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ITS SNOWING!!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

ummm...little rock!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

damn!

It's been cloudy and raining here in Austin. I think that's the best we'll get.

Who else is in little rock?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Expecting in hot water?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's a Southern thing, Ned.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in Little Rock.

I'd hate to be at Kroger right now.

It's nice to see some snow, being that this winter has been so mild and boring.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

My electricity went out this morning for no reason. This is par for the course in the NO these days. Also, fuck snow.

― adam (adam), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, when did you go back to NOLA?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've been glad of the mild winter because of the heating bills, but that means next summer it'll be Bugville around here.

NOAA says 30 tonight; weather.com says 34 — a little bit of snow would be nice, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's a Southern thing

short for "expectorate"?

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thankful for the low heating bills, but I'm afraid that the A/C's not going to make it through summer.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

See this city?

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg

IT'S A CITY OF PANIC.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Except! Damn smug californians. I WAS EXCITED

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a crash and a breakdown on the way home and it had only been snowing for 20 minutes.
PANIC!!

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

i miss you, southern states.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Did you live down here?

I'm watching family feud and to the question 'something a robot can do better than your spouse can' a middle aged woman replied 'make love!' wtf??

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

born in texas; raised in kentucky; family in alabama, louisiana, etc.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I always liked how gygax would know to check in with his MS relations whenever I posted about a tornado being outside my back door.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Stence is a traitor. (Isnt'a Tracer Hand from TX?)

still cold and rainy here. :( You know 80 degrees in winter king of wig me out but I really don't like cold weather so more 70s please.

and ditto on the bugs. Summer will be tons of fun.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

"NO REALLY, ROCK. I THINK THAT YOU SHOULD FLEE TO POPLAR BLUFF."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

My dad used to call me at college to tell me that my out-of-state county was under a tornado watch.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

those are strong words, missy misery. tracer's from tn, btw.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 10 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, when did you go back to NOLA?

December, as soon as my semester-in-exile at the U of MD was over. I came home to a sinkful of the nastiest dishes you could possibly imagine. People, do yr dishes before you evacuate! For serious! Also my landlord, despite my paying of rent for the previous 3 months, hadn't done shit with my apartment--including the FRIDGE FULL OF FOOD ROTTING FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS. Nasty. Hauling it to the trashpile was truly gross--my hands were slipping on foodmoldslime.

Part of the roof came off but that was the extent of my damage. Kate's (g/f's) place got destroyed--whole roof gone, rain dumped in, rainbows of mold everywhere.

The 24-hr Circle K is only open til 5pm and the grocery store closes at 8. Every bar is full of scary redneck contractor dudes. EVERYONE COME TO MARDI GRAS.

― adam (adam), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't believe that we're talking about an American city like this.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 February 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

i could have swore i god i saw one of those ivory-billed woodpeckers pecking at a hickory (?) tree in my side yard today. but then i consulted an audubon bird identification guide online and discovered it was merely a pileated or redheaded woodpecker. for a second though, i shit my pants and thought i was going to be talking to NPR tonight.

― ath (ath), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, i'm in fayetteville.

― ath (ath), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love all your funny little accents.

― Lil' Eno (nordicskilla), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

well I swanny

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 February 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

group pic of all ilx arkansans plz

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

GA reprazent.

It hasn't snowed all season. I do miss it. :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

i'm returning to south carolina on monday... bible belt eeeeeeeek!

also, snow driving i am used to. it's fine. but in sc they get mad ice storma and that shit is damn scary.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

dude where do you live now?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

rochester, ny

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's supposed to snow in DC tonight! but whenever it is forecasted it fails to appear. it only snows in DC by surprise.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 11 February 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYONE COME TO MARDI GRAS.

i would love to. Tried to get my bf to go for NYE but no luck.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 11 February 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that storm was a big fizzle, at least this far south.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 February 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

seriously. i feel my geographic loyalties being challenged every time this happens

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

what? fake winters?

I don't mind the no winter thing but the fact that flies still come into the kitchen when I open my back door bothers me. Summer will be beyond miserable this year. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

more the 'hey its going to snow! expect X inches!' and then it doesnt even reach the ground. disappointment. still, i had fun driving home on friday with all my windows down, pavement blasting and snow flying about the car. i also had fun waking my australian cat up, opening a window, putting her down on the sil and watching her 'wtf!?!?!' expression. so, it was ok.

if i had my way it would be winter 12 months of the year. and, yes, summer is going to suck.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

My lizard escaped through the back door yesterday, causing nearly an hour of panicked searching. My boyfriend finally found him on the back neighbor's porch. Wonder if he would've went for it if there was snow on the ground.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

south carolina, nothing fina

― my name is latebloomer, please take my hand (latebloomer), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

well, do you have snow??

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

The only place I saw snow on the ground this weekend was in my backyard. Which makes sense, since pretty much everything during a storm winds up in my backyard.

Wow. I didn't realize that my picture up there would update itself. THE JPG HAS BECOME INTELLIGENT.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

that amazed me too

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

the 'city of panic' caption is even funnier now

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

hey, is that my work building down there?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

75 degrees today. Paralyzing ice storm forecasted in less than 48 hours.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's nice out. I think I'll leave it out.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 February 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow, we have a Southern thread now? Charlotte, North carolina represent.

Two days ago it snowed. Today I wore a t-shirt and listened to loud music with the windows rolled down. What the fuck is up?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 17 February 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

its like someone keeps leaving the freezer door open. and inside the freezer are polar icecaps.
my real question is: PP's picture has changed to a different part of town. where is that?
also, are cali and florida considered 'southern' states?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cali, no. Florida, eee southeast?

It was 83 here (Austin) yesterday. Today, 44.

I was sweating my ass off yesterday drinking icy beers just to tolerate it and now I'm digging out coat, scarf to walk the dog. Madness!!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's so nice in NC and I am pissed that there's a cold front coming

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

They're spazzing at work about the ICE STORM. It'll probably be in the seventies again by next week.

Most of the time, the former Confederacy are the states that are classified as "Southern". I am not aware of any chitlins being consumed in Hawaii.

Maybe that's westbound on LaHarpe? It doesn't look like the same city, does it?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

i've been to ft. worth twice in the last month and remembered why i can't fucking stand it. i grew up in knoxville.. mmm... green.. hilly.. lush. Ft. worth looks like a burnt piece of toast in comparison. since i normally live in new york it was really nice to get back into the pace of the south for a little while, and get out into open country. the sky really is huge there. ("everything's bigger in texas.. here.. lemme show ya") but i had no car, and MAN. talk about people who have totally forgotten about their relationship with the land. i went to the first day of the livestock show and it was so weird, all these rituals harkening back to a time that has passed totally away except in these ceremonial re-enactments.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

It is beautiful in NC. It makes me hate the fact that I spend my life working indoors even more.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was born in Ft. Worth! And yeah, I hate it too.

Weren't we the last state to join the confederacy? I always feel like TX barely qualifies as south, we're almost more western.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

TN was the last state to join the confederacy, and the first state to rejoin the union.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

in any case: yeeeaah COWTOWN!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

The tragic image of Sam Houston, sitting out on the governor's mansion balcony in his wheelchair, bowing his head in sadness at the news that the legislature just approved joining the rebels always makes me think we were the last holdout.

Growing up, we always got the first day of the livestock show off from school. Don't know if they still do that.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 17 February 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

We always got the first day of deer season off.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Here they take off the Friday of Railroad Festival weekend. (The incorporation of Amory as the new railroad town destroyed Quincy, where my father's family was from, and Cotton Gin Port, where my wife's family was from. Bastardos.)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 17 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't want this storm to knock the power out, but I'm remembering the big one of '94.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

We just went to the club to see a friend's band, and the show was cancelled. There's not one fleck of ash in the sky, and not one piece of frozen water on the ground. Pre-emptive cancellations drive me nuts.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 18 February 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Bummer.

I ~~pre-emptively cancelled~~ picked about 200 daffodils in our back yard this afternoon on the assumption that they'll be to'e up tomorrow. They are making a mighty good smell in the house.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 18 February 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

I need to get around to putting that "Pre-emptive Cancel" clause into my living will...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 18 February 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing happened here but butt-coldness.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Sunday, 19 February 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

not even a week and i'm ready to move back north.

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 19 February 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

We got one of those storms that's not as bad as everyone probably thinks it is. Which is good because even though we avoided Narnia, there's still not a lot of traffic out there. Most of the roads have been cleared, and the ones that weren't have got "wagon paths" etched through the middle of them.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 19 February 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

latebloomer: have you heard about the bob jones starbucks ban?
http://zacfoo.typepad.com/weblog/2006/01/starbucks_banne.html

"Does Starbucks have an agenda? I don't know, but this makes them suspect.

The whole thing is really ridiculous: Starbucks has the whole world of books and authors and smart people to quote from on their cups. But they choose to use a gay man (I'll give 'em that; homosexuals can truth too) and his gay-promoting quote (not good) to encourage English-speaking youth (people like me and younger; like, YOUR KIDS) to explore and experiment with gayness. That is just plain wrong."

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 19 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

the snow outside my ozark home this morning.

http://i1.tinypic.com/o5cghz.jpg

― ath (ath), Sunday, 19 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

50 degrees and grey makes for a crappy Mardi Gras kickoff though the Eyehategod hometown show last night was awesome and good for local metal celeb spotting.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 19 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

i miss snow!

― tehresa (tehresa), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

weather still grey and cold here. Haven't walked the dog since Thursday and am going to have to break down and do it today.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 20 February 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Do you feel all woodsy yet, ath?

Taking the dog into the backyard was a treat with the ice this weekend. She runs her laps around the yard usually to get "warmed up" for her business, and seeing the galoot spinning around in circles was pretty entertaining, too. She seemed to enjoy it as much as I since she kept wanting to go outside.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 February 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

my old roommate's dog (an australian shepherd)absolutely LOVES the snow. whenever it's really cold or snowy outside she will ask to go out like every 30 min!

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

plains, our chi-pincher is too small to brave the snow even for a 30 second piss/shit, so he's taken to pissing/shitting in the house instead. luckily we planned for just such an instance and had bought a pack of these puppy pads that are ultra-abosorbant and treated with a chemical that's supposed to appeal to the dog's olfactories and coax him into doing his business. they don't work; he opts for a certain spot near the floor. i'm just glad the floor is stained concrete.

i just had my first taste of arkansas BBQ this afternoon from penguin ed's. C+. will not return to penguin ed's (beer battered fries are a treat, though).

― ath (ath), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

oh! also at the univeristy office that melissa had an interview for today, they told her that casual fridays are acceptable ONLY if you wear razorback apparel. then you can wear jeans. otherwise you can't wear jeans. so casual fridays become sports casual fridays. they're hog sticklers out here!

― ath (ath), Monday, 20 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

They're still mad that when their area code was changed, they didn't get 464 like they requested.

(They also legitimately wondered why central Arkansas, home to the state government and largest city, didn't have to change first.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 20 February 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

73 DEGREES AND THE GRILLIN' IS ABOUT TO COMMENCE

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Southern People (that second word has three syllables and dreadlocks) -

sorry to intrude on your mongrelfuxor-thread, but i have a question. the South is not monolithic, amirite? it could be said that some places are perhaps more Southern than others? is there conceivably a Most Southern part of the South, or is The South just too big for that? if not, how would this place be defined - is it a State? a region? what makes it so? i'm interested culturally, yes, but also physiographically.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

others may STRONGLY disagree (including for sake of argument states that are 'southern' the same way delaware is new england)

most southern -> least southern

mississippi-alabama-georgia-virginia-louisiana-south carolina-tennessee-north carolina-arkansas-kentucky-florida-----maryland-texas--missoura--------delaware

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

slide west virginia in there a click to the right of texas

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Could it be said that some places in America are more American than others? That there's one spot that's a Most American part of America?

Georgia would probably try to cop the "Most Southern" award just like New England decided to name their football team, "The Patriots".

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH MUTHAFUCKAS

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

The last time I visited GA the Atlanta newspaper had an entire section devoted to Shermans March to the Sea. NEVER FORGET

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

fascinating! but question-provoking. for instance, I'm surprised by VA's placement - surely NoVA isn't more Southern than, I dunno, Gaffney? it seems like you may be weighing the more Southern parts and the less Southern parts of a state to determine overall Southernness. if so, do you want to break the states down a bit?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant plains did your radio station ever carry that 'southern sports tonight' with max howell? i really really miss that show.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yo how are GA and VA Southerner than LA? I'm on the gulf coast bitch!

Also this is a gorgeous Mardi Gras day, I hope everyone is enjoying it appropriately. I am not because I am sick of drinking though I doubt that will last until tonight.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Q: Out in rural areas is it the norm for 100% of the stations to be either country or gospel, or is it just a Jawjuh thing?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

The first radio station I ever worked for was country on the FM, gospel on the AM.

We never carried SST, blount. We also never carried "Conference Calls", which is my favorite radio program name of all time.

Some parts of Arkansas, gabbneb, are certainly more Southern other parts. I think the Delta blends in with the rest of the South much better than, say, the Boston Mountains.

Northwest Arkansas is a little weird anyway. They have no problem drinking pop, and they cheer for the Kansas City Royals. They're also better at building snowmen up there.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

hill people!!!!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I just never thought of Grizzly Adams as being a Southerner.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

For sports radio insanity, nothing beat "Leonard's Losers."

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

tell em bout it lenny

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

For the longest time, I thought that eBaum's World was based around that guy who does the radio show in Alabama.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

sst (ha the initials never occurred to me til now) was great, despite being carried thruout the southland (on the air in atlanta i know) it was bizarrely focused on mississippi specifically (my dad used to call it 'southern mississippi sports tonight') but also weird disproportionate focus on smaller schools too - i swear for every minute devoted to florida or georgia there was a half hour devoted to middle tennessee state and you'd almost think conference usa was on a par with the sec (nevermind the acc) listening to it. at least half the time they talked about food, esp cathead biscuits. conference call's replaced (apparently they just straight out bought sst out) and it's alot more pro and logical but it's not nearly as mayberry.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

apparently it got up to 75 here today. not cool.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nine years ago tomorrow, we suffered our worst tornadoes in more than twenty years. 25 dead, and the National Guard had to close down Arkadelphia.

So yeah. 80 degrees ten days after an ice storm makes me weary, too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

most southern -> least southern

Even with that you have to make special dispensation for Texas. The Border and West TX aren't really southern at all. North TX and the Hill Country have a little redneck in 'em, but more Plains State, and they're a lot different since the population boom.

But East Texas - Piney Woods, LA border, Beaumont, etc. is truly southern by any measure, including Klan presence.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Tyler, Texas, supposed to be like the most populous dry city in the nation?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

Let me try this on for size -- southernness quotient = degree to which resident identifies as DIXIE-BLESSED BY THE GRACE OF GOD, YOU FUCKIN YANKEE, as opposed to "resident of (state or city)," followed by identifying as Southern second. Based on that, I'd say Missalabamasippi --> GA (except for Atlanta) --> LA (except for New Orleans), then ditto Blount's list, with Atlanta between SC and TN, and NOLA between AR and KY. (xposts thx to poxy fuling)

Milo OTM, there are a lot of southernness-microclimates that don't involve state borders.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

can someone explain why Virginia beats the Carolinas, and why SC (and Atlanta?) beats TN?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, it's all based on whims, familiarity, and whether you've seen "Deliverance" and "Southern Comfort" or not.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I would say Virginia falls behind the Carolinas because of George Washington, northern Virginia, and the fact that it's all poncey and blue-blood. Keep in mind that the first shots of the War of Northern Aggression were fired in South Carolina.

Tennessee drops a few notches on the Southern scale possibly because of its neutral status during the aforementioned war. Also, back in the long ago days, Tennessee wasn't thought of as being Southern as much as it was considered Western. Like Davy Crockett.

Anyway. That all just fell out of my ass just then, so take it for what it's worth.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

my theory is that southernness exists as a Platonic form somewhere between Alabama and Mississippi and radiates out from there, slowly losing power before vanishing completely around Austin on the West side, and Tallahassee on the East side, and Louisville on the North side. with obvious exceptions made for Anti-Southern and Pro-Southern singulatities distributed throughout the region.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, that puts me on the epicenter, the veritable New Madrid Fault of southernness. (I'm 15 miles from the MS-AL line.) Get me outta here, Percy!

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

New Orleans is the South's conscience.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

Southernicity is like porn, I know it when I see or feel it.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, that explains the drive-thru bars.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

Virginia is definitely less southern than the Carolinas, if only because yankees seem to think of it as the "only respectable" southern state. I'd put it between Arkansas and Kentucky.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i amped it up cuz they have that weird confederate hangup still ('sic semper tyranus' is still the state motto right?), atlanta's got parts/aspects that define the southern thing while plenty of homogenized generic 'america' aspects too, adam otm re: new orleans. i probably do have tennessee too low up there, i forgot about memphis somehow, if carolina gets the nascar museum it should be bumped up too (but carolina ain't getting the nascar museum - that thing's going in atlanta). i'm guessing you could calculate some southerness meter based on degree of obsession with college football, confederate hangups, grease content in food, cletus judd recordsales, etc.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

As a native of Dallas and Houston it's never even occurred to me to click on this thread, because I have seen The South and Texas is not it. But I see that's been covered.

― Aaron A, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah texas is it's own entity

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

I love how Maryland is more southern than Texas. I still seriously call people Yankees to their face, that's pretty southern right?

the weatherman just said winter was done for us. High today = 85.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

i like that Ned shows up on all of these threads. EXCEPT MINE.

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

which is yours?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ned was here? Remember, he's the ILx ambassador.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

mine is the down south middle class no londoners except ken c one

― the kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

If my paternal grandmother were alive she'd be in the backyard cutting a ligustrum switch to redden the calves of those on this thread suggesting Texas isn't part of the South.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ned is Big Brother, he keeps tabs on us all, emoticons and "Heavens!" = Newspeak. My expose on the subliminal messages embedded in the Pi recording will be published by Little, Brown, Jugg next month.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

my maryland slightly more southern than texas calculation was based on acc + mason-dixon factor

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

And the fact that it's home to Fredneck.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

No real college basketball tradition here, either.

There's no real obsession with college football either outside of actual alumnis (except for the usual bandwagon jumpers of any good team), there's not enough room once you account for the HS football obsession.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

i always felt like nova, charleston, savannah, new orleans etc., basically caostal cities are very southern belle classy southern, texas is boot scootin' boogie southern, florida is WEIRD redneck southern, alabama/mississippi/ are standard redneck southern, nc and tennessee are folksy, mountain southern, and sc is "we are southerners, damn it!" southern. i know there exists much more than these generalizations in each state, this is just what i've observed from my life experience.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

haha that seems pretty accurate to me.

― j (esp florida) blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

also, growing up, it never even occurred to me to include arkansas, etc in "southern" which is kind of ridiculous considering arkansas borders the mississippi river!

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's okay. We're used to it.

(Of course, Wisconsin borders the Mississippi, but I get your point.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

true. maybe that's why i thought of it as midwestern... i mean, now i can certainly see arkansas as southern, but it also seems to blend really well into the midwest in my brain for some reason.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

We certainly don't vote like the other Southern states

Senate:
Pryor, Mark (D)
Lincoln, Blanche (D)

House:
Berry, Marion (D)
Snyder, Vic (D)
Boozman, John (R)
Ross, Mike (D)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

one of the odder moments of 'children are cruel beasts' i can remember from elementary school was when we were going around the class talking about the states and whatever and this somewhat new girl pronounced arkansas as 'r kansas' basically, class came to a stop, everybody pointed at her and laffed like crazy, really over the top 'jeremy' shit. meanwhile we're all pronouncing 'arab' to rhyme with 'ahab' of course.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

pp is houston nutt on the hotseat next year?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, yes he is. Especially now that he's hired a high school coach to be his Offensive Coordinator.

You can't get too upset at people who mispronounce "Arkansas". Even though we have a law on the books dictating the pronounciation, we still call ourselves "Arkansans". Both state names can be traced back to the same Native American word, so it's basically the same thing. The Diamond State just got Frenchy with it.

That said, the people of Arkansas City, Kansas, and how they pronounce thier town's name AND the freakin' river, are just idiotic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I forget - is dropping 'ings' a Southern thing or specifically a Texas thing (wanna, gonna, etc.)

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think "wanna" is used most often for "want to" or "want a".

just lazy talk I guess, hardly confined to the south. (see: "I Wanna Be Sedated"

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh, Sweet Nuthin'" by Velvet Underground - New York
"It Ain't Nothin'" by Keith Whitley - Kentucky
"Nothing from Nothing" by Billy Preston - Texas

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

hello, the south

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

hello mookie

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna ask how Marion Barry got elected in Arkansas, but I googled first. Two Marion B[e/a]rrys in gov't, whoda thunkit?

My father grew up in Summers, Arkansas (near Fayetteville and Tulsa). He couldn't wait to leave (mostly due to his mom) so he joined the Air Force at 17. I've stayed there a couple times, it's basically a few farmers with a combo general store/Post Office.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 6 March 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been through there. Some could argue that Summers is in that weird midwestern/western area of the country based around Kansas City, Tulsa, Wichita, Dallas even.

Raymond Carver's dad was from Arkansas. He got out, too.

This little stretch of highway north of Summers makes road geeks spooge. It's an Arkansas state highway that's multiplexed with an Oklahoma state highway! Swoon.

This would be Rep. Berry and the mizzus.

http://www.house.gov/berry/images/mbwithcarolynlg.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

WACKINESS

http://img425.imageshack.us/img425/4875/800pxendmissouri431yl.jpg

OMGWTF

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

when worlds collide

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 04:44 (nineteen years ago)

omg karl tell me about it

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

aka HI KARL ITS QUINN

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

karl knows everyone

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

All the girls wanna fuck Fonzie.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

west virginia is not southern.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's not?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

no fuckin' way.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

i agree

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

They're Pennsylohioans.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Pennsylohoioans?? as a pennsylvanian, I TAKE OFFENSE

PS: this thread makes me miss austin so much u_u
there is something special about the south... something that is missing from the great cities of the northeast u_u

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

this relates to my question - I was surprised at blount's referencing college sports conferences, because I was imagining the most Southern place as somewhere rural. maybe this is the Northeast's better connection to the great lakes/midwest, maybe it's prejudice. and maybe the New South is as distinctively Southern as the old. but I still see the places that are least outside-influenced as the most distinctive. and appalachia is, i assume, the most rural part of the south. but the 'deep south' seems clearly to be the more southern. does this have to do with race? or the amount of history - people didn't move to the mountains at first?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Most of Appalachia's not in The South.

Where the "most southern" part of The South is located is subjective. If I had to pick a place, it would probably not be in the mountains somewhere, but in a flat place such as The Delta.

Since The South has been defined by slavery and the Civil War, you'd have to look at the places where the slaves were kept, in the agricultural areas. Not a lot of cotton being grown up in the hills.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Turn it up.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

as long as we're posting southern license plates

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/graphics/a550rgy.jpg

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Was that the old Kentucky plate?

http://www.kentuckyroads.com/images/kentuckyroads/plate.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

fact of science: kentucky's suns are the nation's happiest

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

hi karl i said hi

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

re: west virginia - i think some parts really have a southern feel while others are just spillover from penn or ohio. but it is, in fact, below the mason dixon line (if you imagine it extended eastward)and parts of southern wva (bluefield, princeton, fayetteville, and even flatwoods) feel equally as "southern" as anywhere further south.

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

quinn i can't acknowledge you in this thread cause you aren't from the south anymore (even though texas wasn't the south in the first place) :(

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Plains and Sunny, and also Teeny, what the hell's going on with this storm system? I just got word that the schools here are letting out early today. You're more in the thick of it than I am -- is it really that bad?

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think we've had any tornadoes or anything, but it's a strong storm system. It's moving really fast, too. We've had sideways rain, some hail early this morning, and the yard's damn near flooded. There have been reports from Hot Springs Village that wind gusts have gotten up to 100 mph. But then, The Villagers are usually full of shit anyway.

Case in point: Oaklawn's running the horsies.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

not against the wind, i hope

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

i thought teeny lived in england. im so ilx clueless.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Power outages, downed trees, roofs blown off barns and chicken houses. That's some of the damage that's being reported across Arkansas from a line of storms that's moving over the state.

Officials say an Ashdown City Council member died in a house fire early this morning. The fire apparently started when lightning from a storm this morning struck the house.

Ashdown police detective Gary Gregory says the victim was Thomas Davis. Officials say Davis' wife escaped the blaze but she suffered burns.

Gregory says The fire began between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.

Ashdown is in far southwest Arkansas.

Possible tornadoes have been reported in Woodruff and Lonoke counties. The possible tornado in Lonoke County was near Toltec Mounds. Fences were down and some roofs were damaged.

In east Arkansas, officials in Cross County say a man and wife were hurt near Tilton when storm winds blew out the windows of a vehicle they were in.

Officials say the two fled a mobile home they were in and took shelter in the vehicle. Emergency services official Gerald Britton says the trailer was destroyed. The victims suffered cuts and bruises. They were treated at a hospital.

Entergy Arkansas spokesman James Thompson says 7,600 electric customers are without power. Three-thousand of those are in Hot Springs and 1,000 in Little Rock. The Little Rock outages are primarily in the Chenal area of west Little Rock.

Thompson says the outages have been caused by high winds that caused lines to "slap together." Thompson says restoring service could take six hours in some areas.

The National Weather Service says the storm in Woodruff County took down trees and power lines and damaged at least one building.

In Garland County, some downed trees blocked roadways and three-quarter inch hail was reported.

In Pike County, the roofs were blown off chicken houses and barns near Kirby and trees were down.

At Malvern, trees were down just outside of the city. Storm effects in Arkadelphia included damage to the scoreboard at Ouachita Baptist University as well as trees and power lines down.

Utility poles and lines are reported down in Jackson County.

Road signs were blown down near Coal Hill in Johnson County.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

My maternal grandmother was born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and she would never allow us to say the word "guy" cause it was a Yankee word. And if you told her that Texas wasn't Southern, you'd get the steel eyed silent treatment for three weeks, even if you apologized. And there are old-school Texans who regard people from Tennessee and North Carolina as Yankees somehow.

East Texas is as Southern as Mississippi, with all the shame and glory that implies. For every George Jones or Gatemouth Brown it produces, it comes up with a Jasper-type outrage. I'd say anything east of Houston and north to the Red River is cultural East Texas, and the Panhandle is a bleak, dry example of the lush jungle southerness of East Texas. Lubbock and Amarillo are really Southern. I believe Oklahoma is too for that matter. All of this is borne out with the iced tea test -- it's sugary as hell in the East and you have to sweeten it yourself elsewhere.

The Southern-ness peters out where the blacks and rednecks end and the Germans, Czechs and Mexicans start -- around Colombus and Temple to the west and northwest and Victoria to the Southwest. One old-line Anglo Saxon Galvestonian I met said his grandfather believed that Germans were not white people.

Here's my ranking of the states

1. Ms
2. Bama
3. SC
North Florida and East Texas would go here; the rest of those states would be near the bottom

4. GA
5. LA -- Most don't think of the Cajun country and New Orleans as Southern. Nothing could be more wrong with that. It's just Southerness epitomized and Frenchified.
6. VA
7. NC
8. TN
9. Ark
10. W. Va
11. Missouri
12. Maryland

Delaware doesn't qualify, but there are parts of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana that do. Not enough to get a ranking though.

― Fetchin Bones (Fetchin Bones), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

kthv, little rock's cbs affiliate, just got a new weather mapping gadget that shows a horizontal 3D view of storms. its really grossing me out today because this one looks like a giant liver floating across arkansas

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I must take umbrage with your ranking - As a former resident of THE Most Southern Place on Earth (the route 82 Corridor from Greenwood to Greenville, MS), and a current resident of Northern VA, I can say that Northern VA deserves as separate a listing as Norther Florida does, if not more so. Southern VA, from Richmond on down and West, sure thing it is Southern. Parts out towards Winchester and Front Royal are two. But Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudin? Nope.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Parts out towards Winchester and Front Royal are two

should be "too" as in "as well." Mah bad, y'all.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

you'd better chop off bits of maryland too, then

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

THE Most Southern Place on Earth

hahaha, I'll grant you a tie for first with a couple hundred other places. It used to be Tunica Co. until the casinos got aholt of it.

My office door is sort of pulsating...

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

aholt . .lovely.

I used to date a boy from Beaumont. mmm, classy.

Teeny lives in St.Louis now I believe.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

ROCK ROCK YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SHOULD FLEE! I'M SERIOUS THIS STORM IS SO BIG ON THE RADAR GET THEE TO FORT WAYNE AT ONCE.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

< /KATRINA>

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, it's just cruel to do that to an old weather nerd.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

it's a bright and sunny 80 degrees in Austin although there was a storm last night.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

tornado warnings for Tate, Lafayette, Marshall counties

― Will (will), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

streets is flooding here on the Bluff...

― Will (will), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Where does Kentucky fit in your list, FB?

And how do rank the Fetchin' Bones on the Southern Alt-Rock scale? I used to like them a lot ("Flesh Blanket"!).

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

eh... least favorite concert I ever saw was REM/Fetchin Bones at Mud Island...

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

thats because REM suck

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

And the storm's GONE, just like that. How was it for you, Mississippi?

(Oh, and look out Nashville, 'Bama, E.S.T, etc.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

haha i don't hate REM (don't love em either) but i feel, since this is the southern thread, i should mention they are from GEORGIA!

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Southern Rocker, Michael Stipe.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes, clearly georgia's most southern rock musician. definitely more southern than, say, Stuck Mojo.

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ricky Wilson & Ray Charles, sharing the Peach Stage in Heaven.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Buh! That was very brief, but very large, couple of tornadoes reported north of us, but now it's all past and the sun is out.

REM: EP + 1st 3 albums are good to great, but unfortunately I saw them on the "Lifes Rich Pageant" tour.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

whats up southerners?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

last weekend it was goddamn beautiful outside - i ate rib tips & listened to steely dan

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking of starting a new TITTWIS thread b/c I miss a lot of those folks. too much jumping around on threads where I don't live these days.

Weather's nice right now but will be dripping hot later. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah gimme another 3 weeks before im begging for mercy but right now i love my sunburn

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I mean today. high today supposed to be about 85. i'm only bitching b/c i have a job interivew at 2 and don't have a car. I shall be walking/riding bus while wearing a suit. bleargh!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Who wants to buy my house? Pleasant little town, absolutely nothing ever happens, dry county.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

HA!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

why dont you rent it out? you know thats what donald trump would do.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

my granddad told me a story a while back and the punchline was '...it was the wettest dry county in south carolina!'

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and pleasant plains' 'city of panic' intelli-pic upthread does no justice to how sparkly the arkansas river is today.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

We got some pretty good thunderstorms last night.

Looks like I'll be moving to Tallahassee sometime this summer. I know nothing about this city except that it is home to the Noles.

I'll be moving to Tallahassee after my bands various tours are over with. The first tour is with B0nnie Prince B1lly and is a tour of the South. What's up with Hattiesburg, MS other than the University of Southern Missippi?

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

i thought BPB was only touring with pink nasty these days. if mississippi is MS whats missouri?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

and it's actually spelled "mossouri." it's algerian.

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

zacharias mossouri

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T LIE, KARL

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not handyman enough to be a landlord, esp. not with a 100-year-old house.

No idea abt Hattiesburg -- I'm at the other end of the state.

Atlanta ILXors, do you ever go to the Dekalb Farmer's Market? I want to live there, maybe on a cot in a storeroom.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Missouri is MO. We are touring with BPB these dates only.

Tue 5/2/06 Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Wed 5/3/06 Birmingham, AL Bottle Tree
Thu 5/4/06 Hattiesburg, MS The Thirsty Hippo
Fri 5/5/06 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jacks *
Mon 5/8/06 Oxford, MS Proud Larry's
Tue 5/9/06 Memphis, TN Young Ave. Deli

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i was listening to NPR fayetteville yesterday afternoon and they were talking about this very destructive tornado that came through a few days prior and ripped apart some homes in the town of MARMADUKE, ARKANSAS. tragic, yet all i could picture was that lovable cartoon canine being sucked up and blended into the sky.

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone here from Tallahassee?

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

ive only been like once - i used to go more to the offshoot in piedmont park on saturday mornings

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Or is there a Florida thread?

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

to be honest most of my atl farmers market experience is that rickety shack on ponce

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Mon 5/8/06 Oxford, MS Proud Larry's

I could come to this! Larry's was my preferred drinking establishment when I lived in Oxford.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

The Dekalb thing isn't really a farmer's market, it's just called that. It's the best grocery store I've ever been to.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

no texas? *sniff*

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

pleasant plains and i toured dallas a few weekends ago. six flags is fun. i got pulled over by theme park cops.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't been to six flags since my senior year in high school. long over due obv.

what were you doing?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I went to King's Island last summer for the first time in a long time and discovered that I am now too tall to ride any of the new coasters.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

According to Wikipedia, Hattiesburg is considered by some to be the historical birthplace of rock n' roll.

― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

its a farmers market in that you buy things in plastic tubs instead of boxes or whatever

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

and the walls are made of sheet metal

― ++++, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

xxxx-post

i really liked the mr freeze (dr freeze? i dont remember) ride. the only part of rollercoasters i find objectionable is the slow climb so that one really worked well for me. i also kicked a hispanic family's collective ass on the squirt gun game. scored a scooby doo doll which i gave to my great dane. i got busted for smoking, not in a line or eating area but on a bridge. i got handed a card and escorted away. a guy with a mullet who had witnessed the incident sure got friendly with us later, so i guess it was worth it. just friendly, not 'friendly' friendly.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

escorted away to six flags jail?

There was no freeze ride last time i went. it's so damn expensive!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. I think it was $45 each just to get in. Then you've got the overpriced food / cokes etc etc. Cheap Scooby Doo dolls though.

We also ate in Deep Ellum which, i must say, looks NOTHING like it does on "Cheaters". Not even remotely. I suspect Tommy Grand has been lying to me. Irony.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Karl. My rural school's basketball team used to play Marmaduke. Whenever I'd see them on the team schedule, I'd picture our basketball team screening against an oversized Great Dane on the court.

I work with a show host who is quite prone to on-air malapropisms. A few weeks ago, he was trying to emphasize his skepticism about something and said, "You're going to have to treat me like I'm from Missouri on this one and PROVE IT."

(Because we all know that Missouri is known as the "Prove It State".)

Hey, Rock. Is it just the two of you now? I can send you some brochures for some retirement communities around here.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

POLLEN SUXXX

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

WE MAY BE OLD BUT WE AIN'T DEAD YET.

(Kiddo graduates HS in May, off to college in August. We're moving out to my wife's old family home, about 1/2 the size of our current house. I have mixed feelings to say the least.)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is smoking banned at Six Flags now? That's weird, they didn't even give a shit if you were handing out unfiltered Camels to underage kids back in the day (aka 'five years ago').

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
there are some beautiful old southern houses good food (duh) and a cool looking little downtown in hattiesburg, but for a smallish miss. town it's kinda sprawling and dreary. and worse for wear now after katrina, which wrecked shit up through that whole corridor. but there are plenty of music fans and local bands and stuff there. some even decent! or at least there were a few years ago when i had some friends going to USM down there.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

i hear starkville suxx something awful

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

smoking is banned everywhere.

Where did you go in deep ellum sunny? Everytime I watch Cheater's I'm all "hey I know where that is!" When I lived in Dallas I was always hoping to catch them shooting.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

On the Razorback message board, the word filter turns "hell" into "Starkville". It's a hole, that's for sure.

We ate at some rockabilly taco bar which had a really bad juke box. Sunny can tell you about the vintage store.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

rock hardy who do you root for - ole miss, southern, or bizarro bulldogs?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

starkville occupied a big part of my childhood--grandparents there, mom grew up there, i lived there for several years--and so i have a big place in my heart for it. it's a very green and lovely looking place. but it is fairly empty musically and whatnot. it's, ahem, stark in the culture dept.

go dawgs!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Have any of my Texan bros signed Kinky Friedman's ballot petition? I haven't seen them out and about canvassing so I guess I'm going to have to find one of the campaign offices (or just not bother?).

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

ock hardy who do you root for - ole miss, southern, or bizarro bulldogs?

I went to college at MSU for four years and worked at Ole Miss for four years, so my allegiences are kinda divided. I root for UM's football team* and MSU's baseball team, the rest I don't really care about.

(*and so I think Tommy Tuberville is the Antichrist)

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Tommycat's from Arkansas, just like Bear was.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

yeah my dad was all hyper last winter with some inside tip (ie. something he read on dawgvent) he got about how tuberville was jumping to arkansas, contract agreed on, etc.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think most Arkansas fans would be happy with that.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

re: Kinky...definitely bother!

I originally signed up to voulnteer with the canvassing but the our whole buying house thing turned into a nightmare. (well not really but just sucked up any free time I thought I would have.)

Weird, I was just thinking about needing to sign the ballot today. They'll be plenty of places round town, keep eyes and ears open.

rockabilly taco bar. . .El Sol's possibly?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's it. I even drank the blood of Tejas.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2095/be27320c85e24rp1bm.jpg

Then again, maybe that wasn't blood.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

mmm, lone star. our national beer!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm on my Tylenol Allergy medicine today. I am simeltaneously wired and tired. This was the part that I didn't miss when I was up north.

I think the pollen's worse this year. When I take the Galoot out into the backyard at night, I bring the flashlight with me since our backyard light is out. When i click it on, you can see a beam like I'm shining it through smoke. Except in this case, it's POLLEN.

Also, it's officially air-conditioning season. That means that I'm freezing my ass off while it's eighty degrees outside. But this is the subject of about nineteen-hundred other threads on ilx.

But there's more to the South than the weather. Check out a house that Sunny and I found: 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 3250 sq. feet. $103,000.

The catch? It's in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, smack dab in the middle of B.F.E.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

i want that house

we have a backyard light??

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

OMMFGMFMGFMG!!! ITS GOT A HORSE BARN!!!!

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

We have a backyard light if you open the office blinds and turn on the big light.

And I'd think long and hard about putting a horse into this thing:

http://photos.crye-leike.com/proppics/LittleRock/2/0/CARMLS10071720k.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

man I'm pissed I'm going to have to miss that BPB show at the Deli. I'll be going to Seattle for the first time, though, so that's a small consolation.

Hey Rock, I was trapped in Beautiful, Historic Aberdeen a couple of weeks ago for work. Are you there, or is it Okolona? I had a surprisingly good time thanks to (a)the small amount of forgotten contraband I found in my suitcase and (b)two newly married friends who are themselves trapped in Columbus til one finishes school.

There were some A-Mazing homes in Aberdeen, but I noticed like every third one was for sale. Looked like it was the swinging-est No. MS town circa 1890 or so. Unfortunately I wasn't around long enough for the Pilgrimage. Do the women dress up in bonnets and shit? Cheezus Christ.

― Will (will), Monday, 24 April 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what's BFE and can it really be that bad? Because that house is beautiful.

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked up Cotton Plant and wow, that's beyond BFE. Right in the middle between L.R. and Memphis, you wouldn't know which city to feel more isolated from. Also, have fun heating and cooling 3250 sq. ft. Still, that's a beautiful house.

Will, I'm in Amory, 20 minutes north of Aberdeen. You described Aberdeen perfectly -- there's a lot of faded, crumbling beauty there. (We lived in one of those great old antebellum houses from '68-'70.) Just living in Mississippi at all is bad enough, but if I had to live in Okolona I'd tap a vein or run away to join the circus.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ath, B stands for "Bum" and E stands for "Egypt".

Maybe if I were independently wealthy and had my own business like Rock Hardy, me and the mizzus could afford to live there. At least Monroe County's wet.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

pssshhh, independently wealthy, right. I make just enough to keep myself zonked out on an internet drip all day.

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

pp, look at that quilt. no way we're buying this house.

http://photos.crye-leike.com/proppics/LittleRock/2/0/CARMLS10071720j.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Now if they lost the quilt and threw a cream colored sheet over the ironing board to add "Depth", we'd close in a heartbeat!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

a bowl of apples would be nice too

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

on cinder blocks.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

with painted wallpaper

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

my parents from san diego visited my fiancee and i in fayetteville for the first time this weekend. they'd never been to arkansas. not knowing what else to show them after blowing our load saturday night on the all-too exciting WILLY D's duelling piano bar, where my mom got to request "piano man" by billy joel (something i'm sure they never get asked to play every night), i decide to drive them around the region on sunday. we end up in EUREKA SPRINGS.

eureka springs is this "quaint" little touristy town in the ozarks about an hour from fayettenam that's full of millions of bed and breakfasts and restraunts that hang on to these steep rock cliffs and they have trolley cars and an enormous jesus statue (and seasonal "passion play" christian theatre) and one of those wedge-shaped downtown blocks like you see in times square and SF, except far jesusier. antiques and knick-knack stores everywhere you look. i'm seriously talking snoozeville, jesus county, U.S.A. i regretted having taken them there as soon as we arrived.

we had stopped into eureka springs for lunch on the way home from pea ridge civil war battlefield and museum on the missouri state line, which was actually really cool. but, while we were driving out of town on highway 62, passing the last 40 bed and breakfasts on the way, we see a big TURTLE just stepping on to the side of the road to cross it!

so this is a fairly busy highway out of town, and we all see it and say "what the FUCK -- was that a TURTLE?" none of us know if this turtle belongs to someone at the bed and breakfast or what. so i'm driving mom and dad's rental car and i decide we have to save this turtle! everyone in the car agrees it is the right thing to do. i stop and pull over and turn the car around.

it was by far the most exciting moment of the day because this town is BORING (melissa and i had never been there before, we just figured mom and dad might enjoy a nice sunday drive through this touristy town. i dunno) and once we all saw that turtle it was the first jolt of excitement we felt all day -- all of them were shouting "karl, hurry up, turn around, let's get that turtle and save it!" mom's shouting that i'm turning around too fast and i'm going to endanger all our lives. i say to mom, "mom, our lives are not at stake here, but the turtle's is!"

so i turn around as fast as i can and pull over on the side of the road that turtle's slowly headed towards. dad doesn't want me ON the highway so he tells me to pull over further down into this parking lot (of a bed and breakfast). a car zips by and NARROWLY misses the turtle, causing him to stick his head in his shell. the turtle is obviously scared to death but he's so stupid he keeps going. i say "dad, there's no time, we've got to save this turtle!" but he tells me to move the car off the highway, so i do. everyone's shouting, it's kinda hectic in the rental dodge stratus by this point.

so we pull off into this parking lot, and we've all got our eyes on the turtle, melissa and mom and dad are cheering me on to go run out there and grab it. "be careful, karl, it's a big snapping turtle, it could bite you!" "hurry up karl, a car's coming!" i throw off my seatbelt and open the door, and as soon as i do, some guy in a jetta comes speeding around the bend and runs DIRECTLY over the turtle, and we hear this loud CRUNCH.

instantly we all groan and swear and it's not in the least bit comical at this point, melissa is practically crying, mom erupts into a swearing fit ("that FUCKING man! god DAMN IT!") after which she apologizes profusely, as is her way. i am pounding the steering wheel with my fists because it was just severely disappointing. we are all crushed (for lack of a better word) that we just witnessed this happen. we all hang our heads and mutter about how horrible it was to see what we just saw.

and then, we have to turn around and DRIVE BACK PAST THE FUCKING SQUASHED TURTLE to leave this horrible boring town. and what do you know, the turtle is only PARTLY smashed, so his right legs are FLAILING AND TWITCHING while the rest of the shell is crushed into the bloody meat below. another wave of horrible shouting from us in the car upon seeing the turtle is experiencing hell on earth, but i'm already gone, and i just speed off.

we drive in upset silence for about 15 minutes.

anyway, so eureka springs is a shithole and i'm not going back there for the rest of my life, despite the off-season rates at their millions of lovely bed and breakfasts being somewhat attractive.

― ath (ath), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

shit, karl. thats horrible. a few weeks ago i was driving to work and saw a wee bird in the middle of the inside lane of a real busy 4 lane road. its legs had been clearly injured and it sat there moving its wings up and down real slow. i felt sick for the rest of the day. friday i missed a baby squirrell by millimetres.
my mom and niece are coming up in 3 weeks and we're probably going to eureka springs. we thought maybe blanchard springs instead, but the claustrophobics cant stand caverns.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

you are making a big mistake going anywhere within a 10 mile radius of eureka springs! stay out! stay far, far away! go to nearby beaver lake instead and have a nice stroll at nice low speeds. i still can't believe what a bad time i had. don't let me say i told you so.

― ath (ath), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

i am a little hesitant to let my irish catholic mother (not too mention my own atheist ass) too close to an area of such concentrated protestantism it requires a seven story tall jesus. i think she just wants to look at pretty mountains and trees. Cardinals too.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

why cant we have this guy:

http://www.roadsidenut.com/pilgrim1103.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Eureka Springs

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

What the?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, Eureka Springs caters to the homosexual.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

i hate flash. grr

it's gorgeous outside today.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

hi, southerners. whats going on?

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 12 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Freezing my ass off! But I'm enjoying the run of cool weather, knowing what it'll probably be like in a couple of months.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

It's been beautiful here the past couple of days. High 80s low 90s, nice breeze. This is after weeks of monsoons. Hopefully it will last for the weekend.

Last weekend we went boating. I don't think this one holds quite as much excitement.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Gorgeous in New Orleans today. Wish I had a hammock.

― adam (adam), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I just graduated! (From high school.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations. My sister graduated high school last week.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

are you serious curt1s? damn there's some younguns 'round here.

Congratulations. :)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I feel bad for cussing online now.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 25 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations! Do you have college plans in place?

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats, Curtis!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going off to Georgia Tech's college of computing this fall, where I will try to not eat at the Varsity every day.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha! good luck!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 26 May 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's HOT outside.

at least I am working in a place that will probably have A/C most of the time, unlike last summer. :/

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

i have 1 more week left in the south!

it is hot. and the master of the house refuses to set a/c lower than 77º. thanks a lot, dude.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

77! It's always at 80 or 81 in our house. Those $2-300 electic bills are not good.

I haven't been out since about 7 this morning but yesterday was awfully humid. I have to walk far to the busstop (uphill!) and am a gross mess by the time I get there.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 26 May 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, riverfest! sometimes living blocks away from the river is awful.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

the thing is, my sister and i are only here for a few more weeks, after that he won't have to run it at all upstairs. and i offered him $ for it, but he is just stubborn.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't pay for electricity, so I keep my AC at 70 all the time. It's awesome. I don't think I could live at 80+.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

nice!

also, even though it's set at 77 or 78, my room gets hotter than the hall where the thermostat is, so i wake up all hot and nasty. i just want one week of comfort before i'm off to a non-air conditioned, hot and nasty summer in the city.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah when I lived in an ABP apt I kept it frigid in there!

Our house is pretty cool. We have all slate floors and trees so it's not too bad inside.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about the box fan, tehresa. Airflow is urgent in southern humidity.

If I ever bought a house, I'd like to find some kind of southern vernacular deal - shotguns and dogtrots kept our ancestors from baking in their sleep, but then came the badly insulated Craftsman cottages and decades of craptastic brick tract houses.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

SS and I war over the thermostat ourselves.

ugh, riverfest!

And guess who gets to work an ultra-rare Saturday morning shift tomorrow? CAN'T WAIT TO DRIVE TO WORK.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

my AC has a remote control! i adjust it constantly from wherever i happen to be.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 26 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

It's all about the box fan, tehresa. Airflow is urgent in southern humidity.

windows are forbidden to be open when the ac is "on"

i have ceilng fan. still hot at night, though.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

ps i don't mean to complain like a whiny little bitch. it's not that big a deal, really.

― tehresa (tehresa), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I highly recommend a dehumidifier. Not only because it's kind of neat when you realize how fast the damn thing fills up.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Does it really make a damn difference? I'd consider one if it did.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

i got a bunch of fuckin chigger bites

HOWEVER I HAD A BBQ RIB DINNER

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fingernail polish will partially do the trick on them chigger bites, son.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

pffffffffff fool i already got the fuckin grain alcohol spray bottle, dont even try and play tricks on a RAZORHOG we too sharp

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

I need to get out in the woods more. I haven't had a chigger bite in 15-20 years.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

man chigger bites are the WORST.

And yes, dehumidifiers DO make a difference. It's less noticeable when you're home all the time, but when you leave for a week and then come back and notice your house doesn't smell like mold for the first time ever, it's pretty damn nice.

xpost, obv

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

my goddamn chigger bites don't get better they get fuckin WHORSE and i dont actually have any rubbing alcohol i gotta just drink stupid PBR and sauza HORNITOS tequila dna smoke pot

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

in all seriousness though how fucking stupid was that stupid-ass pearl jam album cover with the dumb avocado picture

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

blech... dont even make me... feh

find it urself

― ath (ath), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Chigger bites vs Tick bites.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 27 May 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

man, i don't think i've had a chigger bite since like summer camp sometime in elementary school!

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 27 May 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody else pissed off about McDonald's stepping all over Chik-fil-A's turf?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

i.e.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

OH HELL NO.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 8 June 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

Looks like Mickey D's is healthier in terms of calories/fat/sodium. But I refuse to try it out of principle.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 8 June 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

what?

I don't eat at Mickey Ds ever out of principal.

Mavs down near the end of the 2nd. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 June 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "out of principle," any FAST FOOD restaurant in America that DOES NOT OPEN ON SUNDAYS OUT OF PRINCIPLE is almost certainly run by DANGEROUS RELIGIOUS FANATICS.

So go Mickey D's, I say.

(Anyway, everybody's got chicken sandwiches like that now - Burger King, Arby's, Wendy's.)

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 9 June 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Where is Pleasant Plains? Did he evaporate?

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hes still solid. Taking a little step back maybe. Have you moved to the house you didnt want to move to?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

mitya, you mean chick-fil-a? yeah that bothers me. hobby lobby also closes on sunday to allow "employees time for worship." seems like poor business mgmt to me.

mavs lead 2-0, woo-hoo!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

No, thank god, we're not going to do it. It's a huge relief for me. (xpost)

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

nice! i want to move to wisconsin.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hear ya. We spent a week in Minnesota and Wisconsin in July a few years ago and it was so great. Coming home, we crossed the line from Wisconsin to Illinois and the temp jumped 20 degrees.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

where in wisconsin? pleasant plains doesnt like the idea of wisconsin because he lived in minnesota for a while and minnesotans look down on wisconsin. pish.

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

We were mainly visiting a friend in N. Minnesota, near Bemidji, but took the Wisconsin route home and took our time coming south -- Duluth, Eau Clair, the Dells, Madison. Beautiful countryside, traded MS's cotton fields for WI's corn and cows, but it was a lot like Mississippi + reasonable temperatures.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of "out of principle," any FAST FOOD restaurant in America that DOES NOT OPEN ON SUNDAYS OUT OF PRINCIPLE is almost certainly run by DANGEROUS RELIGIOUS FANATICS.

:'(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 12 June 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i boycotted chik-fil-a during the terri schiavo thing. and mitya i have to wonder if you've ever actually eaten at chik-fil-a cuz 'everybody' most definitely don't have that kind of sandwich now, one reason mcdonald's is doing such a big thing hyping this one even though they've had 'crispy' chicken sandwiches for forever. i'll stick to chik-fil-a but this does solve the 'you always end up wanting chik-fil-a on sundays' conundrum.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I should've figured it wasn't going to work when, on our first date, we went to A) Chik-Fil-A, and B) the Bible-themed mini-golf course.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

omg please tell me hole 18 was calvary

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

whats up, southerners?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Summer's not so bad if you don't have to go out in it at all.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's fun to open this thread and see "It's snowing!"

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

those were the days

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday me and the in-laws were wagering on how long the heat would last. I think we're going to stay above 80 (at least) until Halloween. They predicted the weather breaking a bit earlier.

What do you think?

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Monday, 21 August 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

im sure it was this bad last year. im betting on a 75ish average by halloween (in central arkansas). still lame.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, I would love to have 75 right now! We're still hitting triple digits most afternoons. I am so done with sweating.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Temps were probably as high last year, but we're getting hammered by serious drought as well. We're at about 60% of the rain we had by this time last year, tops.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

we've had a bunch of storms come through arkansas over the past couple of days and theyve all dodged LR. what the hell?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

pretty big severe thunderstorm through the ozarks last night which put a tree through a house up the hill from here. apparently there was a fire which is why POLICE COPS had to block off my street yesterday when i was trying to come home from the grocery store. incessant deafening chirp of obnoxious katydids now eerily silent. yard and street littered with wet tree branches.

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I'm beginning to forget what rain looks like.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday it looked like violence. i am a south n00b but yesterday it was frightening how quickly freight train winds started up, got pitch dark, and then started pouring. like within 5 minutes!

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I know! I've only been in the south (Nashville) for a year, and I'm constantly surprised with how violent and quick the afternoon thunderstorms are. Ahh, and then it makes way for opressive humidity which makes my Northern constitution want to cry.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

im a new southerner too and im scared of tornados. should one come for me, how am i going to get three cats and a great dane in the tub with me? WHY NO BASEMENTS, SOUTH??

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

sad about paul eells

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

WHY NO BASEMENTS, SOUTH??

Doesn't it have something to do with our soil?

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

he was cute, but this is gay:

http://www.oinkx.com/ups/Paul.jpg

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

ugh

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

dont cry, hoggy!

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

WHY NO BASEMENTS, SOUTH??
Doesn't it have something to do with our soil?

some areas around LR--and arkansas as a whole--are hilly and rocky enough to have proper basements. in most places i fear a basement would end up just leaking and filling every heavy rain, becoming a stagnant cesspool of filth and gore. you'd step down to grab a mason jar of preserves and you end up like jennifer connelly in phenomena (aka creepers).
http://www.moviebox.se/_photos/recensioner/373/phenomena4.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I actually live in a basement apartment, erm, "Garden Apartment." Only one wall is technically underground, as it's on a hill, as most things are here. When I first moved in, it stunk to high heaven of mold (which wasn't on the craigslist posting), and I ended up crying and proclaiming "I'm gonna be that girl who smells musty all the time!" Happily, a dehumidifier took care of it.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

we have been getting some crazy storms today!

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECI8.JPG

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

A bit swirly out there today.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

what are the colors? i cant read the top of the scale.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

KABOOM LIGHTNING.

it is so ridiculously humid.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

and N/LRers, has anyone heard of anything that happened down on main street argenta this afternoon. i drove through there 3:15ish and there were lots of peeps and undercover cop cars and some people wearing "CRIME SCENE" t-shirts.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's an infrared image -- according to the key, the further up the color scale, the more water in the atmosphere and the colder the air is. Also, that's a permanent filename, so the image will change as the system passes. (For anyone who looks at this in a month and thinks "doesn't look swirly to me.")

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

yay! i love the changing pics. like pleasant plain's 'city of panic' at the top of the thread.

does the red while its hot = possible tornados?

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kinda sorta yes, depending on the time of year.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

yesterday it looked like violence. i am a south n00b but yesterday it was frightening how quickly freight train winds started up, got pitch dark, and then started pouring. like within 5 minutes!
-- ath (jodec...), August 22nd, 2006. (ath) (later) (link)
Yes! I know! I've only been in the south (Nashville) for a year, and I'm constantly surprised with how violent and quick the afternoon thunderstorms are. Ahh, and then it makes way for opressive humidity which makes my Northern constitution want to cry.

-- molly d (molly.dah...), August 22nd, 2006. (mollyd) (later) (link)

that is one of the things i miss about the south. where i grew up, we'd get a thunderstorm practically every afternoon in summer and i always loved how it looked when it clouded over the trees and the sky looked a little green.

we never had a basement, but we did have a closet under the stairs that we'd go in when we feared tornados or trees falling on the house. i know at least that where my parents' current house is, the ground is ALL rock. when people build pools they have to dynomite that shit out, so i can see how contractors would rather just build large attics instead of basements.

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Tuesday, 22 August 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

which state tehresa?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

south carolina

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, the South.

I lived inside of you for 25 years. Thanks for all the fun.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Jeff,

Thanks for having your fun, using me up and reaming me out, then tossing me aside and leaving me when I needed you. Maybe somebody will find my body when they go dumpster diving.

Love,
The South

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

(/jk)

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

has hpencil even been to west virginia?

― =[[ (eman), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

also The Great Southern Trendkill: discus

― =[[ (eman), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've never sat down and absorbed TGST, but I do know that it was about time someone called those fuckers out.

Now, Great Southern Threadkills, I'm all about those.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

bloodreddd - 8/22/2006 7:10:25 PM
Fucking Metal......it flows in our veins and pumps us with the right amount of anger and hatred we need to deal with the fucks of this world. I feel fucking blessed every fucking day that I ended up bleeding metal. Dime Fucking Bag. Metal.

― =[[ (eman), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to complain that all we ever talk about here is weather but it seems the thread has turned. To what I don't know. . .

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

well, lets talk about krystal burger and how yummy it is and why the only one in ark is in west freakin' memphis.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

there aren't any in texas. :(

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh, you mean "cristal"? there's one down the street from me. why is it so delicious? and how did they get the name "sliders"?

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/specials/1999/champagne/supply.demand/cristal.1986.jpg

aren't white castle burgers sliders too? b/c they slide down your throat.. or out your butt.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

i've never had white castle, because i fear it. or maybe it's because i can't betray my love for cristal [sic] sliders with cheese and pickles!

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

i've never had white castle but there is one a few blocks from my new apartment. i will report back after the first drunken excursion.

i never ate krystal in south because the closest one was like 30 min away i think, but i worked w/ a girl in high school who would never shut up about them.

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

white castle are vile. sorry yankees.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

they built a bunch of krystals around Greenville about 5 years ago. haven't been to any of 'em though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, the South. I'm in you. Always.

White Castle S/D:

S: sliders, onion rings, milkshakes, coffee
D: "chicken rings", week old doughnuts

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

While McDonald's likes to promote itself as having served billions and billions, White Castle was the first burger chain to break the billion burger barrier. It did so in 1954, just about the time Ray Kroc began expanding McSqueakies.

The internet, so full of facts!

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

sunny, have you heard any more about this...

they did the ringling elephant walk thru my neighborhood yesterday. it is sooooooo cute!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

the closest i can get to krystal burgers are the suspicious ones sitting in the vending machine at work which i havent been brave enough to try.

amd - no, i havent! i even watching 'thv this morning' umm this morning and nothing. weird. when i pulled out of the driveway this morning there was another unmarked cop car with its lights flashing pulled up at the jewelry store at the end of my street. crime a-go-go!

aww elephants! i wonder if the elephants at the zoo can smell them? new elephants in town! that must be pretty exciting.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

it is! the circus is in town and they walk them from the trainyards to alltel arena. it is tre muy adorable! andrew and i walked to the arena and took a few photos of the zebras, camels, and the elephants. no good elephant ones, the view was pretty much obstructed. zebras are a little sassy.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

zebras are a little sassy.

stripey = sassy. as someone who likes wearing stripes, you should already know that!

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

The other night I was watching 'when good pets go bad' or something on animal planet. Those circus elephants are walking timebombs. When they lose it. . look the fuck out.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

an elephant just killed its handler a few weeks ago in hohenwald, tn!

http://www.elephant-news.com/preview.php?id=1110

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Thomas Edison had the right idea. Electrocute 'em all!

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

what's Phil Anselmo's take on elephants?

― =[[ (eman), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Friday my brother and I are going to ACL to see Gnarls Barkley. He has just suggested we dress in movie-themed costumes as tribute. It's set to be in the mid-90s on Fri. Cool (as in not sweaty) ideas anyone?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I had to look up Gnarls Barkley on pollstar to see what "ACL" meant.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, thought you DA SOUTH and all. ;)

Not really excited about the ACL part as there's no one else I care to see. I'm actually seeing Gnarls at a regular non-festival show Wed. night but that's not w/my brother and my boyfriend isn't nearly as adventrous.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

ACL = Aclanta, no?

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Aclabama

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

but but what costumes could we wear??

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/directors/03/27/slacker.jpg ?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha, that would actually be kind of awesome if we wouldn't just be blending into the scenery. ;)

I'm going to see Gnarls tonight for the first of two times this week!!! Have I mentioned that? so excited. . .

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Has fall started outside of the South yet? I don't even know anymore. I hate hot weather.

― Songbirds of Darker Florida (cprek), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was suspiciously cool this morning. made me think I might need a jacket. maybe it is fall?

I have full faith that TX shall deliver another blinding heatwave before the coolness really sets in, though.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think it might be! I am so happy! It started to get cooler yesterday, so I made a massive pot of chicken soup in joyous anticipation of lasting cooler temperatures. I don't think I jinxed it because it's only supposed to be a high of 75 in Nashville today.

The humidity is still a bitch, though, as per usual.

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

OMG THIS RAIN SUXXX. IT IS 'COLD' TODAY AS WELL.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

lucky

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

9 days

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

9 days?

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Cprek, it is like 60 degrees here and cloudy today. You are missed.

In other news, plans are apparently in the works to knock down a city block here in Lexington, KY that houses, among other things, prime music venue The Dame, very popular night spots Busters, Mia's, etc etc history building etc, so that a HYATT hotel can be built to accomodate the influx of tourists expected for the 2010 Equestrian Games (being held in America for the first time, apparently). Where will all teh hipsters go to get schlitzed?

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

And where will Rev Horton Heat KRS-One etc etc play here? NOWHERE, that's where. They will drive on to Cincinnatti.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry, k. 9 days til fall. right? maybe ten?

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh! you're right! no, wait, my calendar says 10. back home we're so lazy we don't bother with equinoxes. seasons always start at the beginning of the month ie Sept 1st, Dec 1st etc

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

and i keep thinking winter is the next season. wishful thinking.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Two and half more months before hurricane season is over! Fingers crossed, people! Also, October can't come fucking fast enough.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I spoke too soon. It's gonna be back in the fucking upper 80s here by the weekend.

I have to say it: I miss fall in the North! I want it to be cool already. It is making me crabby.

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

the weather is really nice here, I'm actually starting to think ACL festival tomorrow might not be so bad. (although I've officially ix-nayed the costume wearing.)

gnarls barkley were so awesome last night and i'm seeing them again tomorrow!how can i work now?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 14 September 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

What's going on at GA Tech today:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/sevenxviii/SatanIsMyLord.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

So who is the guy up front represeting?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Evangelicals: "Is Satan really your Lord?"
Satan guy: "No, I just thought some other viewpoints needed a spokesperson."
Evangelicals: "Oh. So you're a liar, then?"
Satan guy: "Yeah, basically."
Evangelicals: "...Okay." (go back to preaching God's honest truth with special attention to buttsex)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

The "Homo Sex is a SIN" guy argued that HIV is produced by two unafflicted men having sex. I.e., the penis ruptures the sphincter, and the blood mixes with the semen to produce HIV.

He also said the "evolution gods think homosexuality is wrong, too."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

"serve the lord with fear and trembling"

sounds like their target marketing religion to parkinson's patients now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

He also said the "evolution gods think homosexuality is wrong, too."

this might be the single greatest example of profound stupidity i've ever read. i will cherish it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha are those dudes still gonna be there when i get off work

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

omg, so much to laugh at with Curt1s's post.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is HOMO SEX IS SIN guy a student admitted to your college? If so, pack your shit up now and run.

You don't want to attend any university that let him in.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

ethan they left at 4:00 but they're coming back tomorrow at noon!!!!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Is HOMO SEX IS SIN guy a student admitted to your college?

These guys aren't students. HOMO SEX IS SIN guy never went to college. (Someone asked.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also these people aren't college-age; they're mostly fortysomethings.

I got a "Get Out Of Hell Free" card out of the deal, so apparently I can fap to Mapplethorpe photos all I want!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think this is their website: http://www.officialstreetpreachers.com/

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

(though that might just be the people who made the signs)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 20 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can fap to Mapplethorpe photos all I want!

Is this some new usage of the word fap?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 21 September 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://sexylosers.com/152.html

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to click on that from work.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

R-rated, but not X.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Today I passed by the religious ppl performing a "skit." I didn't see what was going on but someone in the audience shouted "IT WASN'T JESUS IT WAS DAVID LEE ROTH."

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

finally, the truth.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

The high for the next week will be in the 90s. What happened to fall?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

really? we have a predicted high of 70 on thursday. driving to work yesterday morning i was beyond chilly. sweet.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

did my initial post turn this into the weather thread before it even began? i never hear yankees bitching about endless snow like we bitch about the heat.

of course, snow rules.

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

It came to MS. Beautiful! Projected highs this week: 79, 83, 74, 70 74. (xp)

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I was going to suggest we change this thread to "the southern weather thread" but there was the jesus protestor discussion above. Us Southerners do love to talk about the weather.

our lows are deceivingly low, in the 60s. Enough to make me put on a long-sleeved shirt this morning. Today's high: 95. Son of a bitch! I'll be sweating on the way home. Nineties throught the end of next week for Austin. :(

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still wondering how vibrant the leaves are going to get this fall. It was pretty hot, so they may just be brown and dead.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

brown and dead

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

ours are always brown and dead.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

We need more sap down here.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Some trees are turning here, but then it rained 9 inches or whatever over the weekend (8 dead in KY floods, wtf) and now they think it's grow time again.

It is 70ish and beautiful outside now.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: I'm originally from Buffalo. When April rolls around and we're still getting 2 feet of snow, you better believe we're complaining about the snow and the general rust belt-snow encrusted malaise.

It's gorgeous in Nashville! 61F right now, but it should get up to 82F tomorrow.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday was gorgeous - I don't think it topped 80 and there was a cool breeze all day, and I didn't have shit to do outside.

Now: humid in the morning, muggy in the afternoon. Yech.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/archaicbirch/theBlow.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

i guess eells figured even divine intervention couldn't stop USC

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

man, this weather

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of paul eels, we got this memo a little over a week ago:

For those of you who use the Jury Orientation Video, in case you haven't used it recently, this is just a reminder that the video's commentator is Paul Eels. Having lost Mr. Eels tragically in August, those potential jurors who view the video might be taken aback if they're not briefed beforehand about his appearance.

Mr. Eels was most helpful in creating and producing the video for Arkansas's judiciary, so should you choose to do so, perhaps just a few words before showing the video about his appearance in the film and his helpfulness to Arkansas's Judiciary by participating in the video might be something that could be said to your jury panels. Just a thought for your consideration.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's like how I'm "taken aback" everytime I hear an Elvis song on the radio.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

(I almost want to serve on a jury now just to see that video!)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

what town in georgia (minimum population 50k) has the highest concentration of neo-confederates? cause i always wanted to get a mob together and burn a confederate flag in a public space. should we go armed?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

wait, you walk around unarmed? are you southern?

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Supposedly a few years back a friend of a friend passed by a pickup truck with a confederate flag sticker and shouted "YOU LOST THE WAR!" The guy in the truck got out his shotgun and chased them, and they had to spend two hours hiding in the woods.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

(334) 756-3336

Recorded message.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

i like the way he tied together the importance of not rushing the preparation of food at the den to the necessary inconvenience of using a credit card at the den with this logical arc that also somehow ran through the auburn tigers and how there's going to be some trouble if you're scheduled to play them

― ath (ath), Thursday, 5 October 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah last weekend was one of the loudest and most obnoxious i've ever had to live through, courtesy of this stupid festival. LOUD stupid festival. drunk, middle-aged white guys riding their harleys around until 3AM, and i guess the city chamber of commerce invited them. apparently it's now the largest motorcycle rally outside of sturgis. saturday night i took my moped a mile to the liquor store and felt like someone was gonna crack my skull open with a bat for riding a blue slovenian 2-stroke without a confederate flag somewhere on my jacket. admittedly, the BBQ smelled pretty good.

― ath (ath), Thursday, 5 October 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Every year Austin hosts the Republic of Texas bike rally. It is insane. The city is completely overrun with huge bikes. Downtown is pointless b/c you can't hear yourself think from the noise.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've lost a cassette single I had by a Mobile rapper named Hextacy. His song B.A.M.A.B.O.Y. was classic.

"B.A. M.A. B.O.Y.
Bamaboy, bamaboy - it's where I'm from
B.A. M.A. B.O.Y.
Bamaboy, bamboy until I die."

The cover of the single featured Hextacy surfing a magic carpet out of a (possibly) flooding Bankhead Tunnel.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Thursday, 5 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see/hear Hextacy.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 13 October 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad it's finally fall weather today.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 13 October 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Beautiful fall weather = overdoing the yardwork I neglected all summer. I am WO' OUT.

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Friday, 13 October 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

still no fall in TX, afternoon highs near 90s. :(

― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

ouch! it's rainy and 75 here. there have been a few nights with frost, though.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

maybe we'll get frost by xmas.

― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

austin'll be getting some fall weather on wednesday night/thursday morning.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

it should last through the weekend, too.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

We put off our Atlanta trip a week, which was fortunate, because we were home for the power outage. It would have sucked to come home to a dead freezer and fridge.

Still trying to decide what restaurants are must-visits; suggestions welcome...

― The Bearnaise-Stain Bears (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I wore a coat this morning!! (okay really a coat-ish light jacket thing) hooray!!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday, it was freaking cold here. I seemed to have lost all vestiges of northerness. I am wearing a turtleneck today AND a coat. That being said, I kind of love it. Yay! Cold! But no snow!

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Holy fucking shit it's cold in the ATL.

Rock Hardy, I can't say I'm v. cultured in the restaurants around here. I've been to Cafe Tu Tu Tango and it's pretty good; ppl say Pie Bar and Two Urban Licks are really really good.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

flying biscuit

everybodys pizza

gold star bakery

nancys

mary macs

spoon

i can give directions to any of these

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

why did nobody tell me about the BET Hip-Hop Awards? Snoop Dogg and Trick Daddy will be right down the street from me in 1 hr.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's already happened right? (I mean pre-taped). wait, did this air already? dammit.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

we used our new fire pit last nite, it was so wonderful!
soup out of coffee cups, potatoes thrown in fire, and peanuts.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

no marshmallows?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

as much as we wanted to have s'mores, no one wanted to run to the grocer's.

kate, am really looking forward to wednesday!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

me too!

i hope you like gigantic galoot dogs. is AM coming too?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

mmmm, smores. . .

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

oui, he is! please explain, in detail, galoot dogs. i know i'd like something with gravy on it.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know if it's possible to get out of a lease due to health reasons? i.e. allergies to mold, basement/garden apt. sure to be filled with it, etc.

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

look for a local tentant's rights group and ask.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Good call. Since moving down here, I've been diagnosed with a fierce allergy to mold. Fun stuff.

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

x-posts

am: good!

galoot dogs: theyre easy to catch, theres not much meat on them and they'll make you 50% dumber. gravy optional.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

you know what, i was assuming galoot dogs was a menu item, which makes all of this correspondence HILARIOUS! now i know you mean huge pup that thinks she is one kitten. gravy optional. HA!

pp mentioned that we may go to paul's afterward. that is where all this gravy talk is coming from.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

you know, hes going to make us WALK there.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

ok, its only two blocks.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I like to point out to visitors the yard where I saw the bantam rooster.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

i will bring a camera!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

COUNTDOWN TILL TECH V. GEORGIA: 2 DAYS 14 HOURS

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

80 degrees on Thanksgiving? Fuck this.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 23 November 2006 06:48 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Tired of rain now, kthx.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

There is one solitary branch that DRIPS DRIPS DRIPS onto our windowsill at night. We think it's our windowsill, but who knows since it's NIGHT TIME and DARK. Sometimes it'll go DRIP DRIP DRIP ---- ---- DRIP DRIP, faking us out during those two beats of silence.

So, yeah. Rain. We get it. Now scoot.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Is it going to snow today, arkansas? This morning they said MAYBE tonight now theyre saying noon.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

It's stupidly cold in TN. We're supposed to get SNOW and ICE tomorrow.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

k, word on the street is that it was snowing in fayetteville, but has already stopped? i bet it'll just pass us entirely, which is a bummer. i love snow!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8496/snizmw6.jpg

[X] SNOW IN FAYETTEVILLE

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

blue snow blob's impact with little rock is imminent

http://icons.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xradarc3_anim.gif

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

it's cold as butt here but no perciptation that I know of.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

We already got an email from our HR person saying "If it's crappy out and the roads are icy, we hope you can make it to work. If not, take a vacation day." Thanks.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh lord, I just thought of something: grocery stores are going to be BONKERS tonight.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

man, my work shut down for almost a whole week here recently b/c of the ice storm. could it happen again!??!

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

As a transplanted Northerner, I get annoyed with the grocery store chaos due to impending storm that never happens. However, I will happily take a day off from work if they tell me to. We're only supposed to get an inch of snow. Big whoop.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

but an inch is PARALYZING!! ;)

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hah! Here, it's really hilly and I can totally understand not wanting to take school buses and tiny, curvy roads that have never seen a salt truck. However, the chaos that ensues of buying frozen dinners and bottles of water drives me batty. Yo, dumbass, if the power goes out, your Swanson frozen dinner is not going to do you any good.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

The storm line is between the big muddy and I-55 for us, so it should hit around dusk. I hope we don't have too much ice -- I'll be totally fucked workwise if we lose power.

xxpost -- snow's not a problem, ice is a problem. Anybody remember the ice storm of 1995?

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like Texas will be fine. Rainy through Friday, but not cold enough matter.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

it was snowing in Dallas earlier today.

― patita (patita), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

UPDATE: it's been snowing so much that an hour ago, when i was driving to campus, coming down a fairly gentle hill slope, i couldn't brake or turn off into a ditch and ended up rear-ending an elderly couple. elderly wife went to the hospital in an ambulance and elderly guy stood in the snow smoking cigarettes and scowling at me. he said she was complaining about her neck. so hopefully she'll be alright and i didn't just paralyze an old woman and i can just focus on repairing the bumper on my 2 month old HONDA FIT (the one in the picture up there).

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

!!! holy crap! I'm sorry.

old man should chill. southerners ain't meant to be driving on no snow.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

oh no! poor old woman! poor cute car! hopefully, little old lady is fine (old ladies tend to be hypochondriacs, no?) and so is your bumper.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

hopefully, little old lady is fine (old ladies tend to be hypochondriacs, no?)

yeah, little old ladies do tend to be hypochondriacs.
and, y'know, brittle.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

i explained to the cop that i was from san diego and not used to driving in these conditions, and he said not to worry about it and he won't give me a ticket, because elderly people are already closest to death, and if i had given a toddler whiplash instead, there might have been repercussions. and then he laughed and said "just kidding!" but then he just stared at me for, like, a really long time. it was pretty weird.

BE SAFE OUT THERE SOUTHERNERZ

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I cannot count the times I've driven into snowbanks, or spun out at intersections. Okay, maybe I can. It's scary shit. I just want to scream, "Drive slow, homey!" to every moron who whizzes by me on the roads in TN. You only see that with some SUV drivers in Buffalo. It's sweet justice, however, when you see them in a ditch a mile down the road.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

fuck all snow

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

what part of town are you in, ath? that sux about your wreck!

there was a big snow/ice storm when i lived there in late 95 or very early 96. i didn't drive for a week. it hit zero degrees every night for a week straight! or close to that anyway. it was painful. much drunk snow walking that week. and good thing you can walk everywhere you need to go in that town.

ai lien and i were just there this past weekend too and it flurried saturday. no danger of getting stranded fortunately.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it was flurrying saturday morning just as we finished eating breakfast emelia's on dickson and then drove to fort smith.

i wouldn't really call it a wreck, since all that's going to have to be done is a bumper replacement on both my car and the other party's 1991 dodge dynasty. i'm just east of the campus, takes me maybe 3 minutes to drive there. historic district wut wut

but yeah, i always thought (naively) it was the ice you gotta WORRY worry about, not just snow. now i know. anyway, glad i secured myself a nice little research assistantship on monday so i can afford my new insurance premiums now.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

dudes: "wreck" vs. "accident"

is this just a southern thing? or is it said elsewhere too? i've always said "car accident" but now "wreck" has entered my lexicon.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

There was an icestorm here during Christmas, 2000. It took me eight hours to get back from Memphis to Little Rock. I was driving within a line of cars at about 2 mph. Every once in a while, in my rear view mirror, I'd see a pair of headlights behind me start moving around before going off into the ditch. The rest of us just had to keep moving on, like we were in the Bataan Death March, for if we braked, we'd be in the ditch, too.

Sorry about your bumper, famous athlete.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Pleasant, that may be the very same storm that had me stranded for the night at a rest stop just west of Malvern along with several hundred others. People just came to a stop on the interstate (or off) and that was it. One of the worst nights I've ever had.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

And around 10 the next morning when it warmed up enough to get out of there, the interstate was still so frozen that it took me 4 hours to get from Malvern to LR. White knuckle all the way. Bumper to bumper. Sliding and fishtailing. Ugh. Never again.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

The rest of us just had to keep moving on, like we were in the Bataan Death March, for if we braked, we'd be in the ditch, too.

actually, the cross-street where the accident happened is part of the official Trail of Tears route. i'll probably follow it again next week to get to the collision repair shop, crying all the way.

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

ha! and your description, tre, brings to mind the dark crystal when the old ones are headed for the palace and one would go poof. the rest just had to sigh and keep going.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I really started to worry when the Asplundah trucks started slipping off.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Any bad weather last night? Nashville proper got nuthin', but out on the plateau, etc., they had a bit of snow. So much for the grocery store raids.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

snowing now..lightly

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

CITY OF PANIC !!!

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Nuthin'. Ten minutes of sleet turning to rain, cloud cover insulated the area and it actually warmed up to above freezing all night.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

snowed off and on this morning in durham, but it had all changed to rain by this afternoon. now we just have to hope it doesn't all freeze overnight...

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

our highs are in the 60s! Artic freeze front, NOT! Weathermen be smoking that stuff.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

We had 2 inches of snow when I woke up this morning. Apparently, there were 30 accidents on the interstate by 7:30am.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

argh, now they are saying artic freeze is coming tonight. lows in the 20s. boo. no percipitation though.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

The big ice storm down here was in '94. We were without power for a week. The Kiddo and I actually kinda enjoyed it.

It's cold as kraut outside right now. No precip,though.

― Hey Jude (Hey Jude), Saturday, 3 February 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

74 F and breezy

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 3 February 2007 07:12 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

grrr, fuck a Tornado Alley.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I know! We've been getting emails all day at work telling us to review our safety and evacuation procedures. Sitting in the basement of the library sucks.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

My girlfriend was supposed to fly to Tupelo today (via Memphis) for work, but it doesn't look like that's happening.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! Are flights canceled?

I haven't heard any sirens yet, so hopefully this'll all blow over here.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well, there are thunderstorms here in Chicago, too, so that's part of it.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

The line of storms has passed Memphis and is just now leaving Tupelo. There was a corridor of relatively clear weather over us in both sets of storms today -- blind luck.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

come on, feel the noize, nashville.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

It was crazy here for the last few days, but I guess it's finally passed.

http://www.katv.com/static/weather/wxcam.jpg
(City of Panic)

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

It was eerily sunny before, and has just become really grey outside.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

ugh winter plz come back. I do not want 7 months of mugginess.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

SRSLY. One forecast has Sunday getting up to 89. That's KRAZEE for March 25th.

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 23 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

flowers, veg, and herbs are in the ground!

― Ai Lien, Saturday, 24 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

weather is so beautiful. i am typing this from sitting on my porch! i think the weather is my favorite thing about the south. i so badly want to move somewhere else, but dunno how i can do without days like this.

― modestmickey, Sunday, 25 March 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

it's FINALLY raining!

my cat's BFF is a possum.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Aw, do they really get along?

Also, are you going to get cool parking permits now?

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

my cat hates all other cats and dogs and birds and, well, the entire animal kingdom except opposums. it makes me nervous.

last i heard, we weren't getting parking permits. the city council decided we should 'wait and see' if any problems arise at all. more than parking, my concern is littering. everytime riverfest or some huge altell event happens, we have to pick up some bullshit trash.

― Ai Lien, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Nashville springs are the best. Everything smells like flowers and clean laundry. Well, maybe it's like this elsewhere in the South, but this is the only place below the Mason-Dixon that I've lived.

― molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

what the hell is going on at pulaski tech? campus closed down. someone making threats about another virginia tech there today. poor north little rock.

― sunny successor, Thursday, 3 May 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid that kind of thing encourages lots of copycats. Did anything happen?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

SMALL UPDATE: A police source says NLR cops have gotten back in touch with the anonymous caller who made the original report. (UPDATE: This report turns out to be incorrect.) I hope this boils down to a night of heavy drinking and big tavern talk. But you can't be too careful.

UPDATE II: Sgt. Terry Kuykendall of NLR police says he's not been informed that they've re-established communications with the caller and says they are still urgently seeking another contact. He said police were told where the conversation was reportedly overheard (the caller said two white males were heard talking, with one saying there'd be violence at Pulaski Tech today worse than Virginia Tech), but that location is not being released. Officers checked Wednesday night but found no one there. He said based on the "emotion and sincerity" in the anonymous caller's voice, officers felt his report needed to be taken seriously. Officers immediately went to Pulaski Tech after the 11:30 p.m. call and patrolled through the night looking for open doors and other things out of place. After consulting with the school this morning, the school decided not to open for safety of students.

UPDATE III: Pulaski Tech will reopen Friday, putting more than 8,000 students back in class. No news of note beyond that. The anonymous caller never called back. The call is believed to have been made from a pay phone on or near Broadway in North Little Rock, but beyond that, the case hadn't advanced by Thursday afternoon.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

ITS SNOWING!!
-- sunny successor (katharine), Friday, February 10, 2006 6:46 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Trying to wrangle up some snowball fighters, fort builders, sled cavalry, etc but Lexingtonians are lazy today.

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

I'm pretty sure there was a newer the south thread but I couldn't find it.

― nickalicious, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:46 (seventeen years ago)

search for "southern thread" gets 'em all -- rock & roll n brew, rock & roll n brew: Southern Thread IV

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 8 March 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

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