Defend the Indefensible: Mississippi

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.)

hate to see the old roxy

not cold enough to get much snow in the winter

this speaks in favor of MS, snow is terrible & should be outlawed

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.

It's legal to drink alcohol while driving in Mississippi, as long as your BAC stays below .08%

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?

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!

a former boss was born and raised in Mississippi ... he's also gay and Catholic. tough little queen!

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

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Business/images-3/redneck-toilet.jpg

tbf that picture could've been taken at off-campus housing at my fancy NE alma mater

Off-campus. That could probably be take on campus at most big schools.

tru dat to the both of yas ... i may've seen such a thing back at Rutgers back in the day

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

We're number one!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/teen-pregnancy-rates_n_1413820.html

The Little Big Store, Raymond, Miss.

Big World by Mary Miller
Cowboy 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.

/Big World/ by Mary Miller
/Cowboy 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.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/

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.

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.

is this the easiest or hardest PR project ever?

http://mississippibelieveit.com/home/

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.

mississippi taught us all that color doesn't really matter

i've been to clarksdale just recently and yeah 'blues tourism' is pretty weird

Faulkner and the blues are enough to defend mississippi, which i always think of rightly or wrongly as our most "tragic" state.

What started on an airplane as a conversation between a 12-year-old boy from Connecticut and a Mississippi businessman led to the creation of Mississippi, Believe It!™ The boy asked Rick Looser, COO of The Cirlot Agency, if he, "still saw the KKK on the streets every day" ... and whether or not he "hates all black people." This stunning revelation was the catalyst to create the campaign, which combats the erroneous stereotypes that plague Mississippi. The Cirlot Agency designed Mississippi, Believe It!™, pro bono, to inform and educate the world about the accomplishments, wonderful people, aspects and facts associated with the state of Mississippi. The campaign takes common Mississippi stereotypes and twists them to reveal the truth about the state.

Wait i said basically the same thing at the last revive. Sorry all. State tourism PR campaigns are generally lol

No Black. No White. Just The Blues.

wow 2nd time i've read this quoted today. here was the first:

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2013/may/28/arterial-america-dispatch-jackson/

is this the easiest or hardest PR project ever?

http://mississippibelieveit.com/home/

― goole, Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:20 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hasn't been updated in five years from what i can tell, so i guess they were successful!

Yes, we wear shoes.
A few of us even wear cleats.

Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/buckhalter-mississippi-stillbirth-manslaughter

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/lawsuit-mississippi-prison-mentally-ill

Mississippi based singer Ms. Jody though did a nice gig up my way in Maryland recently

So many relatives who live in DeSoto County I'll never visit. Sad, really.

basically memphis suburb now, right? as a kid, desoto county soccer teams were the ones to beat.

Aw, does that mean you'll never come visit me either, PP?

http://www.deepsouthprogressive.com/2013/09/bryant-defies-supreme-court-pentagon-federal-benefits-gay-service-members.html

"The governor don’t like same-sex marriage"

"...derp-derp," added the governor's spokesman.

Have no memory of my last post in this thread, btw.

the governor don't like subject-verb agreement. to same-y. like homo-sexual marriage.

DeSoto County

Mississippi judge ejects Sikh from court for refusing to remove ‘that rag’ from his head

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/27/mississppi-judge-ejects-sikh-from-court-for-refusing-to-remove-that-rag-from-his-head/

"Take the rag away from your head, now's not the time for your beard"

http://thedmonline.com/upd-investigating-discovery-of-noose-and-flag-on-meredith-statue/

http://wdam.images.worldnow.com/images/24843507_BG1.jpg

asshole sonofabitch

http://www.governorbryant.com/governor-bryant-signs-senate-bill-2681-mississippi-religious-freedom-restoration-act/

Lame. But Mississippi has a nice hiphop influenced dance company who are the subject of a reality show on the Lifetime channel that I stumbled upon:

Founded in 2001 by Dianna Williams, or "Miss D," the Dancing Dolls of Jackson, Mississippi, ages 7 to 17, are said to be one of the country's preeminent dance troupes, with over 15 Grand Champion titles and more than 100 trophies under their belt.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/lifetime-launches-new-series-set-in-elite-world-of-hip-hop-majorette-competitions-watch-preview

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/05/15/new-case-again-demonstrates-duplicity-of-embattled-mississippi-medical-examiner/?hpid=z3