Saturday, September 01, 2007
Early Saturday AM Thought
Breakfast in the south is wonderful.
While everyone on the west coast is eating dainty portions of fresh-sliced mango and cruelty-free strawberry over a bed of sprouted organic wheat toast, drizzled with the blood of the less beautiful...
...and on the east coast people are just getting home from yesterday's work commute. I think the NYC to Holmdel line is down to 14 hours one way, which is great. So, they snarf a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee (poured into a Starbucks cup, of course), gnaw some beef jerky, and chase it with antibiotics...because those trains are filthy.
Here in the south, we wake up to the smell of Magnolia trees while we decide which of our local eateries to visit. Today we are going to eat at the Loveless Cafe.
We will wait patiently for our chance to fill up on handmade biscuits (real biscuits, not from a cardboard tube), slathered in homemade fruit preserves (I like peach). Tender eggs. Thick-cut smoked bacon. Country ham. Buttery grits. Savory hash browns. Hot, hot coffee.
While we wait, we will chat it up with perfect strangers. No fear of robbery. No fear of the MS-13. Just strangers sharing pleasantries with each other on the front porch. Conversation will drift to work...and work to stocks...we will learn that HWAY is on a tear. We will learn that Nissan is relocating its headquarters from Los Angeles to Nashville six months before it happens (we will buy some land not far from the rumored site). We will meet an executive at PNFP and learn that it is taking share at a blistering pace. "Nice to meet you. Enjoy your breakfast."
Once seated, we notice the likes of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, who will be able to eat in peace, not bothered by fans - because we aren't fans, we're family.
Let's say grace. Dig in. That's what breakfast in the south is like.
Update: My son has scratched the Loveless. We are going to the Pancake Pantry instead.
While everyone on the west coast is eating dainty portions of fresh-sliced mango and cruelty-free strawberry over a bed of sprouted organic wheat toast, drizzled with the blood of the less beautiful...
...and on the east coast people are just getting home from yesterday's work commute. I think the NYC to Holmdel line is down to 14 hours one way, which is great. So, they snarf a large Dunkin' Donuts coffee (poured into a Starbucks cup, of course), gnaw some beef jerky, and chase it with antibiotics...because those trains are filthy.
Here in the south, we wake up to the smell of Magnolia trees while we decide which of our local eateries to visit. Today we are going to eat at the Loveless Cafe.
We will wait patiently for our chance to fill up on handmade biscuits (real biscuits, not from a cardboard tube), slathered in homemade fruit preserves (I like peach). Tender eggs. Thick-cut smoked bacon. Country ham. Buttery grits. Savory hash browns. Hot, hot coffee.
While we wait, we will chat it up with perfect strangers. No fear of robbery. No fear of the MS-13. Just strangers sharing pleasantries with each other on the front porch. Conversation will drift to work...and work to stocks...we will learn that HWAY is on a tear. We will learn that Nissan is relocating its headquarters from Los Angeles to Nashville six months before it happens (we will buy some land not far from the rumored site). We will meet an executive at PNFP and learn that it is taking share at a blistering pace. "Nice to meet you. Enjoy your breakfast."
Once seated, we notice the likes of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, who will be able to eat in peace, not bothered by fans - because we aren't fans, we're family.
Let's say grace. Dig in. That's what breakfast in the south is like.
Update: My son has scratched the Loveless. We are going to the Pancake Pantry instead.
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Boomer you should change you name to Beaver as in Jerry Mathers, hows Wally, June, and Ward.
I'm pretty sure thats the first time I've seen anything "Wonderful" ever posted on the board.
"Breakfast in the south is wonderful."
Like
Pizza in Brooklyn is Wonderful.
Cheesesteaks in Philly are Wonderful.
"Cruelty-Free Strawberry" now thats classic I'm stealing that.
Boomer thanks for working this weekend. Keep it coming great stuff and thanks for the insight.
I'm pretty sure thats the first time I've seen anything "Wonderful" ever posted on the board.
"Breakfast in the south is wonderful."
Like
Pizza in Brooklyn is Wonderful.
Cheesesteaks in Philly are Wonderful.
"Cruelty-Free Strawberry" now thats classic I'm stealing that.
Boomer thanks for working this weekend. Keep it coming great stuff and thanks for the insight.
Boomer, I'm just to the north of you in Evansville. I love Nashville and my wife and I are planning to move there if she gets accepted to Vanderbilt. Breakfast sounds great. Nice post.
I call bullshit...breakfast in the South isn't like that. This is a more accurate characterization.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYoYPJ5uwFg&mode=related&search=
By the way, I enjoyed your dream and BOOM posts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYoYPJ5uwFg&mode=related&search=
By the way, I enjoyed your dream and BOOM posts.
Boomer
Great Post. You expressed true Southern Livingat its finest.
Your dream post was unbelievable, especially that you gained the most important thing from it, TRUST.
Great Post. You expressed true Southern Livingat its finest.
Your dream post was unbelievable, especially that you gained the most important thing from it, TRUST.
Fuck, I may have to leave this shithole I live in and become a gun toting, confederate flag waving, pick-up truck driving, biscuit eating,tobacco chewing Southerner.
Plus, after I become a Southerner, I get to talk to all sorts of strangers, not having to worry about them pissing me off--effectively causing me to punch their eyebrow's off.
This is great. I'm packing up the family now and will be at Elvis's house in no time.
Plus, after I become a Southerner, I get to talk to all sorts of strangers, not having to worry about them pissing me off--effectively causing me to punch their eyebrow's off.
This is great. I'm packing up the family now and will be at Elvis's house in no time.
boomer--
Thanks for sharing more of life in Mayberry RFD.
The guys from the East Coast cities have no idea! NO IDEA!
Thanks for sharing more of life in Mayberry RFD.
The guys from the East Coast cities have no idea! NO IDEA!
Fly- you can start here in Richmond. See, these fuckers here "think" they are southerners, simply becuase some historic figure made Richmond the capital of the confederacy. Actually, they are much more closely aligned to those people in Philly.
Anyway, you can have the best of both worlds- the gateway to the south, with a touch of fucktarded Yankee sensibility.
See, being born and raised in Charleston, S.C., and doing graduate work in Georgia, then working in Louisville, Ky, I feel I'm qualified to make those distinctions.
Anyway, you can have the best of both worlds- the gateway to the south, with a touch of fucktarded Yankee sensibility.
See, being born and raised in Charleston, S.C., and doing graduate work in Georgia, then working in Louisville, Ky, I feel I'm qualified to make those distinctions.
I can't talk shit on the south. Well, I can, because I live in SD, greatest land of them all-- but I won't. I like this boomer character, even if he reminds me of a 1950s style manual.
Tell us about the time you met that honey at the barn social.
Or maybe this is leading to his grand "make friends and parse a tip" stock pick. Either way, I'm listening. Congrats.
Tell us about the time you met that honey at the barn social.
Or maybe this is leading to his grand "make friends and parse a tip" stock pick. Either way, I'm listening. Congrats.
Danny--
I take it that by "SD" you mean San Diego, and not South Dakota.
I have relatives in South Dakota, and believe it or not, one of them was visiting your city, and was asked if SD was down by Georgia. The girl asking the question must have either been a local Cali airhead or a transplant from South Carolina.
Anyway, SD being a sparsely populated state, has much of the same friendlies and similar attributes of Boomer's part of the country, only without the music, and Titans football. However, it does have the highest per capita of pickup trucks with gun racks / people-- second only to my beloved WY. In my home town, I can walk into a restaurant with a .45 strapped on my hip and no one looks twice, other than tourists from California.
I feel sorry for you guys on the West Coast. Is it true that if you so much as look at a gun in CA, they arrest you?
I take it that by "SD" you mean San Diego, and not South Dakota.
I have relatives in South Dakota, and believe it or not, one of them was visiting your city, and was asked if SD was down by Georgia. The girl asking the question must have either been a local Cali airhead or a transplant from South Carolina.
Anyway, SD being a sparsely populated state, has much of the same friendlies and similar attributes of Boomer's part of the country, only without the music, and Titans football. However, it does have the highest per capita of pickup trucks with gun racks / people-- second only to my beloved WY. In my home town, I can walk into a restaurant with a .45 strapped on my hip and no one looks twice, other than tourists from California.
I feel sorry for you guys on the West Coast. Is it true that if you so much as look at a gun in CA, they arrest you?
I meant san diego. Don't feel bad for her--I think woman are lucky they even get to vote in this state, let alone drive automobiles and make split-second decisions.
Plus, when you live on the top of the pyramid, you tend not to care about the geography of the bottom.
ZING!
Ya know stockhead, you've touched on one of my oft repeated laments--I can't shoot or carry guns indiscriminately.
Now, I don't want to get into the multitude racial and social issues shaping our gun laws, but I do wish I could just buy a gun like my forefathers wanted.
I have several times gone to the batting cages to horse around, then to the shooting range to shoot shit. They are close to one another. Hopefully, I can take my kids there, when I decide to grace humanity with my genetic contribution.
No gun in my car, sadly, but I always carry a skateboard, and I think will assault someone with it. Anyone fucks with me or my car, they are getting the next closest thing--a skateboard swing to the face. Your not allowed to drive around with a bat.
Plus, when you live on the top of the pyramid, you tend not to care about the geography of the bottom.
ZING!
Ya know stockhead, you've touched on one of my oft repeated laments--I can't shoot or carry guns indiscriminately.
Now, I don't want to get into the multitude racial and social issues shaping our gun laws, but I do wish I could just buy a gun like my forefathers wanted.
I have several times gone to the batting cages to horse around, then to the shooting range to shoot shit. They are close to one another. Hopefully, I can take my kids there, when I decide to grace humanity with my genetic contribution.
No gun in my car, sadly, but I always carry a skateboard, and I think will assault someone with it. Anyone fucks with me or my car, they are getting the next closest thing--a skateboard swing to the face. Your not allowed to drive around with a bat.
Nobody knows what people will do http://www.jouqoech.info/?search=olivetti+drucker in Harlem.. At the first only eleven men were present; at the next, by force of three circulars, twenty-seven; at the third, http://www.jouqoech.info/?search=falt+rechnung thanks to two days' canvassing by Auchmuty and myself, begging men to come, we had sixty...
It may be 5:00PM here now but watching the video makes me want to go find a 24 hour diner for some breakfast.
Overall, the nicest people you will meet are in Tenn, Miss, and Ala.
Overall, the nicest people you will meet are in Tenn, Miss, and Ala.
Fly --
I did the same thing as Boom, except I actually moved from Manhattan to Bumfuck, Southern City a Lot like Nash Vegas.
I highly recommend it, but prepare yourself for about 12 months of insanely cognitively dissonant experience.
What Boom says is correct about people being ridiculously friendly. It took me a full year to get used to it. I really thought they were putting me on at first.
No shit.
I wouldn't raise my kids anywhere else, though.
I did the same thing as Boom, except I actually moved from Manhattan to Bumfuck, Southern City a Lot like Nash Vegas.
I highly recommend it, but prepare yourself for about 12 months of insanely cognitively dissonant experience.
What Boom says is correct about people being ridiculously friendly. It took me a full year to get used to it. I really thought they were putting me on at first.
No shit.
I wouldn't raise my kids anywhere else, though.
Fly -- Big caveat.
Memphis is NOT the place you want to move.
I think Boomer will back me on that one.
Memphis is NOT the place you want to move.
I think Boomer will back me on that one.
Shed,
You and I share a lot of similarities.
I farking hated Richmond too. Snooty "FFV" asswholes who haven't yet gotten over the Civil War.
My little bro (a Spider grad) lives there now.
You and I share a lot of similarities.
I farking hated Richmond too. Snooty "FFV" asswholes who haven't yet gotten over the Civil War.
My little bro (a Spider grad) lives there now.
Danny,
Got a little bro in San Diego, too.
Beautiful area. I've always been partial to the Laguna Beach area north of there.
Got a little bro in San Diego, too.
Beautiful area. I've always been partial to the Laguna Beach area north of there.
Speaking of ribs, I plan on going to a college golf tournament in Chattanooga in a week or so if my son qualifies. Any good local eating places?
Incidentally, most of my clients are from the South.
In my experience, I have found my personality meshes with those who carry guns and cordially talk to strangers, as if they were long lost relatives.
In addition, I hate my NY clients, due to their paranoid, fucktarded, tight ass nature. Plus, I believe they ALL do cocaine.
As far as living down South, maybe when I get old and retire from the rat race.
As you know, this is the only relevant (NYC) place to run money.
All you other fuckers, trying to infiltrate local companies or talking to strangers over freshly buttered biscuits--can't hold a candle to what I hear and do, mainly because (don't ever forget it) I have a "calculator brain."
As far as guns are concerned, I have one, albeit illegal.
Who's gonna tell?
In my experience, I have found my personality meshes with those who carry guns and cordially talk to strangers, as if they were long lost relatives.
In addition, I hate my NY clients, due to their paranoid, fucktarded, tight ass nature. Plus, I believe they ALL do cocaine.
As far as living down South, maybe when I get old and retire from the rat race.
As you know, this is the only relevant (NYC) place to run money.
All you other fuckers, trying to infiltrate local companies or talking to strangers over freshly buttered biscuits--can't hold a candle to what I hear and do, mainly because (don't ever forget it) I have a "calculator brain."
As far as guns are concerned, I have one, albeit illegal.
Who's gonna tell?
Speaking of Chattanooga, CBL Realty, perhaps the best run retail REIT extant, is extremely cheap right now, on a historical basis.
When I was at the University of Alabama on a golf scholarship, freshman year, my roommate stole an extra keg from the local grocer unbenonst to me while I was paying for another. Several days later, we received a call from the sheriff asking us to meat him underneath the Woolsey Finnell bridge the following morning @ 6am. To make a long story short, I packed my bags at the end of the semester and drove back home 2500 miles never once looking back. The South was not meant for us California "dudes". However, my trips to Nashville and Panama City were great. I also had a chance to drive up through the Blue Ridge mountains during fall when visiting a friend at Georgetown. That is some amazing country.
sorry you had a bad experience. that is a strange story. i wouldn't have waited for semester to end. i would have rolled out that night
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