an "I hate Texas!"/"I hate Florida!"/whatever thread so I'll just do the abbreviated version here: there are good, wonderful, creative people everywhere, and if it makes you feel awesome about yourself to go "well in [Texas, Florida, Mississippi, whatever] they're the EXCEPTION, most everybody there is horrible and you know it" etc., knock yrself out but I'd rather live in Mississippi than in a house full of people who puff themselves up by hating on places like Mississippi instead of finding some way to add to the available fund of good in the world
― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is an invitation to Jonah Goldberg to whine about liberal east coast bias.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you actually said this
― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
referring to recent case where BART cop shot an unarmed, handcuffed black man in the back of the head, yes
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
also for the record I big upped Fat Possum already in this thread, and only posted the story here cuz it seems like the most recently active, relevant thread
there is lots of great stuff from Mississippi
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
also donated to available good fund earlier but am kinda in a bad mood at the moment
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I bust out the same schtick every time there's an "I hate Texas!"/"I hate Florida!"/whatever thread
To be fair, this was fully intended as a thread for people to rise to Mississippi's defense. WMC lives there and was said it was indefensible and I called him on it.
A while back I was casting a critical eye at my own state of Maryland, a majority liberal, Democratic stalwart of a state and despite of that, there's still definitely a strong conservative presence and I've encountered plenty of racism, both first-hand and in the news. And in spite of a strong conservative, racist presence in Miss., the 2008 Presidential election went 56% McCain 42% Obama and so like, that's a huge lead obviously, but it's closer to an even split than you'd think, given all the horror stories that people tell about the state. And there are demographic and class considerations and all that shit to factor in, but whatever.
― walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
What's Mississippi's nature like? That's one of my main considerations when judging a state. Is there somewhere good to go there when the weather's nice?
― walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a conservative Bible-belt state full of horrendously undereducated folks scared by their pastors and Fox News into voting against their own economic self-interest. As everywhere, there are generous, open-hearted people, and there are brutes.
xpost -- lots of hunting and fishing, lakes and state parks, a not-particularly-clean beach on our tiny strip of coastline. Oppressively hot and humid from May through mid-September, not cold enough to get much snow in the winter, wonderful for two months each in spring and fall. Not much variation in elevation until you get to the far northeast corner, so there aren't any dramatic nature formations.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice state for bird-watching.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, I didn't say the state was indefensible, I said I wasn't going to be the one doing the defending. (But of course I occasionally do anyway.)
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hate to see the old roxy
― also we’re divorced now and i hate this movie. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
not cold enough to get much snow in the winter
this speaks in favor of MS, snow is terrible & should be outlawed
― love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, this is changing. Until the last couple of years, we'd have a measurable snowfall roughly once a decade. This past winter, we had 3", 5" and 6" school-letter-outters.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's legal to drink alcohol while driving in Mississippi, as long as your BAC stays below .08%
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
And there are demographic and class considerations and all that shit to factor in, but whatever.
― walloginabox (kkvgz)
[Living in a redneck, white-trash, hillbilly neighborhood - Advice?
― mods did fake marissa (buzza), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I just heard a story from old friends who spent one year in Jackson after law school. The week they moved in, my friend Jen answered a knock at the door to find two personable local women who greeted her and said "welcome to Jackson, we'd love to show you around." My friend immediately offered that she was both Catholic and a Democrat, and the two women simply turned around and walked away.
Anyway, most of Mississippi is the dud by which all other duds are judged, but boy is Oxford a lovely little town. Just 10 hours from Chicago!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a former boss was born and raised in Mississippi ... he's also gay and Catholic. tough little queen!
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I was born in Bratwursterstizen, germany on an army base. i cost something like a dead seahorse in a jar to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of Octopus blood a day while pregnant with me
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:38 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
hanle y is back YAY
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/images-3/redneck-toilet.jpg
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 July 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf that picture could've been taken at off-campus housing at my fancy NE alma mater
― g++ (gbx), Thursday, 7 July 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Off-campus. That could probably be take on campus at most big schools.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
tru dat to the both of yas ... i may've seen such a thing back at Rutgers back in the day
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 July 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the story Shakey Mo linked to upthread was about James Craig Anderson's murder. Anyway, the shitbag who ran him over changed his plea to guilty today.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/21/justice/mississippi-hate-crime/index.html
― any major prude will tell you (WmC), Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
We're number one!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/teen-pregnancy-rates_n_1413820.html
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
The Little Big Store, Raymond, Miss.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
Big World by Mary MillerCowboy Maloney's Electric City by Michael Bible
Two fantastic little books. The latter I picked up based on the title alone because, growing up in Jackson, Cowboy Maloney's was so ubiquitous. Should we get our new TV at Cowboy or REX?! Bible's definitely up on his Donald Barthelme and Letters to Wendy's. Good stuff. Mary Miller has the Fred Barthelme vibe, and in fact she thanks him in the book and I'm guessing she studied under him in Hattiesburg. So yeah.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
/Big World/ by Mary Miller/Cowboy Maloney's Electric City/ by Michael BibleTwo fantastic little books. The latter I picked up based on the title alone because, growing up in Jackson, Cowboy Maloney's was so ubiquitous. Should we get our new TV at Cowboy or REX?! Bible's definitely up on his Donald Barthelme and /Letters to Wendy's/. Good stuff. Mary Miller has the Fred Barthelme vibe, and in fact she thanks him in the book and I'm guessing she studied under him in Hattiesburg. So yeah.
Two fantastic little books. The latter I picked up based on the title alone because, growing up in Jackson, Cowboy Maloney's was so ubiquitous. Should we get our new TV at Cowboy or REX?! Bible's definitely up on his Donald Barthelme and /Letters to Wendy's/. Good stuff. Mary Miller has the Fred Barthelme vibe, and in fact she thanks him in the book and I'm guessing she studied under him in Hattiesburg. So yeah.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
Mississippi School Forces Students To Listen To Christian Lecture, Teachers Block Exits
I don't care what aero says, I hate this goddamn fucking state.
― WilliamC, Saturday, 27 April 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
never been to mississippi, or the so-called "deep" south, but it has always had a sort of dark mystique for me, probably due to my teenage infatuation with faulkner. when i think of mississippi i think of spanish moss, humidity, and guilt. also like, a state full of people i have nothing in common with. glad i don't live there.
― Pat Finn, Saturday, 27 April 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
is this the easiest or hardest PR project ever?
http://mississippibelieveit.com/home/
― goole, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
No Black. No White. Just The Blues.
Some see the world in black and white. Others see varying shades of gray. But, Mississippi taught the world to see ... and hear ... the Blues. Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, W.C. Handy, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Milton, B.B. King ... they all travelled the most revered blues highway in the world – Mississippi’s Highway 61. Mississippi. Birthplace of the Blues.
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
mississippi taught us all that color doesn't really matter
i've been to clarksdale just recently and yeah 'blues tourism' is pretty weird
― goole, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link