Final Thoughts
Final Waffle House count:49
Well, we made it back to Los Angeles late last night, flying into Ontario airport from Baton Rouge after a few hours in Clinton getting the last of our footage.
A few thoughts on the trip in general:
1. The next time a conservative acquaintence of yours brings up in conversation that America has achieved equality of opportunity and there's no need for further civil rights legislation, quietly reach under the table, remove your right shoe, and beat them to death with it.
2. Outsourcing should be more important than terrorism to every voter in America. You may know someone who was in the Towers, you may know someone who knew someone--I'm telling you that every single town we visited was devastated because their livelihood was moved overseas. And these are just the small towns in the south, where wages were relatively low. The bigger cities in the north have had it as bad or worse. Terror may affect thousands of people in a horrible way--outsourcing has affected hundreds of millions in a way that lasts generations. It's not just Republicans at fault, it's not just Democrats. Everyone helped this happen.
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd was always a lousy band. Playing them on every radio station format once an hour doesn't make them any better.
3a. Ozzy Osbourne is a greater cultural force than any of us know. He's all over the radio--with Sabbath, without Sabbath, in Baton Rouge, in Tallahassee. People used to be frightened of this guy. Maybe his success drooling on television makes him acceptable to listen to now. I don't know.
4. If I lived in Louisiana, I would be dead by 35 and have to be buried in a piano crate. The food there is insanely good. Even the worst diner in Jeanerette had better food than some of the better places in LA. The best restaurant in Donaldsonville, with the 22 year old Air Force cook, would blow the doors off of Campanile. And I love Campanile. So you don't have variety. (There's basically one Chinese restaurant in every town, always called the "Chinese Dragon.") Here's the thing--you don't want variety. You just want seconds.
5. If I lived in the Florida panhandle, I would be dead by 33 and my liver would have to be buried in a piano box.
That about all. Everything else is in the previous posts. Thanks for reading this. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep blogging about anything else. If I do, I'll send out another mass e-mail.
Take care,
Matthew
Well, we made it back to Los Angeles late last night, flying into Ontario airport from Baton Rouge after a few hours in Clinton getting the last of our footage.
A few thoughts on the trip in general:
1. The next time a conservative acquaintence of yours brings up in conversation that America has achieved equality of opportunity and there's no need for further civil rights legislation, quietly reach under the table, remove your right shoe, and beat them to death with it.
2. Outsourcing should be more important than terrorism to every voter in America. You may know someone who was in the Towers, you may know someone who knew someone--I'm telling you that every single town we visited was devastated because their livelihood was moved overseas. And these are just the small towns in the south, where wages were relatively low. The bigger cities in the north have had it as bad or worse. Terror may affect thousands of people in a horrible way--outsourcing has affected hundreds of millions in a way that lasts generations. It's not just Republicans at fault, it's not just Democrats. Everyone helped this happen.
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd was always a lousy band. Playing them on every radio station format once an hour doesn't make them any better.
3a. Ozzy Osbourne is a greater cultural force than any of us know. He's all over the radio--with Sabbath, without Sabbath, in Baton Rouge, in Tallahassee. People used to be frightened of this guy. Maybe his success drooling on television makes him acceptable to listen to now. I don't know.
4. If I lived in Louisiana, I would be dead by 35 and have to be buried in a piano crate. The food there is insanely good. Even the worst diner in Jeanerette had better food than some of the better places in LA. The best restaurant in Donaldsonville, with the 22 year old Air Force cook, would blow the doors off of Campanile. And I love Campanile. So you don't have variety. (There's basically one Chinese restaurant in every town, always called the "Chinese Dragon.") Here's the thing--you don't want variety. You just want seconds.
5. If I lived in the Florida panhandle, I would be dead by 33 and my liver would have to be buried in a piano box.
That about all. Everything else is in the previous posts. Thanks for reading this. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep blogging about anything else. If I do, I'll send out another mass e-mail.
Take care,
Matthew
posted by Matthew at 2:27 PM
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