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Slugburgers

ocherdraco — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:34:23 -0800

Slugburgers, hamburgers in which the meat has been supplemented with bread, meal, or crackers for filler, come from a triangular region that cuts across northern Alabama, northern Mississippi, and southern Tennessee and roughly corresponds with the Tennessee Valley. They're called slugburgers in Moulton, Alabama; Decatur, Alabama; and Corinth, Mississippi; doughburgers in Tupelo, Mississippi; and breadburgers in Cullman, Alabama. This regional take on the hamburger became popular during the Great Depression, when the price of meat made it necessary to use fillers to extend supply. Though the exact origin of the term is disputed, it is most commonly held that Slugburgers got their name from the coin used to pay for them: when each burger cost 5¢, you could pay for one with a nickel which was then also called a slug. Corinth, Mississippi, has held an annual Slugburger Festival since 1988. Take a photographic tour of the Slugburger Trail. I was reminded of slugburgers by The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles. Decatur, Alabama, is my hometown, and I grew up going to school around the corner from C.F. Penn's, the local slugburger joint.

Southern California is for suckers

will wait 4 tanjents — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:55:07 -0800

Tree of Bees? Hills that move? A reflective humorous post about living in Southern California via mockable.org

A brilliant talent gone too soon. Breece D'J Pancake.

scarello — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:21:10 -0800

Transcripts of a troubled mind tells the life and times of Breece D'J Pancake, a brilliant young writer from South Charleston, West Virginia. In a raw, stripped down style, much of his work focused on the people and the language of the Appalachia He committed suicide at the age of 29 and left behind a small, but powerful collection of stories

Jerry Clower: A superb Southern storyteller

Daddy-O — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:33:44 -0800

Jerry Clower (Wikipedia article) started telling his funny stories to boost sales when he was a seed and fertilizer salesman. He went on to become a successful comedian and Grand Ole Opry star. Here are some of his stories (all YouTube links): A Coon Hunting Story On the Jerry Reed Show (check out Jerry's collar!) The Burning Building A New Bull Fishing with the Game Warden Examples of a Redneck (Shame on you Jeff Foxworthy!) Bird Huntin' At Uncle Versies Wanna Buy a Possum? (with bizarrely unrelated video)

All you need to know, really...

konolia — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:33:39 -0800

The BBQ Song

Ice and Lights

KevinSkomsvold — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:47:21 -0800

Anthony Powell is a photographer based in Antarctica. In addition to his photography, he's shot some excellent time-lapse video of the Southern Lights and a Day in the Life of Antarctica.

Cornbread Nation

Miko — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:07:03 -0800

The Southern Foodways Alliance is one weighed-down church-supper table, full of oral history/blog projects like The Tamale Trail, the Boudin Trail, interviews and recipes from the Bartenders of New Orleans, photo essay/interviews from Birmingham's Greek-Americans, a mess o'homemade films, and a passel of event and BBQ-shack photos on Flickr, all smothered in the tangy-sweet academic goodness of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss. These folks get my vote for most flavorful, funkiest food-loving folklorists in the lower forty-eight. Tamales previously mentioned here, and Prince's Hot Chicken here, but the whole site is worth a bookmark and a long evening on the porch.

Ten Years in Jail for Selling Lightbulbs

lalochezia — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:19 -0800

Ten Years in Jail for Selling Lightbulbs

Take your forms wrestled from the void and get the hell out

1f2frfbf — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:37:48 -0800

Wayne White's paintings Wayne Who? He left Tennessee to study at the New York School of Visual Arts with Art Speigelman (he posed holding a broomstick for some of the characters in Maus) and Red Grooms. He came back to Tennessee to do puppetry work for a children's show called Mrs. Cabobble's Caboose, (5th link down, mpg) which in turn caught the attention of CBS who hired him to do the set direction for Pee Wee's Playhouse (I'll defer to this excellent post for Pee Wee videos), for which he played Mr Kite, Randy and Roger the Monster. Where else have you seen his work? The video for Peter Gabriel's "Big Time", and the video for the Smashing Pumpkin's "Tonight, Tonight". This was inspired by my tiny little comment here and he seems to be mentioned in passing here and here. Also: Waxy weighs in along with jonson, his IMDb profile and his Wikipedia entry. Not for use with some sets, consult doctor before taking internally.

"Put your boob in my scotch. Come on, put your tit in my drink."

6am — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:44:03 -0800

Bob Log III plays distorted trash grimey blues slide guitar with his hands, he drawls through a telephone attached to the bubble face of the motorcycle helmet he wears, and he drums with his feet. He is known to ask women to stir his scotch on stage with their breasts, which is sadly Not currently Safe for Work. Sometimes he asks them to sit on his knee, bouncing up and down on the blue glittery jump suit he wears whenever he plays. Bob Log III has an official site. The official site has officially NSFW videos. Of course Bob Log III has a wiki, some content of which is pretty amusing. Bob Log III is just generally not safe for work, and as such is absolutely fantastic.

The Christianity Candidate

malaprohibita — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:33:16 -0800

He's the candidate God would vote for, if God could legally vote. Not endorsed by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, or that Sam Harris dude. Previously.

some beautiful guitarists from France

nicolin — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:56:02 -0800

Flamenco clearly belongs to spain. But so many immigrants came to France to find work or escape from the civil war that there is a small community of guitarists in southern France who are playing it with original voices. Bernardo Sandoval was the subject of a post in mefi music some time ago. Antonio "kiko" ruiz is about to come to the United States with Renaud-Garcia-Fons : their work can be seen here. Serge Lopez is another great guitarist who puts some guitar parts on his website. Salvador Paterna adds to the traditional sound of flamenco both the 'oud and the violin. They are all from or nearby Toulouse.

Khanate

hama7 — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:46:16 -0800

K h a n a t e .

Can I get y'all a cold drink?

nola — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:01:36 -0800

Red State Update with Jackie and Dunlap. Comic good ol' boys shooting the sh*t and having a few hundred beers, while using satire and dead pan humor on the politics of the day.

Good night, Miss Lewis

dersins — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:52:00 -0800

Edna Lewis, the Julia Child of Southern cooking, has passed away at the age of 89.

Gastonia 1929

milquetoast — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:20:43 -0800

Just a small piece down the road from Christmas Town USA looms the empty Loray Mill, an icon of the old industrial South and a monument to the early labor movement. Gastonia 1929: the chief of police is murdered, the Communist organizer flees the country, and the young union balladeer is killed by a strikebreaking mob. (Hear Pete Seeger sing one of her ballads. [real media]) Much more on the area's rich and turbulent history at A Southern Primer. (Lewis Hine's child labor photographs previously discussed here.)

a change from beat dead horses?

31d1 — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:06:37 -0800

Equine Gothic: The Dead Mule as Generic Signifier in Southern Literature of the Twentieth Century

just wow

amberglow — Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:32:56 -0800

Mike Disfarmer had a photo studio in the resort town of Heber Springs, Arkansas throughout the 30s and 40s, creating images with an amazing blunt, unvarnished beauty and strength. Nothing speaks more eloquently about Disfarmer's artistry than the photographs themselves. His genius was the ability to capture without judgment, the essence of a people and a time.

southern pride

konolia — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:17:33 -0800

Don't bump into a Southerner Paul Robinson on the ancient code of insult and revenge that is still prevalent in the American South

The Moonlit Road

plep — Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:18:31 -0800

The Moonlit Road. A fine collection of ghost stories from the American South.
People who like this may also be interesting in How to Fake a Ghost Photo, or Haunted Mobile Homes.

Barbecue And The Best Food You've Never Had

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:40:36 -0800

The Best Food You Never Had: Reading Jake Adam York's juicy essay on the art of the barbecue, I was once again sadly reminded I've never had the pleasure of tasting real, Southern U.S. open-pit barbecue. I have no idea whether it's better in Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky or Georgia; whether pork is better than beef; smoked is tastier than plain... Then I realized there are quite a number of other delicious foods (like fresh abalone sashimi; Alaskan king crab cooked live; a clam-bake on the beach; real wasabi; smoked sablefish; fresh unsalted caviar; an oyster Po'Boy...) I've never tried. It's an interesting gastronomic category: something you've read about and heard about and probably drooled over, that you just know you'd love if only you had a chance to try it! So forgive my curiosity: what's the best food you've never had? [Main link via Arts and Letters Daily]

Not Just Whistling Dixie

jonp72 — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:39:49 -0800

The neo-Confederacy movement is a potent force in the Republican Party in today's South, as Trent Lott's comments about Strom Thurmond demonstrate. Trent Lott has neo-Confederate ties, as does John Ashcroft who praised Jefferson Davis in an interview with the Southern Partisan magazine. Associated with the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, adherents of the neo-Confederate movement can even buy T-shirts gloating transforming the Republican Party into Abraham Lincoln's worst nightmare.