And the squirrels are eating all the tomatoes for water, so you'll need to put a bowl of water out for them. You can listen to mixtapes while sewing on the porch drinking mojitos made with mint out of the garden, but don't cut it all down because it keeps mosquitos away.
but sister- we're finally going to get 80 degree weather, don't be swapping your house just yet! - signed, another louisville girl
but sister- we're finally going to get 80 degree weather, don't be swapping your house just yet! - signed, another louisville girl
It was in Chicago that I really realized the paradox that my accent was powerful even while it gave people weird impressions of me as some backwoods person. A Chicago native would have the nerve to make comments about my accent and somehow think their accent was 'normal'. Chicago accents! But the look they would get on their faces when they realized I was just as educated, just as sophisticated as they were....so very silly. I would prefer to sound like Dixie Carter than Roseanne Barr any day. (but I love you Roseanne!)
anyway, I'm glad you pointed out the variety of accents in Kentucky. I live in Louisville and really most L-ville natives don't have accents. And I love Eastern KY accents, totally different than mine.
anyway, I'm glad you pointed out the variety of accents in Kentucky. I live in Louisville and really most L-ville natives don't have accents. And I love Eastern KY accents, totally different than mine.
Nice post - but I have to articulate something that drives me crazy about 'former low-class" folks and it's this demand - "I mostly eradicated my accent when I was an undergrad".
I am from North/central KY - I have a thick accent and have been approached by more than one well-meaning advisor who have tried to talk me out of it, have warned me about the fact that I'll never be taken seriously with it, but I'm here to tell you that it's not a burden. It's beautiful, it's part of what makes me what I am - and if there is a person in power that doesn't take me seriously because my accent represents a low-class upbringing - well, fuck 'em. I manage to overcome those impressions through the work I do.
Nothing has been as heartbreaking to me as the professor from Texas who quietly told me that he had to kill his accent and that I needed to as well - and immediately I took that as a sign to hold on to my accent until it was pried out of my cold dead jaws - to accept that my accent represented a background that I could not and would not hide - including that pet raccoon BTW. It's ten years later and I have everything I want despite my accent.
And it's sexy. So sister, go back and get that Okie accent.
I am from North/central KY - I have a thick accent and have been approached by more than one well-meaning advisor who have tried to talk me out of it, have warned me about the fact that I'll never be taken seriously with it, but I'm here to tell you that it's not a burden. It's beautiful, it's part of what makes me what I am - and if there is a person in power that doesn't take me seriously because my accent represents a low-class upbringing - well, fuck 'em. I manage to overcome those impressions through the work I do.
Nothing has been as heartbreaking to me as the professor from Texas who quietly told me that he had to kill his accent and that I needed to as well - and immediately I took that as a sign to hold on to my accent until it was pried out of my cold dead jaws - to accept that my accent represented a background that I could not and would not hide - including that pet raccoon BTW. It's ten years later and I have everything I want despite my accent.
And it's sexy. So sister, go back and get that Okie accent.
Gilead by Marilynne Robison. A father learns he is dying and spends the book writing to his young son advising him. Read it with The Road for a sobfest!
Considering that this is about 30 minutes from my hometown, I rejoice for the small town stoners who will have something really fun to do on the weekend. Wish it had been there in 1994.
@Cinnamoncanuck: Girl, I run a live children's series and I totally got that. Jim Cosgrove all the way.
So Ms. French on that Buffy episode was a 'Mantis religiosa' - good to know.
@Flackette Knits A Lot: New mayor for Louisville too - and he supports a slow food movement, for now at least.
@bumpcitykitty: yeah, but Tom Cruise's extended lawyer family lives here, so it lingers.
@Flackette Knits A Lot: Yarmuth isn't going anywhere. I don't even know why the Lally people are spending money on signs.
And don't forget the porchsitting! We are a porchsitting state!
And don't forget the porchsitting! We are a porchsitting state!
@Ima B. Me: and Wendell Berry!
created for a Trapped in the Closet/Showgirls double feature, it's mesmirizing. Credit: Darnell
@hector villanueva's posse: why not? the year is 1992 and it was top 40 hit. just happened to be on the radio. and i hated springsteen at the time, which i've since gotten over.
Human Touch by Bruce Springsteen. Really. And not on purpose.
Just a case study:
I broke up w/my long term boyfriend a few months ago. We had totally opposite schedules and did not sleep in the same bed for the majority of the 3 years we were together, mainly because he wanted to fall asleep to the TV at 4 AM and I needed to go to work at 8 AM like a normal person. I thought I was okay with it while it was happening, but now that that I'm on the outside of it, I have to say I hated it and that it contributed to our lack of connection, and that lack of connection is what caused our breakup.
And now, I notice how many of my girlfriends do not sleep w/their significant others and I can safely say those folks all seem very separate from each other and less partnered than the pool of friends who share a bed.
Since the breakup, I have gotten back together w/an former boyfriend with whom intimacy was never a problem and I'm happy. I can't imagine us not sleeping together, which of course can change, but it also seems that sleeping together is something I'm not going to sacrifice again, especially because the guy I'm dating wants to watch TV longer than me.
I broke up w/my long term boyfriend a few months ago. We had totally opposite schedules and did not sleep in the same bed for the majority of the 3 years we were together, mainly because he wanted to fall asleep to the TV at 4 AM and I needed to go to work at 8 AM like a normal person. I thought I was okay with it while it was happening, but now that that I'm on the outside of it, I have to say I hated it and that it contributed to our lack of connection, and that lack of connection is what caused our breakup.
And now, I notice how many of my girlfriends do not sleep w/their significant others and I can safely say those folks all seem very separate from each other and less partnered than the pool of friends who share a bed.
Since the breakup, I have gotten back together w/an former boyfriend with whom intimacy was never a problem and I'm happy. I can't imagine us not sleeping together, which of course can change, but it also seems that sleeping together is something I'm not going to sacrifice again, especially because the guy I'm dating wants to watch TV longer than me.
@mergedwarrior: they have totally overcomplicated the whole concept of "seasons."
Know this is all tongue in cheek writing, but isn't 'extended adolscence' more referring to the fact that my 20 year-old brother has never had a job, not lamenting the fact that we have child labor laws? Just saying.
