@Swampist @PoloThe_Don So it’s understandable but still cringeworthy to see at times. You have some interesting thoughts here or there but they are frequently drowned out with the cope.
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@NashBleau @PoloThe_Don Half the property is about slavery. You’re delusional
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Yeah how about you just enjoy the sights and sounds and keep the little faggy thoughts to yourself, mate
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John 🏴@BRFCJohn
A more sobering stop on the trip at Oak Alley Plantation. Beautiful grounds, but I left feeling disappointed that the focus was more on the plantation itself than the reality of the slavery that made it possible. Back to New Orleans now for a chilled afternoon by the pool, with an early flight to Dallas tomorrow.
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@Swampist @PoloThe_Don I just think your grotesque takes and constant exoticizing of the south is more cope for your lack of familiarity with the cultures you now live amongst. It’s ok, you’ve spent most of your life in DC or suburbs of it and your work is inherently isolating and terminally online.
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@Swampist @PoloThe_Don You live in a true southern city now and I’m sorry you were forced to find it outside your roots, must be upsetting, though I wouldn’t know. More yikes may be in order for the fellow chastising folks seeking more education regarding slavery on a plantation. Rather performative
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@NashBleau @PoloThe_Don Yikes. Perhaps this is a projection. You have no idea what you’re remotely talking about.
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@Swampist @PoloThe_Don And yet your upbringing was in sterile suburban DC, built post war and dominated by a distinctly non southern culture and highly non native industries. Alexandria may have been southern in some ancestors’ time but it wasn’t when you were brought up there and isn’t today.
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@Swampist @PoloThe_Don It’s suburbia of DC, which is hardly true southern in its cultural ways and that emanates to the suburbs. Potomac VA suburbs’ modern economy almost wholly stems from federal contracting, more transplant than anything. I don’t think you would debate that much.
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@NashBleau @PoloThe_Don Ahh yes Fairfax county/alexandria are “not really” Virginia lol
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@PoloThe_Don @Swampist No, not really, he’s from beltway suburbia. In all reality he’s more a yankee larping as a southerner and says things like this due to his insecurity about that
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Dixie of the mind
"This town is full of homely endearing lower/middle class whites, they all smile at me and my mixed kids. One middle aged woman puts her hand on my shoulder at Walmart and says “you are so blessed” as she walks by us. I walk around like I’m in a surreal fever dream. We stay in our friends house for the summer while we look for a home to buy. After living in the liberal hellscape of one of the most expensive states in the USA, I’m struck by a powerful feeling that there’s so much hope for people than I used to believe. I could be just drunk on the freedom though"
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I have a minivan now but it’s black so you know we’re still a little edgy. It has a dvd player that feels bougie. The kids have watched the Incredibles three times. We’ve taken a trip every day since we got here and buying things for the first time in months feels scandalous, but then I get 3X as many groceries for the same price as a weekly haul in Hawaii. Baby boy loves the car as long as the window is down. This town is full of homely endearing lower/middle class whites, they all smile at me and my mixed kids. One middle aged woman puts her hand on my shoulder at Walmart and says “you are so blessed” as she walks by us. I walk around like I’m in a surreal fever dream. We stay in our friends house for the summer while we look for a home to buy. After living in the liberal hellscape of one of the most expensive states in the USA, I’m struck by a powerful feeling that there’s so much hope for people than I used to believe. I could be just drunk on the freedom though
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@steppedenizen Interesting topic is many new build houses in New Orleans messing up proportionality when they try to emulate historic architectural traits, particularly Greek revival and Italianate. Oversized brackets, oversized pediments and dentils, never incorporating arched windows, etc
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I’ve been thinking about making a few threads on quintessentially New Orleans, architecture, design, “aesthetics”.. etc
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Be it decorum around what sort of potted/hanging plants do use. Or proportionalities of trim work and transoms etc
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Would yall be interested?
𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚢@steppedenizen
@stevemouzon One of my more obscure pet peeves is seeing a midcentury modern or ranch style house with these exact “screw-on-do-nothing” shutters. But not only that the window is much wider than the shutters. Atleast if it were the same size there would be plausible deniability
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@dfossier If you were educated on these local subjects you would not post as you do. Your posts are pure grievance, not substance.
Have you read Bobo? Is your whinging a positive contribution to discourse? I’m pretty confident the answer to both those questions is no. Consider reading.
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Must be another Landlord dispute! Crazy that so many of them are going around New Orleans these days....
NOLA.com@NOLAnews
Jack Sutton closing luxury jewelry store after 4 decades inside New Orleans’ Canal Place nola.com/news/business/…
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@dfossier Yelling Fox News style talking points to the sky is not being a change agent, it’s pretty status quo in fact.
Societal ills yield upstream externalities which impact national econ pull? Obvious, though off topic somewhat. To engage coherently, please read the basics.
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@NashBleau New Orleans spends ~$13,000 per student. Spending has almost no effect on a culture where parent(s) neglect and outright abuse their own children. It's a lack of enforcement and a lack of a will to change, mostly because idiots like you attempt to shout down change agents.
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@dfossier Your discourse is a net negative, sorry. NO’s problems aren’t just maga good lib bad or vice versa. A real Mr New Orleans would know Bobo as a starting point for analysis of the city’s modern Econ era, particularly a native inv advisor of your age. Less shitposting more reading.
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@dfossier Self describing as Mr New Orleans or going to Jesuit doesn’t mean you know anything about the city’s path. Unfortunately your posts only serve up fundamentalist whining, bereft of substance or solution. There are real problems here and some reading may help. Try Bobo to start.
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@NashBleau My Brother in Christ I was Mr. New Orleans. I hate what people like you have done to it.
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@EnglarBrian @TheGrandZero Now take a second to look up the golliwogs before lecturing others about your robust knowledge of music of the era we’re discussing.
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@EnglarBrian @TheGrandZero Lyrics, outfits, voicing, topics, guitar stylings, harmonica.
Just listen to half of the Golliwogs songs they’re basically Brit pop. Change name, adopt flannel and jeans, sing with southern affect, sing about bayous, and play dirtier blues. Boom you got CCR.
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I still find it funny that not one single member of CCR was from the southern United States. Every one of them was born and raised in the El Cerrito area of San Francisco. Literally Californian college yuppies larping as southerners. Weird, huh?
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This song was written in 20 minutes of pure rage after hearing how a senator got his son out of the draft for Vietnam...
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@EnglarBrian @TheGrandZero Brit bands didn’t larp the southern aesthetic when co-opting blues and had more expanded themes than CCR. Elton john didn’t sing like a good ol’ boy on My Father’s Gun. JM didn’t when covering Back Door Man. Dylan sang topical songs on the south without larping the aesthetic.
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@EnglarBrian @TheGrandZero However, in the context of CCR’s songs, aesthetic, and era, BoB blatantly tells CCR was larping as a southern rock band. They were Berkeley bros writing non-topical generic songs about the South from first person perspective because the aesthetic was popular in rock at the time
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@EnglarBrian @TheGrandZero 1 If you knew music well, you would’ve used a better example from that time I.e. The Boxer or My Father’s Gun. Topical perspective writing isn’t always larping.
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They didn’t “larp as Southerners.” They fused a variety of American sounds into something unique, similar to the Grateful Dead. Are you familiar with Merle Haggard? Bakersfield, California. Buck Owens was originally from Texas but was most associated with California and the Bakersfield sound. Not sure what you’re getting at. CCR was cool as fuck.
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