Face it, if we too simple then ya'll don't get the basics: The Southern Thread, Deuce

http://www.uga.edu/

wait dammit

www.uga.edu

BETTER. fuck auto-urling

this smog is choking me guys.

my eyes are puffy due to soul-crushing allergies. ;_;

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thanks for the warning there. Screaming H1 a little NSFW

Molly, what allergens are bothering you?

nashvegas is notorious for terrible allergies. everything is bothering me apparently. mold, tree pollen, weeds, etc.

some dude just called my radio show and was like, "d'y'all got any henry rollins?"

nashvegas?!?

sorry about the allergies. When we get cedar in late winter/early spring it kills me. This year I had to wear a mask outdoors. ugh.

really? a mask! that's terrible! yeah, my eyes have never gotten so swollen before. like two pissholes in the snow.

yes! nashvegas, or trashville, if you prefer (see also lower broadway and its utter tackineses. it's kind of awesome)

I've only passed through Nashville briefly. I need to give it a proper visit.

I'm irritated b/c starting this semester I'm eligble for our ed benefit (3 free hours a semester). I have yet to decide what graduate program I'd like to pursue so thought I would take some undergrad courses just for kicks. I wanted to try and find some that related to some of my fiction projects, for research purposes, but I can't find anything! so annoying. I don't want to let my free course go to waste. :(

are there any fiber arts courses you can take? i was really hoping v4ndy had a spinning class (wool, not stationary bikes), but no dice.

can you audit undergrad classes that don't cut into your 3 hours of free learnin'?

re:auditing. . Don't you still have to pay tuition when you audit?

I def. looked into textile arts (as a grad program actually) but here it's really heavy on apparel. There's an intro textiles class I looked at but with the lab and stuff I may not be able to swing it. If the class isn't directly related to my job (info sciences, computer sciences) I would have to use vacation time or work extra hours to cover it.

oh bummer about the textiles. i think it's the same here. there's a beginning knitting class... but i don't think i need that shit.

if we properly enroll in a course here, we have to pay (with a big discount). however, auditing for us is free, and i've been meaning to take some portuguese courses, but i find that i'm incredibly lazy.

this weekend I learned that some barbecue places call dumplings "pastry"

why is a barbecue place selling dumplings?

Hi dere.

why is a barbecue place selling dumplings?

because dumplings are delicious and very easy to make.

I love dumplings I've just never seen them connected to BBQ.

omg bbq-filled dumplings.

The southern answer to those chinese sweet buns with spicy pork in the middle.

for some reason I can only imagine hushpuppies. with brisket in the middle.

!!!

Somebody could make a million few thousand dollars with an "East Meets South" restaurant.

the "!!!" was for the 'cue-dumplings. I can't get quite as worked up for brisketpuppies.

The name alone has me sold. First recipe I create in new kitchen: brisketpuppies.

bbq dumplings, served with a side of fried okra and greens.

omg, i'm so hungry.

god yeah, it's 10:30 and I want hush puppies dammit!

That sounds awesome Molly.

There's a soul food restaurant not too far away. Fried Okra, greens, chicken fried chicken. . .I wonder if I could persuade anyone to go over there. . .

I know, man. I'm trying to lost some wait so all I had last night was stir fried veggies and my lunchbox has organic pb sandwich plus carrot stick plus apple. Dinner tonight is probably beans and rice.

Barbecueand soul food, stop existing, plz.

Yes I'm also trying to lose weight so Hoover's is really not a good idea. :(

In the fridge for lunch today: lean cuisine panini, salad, pear.

We don't talk about yankee food on southern thread.

Sorry. Is there a dieters thread?

I was unaware sandwich/salad was yankee.

Also, the only rule for this thread is there are no rules.

nah I was just kiddin :D

Except "MAKE FUN OF OKIES"
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i made goat cheese asparagus pasta last night for dinner. that was intense.

OMG Tim H. bought me "The Tammy Wynette Cookbook" when he was in town. It's AMAZING.

examples, pls

well, it's at home right now, but let me just say there's LOTS OF BUTTER and requests for LARD (not jello biafra).

the southern thread has taken a turn for the delicious

also, the pictures of her at the grill, making some fine looking BBQ are awesome.

here we go

Top 5 southern priorities
1. weather
2. food
3. college sports
4. GODDAMN LIB'RALS
5. riding lawn mowers

Sorry. Is there a dieters thread?

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-04-01/cover_story-2.jpg

Top 5 southern priorities
1. weather

OMG RONG ALREADY

that's a high priority for me. How quickly you forget Kenan.

Yumm, Tammy's sour cream poundcake and cornmeal encrusted fried potatoes sound particularly good.

xpost yes, i forget some people like to sweat 94/7

wouldn't you rather wear stylish sweaters and never smell bad?

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I don't! that's why weather is a priority for me. A priority for BITCHING! ;)

sorry I should clarify that that's dumplings as in "chicken and".

num!

ok yes then the "pastry" bit seems dumb.

and actually I'm still not 100% sure about that; it's just that I went to this barbecue place that had a "pastry combo" that was like $4.50 for hush puppies, tea, a "long leg" (chicken leg with thigh attached?), and "1/2 pint of pastry". we were trying to figure out what it could be and the dumplings explanation was the only one that made sense given the units of measure involved.

where do you live?

Durham, NC. this was at a restaurant in Rocky Mount, though.

Yeah I can't imagine what kind of pastry would be measure in pints.

Cobbler...

beer pastry!

(sounds like another diet breaker)

Somebody could make a million few thousand dollars with an "East Meets South" restaurant

Yeah, this is gold...

I haven't been there in years, Rock, but there was a place in Water Valley, MS when my parents lived there that was doing this. The proprietors were Laotian (I think?) and mixed it up with some southern dishes. It was probably more a haphazard "meat n' three" than exotic fusion cuisine though.

Actually, it's not uncommon around here to find places that'll serve you either fried fish or pho. At one point Airport Haven Burgers had a pakistani specialties menu.

There was a Nepalese meat-&-three in Oxford around '96-'97.

You guys are KILLING me.

There was and Uruguayan / New Orleans fusion cuisine place here BUT IT CLOSED before I got to go. ;_;

Is that "Noodle bowls/Tacos/Donuts" place on East Oltorf still there?

This goes to show that Okies are cuckoo.

My friend in VA saw this on PBS. Did anyone else catch it? I did not.-

I have seen it. That is insane.

I love that flick. Watched it in a homemade double feature with Deliverance. Yeah...

noodling kills thread.

Sorry, dudes.

I think it would be a good for a back to back viewing with "Dancing Outlaw."

http://sports.espn.go.com/winnercomm/outdoors/fishing/i/P2_f_col_noodling_Sutton3.jpg

wouldn't you rather wear stylish sweaters and never smell bad?

otm

> wouldn't you rather wear stylish sweaters and never smell bad?

This is an attitude that doesn't mesh well with the catfish-noodling lifestyle.

As much as I hate the heat the benefits of living in the Dirty outweigh the bad. (As much as I love Chicago it's way too freaking cold. Give me 100+ anyday over that.)

Ok, as a transplanted Northener, I have to say, well, it's gets so fucking hot and humid down here, FOR MONTHS AT A TIME. But, as one develops a tolerance for cold and snow (hello, Buffalo!), I'm hoping one can develop a certain tolerance to heat. Also, I love my central AC.

Pluses: Spring starts WAAAY earlier, and "Winter", much later.
Cons: Mosquitoes the size of a Volkswagen that want to eat your soul.

As much as I love Chicago it's way too freaking cold. Give me 100+ anyday over that.

uh, yeah, we get that too. heat wave of '95 killed 600 or so.

I do think the South should institute a siesta, however. It's just as hot, if not hotter here than in Spain, so what's the deal, yo? Give me naptime.

We're used to that though. Our facilities and bodies are built better for it. To have that AND the cold. madness.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/6/6/7/667360015544a65dd35b80b1edf6229a.png

I do think the South united states should institute a siesta, however.

fixed.

is that an equation for: "Plz give Molly a Siesta"?

Siestas for everyone!

I take siestas. I call it "ilx" ;)

you and me both, Sam!

heat wave of '95 killed 600 or so.

600 pussies, maybe.

Wiki is rong, it was more like 720+.

They had refrigerator trucks parked outside the county morgue because there was no room for all the heat-dead.

Shoulda put 'em in the fridge truck BEFORE they died, duh!

where were these kind of yuks during the virginia tech debacle? that killed what, 5 percent of what the heatwave did.

I cracked wise about UT grads being ashamed of losing #1 campus murder spree status and was called an asshole. Which is true, sure, but I'm just saying.

I get your wisecrack. Those things just have to wait a bit before being said. Like the superman/towers joke.

12 years is enough time. BRING ON THE HEATWAVE JOEKS

LOL OLD PEOPLE DIED FIRST. AND ALL ALONE. BECAUSE NOBODY BOTHERED TO CHECK ON THEM.

yeah, it's always funny when people hundreds of people die needlessly. so come on, it's been over 60 years, why don't you lay some holocaust knee-slappers on me.

Don't you guys have about three hundred Chicago threads to post on?

Wow. I remember hearing "What was the last thing to go through Christa McAuliffe's mind? Her ASS!" when the smoke hadn't blown off yet. Of course, that was high school, so tastefullness wasn't an issue.

xpost ha, yeah, i thought of that, too. sorry.

Don't you guys have about three hundred Chicago threads to post on?

i don't post there much anymore. so no.

> it's been over 60 years, why don't you lay some holocaust knee-slappers on me.

Israel is going bankrupt because they can't pay the gas bill Germany sent.

What's brown and runny and stays in the attic? The Diarrhea of Anne Frank.

how's that?

ok, back to food (what I think about most of the time anyway):

give me fruit to add to pies.

I made a strawberry peach pie last year that was sublime, if I do say so myself.

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Were you trying too hard to out-Chicago the other Chicago-ians?

I don't know about pies. my favorite fruit ones are cherry and strawberry/rhubarb.

would mango make a good pie?

Mangos are on sale at Kroger! This may be possible! Is 66 cents a mango a good price?

i don't post there much anymore. so no.

oh come now. Don't you love stories about making dinner and what's going on in everyone's work day minute by minute?!

OMG YOU GUYS I MADE SOUP

Isn't that what all these threads are about Kenan?

I've seen mangos as cheap as 3/1.00 but I haven't bought any this year. Don't know how many you'd need for a pie. Maybe throw in some pineapple and papaya and make a tropical one!

ok point taken. this is just like the chicago thread.

i think chicago kevin should be an honorary southerner.

mango might be a little much alone in a pie. a mango cream pie, however...

Sam, I think you may be on to something! I've run the gamut of berries, apples, etc. TIME FOR TROPICALIA.

Now, I've never made a cream pie... I should try it.

The Diarrhea of Anne Frank

I saw them in Memphis once, opening for the Jesus Lizard. The lead singer had a bucket of simulated runny shit that he slung at the crowd occasionally. (I assume it was simulated -- I think I would have smelled it if it were the real stuff.)

For pies: blueberries! I'm going to share in the bounty of my parents' blueberry bushes in a couple of weeks if the mockingbirds don't get them first.

Better phrasing: he would stick his hand in the bucket and flick his fingers at the audience, not toss the whole bucketful around.

I don't get fruit pies. I know it hurts my southerner cred, but I'll just take raw fresh fruit 99 times out of 100.

The remainder is garnishing cocktails.

Talking about shit and fruit in the same post is kind of grossing me out.

xpost: b-b-b-but, COBBLER!

I know, I know...

I just made a blueberry, blackberry and strawberry pie for Timmy H's visit. The blueberries were brought down by my mother from a strange land, called Cattaraugus County, in Western NY. Also, they were HUGE.

Berry pies are senstational.

I made a fake Northern cobbler once. I need a real, honest to goodness recipe. Tammy Wynette Cookbook, here I come!

I'm sure Tammy can hook you up.

Austin, do you get chocolate cake?

I do think the South should institute a siesta, however. It's just as hot, if not hotter here than in Spain, so what's the deal, yo? Give me naptime.

-- molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

mmmm, ham hock...

I have a great cobbler recipe, will look it up shortly. It makes that fluffy inside-of-a-biscuit type of cobbler, not the kind with the chewy top crust.

Sure I get chocolate cake. It's not the sweetness (although I'll take my chocolate more on the bitterish side, thanks) its that I prefer the texture of fresh fruit - and most veggies for that matter - to cooked.

er - for fresh read 'cooked.'

Tammy Wynette Cookbook = Christmas '07 is SOLVED

er, for fresh reading 'cooked' read 'raw.'

Here is a cobbler:

Put your fresh fruit in the bottom of a baking dish -- 2 to 2 1/2 cups or so.

Heat together a syrup of 1 cup water and 3/4 cup sugar. No need to boil it, just get the sugar dissolved. Pour this over the fruit.

Cream together 1 stick of softened butter and 1/2 cup sugar.
Mix 1 cup SR flour and 1/2 cup milk. Combine the flour/milk with the butter/sugar until smooth, and add flavors like vanilla and cinnamon at this point.

Pour this batter over the fruit + syrup. Bake @ 350 until golden, 1:00 or so.

The batter will soak up the syrup as it bakes, making fluffy top and fruity bottom. You might want a more syrupy bottom layer -- you can increase the amt. of syrup about 1/4 cup at a time until you get it the way you want it, and eat the experiments with ice cream, obviously.

Serves 1.

I wouldn't know what adjustments to make if you were using canned fruit. You don't want to do that anyway.

bernard - hammocks are heavenly. you're going to have the best time.

Rock - thank you so much! I think the one I made had some hippie dippy granola in it. Boo. And also, boo to canned fruit. I have made a personal resolution this summer to stop at every roadside farmstand I see. I have already gained the most DELICIOUS tomatoes.

I'm thinking blueberry cobbler soon, minus the cinnamon, plus lemon zest and some lemon juice.

blueberry plus lemon is awesome.

So what are southerners picking tonight: AI or Lost?

SHEAR GENIUS

ugh I can't bring myself to watch that show. I don't get into hair salons.

the only TV I watch nowadays is Futurama, Daily Show/Colbert, and Project Runway

L O S T tonight, and we're off to Lexington tomorrow morning for our anniversary.

congrats!

I'm so done with AI. I didn't even watch all of it last night.

what is AI?

don't forget that LOST is an hour earlier! well, it is here.

american idol.

Yeah I think it's an hour earlier everywhere. Head to head against Idol finale. Fuck an American Idol. . .

ok?

all of our blueberries here died in frost. boo.

So what are southerners picking tonight: AI or Lost?

Killer of Sheep!

??

New 35 mm print at the Alamo!

I will probably watch AI tonight, even though I didn't watch all of it last night. And then I will watch my DVR-ed recordings of today's Knitty Gritty, because I am super awesome and exciting.

I have never seen an episode of LOST.

That looks pretty cool Austin.

Molly, netflix, now. How do you like Knitty Gritty? I've seen a few episodes mostly to check out a hometown girl made big. But I wasn't that impressed.

Really? I take it I can't just start watching and have any idea what's going on.

Knitty Gritty - meh, it's okay. At first Vicky H annoyed me, but I think I like her now. It's all a little hokey "knitsters," and "Knit on!" but, I'll take what I can get with knitting cable programs. The knit bikini episode I watched last night was a bit dumb, but the knit shoes! The woman who came up with the pattern was an engineering GENIUS. Not that I would ever wear them, but the pattern was intense. There's a fair share of sparkly knit tops, which I can't be bothered to even give two thoughts to, but the knit housewares show was fantastic.

It's going to hit 90 here today. blurgh.

we're still low 80s. Yeah you have to watch Lost from the beginning. I didn't start until season 2 so had to catch up.

Yeah I saw Vicky speak at SXSW and she implied she was kind of restrained by the corporate aspects of television. I think the yarn she has to use a lot of times is vom-inducing but is neccesary b/c of sponsors and such.

it was cooler in Austin last night than in Chicago, I couldn't help but notice. :(

Yeah it's been kind of mild lately. I don't trust it though as I feel it's a cruel trick before the hell of summer is unleashed.

Also, it's our first Ozone warning of the year! Yay, Nashville! ;_;

I watched the entire Dixie Chicks set on Austin City Limits a couple of days ago. I went to HS in Dallas with 2 of them -- the two girls who aren't Natalie. They would play at every orientation. I remember them being accomplished but boring (mostly just bluegrass back then). I think they're really pretty ok now though.

where did you go to school?

It is official! I'm moving into a sweet (brandnew) rowhouse July 1st.

Greenh1ll (I was only there a year though)

So what are southerners picking tonight: AI or Lost?

-- Ms Misery, Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:55 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

jesus christ

WE DON'T WATCH YOUR FANCY TV PROGRIMS

I haven't seen Jesus Christ. Sounds too preachy.

Congrats Molly!

are my fellow Texans being inundated with Miller Chill radio ads featuring white people speaking with 'funny' 'Spanish' accents?

No, but there's a local Chevy dealership that has commercials featuring Seymour Trucks, Les Cash, DeLois Price and a little sweaty serape-and-sombrero-wearing guy named Peso Little.

Haha, I haven't heard those ads Milo but I don't listen to "terrestial" radio.

I have seen it in the stores though adn am curious. Not curious enough to buy it though.

ethan padgett, you trifling faggot

did u see what did there

anyway I'm just posting my 10 fave old '97's songs:

1) Wish the Worst
2) Wish the Worst
3) Wish the Worst
4) Wish the Worst
5) Wish the Worst
6) Wish the Worst
7) Murder (or a Heart Attack)
8) Dressing Room Walls
9) If my heart was a car
10) St. Ignatius (if only for "i've had it with dallas, let's burn down the palace, i'll bring then kerosene"

I've decided that "Hitchhike to Rhome" is my favorite Old 97's album. It was Too Far To Care to start with, then I decided I liked the twangier sounds of Wreck Your Life... but these days, I just want to listen to Hitchhike.

srlsy tho ethan, with every successive post, just reveals himself more and more to be the white boy hiptard poser fag he is, i swear i usecd to look up to him in thbe days when he was an eminem groopie, wtf is rong with me!!

Have you heard Funland's cover of "Stoned" off a split single they did many years back?

i haven't, but my appreciation of the 97's catalogue has followed yours exactly

Top 10:
1. "Dressing Room Walls"
2. "St. Ignatius"
3. "Doreen" (WYL)
4. "Stoned"
5. "4-Leaf Clover" (HTR)
6. "Lonely Holiday"
7. "W.I.F.E."
8. "Victoria"
9. "Big Brown Eyes" (TFTC)
10. "Melt Show"

they still play out in Dallas, and I will catch them again

I missed their big homecoming show to open the new House of Blues. ;_;

the Dallas HoB in Victory-whatever?

ya

shit I may miss every last 97's show just to avoid Dallas

omg, I haven't listened to the Old 97s in forever. I used to love them (still do just not in awhile). I agree with all the tracks you guys are picking. Their shows used to be the best but one of the last times I saw them (at Tree's about four years ago), it just sucked. Don't dig Rhett the hollywood boy. Saw them one other time after that at Sons of Hermann Hall as the "Satellite Rider" and it was just like an old show, fantastic. I think I shall never see them again to perserve that memory.

1-9)Wish the Worst
10) Big Brown Eyes

I haven't listened to them in ages. The last album I bought of theirs was "Wreck Your Life." I could be persuaded to buy more albums of theirs, if it can be guaranteed that they are awesome.

Wreck Your Life is my favorite. I haven't liked anything past Fight Songs but that one and Too Far to Care are worth buying I think.

The other day I played the Sound on WREK, and some guy called in asking who they were. Then for some reason he went on a teary rant about Brendan O'Brien and how "Brendan O'Brien knows how to make hits for other people, and Brendan O'Brien knows how to produce other bands, but Brendan O'Brien can't make hits of his own because Brendan O'Brien just doesn't know how to write good songs!" I think he may have been Brendan O'Brien.

I was scared to open this thread today because of my idiotic dig on ethan... I am in a BAD PLACE these days and alcohol only fuels my misguided misanthropy.

Yeah I love Fight Songs, poppy but still good. The "Satellite" one (I honestly can't remember the name of that album) was where things were (finally) going wrong. No desire to buy The Instigator or any other solo Rhett. Saw him on Letterman once and it was kinda sad... he was far less compelling than solo Ryan Adams and that is saying a LOTTTTTT.

(TS: Whiskeytown vs. 97's?)

97s def. but yeah Rhett solo. . .no.

What dig?

Whiskeytown has a few good songs but nothing as consistent or enjoyable as Old 97's (except for Satellite Rides, which is 50% awful and Drag It Up, 100% awful)

old 97s kills thread. . .

How was everyone's memorial day weekend? Were you nearly washed away too?

Still steamy out from all the wet ground but nice and sunny/hot.

i have no idea what an old 97 is.

memorial day weekend was ok. we skipped riverfest for the first time since ive been here. visited some newly preggo friends on monday. ummm...i cant think of anything else we did.

oh...STARLITE WAS CLOSED

how was yr weather?

We saw the Old 97s in that Break Up movie with Jennifer Anniston and Vince Vaughn. Yup.

On a related topic, Soul Asylum's coming to town.

It's been nice and cool lately here. Keep it up, weather.

we are in the middle of the drought, which is exactly the way summer should be.

I have never listened to the Old 97s but TS: Old 97s "Big Brown Eyes" vs. dBs "Big Brown Eyes"

who is dB? Love the 97s version.

We had so much rain from mid last week through Monday that bridges were being washed out and people were drowning. Also our boating weekend was wrecked. :(

I wish I had a scanner at work so I could show y'all the photo that was in yesterday's newspaper. Suffice to say, the caption was:

Teenagers compete in a team event to dress a steer in a pair of panties.

xpost: The dBs were a jangly power-pop group from North Carolina. they're pretty great, but I didn't grow up listening to them, so I don't have the same attachment that I do to other jangle-merchants like Let's Active and R.E.M.

also I'm pretty sure they're two different songs that just happen to have the same title, unless the chorus of the Old 97s one goes "every time I look into your big brown eyes, I get paralyzed, paralyzed"

That Miller Chill stuff is, according to my coworker "really gross--it's got fake sweetened lime." He was not impressed. "How hard is it to slice a lime and add salt?!"

Teenagers compete in a team event to dress a steer in a pair of panties.

That sounds like the easiest way in the world to get one's face kicked off.

You should see the picture! One dude's wearing sandals!

today's forecast: This Afternoon: Widespread haze. Areas of smoke. Partly cloudy, with a high near 87. South wind around 10 mph.

THX, GA, FL and AL.

who is dB?

peter holsapple spins in his yet to be dug grave...

Let me give him a kick see if we can get around for another spin.

I had time to paint three pieces of plywood before it started to look like the apocalypse was headed my way, so I promptly drove home and took a four-hour nap.

Not making any money kind of sucks, but boy did I need the sleep.

from the confines of the library, i can't tell is shit is hazy or not. i think i will go outside and investigate because i do not feel like working.

Happy hour approaches.

It's freakishly hazy to the SW. It doesn't smell or anything, though, as the news predicted.

Happy hour approaches.

-- Oilyrags, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:54 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Man, I hate working until seven.

Happy hour never reallly happens for me anymore unless you count going home and having a dream.

The rain gods are in Austin again today. what the hell?

Send 'em here, we're desperate.

> The rain gods are in Austin again today. what the hell?

I believe this is what's referred to as "late spring, early summer."

Memorial day floods, anyone?

I like that shot of the original whole foods.

My in-laws' neighbors actually died in the floods this weekend. :(

Jeez, I'm sorry to hear that.

Some friends of my landlady drowned in their car a few weeks ago, when the warning light on one of those low-water crossings broke, so they didn't know not to cross.

More Austin floods:

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/watershed/floodhistory.htm

Yeah a creek runs behind my guy's parent's house. When we go after a heavy rain the "bridges" are often washed out. Well, this elderly couple was trying to cross one, their car got stuck, they got out and were washed away. It's out in the country (Copperas Cove) so there aren't any warning signs or anything. The flash floods are scary since it seems most people die b/c they don't realize how dangerous it is. Makes me glad I live in central Austin.

Rock, here too. There's a 20% chance of rain today. Everything is turning yellow and sad.

What's your high like? perhaps we could trade rain for nice temps.

NOAA says 84 today, weather widget says 87. NOAA's numbers are always a few degrees cooler, the reality is always somewhere in the middle. I'm keeping the garden well watered, but the oldtimers say chlorinated city water is bad without an occasional real rain to leach that shit out of the soil. The yard is in sad shape. I need to remember to put the hose on the ginkgo trees this evening.

It's supposed to be a high of 88 today, but it's really overcast now, and NPR claimed it was 71F. As I left work yesterday, the sun was freakishly obscured due to the smoke. Also, my allergies have gone berserk, and are in the "I'm gonna fuck you up" stage. Rain will be sweet relief.

I was in Missouri during the Big Flood of '93. I went to visit my roommate who was back at his folks' house outside Kansas City. We and a few of his high school buddies went out to this rock quarry that had been flooded. The whole thing had turned into this small lake with many a cool cliff to jump from. We all had a good time, especially this one guy who kept picking higher and higher places from which to jump.

We got back home and changed into dry clothes. My roommate then said something like, "Kinda weird that Luke was so into jumping in the water and whooping it up so." I asked why and my friend answered "Because his sister drowned last week when her car got washed off the road."

Talk about facing your supposed fears head on...

knoxville's been lovely the last few days - serious drought still in effect, though

memorial day itself - fantastic weather for paddling around chilhowee lake and abrams creek

great memorial day hanging out @ my home. we played baggo! i stood behind a grill for two hours! i shouldn't complain because i kept chasing people away from MY grill.

there are these great rose gardens by the courthouse, where i work. my co-worker & i spent some of our lunch break picking some. we totally got yelled at by a maintenance guy. he said we'd be in "big trouble" if we got caught. as he was yelling at us, we just kept picking them. now my office smells so good!

It might be your grill, but those are my flowers.

(My courthouse, maintenance guy, and ballpark, too.)

Dudes, Hogzilla 2.

Anyone know Abilene, TX? My boyfriend is probably moving there to teach. I live in Bristol, UK :-(

Apparently Abilene would be a 'culture shock'...

Back in my day 11-year-olds carried .22s.

xpost

xpost, definitely. Not much going on out there out all.

"Think hams as big as car tires."

Oh yeah, this is a food and weather thread... so, hams. What else?

I'd like to taste the sausage made from that monster. I don't know whether it'd be good because he was free-range, or bad because he was probably old and tough. Sausage would probably be better than whole ham or shoulder...

Never been to Abilene, but Texas would be a culture shock for me, and I'm just two states over.

xpost : Oh, no, that was in reference to the article about Hogzilla 2, the giant hog some kid shot in Alabama.

But, we do like our food.

haha, this is an anything thread. Those are just a couple of a Southerner's favorite topics.

Molly, is Abielene known for it's hams? This is news to me. I've only driven through so I can't really say much except the whole panhandle area is known to be pretty bleak. What school is he going to?

(oh wait Molly was talking about hogzilla. . .)

I don't know! Think of all the crap he must have ingested (garbage, weeds, small children, etc.) to get that huge. I would assume he would taste nasty.

No no! I cannot make any claim to the quality of ham in Abilene!

From Abilene you can drive into Ft. Worth to par-tay.

Ft. Worth is also going to be culture shock, but there will at least be culture.

I've been through Abilene. You fight from the eastern borders through the metroplex, hit the plains, and finally Abilene. Once you're there, you think, oh good, just a few more hours to El Paso, but little do you know that you're still 83674 hours away from The Pass.

Also, Sweet Eileen lives in Abilene and has the law out for me.

I've heard that wild hog is a million times better than agribusiness pork, like eating free range chicken or cow.

PP OTM about Abilene to El Paso.

http://www.pall.com/images/AbileneCity.jpg

I think this is shot from the west or southwest, that tall building in the rear is the first thing you see coming into Abilene from Ft. Worth.

Call me a wimp, but I don't think I'd want to eat that. (I'm too squeamish to even post the picture of Le Beast)

That being said, I could really go for some goat stew.

"The cultural aspects of Abilene center around a mix of the three religiously affiliated private universities: Abilene Christian University, Hardin-Simmons University, and McMurry University, as well as the Abilene Campus of Cisco Junior College, a West Texas campus of Texas State Technical College, American Commercial College, the agriculture community of the surrounding area, and the numerous affluent evangelical churches present."

He's going to teach (it looks like) theology at Hardin-Simmons. If I visit I can't stay with him. Because we're not married and he'll be a role model... And it's been explained to me that one or two people may wish to explain to me that I'm headed for hell as an a****st. Hmmmm.

He's from Fort Worth. It's about four hours drive isn't it?

...er, I mean it looks like he's going to teach there, not he's going to teach something that looks like theology...

About two hours drive.

Hope you like steak.

Rare.

Just don't tell them you're an atheist!

He's from Fort Worth.

me too! Which is why I keep quiet about it. I realize my dislike of it is based on the 18 years I had to spend there and nothing objective.

I don't think he's crazy about it either...

P. Plains, remember the thread you started where you asked for suggestions for music/scripts for station liners? (I think liners is the right term, but not sure.) I can't find the thread, but how'd those turn out? Did you use any of our suggestions?

I can't find that thread at all. And I don't know what the hell a "stop-word" is supposed to be either.

Seems like I used one or two of them. dammit, now you've made me curious.

Maybe it was at the Sandbox?

No luck there either, especially without knowing the thread title.

This is really messing with my head, and would be solved in two seconds if we could search for threads by threadstarter username.

our new airconditioning is so good i dont even care that its going to be 97 on thursday.

Argh, don't say that, your kid and mine are going to live in some Mad Max kinda world if summers keep on like this. (/chicken little)

our new airconditioning is so good i dont even care that its going to be 97 on thursday.

I walk/ride the bus to and from work so these days are misery. :(

do you carry a parasol/umbrella, m.m.? i'll testify, it helps by probably 10 degrees! and is great protection for skin.

i've been daydreaming about hanging out on lake ouachita.

i want to throw the kid in a pool. are community pools as gross as i remember from my childhood?

xpost
I've been thinking of this. A friend has a parasol. But I'm nowhere near as elegant as she is so worry about looking like a fool. I realize the benefits of this outweigh my stupid self-consciousness.

xpost, sunny, a resounding YES! don't want community pool.

m.m. i was sick of getting sunglasses-shaped tan on my face, so that outweighed any insecurities of carrying an umbrella. also, it led to other "lady-like" habits. like carrying a handkerchief.

also, it's just a southern thang to do.

Well, I do put on sunblock before I head out. But I'm sure the portable shade would help with comfort levels. I carry a bandana, is that like a handkerchief?

heck yes. my stepmum is from japan, she always brings me new handkerchiefs. like a lot of them. i think it's customary for japanese to carry around little towels or hankys everywhere.

I had a Texasy day, drove from Belton to New Braunfels for work, ate Mexican for lunch, inquired about why there weren't any drunk kidsz floating down the Guadalupe, learned the river was still closed cuz it was too high and fast, just barely outran hailstorm on the drive back home, listened to conservative talk radio while driving thru Austin for fun.

hot springs trip planned for next week!

Ooh! Hot Springs! I have never been, but have been intrigued from the stories I've heard.

I'm spending next Sunday on a pontoon boat in Kentucky.

conservative radio for fun!?

i think it's customary for japanese to carry around little towels or hankys everywhere.

Louisanians too.

A Diet Dr. Pepper has busted open in my bag. I did not realize this until I'm looking through said bag, which is on my lap, and wondered why the bottom was so wet. :(

I think I need to carry a handkerchief, because I am not used to heat, and also, I'm a lady. (I perspire, not sweat)

argh, sorry about busted dr. pepper! boo.

hot springs is a weird place, but i like it.

But I'm nowhere near as elegant as she is so worry about looking like a fool.

Wear one of those umbrella hats. Then you don't have to worry. I hope I'm helping.

Also, I think it's ladies glisten or glow, gentlemen perspire, and mules sweat.

The word "glisten" freaks me out. It makes me sound oily. "Glow", well, I don't like it either.

Yes if anything I'm a step above a horse. No glowing here.

Ladies collect condensation like glasses of sweet iced tea...

Yes! That's much better!

Or busted dr peppers. My jeans are still wet, :(

Oh, bummer, Sam! Nothing is worse than getting sugary-things on one's person.

Ok, there are worse things, but it still sucks.

there are worse things

Yeah, it was a Diet.

sam, i just had a coke spray all over me and my work desk. must be the day for it.

Sodas are bad for you. This is why I drink vodka shots. They're smaller and easier to control. Plus, if you spill a bottle all over you there's no problem because alcohol has a low boiling point and evaporates pretty quick. You gotta wait a while but you can have a couple drinks if you don't spill it all like a rookie.

diet dr pepper is the bomb.

At lunch I got a sweet tea and it also spilled in my bag. Today is bad for beverage.

too bad you dont have a kid. strollers have great cupholders these days.

okay. i just reread that.

so why did you decide to have a baby?
the cupholders.

Also, vodka looks like water, and fools everyone who looks at the clear liquid in your Nalgene bottle.

"Molly, you're in a good mood!"
"Yes, this 'water' is delicious!"

OK I had a sweet tea at lunch, disproving my no sweet tea in TX theory. The burger I had with it sucked, though, so this place was run by yankees or aliens.

Dudes: am I Yankee for life? Even though I live in the South now and have no plans to move North?

Quite possibly. I would just lie.

Someone old lady told me I'm "not obnoxious like some Yankees" therefore I don't count.

That was nice.

actually that was obnoxious

Yes, it was.

i have a foreign mom & a yankee dad, but was born here. i'm sooooo don't fit in at times!

I used to get gruff because both of my parents came from Memphis.

Really? ppl be cuckoo.

When I tell people I'm from Buffalo, they usually just feel bad for me.

I've been called a Yankee because I'm from north-central Arkansas.

I've never actually heard anyone get bagged on for being a Yankee, but I guess DFW is only vaguely southern. Half the people are first-generation and the accent is almost non-existent.

I call people yankees. ;)

There's this old dude on the local news who does a less crabby Andy Rooney-type bit. He has the best accent ever, and I'm afraid no one else will carry on the legacy of Awesome Fancy Nashville Accents. If I could, I would, but I'd totally be a faker.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/357145588_a395156f23.jpg?v=1168798443

lol

oh i missed southern threads, even though i'm a traitor!

Someone old lady told me I'm "not obnoxious like some Yankees" therefore I don't count.

That was nice.

-- molly mummenschanz, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 3:47 PM (Tuesday, June 5, 2007 3:47 PM) Bookmark Link

a girl i went to high school with came to audition at my school and told me her mom said it was ok for her to go to college in the north as long as she didn't marry a damn yankee! (her family was all old money from my town).

I am listening to the new Beastie Boys. This makes me happy.

A client wants me to somehow squeeze a logo to be 780x75 when it's simply not possible. Not so happy.

the winds are supposed to get upwards of 40 mph today!

molly i spent the first 18 years of my life in tennessee but i lost my accent after moving to new york --> me = yankee

I was raised in a retirement community filled with people from Iowa and Illinois. I've been working in radio since I was sixteen. I lived in Missouri and Minnesota for three years.

In other words, I'm lucky to have any accent at all.

I don't think I've ever had a Texan accent.

I had a twang when I was eight. I don't have one now at all (I've been told I sound like a Yankee). I forget when things started changing.

(nb I've never lived in a heavily accented area; I think my early accent was picked up from my dad's family)

I grew up in DFW and my father was a Mexican-American yankee so perhaps that had something to do with it.

In the almost 2 years that I've lived here, things like "wreck" and "INsurance" have infiltrated my speech. Happily, though, I don't have the WNY accent, which is just really bad. Apparently, though, when I'm excited, I yell "Oh my GAHD" like a true Rust Beltonian.

things like "wreck" and "INsurance" have infiltrated my speech

mind is blown

I did not realize these were not universal

Yes I was just about to comment on how I didn't understand what was unusual there.

Curtis, where are you?

UMbrella

I had a twang when I was eight. I don't have one now at all (I've been told I sound like a Yankee). I forget when things started changing.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, June 7, 2007 4:58 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

same here

i say yall & aint tho

I also say those. But don't can't them as accent. They can be omitted at will.

I live in Atlanta, grew up in 'burbs

& appaLATCHah & greazy & awnt

i guess awnt could be british too

I don't say "y'all" and "ain't" anymore but when I was little I was all about them

Really? Yeah, all the ambulance-chaser lawyer ads up North say "Been in a car accident?" Same goes for traffic-copters and news channels, and regular folks, i.e.: "There was a terrible accident on the 90."

Also, "inSURance"

Tracer, yes! I love "UMbrella."

I've heard "accident" obv.! I just thought "wreck" was a universal synonym!

Right, of course! But, in regular parlance, people will say "accident" instead of wreck. The only time you ever hear "wreck" is, well, not often. Maybe if like your Skidoo crashed into a tree or something.

I guess it's used more in verb form, like "I wrecked my car", or "I was totally wrecked, and I wrecked my skidoo."

yeah

haha "greazy" - I say that. I also pronounce the "h" in "white" and "what" etc. which has earned me a lot of befuddling scorn over the years

i dont say aint alot really but yall goes at least once every couple sentences

i had no idea about the 'wreck' thing!!

"Y'all" is a good word, it fills its need perfectly. I didn't have a lot of years in California, but they were formative ones -- my southern accent isn't very thick.

I only sound Texan when I'm drunk or when I want to. Other than that I picked up the Cali non-accent of my pops and grandparents.

After years of avoiding y'all it has worked its way in, but only because generic alternatives ('you guys') are just as bad. I have become a huge fan of ain't lately - it works for emphasis.

i spent the first 32 years of my life in Australia. A few weeks ago a man with a very heavy arkansas accent asked me if I was from chicago.

"wreck" was so weird to me when I got here. Also calling pickups "trucks". We call them "utes". And I'll never get past spelling tyre "t-i-r-e". I picked up "yall" pretty quick though. (im sure there are more than auto associated language barriers but i cant think of them right now)

worst of all, pp pointed out to me some time back that when, in my accent, i say "cant" it sounds a lot like another C word.

Plz get PP to record you saying "Y'all come quick, there's a wreck down the road" and post MP3. That would be awesome cool neat awesome.

Chicago, Australia, whatever... it all falls into that category of "not Arkansas."
Kidding. I never really had much of an accent but when you hang out with rural people after awhile you sort of pick up their patterns, at the shop where I work there are some guys in the print shop from outside of the city and I'll come home saying things like "Shoot, I ain't got nothin' to do with it." and "Dang y'all, what the heyul." I like it.

That's the white side of my family to a T. While visiting my aunt in the country a friend of theirs dropped by to have a beer on the porch with us. I swear it was like trying to have a conversation with Boomhauer. I couldn't understand half of what he said.

haha, ALL of my parents' friends to thread. Except for the English couple who moved across the street from them -- they're the only people I can have a conversation with.

I ended up getting to a disturbingly long conversation with a woman from Alabama at the flea market. Her accent was amazing. I loved it. Mind you, she was crazy and took the conversation from Whooping Cough to Mongolian BBQ in a matter of seconds, but she said "what the heyul" too. Fantastic.

One side of my family lives outside of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. When I was young I would go there and my grandfather would say "over yonder is where the cotton gin is" and "One day we were over yonder and..."
I thought Yonder was a city perpetually just over the horizon until I was maybe 10.

i say yonder and 'a ways'

I hate "y'all" but love "ain't"

yall is just more natural than aint

you can be all precise and businesslike with yall but with aint you gotta be talkin lazy already

fixin' to!

fixin' to = another one I didn't realize was a southernism until I was like 16

I like saying something is "about yay big" and doing that thing with your hands to indicate how big something is.

"yea" innit?

I have to say thats the first time I even thought about spelling that out so maybe.

Food, weather and dialect navelgazing. Yes, this is indeed the southern thread.

I'm not sure what other essential regional differences there are, really.

*crickets*

*cicadas*

soon anyway!

wild hogs and kudzu

ah kudzu, the backdrop to my YMCA baseball glory days

speaking of kudzu, as a kid in mississippi i recall there being a lot of media hype about it. how it came from japan and got dumped and it was going to swallow us all, kill our soybean crop, envelop whole buildings and whatnot. they'd always show grainy before-and-after pix of a car in a parking lot with kudzu nearby and then, just 1 week later, the car is nowhere to be seen! maybe it's just that it's not quite as prevalent in arkansas, on the west side of the river, but the hype and fear seems to have dissipated over the years.

they'd always show grainy before-and-after pix of a car in a parking lot with kudzu nearby and then, just 1 week later, the car is nowhere to be seen!

LOL

I love kudzu. Around here you can find stretches of highway where the kudzu is trying to grow across the road, and you just want to speed up going past it so it doesn't grab you and pull you in.

There's an unused section of railroad track at Ole Miss (under the bridge that the Natl. Guard crossed in '62 during the James Meredith showdown) that becomes a kudzu ocean in summer. There was an art student a few years ago who did an installation of aluminum dolphins leaping up out of it.

I only had an accent when talking to my dad; it was a child-of-divorce thing. I moved to Wichita KS at age 12 so any Texas accent faded.

Just in the past 6 months of living in CenTex have I begun to develop a Texan accent -- all the time living in Dallas and suburbs of H- town didn't really contribute (although yeah I've always used "y'all" and filling station and Coke=any sweet carbonated beverage)

rolling down a 100-yard roadside hill engulfed in kudzu always seemed appealing until i thought of what probably lied beneath. snakes, glass shards, whole cars, snakes, jagged aluminum lawn chairs, etc.

Recently I've had more and more encounters where 'coke' had to be explained/defined ("...and a small coke." "We don't have Coke - is Pepsi/RC ok?"). Maybe yankee invaders are at fault.

The land we're working on northwest of Austin is choked with mesquite and little cactus. Kudzu would be a major improvement.

RC is still an option = the Yankees have not won yet

little cactii, I guess

cosign. where I live they sell RC in the $0.25 vending machine outside the grocery store!!=win

xpost

Yeah not a whole of kudzu in TX.

Yeah, I reckon.

I thought RC was a Chicago-made beverage.

Moonpies might be manufactured in Timbuktu or Kalamazoo, but they're still Southern as all get-out.

strange but true: snow ice cream = southern

oh the humidity!

RC was born in Columbus, Georgia

Ever since seeing Alton Brown do it on Feasting On Asphault I've wanted to eat kudzu. I feel bad because just last week I was in SC and there was so much of it but I just never managed to pull over and grab a handful.

Guys did any of you have hailstorms this week? We did; it was insane.

the hype and fear seems to have dissipated over the years

well i think the hype was when people actually believed there was a damn thing they could do about it - you don't hear about it so much now because kudzu won

i have had kudzu quiche - not great

know yr plants if you're gonna grab some kudzu and eat it, you don't wanna get a mouthful of poison ivy

When I was in SC I bought 4 12 packs of CHEERWINE to bring home.

*blorp*

oh god, walking outside is like wading through bathwater.

The low here last night was in the 70s.

We had some hail earlier this week too. (or maybe last week, don't remember)

Yes the humidity kills. When I let the dogs out back at 5:30 and it already feels muggy, I know I'm in for a yucky day.

I could probably poach an egg just by taking it outside.

Everyone is whining here at work.

I'm supposed to go to a presentation at lunch in room WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING. Mind you, it's my boss who's giving the presentation, so I should probably go. BUT NO AC. How do I get out of it?

does it have windows?

Molly, make yourself puke. Or say you're having lady issues and need to go home early.

I think one opens, and it's not large. It's in the back of this long, narrow room. Also, big computer screen projector will be whirring.

Making myself ill may be in order.

Those projectors generate shit tons of heat for how small they are.

It's settled. I'm going to weasel my way out of this, somehow.

Have one of your friends call in pretending to be a customer who needs immediate attention in a matter only you can help with, then stay behind fake-talking them through some hilarious fictional problem.

If only! Sadly, I'm a cataloger, and generally they don't let me deal with the public. And it's summer, so the possibility of a professor requesting a book for immediate cataloging isn't so hot either.

it is allowed to carry a hand-fan everywhere in south.

know yr plants if you're gonna grab some kudzu and eat it, you don't wanna get a mouthful of poison ivy

my favorite variation on the old adage:

leaves of three, leave em be. leaves of four, eat some more!

Southern Food Porn!!

My 2 favorite burgers in Texas

#1. Adair's (Dallas)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/394545418_c6738b2308.jpg?v=0

#2. Casino El Camino (Austin)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/338703651_f203f8de10.jpg?v=0

Too many contenders for a #3.

suddenly i want to go to starlite

Casino, no doubt. Although Adairs as a bar is better.

hey ya'll!

I did a GIS for a Port of Call (NOLA) burger. No dice :(

hi ai lien!

Hey Ai Lien!

I want those hamburgers

hi girls!

i thought it was going to be a slow afternoon, but it's my boss. he is being bossy.

hello!

The new house looks directly on to the Hot fish and BBQ place across the street. Most excellent.

i looked @ the CITY OF PANIC photo, since that is my window to outside world from my desk. is it gonna rain? i hope so. my plants are tired of city water.

how do i look at that site, s.s.?

also, did beeps give dad any giffs?

Shoes, a card, and a really cool hardcover photo book of the Beeps.

Do you guys call her Beeps when you're talking to her, or do you use her name?

Beeps is her internet name.

I don't call my wife Sunny either, but I do warble that Bobby Hebb song to her occasionally.

We actually call her a whole range of names at home: Beeps, Beats, Squids, Poop Pants etc

We're pretty convinced she is going to think her name is Veruca since she hears a whole lot of "Veruca, lay down!" "Veruca, be careful!" "Veruca, do you need to go out?" "Veruca, you're such a galoot!". There's a lot of dog reprimanding when you have a clumsy, curious, jealous great dane around a three month old.

The weather site AMD? I think its just linked from the channel 7(? katv) site.

If I ever meet you guys I'm definitely calling you PP, Sunny and Beeps.

major xpost: "wish the worst" a la the old 97s doesn't swear in it, does it? i don't remember it doing so.

offhand I don't think so. . .(plays song in head). It's rather mean though.

it is. i am thinking about playing it on my radio show. but it is mean. hmm. i shall debate this.

I still want to know why PP is in the hospital with big bags under his eyes.

Perhaps it's a bit personal.

I'm in the hospital right now. With my current sick humor, I thought it would be funny to break up the beach and picnic pictures with one of me here in the room. HAVE A NICE SUMMER!

Then you all had to add those kind words of concern. You just had to ruin my joke.

:-)

Feel better, dude! Quick recovery!

Then you all had to add those kind words of concern. You just had to ruin my joke.

lol, ruined the fun of hospitalization. Ain't I a stinker.

Get well soon, guy!

I am currently eating a hot fish sandwich from the tiny place across the street. It surpasses, in my opion, "The Crunkest Fish in Nashville." This is way better, and spicier, and at a cool 4 bucks, how can you go wrong?

so... hot... can't... take it

Keeping it in the 80s all the way through June was a cruel joke, God.

I had some flamin' cheetos for lunch. This was a mistake.

Avoiding outside as much as possible although I've been talked into hiking/tubing the greenbelt this weekend. Ugh.

There's some massive construction going on outside of my new place. It's really fucking hot here too. Should I offer the dudes who are digging a whole in my front yard some water? They have Gatorade, but I am not sure of construction dude etiquette.

I think they should be prepared. This is their job.

Has anyone tried those Doritos that are yet to be named? X-360 or something? I think they should be called, "Schoolburger."

xpost: I know, but I want to be nice. They're fixing my plumbing.

Rain sucks. It rained here (Houston) again today. It rained yesterday, and the day before, and... I starting to forget what life was like when it wasn't raining.

I hear the air-conditionin'
It's comin' thru the vents
And I ain't felt the sunshine
Since I don't know when.
I had an operation
So I wouldn't die
And now when I hear that A/C coolin'
I hang my head and sigh.

I tried those X-itos this weekend. They struck me as very Worchestershire-y. With a flat finish. Sort of like a Dorito version of the Chex Mix Bold Party Blend, but without the media variety (corn and wheat chex, pretzels, bagel chips, etc.)

I doubt they will survive testing.

Are these the Doritos that won the caged wrestling match? Because my newspaper didn't cover any of that at all.

I think Nancy Reagan-approved ketchup, grade D ground beef, and some government cheese.

They're foul.

get well post-haste Unpleasant Pains, we still have to form and perfect our Hüsker Dü cover band before I bail on this state in a year or two

re: Chex: I got a free sample box of CHOCOLATE CHEX breakfast cereal with my Sunday paper last weekend. B+ would eat without milk again

Since I haven't had a true bath in a week, I've got the Grant Hart look down to a tee.

cool. those Chocolate Chex helped me round out my Bob belly

i am waist deep in homegrown tomatoes!

:( please send me some.

and me

tomatoes and green onions and zucchini. thanks, sis! i didn't know that if you let your zucchini keep growing it gets like a foot and a half long...

I'm in love with the bus here. I wasn't able to take it before, as it's routes are pretty stupid, depending on where you live. New house has a bus stop RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET. And, it's free for me, as I work for big university. I also saw a dude with the BEST GRILLZ. HOORAY, BUS.

we've the worst transit system known. n little rock/ little rock

Tourists from all over flock downtown and wave at the empty trolley cars as they pass by.

I live in Asheville NC now, ans they've got lots of tourists trolleys running around, but every time I see one it's like stuck in traffic in front of a Krystal Burger... what fun. And they're always packed!

We too have the tourist trolleys. We also have these giant pink school buses for the "NashTrash Tour", where buxom women sit on your lap and call you "darlin'".

riding the bus everyday sucks.

So dark and scary in the house right now, at three p.m. Lots of thunder outside, windchimes banging...

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/5491/im003690oz6.jpg

All the while, an off-key digital version of "Do Your Ears Hang Low" reverberates across the neighborhood.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8082/im003689wi2.jpg

I just hope my girls make it home before it gets too crazy out there.

oh man, i miss southern summer thunderstorms something awful!

Ice Cream trucks do not like it when you photograph them.

hopefully that storm will hit us (and not be to bad for you and the fams, PP).

my sinuses are telling me a storm is coming. blurrrrgggh.

urrrggggh. spelling. brain hurts.

hahaha, I just said to J "It looks like it's 8:30 at night out there," and then sat down and opened this thread. Nice long soaker...the thunder is way off in the distance. I hope the Braves game isn't rained out, though.

All the while, an off-key digital version of "Do Your Ears Hang Low" reverberates across the neighborhood.

jibbs?