Cole (or JG as his friends and family call him) lovingly dotes on his tomatoes, and it shows. They are delicious. He packed a cooler of snacks so we don’t have to eat fast food. He’s full of good ideas.
He is being a big baby about “unauthorized photos,” but that isn’t going to stop us from trying:
I scolded him and said that the people paid for our trip, so we should give the people what they want. His response? “Fuck the people.” And people** say, I’m the angry one:
You’re welcome.
**Yeah, I know. Self-titled and all that. Just go with it.
[cross-posted at ABLC]
Alexandra
Love it. Am looking forward to this series and hope you all have a fab time. More like this, please. :)
Corner Stone
I predict that 6 months from now the official song of this ill-fated trip will be Jar of Hearts.
eldorado
that tomato does look delicious
General Stuck
by Traveling cross country with John Cole steering the car, you will never have to prove your courage in any other way, ABL.
And if you run across Steph Cutter, please say hi for me.
Corner Stone
A black lady and a towel head traveling through the South to Charlotte.
This will end well.
Trentrunner
Somebody needs to load that awesome gif of Obama, Hillary, and Michelle in the jeep dancing away and looking awesome. ‘Cuz that looks like what youse guys are doin now.
Corner Stone
The remnants of what looks like a pimento cheese sandwich in one hand, and a towel over his head driving down the freeway of love.
Yep, he’s from WV.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
I think a paper bag would have been even better, but certainly not safer. Cole, pretty please give us a photo of you with a genuine smile…. Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssseeee? /bats eyelashes with pouty lips
Ok that’s all the begging I have in me for next 20 years. I hope you are happy in your non-smiling kind of way.
Ash Can
ABL, I don’t know if you and Heather want to be riding in a car whose driver has wrapped a towel around his head.
And WTF? Cole keeps crabbing about his girth, yet he insists upon wearing shirts with horizontal stripes?
gogol's wife
God, I have to get some work done some of the time. How can I tear myself away from this saga? And they aren’t even at the convention yet! This coming week is the first week of school. I can’t afford to be reading Balloon Juice all day.
Now Teachable Dennis SGMM
That has to be some crazy and scary fun – which is, AFAIK, the best kind.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Give it up, Cole. Your spirit has been stolen and shared across the interwebs. Smile and make the best of it.
Here’s one for the road(trip).
raven
EWF?
Ben Franklin
Make us all proud.
quannlace
So Tunch and the canines are holding down the fort? They should start their own blog.
Ash Can
@gogol’s wife: How about it! And this is a very busy week coming up for me. No way will I be able to keep up with all the awesome.
me
OT: The king is dead.
Corner Stone
I can’t tell you how much I hate that Bud Light commercial with the “The Hound”, “Mr. Easy” and “The Fixer” in it.
danah gaz
The last one looks dangerous.
raven
Keeps his ride pretty squared away. Who the other person is?
khead
Tomorrow’s headline in WV papers:
“17 mile back up on I-77 after man flips car while eating sandwich.”
raven
@me: Weird ass motherfucker that he was.
danah gaz
@khead: hehehehe. no kidding.
dance around in your bones
John G. Cole – towel-head. The Unknown Terrorist.
Corner Stone
@khead: “The tomato slipped outta my sandwich, hit the floorboard and rolled under my seat. I…I couldn’t just leave it there.”
arguingwithsignposts
@General Stuck:
Okay, let’s get this out of the way right now, WV to NC is not cross-country. It’s around a six-hour drive, which will get you halfway across Texas.
dp
Y’all are going to have a blast.
danah gaz
@Ash Can: “ABL, I don’t know if you and Heather want to be riding in a car whose driver has wrapped a towel around his head.”
If this was the metric I used it would be a lot more difficult for me to catch a cab in seattle. Just sayin’
To their credit, the cabbies don’t obscure their vision with them, so I think John’s just doing it wrong.
Wiesman
@General Stuck:
And if you run across Reince Preibus, back up and do it again.
quannlace
OT: The king is dead.
One of the weirdest things I heard about him is that he was the largest owner of sushi restaurants in the US.
ABL
@Corner Stone: Hilarious.
dance around in your bones
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Ah, there ya go – weed, whites and wine. Recipe for disaster? or too much fun?
Elizabelle
@me:
It’s been a bad year for megalomaniac Koreans.
khead
@dance around in your bones:
Weird. Really OT, but “The Unknown Terrorist” reminded me – I watched the Gong Show Movie for the first time last week. Damn them folks did some serious drugs.
Also, if ABL and Cole make it past Wytheville before the car flip, make it a 25 mile back up. That part of I-77 blows.
Rosalita
damn right we deserve photos! Keep it up ABL.
Libby
So glad there will be photographic evidence of this epic trip. And packing food is wise. If memory serves, there aren’t a whole lot of easy on/off fast food places on that highway until you’re about an hour out from Charlotte.
Ash Can
@danah gaz: Those also aren’t towels that the cabbies are wearing.
raven
@dance around in your bones: Down to seeds and stems again too. . .
Elizabelle
@raven:
Heather would be in the passenger seat. ABL had the sense to insist on sitting in back.**
Is it a rental vehicle? Keys look like that …
** ETA: Although she can sit anywhere she damn pleases, in this blog and in real life.
I hope you guys have a toy dog strapped to the roof. With a banner of some sort.
raven
@Libby: They can chow down in Mt Pilot.
Comrade Mary
Ha! When I first looked at that photo, I thought ABL had a lollipop in her mouth, but she’s holding a knife instead. Hard.Core.
I’m just catching up with the blog (Le Guy was back in town last night after weeks away, so I was fully occupied and AFK), but I love, love, love the photos and the fun (and the arrival of Heather — hi, Heather!). And I think I’m developing a bit of a fetish for John’s forearms. John, do not underestimate the effect on women when they encounter a tall, cranky but funny animal lover, especially when backed up by forearms like those. /fans self
dance around in your bones
@raven:
Put ’em through a sifter and suck ’em up.
Well, back in the day. Now, there’s the Volcano!
Bailey
Ah, JG, you’re more beautiful than you know…
Love this roadtrip!
RP
I’m pretty sure “f**k the people” is the new slogan Obama’s going to roll out this week.
Allan
As far as distracted driving is concerned, I think the bigger danger for JG is Imani’s cleavage in the rear view mirror.
Eyes front, young man!
General Stuck
@arguingwithsignposts:
‘Cross country’ means driving from point a to b in America. Across country, would be driving across country. It is why long distance running is called ‘cross country running’ even though it isn’t coast to coast and is a few miles.
raven
@khead: Especially in a blizzard! I’ll have to dig around for the pix of 2 years ago at Xmas when we lit out from Blacksburg against all advice and made it to Athens. If the new bypass around Charlotte hadn’t been there we would have been screwed.
raven
@dance around in your bones: And there is still Commander Cody. . .
dance around in your bones
@khead:
It was even better if you were on serious drugs whilst watching.
ETA: The original Gong Show. (shoulda been called the Bong Show).
Steeplejack
@raven:
I think they rented a van for the trip. Cole’s usual ride is a Subaru.
Libby
Just occurred to me if I was more ambitious, I could make a big old Balloon Juice banner and hang it off an overpass to cheer you all on… Sadly I’m too lazy to do that.
Corner Stone
@ABL: Nothing on my “Jar of Hearts” bit? I’ve been saving that.
NonyNony
@RP:
The Romney/Ryan campaign are already using that one, so Obama’s going to have to come up with something else.
Steeplejack
@quannlace:
I think his church owns a company that supplies sushi to a lot of restaurants.
suzanne
@Corner Stone:
God help us all.
raven
@Steeplejack: Yea, I blew it up, it’s a Ford.
Ann Rynd
Just as I was getting used to John having an actual face, now comes ABL in a tubetop. Stop this trip right now. Too much to retain. Not fair. There will be blood.! Gagh!
(Takes a modest Shirley Maclain bow. Exunt stage left)
Libby
@raven: Ha! I don’t think they have fast food there yet. But I bet the diner is good.
And seriously, there’s some little diner on the Virginia border that is world famous for its pork chop sandwiches. I’m told they bring tour buses there. But it closes at 2:00pm.
Steeplejack
Video snippet from ABL’s twitter feed.
BGinCHI
Headline from Today’s Charlotte Observer:
City Braces For Hurricane Cole
Dennis SGMM
The opening scene of “Final Destination 2.”
Don’t even ask me why that came to mind.
me
@raven:
His employees genuflect…
PurpleGirl
Thanks for the pictures, ABL. Looking forward to the road trip narrative.
YellowJournalism
This looks like promo pics for the strangest episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives ever.
raven
@Libby: The The Log House in Wytheville is ok.
Spaghetti Lee
Look out Charlotte!
JPL
Does this mean that ABL and BJ are not going to be on the campaign conference call with the President this afternoon?
I sent in a question. I think you probably get the invite randomly although I did send in one nice check.
Mark S.
Ha, sounds like something I’d say.
khead
@raven:
My brother and sister both lived in Charlotte when I was @ Va Tech. I would set that road on fire some weekends. Just a miracle I never got a ticket in Wythe Co.
A lot of weekends, though, that road will back up around Wytheville due to all the fine WV folks doing their best to help 77 live up to its “Hillbilly Highway” nickname.
Corner Stone
@Dennis SGMM: The only thing that scene proves is that we should stop killing innovation in the long haul trucker industry, and deregulate asap to help the true job creators.
Dennis SGMM
@me:
You said “genuflect.” So here’s Tom Lehrer, with intro, performing the Vatican Rag.
lamh35
Man, now I wanna join the damn roadtrip.
ya’ll look like ya’ll having too much fun. When do ya’ll get to Charlotte?
eemom
hmm. There are various ways to interpret this…
Corner Stone
@YellowJournalism: If it’s Funky, they’ll find it.
Ann Rynd
Just saw a video of ABL. A total fucking star is born (and borne to conventionland.) She will be on Chris Matthews within a year. As soon as she learns to look at the cam’ra. Girl, please.
dewzke
http://oneteachersperspective.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-tale-of-two-janesvillians-paul-ryan-me.html
This is a comparison by someone roughly the same age as Paul Ryan who
grew up in
Janesville with a quite similar background to Ryan who came to an opposite view
of the helping hand government and public services provide. It is well written
with informed source citations. It describes their similarities –strong
Catholic upbringings, the death of their fathers– and their differences
–wealth and poverty, private schools and public schools. I found the blog
referenced on the WEAC Facebook page.
—
“When you ignore the pain of others, you diminish your own humanity.”
…Billy Hayes, Author of Midnight Express and Midnight Return
“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that
government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children;
those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are
in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. ”
…Hubert H. Humphrey
suzanne
@Ann Rynd: Cole, OTOH, has a face made for blogging.
dance around in your bones
@Dennis SGMM:
Jesus Fuck – how many cars did they have to kill to film that scene?
MikeJ
JG? Blogger, Junior Grade?
JPL
@dewzke: Thank you. The repubs need a special place in hell for saying they are the pro-life party.
Ann Rynd
@suzanne: Now, now. Behave.
Violet
I know the wingnuts keep screaming about ragheads and now I see why. Scary as hell.
Comrade Mary
OMG, I love the video, ABL! I think a cap taken from one of the sections where you WIDEN YOUR EYES could be at risk of turning into a variation of Overly Attached Girlfriend. Not that I’m doing that or advising anyone to do that.
Libby
@raven: Been stuck in Wytheville a few times. It’s a pretty place when you get off the highway but find it hard to get around in that town. Don’t think I’ve seen the Log Cabin. The highway interchange is deadly through that stretch. I’m always glad to either get through it or get off it for the night.
Comrade Mary
@MikeJ: JG, as in John Griffin. I also have a little fetish for Cole’s middle name, so I remember these things.
danah gaz
okay JPL – I’ll post it once more, for ABL…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzqvqzBdUQ&feature=player_embedded
(this is the same link I posted on two earlier threads, so if you’ve seen it, please disregard this post)
rikyrah
you two are crazy, and I don’t think you’ll make it to Charlotte without being pulled over by at least 2 cops.
raven
@Libby: We were at Smith Mountain Lake when it got shit down between Blacksburg and Roanoke and all those people were stranded. On the upside Bohdi loves to bark at all those cows around there!
Randy P
@dance around in your bones: I used to watch it as a kid. No drugs. As a young curmudgeon-in-training, I remember often I would grouse that no matter how good and truly original the novelty acts were, 9 times out of 10 a lounge singer would win.
Edited to Add: The banner ad is for a dating site with the tag line “We don’t like younger men, we want men like you.” What exactly triggers these ads? This is a little scary.
Cronin
Did Cole just get his face eaten by his own Terrible Towel?
dance around in your bones
@Dennis SGMM:
That was hysterical. I sorta forgot about Tom Lehrer so thanks for reminding me.
“drink the wine, chew the wafer
2-4-6-8 time to transubstantiate”
::disappears down the YouTube hole for a while::
gloryb
Like someone else on another thread (i forgot who it was), PLEASE crash a Morning Ho show!!
The Dangerman
If you see any stray Jack Russell’s while driving down the road, try not to lock up the brakes while stopping.
raven
@khead: I’m an honorary Hokie. While my father-in-law was alive he would give me $100 for my birthday and I had to buy a Hokie Club Membership with the dough so he got points! That man loved his Hokies with an incredible passion. Even took the entire family to the Easy for the National Championship.
Corner Stone
@raven:
That sounds truly offal.
raven
Shut down
Batocchio
This will end well. A week of prodding the bear…
JPL
I don’t know where the picture was taken but I do have to say the trees are definitely not the right height. They aren’t even.
Dennis SGMM
@dance around in your bones:
Lots. Digital Dimension did the log bouncing scene and everyone swears that there were no CG cars in the film. I would add that I look just like Cary Grant in his touch-of-grey years.
raven
@dance around in your bones: The Vatican Rag, almost as funny as Send the Marines
When someone makes a move
Of which we don’t approve,
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S.,
They have their place, I guess,
But first send the Marines!
We’ll send them all we’ve got,
John Wayne and Randolph Scott,
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
To the shores of Tripoli,
But not to Mississippoli,
What do we do? We send the Marines!
For might makes right,
And till they’ve seen the light,
They’ve got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
‘Till somebody we like can be elected.
Members of the corps
All hate the thought of war,
They’d rather kill them off by peaceful means.
Stop calling it aggression,
O we hate that expression.
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we go,
So when in doubt,
Send the Marines!
dance around in your bones
@Randy P:
♫ ♬Gang a Gong, get it on ♩ ♪
JPL
@danah gaz: I just think they need to listen to that about a dozen or so times before arriving in Charlotte.
raven
@dance around in your bones: It’s still there
Vatican Rag
Violet
@Dennis SGMM: One of my science teachers in high school made us listen to Tom Lehrer singing the Periodic Table (“The Elements”) over and over. I swear it’s how I would remember the stupid thing for tests.
Edit to include link to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8dtquYDXEU
Jane2
@Corner Stone: Thread win.
dance around in your bones
@Dennis SGMM:
And I look just like Morgan Fairchild! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Heather
Ya’ll are hilarious.
“How shall we fuck off, O Lord?”
Alright, I can’t get away with too much backtalk. I’m in the side-seat. He can reach me.
danah gaz
@JPL: somehow that seems rather twisted. =)
Admittedly I’ve watched it a couple of times now myself, so I wonder what that says about me… =/
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary:
I thought it was a cigarette.
Seanly
Won’t we all see John when he’s giving the speech right before Obama’s? I suggest he ditch the cranky guy yelling at an empty chair schtick though – apparently it’s been done.
Violet
@Heather: Don’t worry. He’s not that fast.
Ask him about naked mopping if you get bored.
Linda Featheringill
@Heather:
Hi, Heather!
dance around in your bones
@Heather:
Just give him that stanky side-eye…he’ll back off.
I think.
PurpleGirl
@dewzke: I went over and read it. Powerful. Very powerful. Thank you for recommending it.
Randy P
@Violet: I love it just for the “discahvered/Hahverd” rhyme at the end.
Tom Lehrer is my hero.
“All the world is in tune, on a spring afternoon, as we’re poisoning pigeons in the park…”
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@dance around in your bones:
The conditions are ripe for either without the additional factors.
JPL
OT.. This afternoon a friend who leans republican at first decided not to vote but after listening to Romney’s acceptance speech is voting for Obama because she wants her vote to count. She lives in FL but it wasn’t about Medicare it was about his lack of specifics.
khead
@Heather:
Position yourself in an upper corner of the back seat where he can’t reach you. Like Spiderman in the corner of a building. It used to work for me on family roadtrips because we had a crappy ’68 Cadillac that was as big as a small boat. Dad just hit air.
Of course if he stops the car, well, you are on your own then.
Libby
@raven: You get stranded on that stretch and there’s really no where to go. Beautiful mountains, but a bitch to drive. Back roads are worse than the highway. Prettier and no traffic but so slow and curvy. Just about blew my brakes coming down the switchbacks off the mountains into Roanoke.
Dennis SGMM
Just one note of caution. Unless things have changed, there are some hard, dangerous, fucks down in the American South. Keep your eyes open, kids, and know when to keep your mouths shut.
PurpleGirl
@Violet:
Ask him about naked mopping if you get bored.
You’re wicked (good). He will never live that down.
raven
@Libby: My FIL liked to take 603 into B-Burg for games.
raven
@Dennis SGMM: It’s no worse than anywhere else.
Violet
@Randy P: Any Daniel Radcliffe/Harry Potter fans out there? Here’s Daniel Radcliffe singing “The Elements”. Link. Apparently he loves Tom Lehrer. My estimation of Mr. Radcliffe has gone up quite a bit, finding that out.
dance around in your bones
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
I think the towel-head factor might tip the scales.
raven
Ya’ll need to check out some bad ass rock and roll photo’s. The dudes website doesn’t work very well but, damn!
raven
Oh yea, Lowell George on F-Troop!
Violet
@PurpleGirl: Never. Ever. Heh.
Also, be sure to ask him about the shoulder surgery that was required after he carried his dear, sweet Lily and her delicate paws over the mean, cold, fierce snow on the front stoop so she could complete her nightly piddle.
khead
@raven:
Wow. That reference brings back some memories.
I used to drive that road with a nice college girl(s) on a fall weekend….
PurpleGirl
@raven: I think the website works quite well. I found it easy to navigate to the text. The photos are stunning.
JPL
@raven: When I first moved here, my neighbor was black. We got lost in Forsyth County and I had to go ask for directions. I locked her in the car and told her under no circumstances was she to unlock it. Of course, the KKK had a parade their the year before. You are right that times are changing but Etowah County doesn’t exactly have open arms to outsiders.
henqiguai
@Dennis SGMM (#119):
The hills, the hills have eyes!
Dennis SGMM
@raven:
Please don’t get me wrong; I love Southerners. They are the best story tellers in the world. Most of the folks I met were good and hospitable beyond the imagining of people who haven’t been there. That said, there were some lines that you just didn’t cross back in the day. Those nice folks would put you down and dispose of you just as easily as they made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. This was in the interior of Luzianne so maybe the places where Cole and company are headed are more mellow.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@Dennis SGMM:
Not Charlotte, in my experience. People still N-bombed, but only when it was just us white folks. The city is pretty cosmopolitan and as a Yankee I had no problems there. Now Georgia, on the other hand…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@dance around in your bones:
Agreed. Vanity is going to do the man in. I wouldn’t want to be in the proximity when it does.
Libby
@raven: Don’t know that road. Had to look it up. Never been on it. But we’re talking about I-81 and I would think our intrepid travelers would be taking 77 down. Nicer drive and probably more direct from the middle of nowhere in WVA.
Schlemizel
@dance around in your bones: TL is GOD!
“We’ll try to stay serene and calm
when Alabama gets the bomb”
– Whos next?
“Just step out for a breath of air
and you’ll be ready for medicare”
– Don’t drink the water aka the environment song
I have his box set, best money I spent outside of the engagement ring I gave Mrs. S
Ann
With posts like this, how can you not love this website?
Violet
@Libby: I just drove I-77 from WV south a month ago or so. Perfectly nice road. Plenty of places to stop off for refueling, etc. The Angry/Cranky tour should get to Charlotte without any troubles.
Chuck Butcher
I seems that ABL isn’t going to let JGC get away with much of his “stuff” (whocoodanode).
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I’m sort of with Cole on the photography. I don’t like having my picture taken. I know it’s a minority opinion but I feel you should ask first and honor people’s wishes.
This road trip however is History in the Making and it would short change future generations if there wasn’t full documentation.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
I had to drive from Detroit to Charlotte for my regular commute on 9/12/01 because I couldn’t fly. Paid $50 for 10 gals of gas in WV and that stung. Pretty easy trip, though.
Chuck Butcher
good grief, the way some of you act you’d think they were taking a trip to the dark side of the moon. Maybe that’s just the reaction of somebody like me who has been all over the damn place on a Harley… but for pete’s sake – it isn’t even a day’s drive.
dance around in your bones
@Schlemizel:
Oh, gawd, I remember the Pollution song from when I was a kid!
“Pollution, pollution, you can use the latest toothpaste…
Then rinse your mouth with industrial waste”
Cracked me up then.
JPL
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: You sound like Mitt. lol
I understand your concern though.
khead
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
Well sure. I mean, nothing says “cosmopolitan” more than N-bombing around only the white folks.
Libby
@Violet: I’ve only been on it above Wytheville a couple of times and its been a while. Lat time I think I picked it up all the way up at Rt 70 at around Columbus OH. Gorgeous road and not a lot of traffic. But I seem to recall long stretches with pretty much nothing. I do recall there being several bigger towns with gas but when I’m highway driving, I want a really easy off and on. Try to hit the travel plazas above or below the big towns so I’m not driving for 15 minutes through traffic just to get gas. Don’t recall there being many of those. Of course, I also am fussy about which brand of gas I use so maybe it was just there weren’t many Shell stations.
Sadly don’t often have a reason to drive that stretch. Generally heading north to go to Connecticut and it’s just too far out of the way, so I battle the traffic on 81.
Citizen_X
@Ash Can:
Fucking ruggers, what can you do?
OK, he’s a LAXer. That’s much better: American Indian insanity and violence, instead of drunken Brit insanity and violence.
But–like a rugger/LAXer–Cole’s got a lot more meat on his bones than he lets on. Which is why Comrade Mary can go on about his forearms. Nobody’s gonna say that about a guy who’s all fat.
ETA: That Tunch guy is another matter.
PZ
Have to say, I’m a little surprised Anne Laurie or even DougJ didn’t mention this-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19451439
PurpleGirl
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist: One must watch out for karma, though. I know a guy in science fiction fandom who walks around with several cameras and takes pictures constantly but who never wanted a picture taken of himself. He found ways to ruin any picture someone tried to take. However, comes the day his mother wins a Nobel prize and the NYTimes insists on a family shot of him with both his parents. (It’s also on the front page of the paper.) Several months later another friend in fandom gifts him with a 6×4 foot enlargement of the Times picture for his birthday.
Dennis SGMM
@khead:
Lenny Bruce said that the word has power because it has been suppressed. I can’t find any clips of Lenny, so instead I offer Dustin Hoffman from the movie “Lenny” speaking his words in an eerily good recapitulation.
Libby
@khead: Charlotte is fine. Big enough city to have resident freaks and hippies. They even elect Democrats to office there. Up here, about an hour north, there is not a single Democrat in any elected office in my county. They don’t shoot hippies here either, but the good church-going folks do have a habit of dropping the ni-clang pretty damn casually among themselves.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@PurpleGirl:
Yeah, publishing was what nailed me. I wrote some articles and got photo-ed at Maker Faire Detroit. Next thing I know I’m in Boing Boing. Rats.
khead
@Libby:
I agree that Charlotte is fine.
But…
I’m not the one that said Charlotte was cosmopolitan even though there are white folks running around droppping N-bombs. That was pretty bad.
In addition, I’m gonna guess that even Lenny Bruce wouldn’t be so stupid as to think that because some folks have good enough sense to not drop the N-word in mixed company that this is a compliment to the city of Charlotte.
rammalamadingdong
ABL, we would like to hear John’s voice. You know what to do.
Midnight Marauder
Don’t worry, Cole. The Kills have got your back.
The Kills – Fuck The People
Rey
@Corner Stone: LOLLLLLLLLL!!!
Heather
@Linda Featheringill: I asked. He told me. During most of the story, I was all:
Oh noes! That’s awful! Poor you! :(
Until the end. Then it was like this:
o.O … sigh.
That’s how it’s been for a lot of this trip, actually. Cole and I have an amusing dynamic. Cole will say something cynical and cranky, and I’m all, “CHEERFUL CHEERY CHEER!” He mutters something that I probably am happier not hearing clearly. Then I poke him and say “Beep!”
I expect he’ll murder me soon.
Ronzoni Rigatoni
I always thought NC was relatively “progressive” fo’ a southern state. IIRC, Terry Sanford was gov back in the civil rights era and he was definitely not an Orville Faubus or George Wallace type. I think he guided the state through a pretty radical change as an anti-segregationist, and did quite well. I had friends up in the Ashville area, and I never heard the n-CLANG word. Funny how things changed for the worse. Must be the influx of all them tha’r Damn Yankees over the years. LOL
Tuesday Night Success
Black Lady Making Sammiches for the Cranky Man sounds like a gender reversed remake of Driving Miss Daisy.
asiangrrlMN
@Heather: You. I like you. I hope you get video of the exact moment you make Cole snap.
Another Halocene Human
@Violet: Oh god, I just realized y’all were talking about Tim LEHRER, and here I was thinking it was a link to Tim MINCHIN with his Pope song. Profane but appropriate.