Defend the Indefensible: Mississippi

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i really enjoyed the two times i went to mississippi, kinda would like to go back.

69, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link

plz describe said enjoyments, of what they consisted.

Aimless, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

We should trade houses for a month. xpost

the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link

the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious

on the same trip, after I told this one dude how nice his house and neighborhood was and how I'd like to live someplace like that someday, he told me that that was nice but they liked to make sure only the right kind of people moved into their neighborhood, after which he stared at me and asked, "Do you understand what I am saying?"

not too many positive impressions of Tupelo, MS

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:23 (twelve years ago) link

the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nAvTVeR6o

it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:30 (twelve years ago) link

I wasn't counting ppl I haven't actually met but that came afterward

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

xo Dan, good friend is currently great with Junior Kimbrough's grandbaby. Sometime ILXOR Ai Lien is busy planning a baby shower. Weird, eh?

andrew m., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

that made sense, right?

andrew m., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

uhhh...

Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link

D4vid Kimbrough and my friend are having a kid. We're handling baby shower duties. That's what I meant.

andrew m., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

Tupelo is The Worst. it's like the shittiest aspects of Mississippi distilled.

je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

Don Wildmon territory IIRC

je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

em-eye-ess-ess-eye-ess-ess-eye-pee-pee- eye <<fun to spell!

ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link

its most important use in life is helping with counting time

coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

on the same trip, after I told this one dude how nice his house and neighborhood was and how I'd like to live someplace like that someday, he told me that that was nice but they liked to make sure only the right kind of people moved into their neighborhood, after which he stared at me and asked, "Do you understand what I am saying?"

― DJP, Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:23 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

'i was just being nice, i would not actually like to live here at all'

ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I
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andrew m., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link

(xpost) Ah, "is currently great' -- I feel like I'm doing cryptic crosswords. That's very cool.

I still look back at that Junior Kimbrough show with such amazement. It wasn't on the main stage at King Biscuit, we sat along the levee at some farm implement dealership amongst backhoes and such, whilst Kimbrough droned psychedelicly. Bizarre and awesome.

Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

lets face it, its a hot dump

coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link

Dr. Dirt used to be the cohost of a gardening/horticulture radio show on MS Public Broadcasting. The host is a southern-horticulture expert and a real dick. (I used to work with his brother at Ole Miss; unsurprisingly, he too was a dick.)

Will otm about Tupelo. But somebody has opened a new bar there with 20 taps and 100+ bottled beers, which is real progress for that John Birch Society Southeast Regional HQ.

the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link

srsly, visiting that town pretty much killed any vestigial desire I had to live someplace that wasn't a large, major city

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link

wait I thought you lived in boston

iatee, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

parse the sentence, iatee...

the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

oh come on at least we're SUBTLE about our racism up here in the mid-atlantic suburbs

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link

oh wait, I see what you did there (maybe) xp

the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

like, maybe I don't know 95% of my neighbors, but on the flipside they aren't organizing a mob to run me out of town so I'm basically all good

several xps: lol NYC, how ya doin'

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link

yeah the drive dang perry out of somerville chapter i attempted to launch never really got off the ground :/

ice cr?m, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

Mississippi is one of twelve states in which I've had sex.

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

D. Kimbrough used to come kick it in Oxford and jam with some of my musician friends. he was a good-looking, smooth-talking SOB (circa 95-96). used to bring us moonshine, too. saw Junior in his old juke joint Junior's Place before it burned.

je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link

I mean jeez at least in Oakland we make sure the racists murdering black guys wear uniforms

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:13 (twelve years ago) link

I bust out the same schtick every time there's an "I hate Texas!"/"I hate Florida!"/whatever thread so I'll just do the abbreviated version here: there are good, wonderful, creative people everywhere, and if it makes you feel awesome about yourself to go "well in [Texas, Florida, Mississippi, whatever] they're the EXCEPTION, most everybody there is horrible and you know it" etc., knock yrself out but I'd rather live in Mississippi than in a house full of people who puff themselves up by hating on places like Mississippi instead of finding some way to add to the available fund of good in the world

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link

This thread is an invitation to Jonah Goldberg to whine about liberal east coast bias.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link

I mean jeez at least in Oakland we make sure the racists murdering black guys wear uniforms

you actually said this

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link

referring to recent case where BART cop shot an unarmed, handcuffed black man in the back of the head, yes

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link

also for the record I big upped Fat Possum already in this thread, and only posted the story here cuz it seems like the most recently active, relevant thread

there is lots of great stuff from Mississippi

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link

also donated to available good fund earlier but am kinda in a bad mood at the moment

a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link

I bust out the same schtick every time there's an "I hate Texas!"/"I hate Florida!"/whatever thread

To be fair, this was fully intended as a thread for people to rise to Mississippi's defense. WMC lives there and was said it was indefensible and I called him on it.

A while back I was casting a critical eye at my own state of Maryland, a majority liberal, Democratic stalwart of a state and despite of that, there's still definitely a strong conservative presence and I've encountered plenty of racism, both first-hand and in the news. And in spite of a strong conservative, racist presence in Miss., the 2008 Presidential election went 56% McCain 42% Obama and so like, that's a huge lead obviously, but it's closer to an even split than you'd think, given all the horror stories that people tell about the state. And there are demographic and class considerations and all that shit to factor in, but whatever.

walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link

What's Mississippi's nature like? That's one of my main considerations when judging a state. Is there somewhere good to go there when the weather's nice?

walloginabox (kkvgz), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link

It's a conservative Bible-belt state full of horrendously undereducated folks scared by their pastors and Fox News into voting against their own economic self-interest. As everywhere, there are generous, open-hearted people, and there are brutes.

xpost -- lots of hunting and fishing, lakes and state parks, a not-particularly-clean beach on our tiny strip of coastline. Oppressively hot and humid from May through mid-September, not cold enough to get much snow in the winter, wonderful for two months each in spring and fall. Not much variation in elevation until you get to the far northeast corner, so there aren't any dramatic nature formations.

Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:46 (twelve years ago) link

Nice state for bird-watching.

Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link

Also, I didn't say the state was indefensible, I said I wasn't going to be the one doing the defending. (But of course I occasionally do anyway.)

Josef K-Doe (WmC), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:52 (twelve years ago) link

hate to see the old roxy

also we’re divorced now and i hate this movie. (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link

not cold enough to get much snow in the winter

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

love in a grain elevator (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link

Well, this is changing. Until the last couple of years, we'd have a measurable snowfall roughly once a decade. This past winter, we had 3", 5" and 6" school-letter-outters.

Josef K-Doe (WmC), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link

And there are demographic and class considerations and all that shit to factor in, but whatever.

― walloginabox (kkvgz)

[Living in a redneck, white-trash, hillbilly neighborhood - Advice?

mods did fake marissa (buzza), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link

I just heard a story from old friends who spent one year in Jackson after law school. The week they moved in, my friend Jen answered a knock at the door to find two personable local women who greeted her and said "welcome to Jackson, we'd love to show you around." My friend immediately offered that she was both Catholic and a Democrat, and the two women simply turned around and walked away.

Anyway, most of Mississippi is the dud by which all other duds are judged, but boy is Oxford a lovely little town. Just 10 hours from Chicago!

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link

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

KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Thursday, 7 July 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link


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