No Offense to George Clooney and Ted Nugent...
But what do real celebrities like Cat Woman and some green hair guy think about our next President.
Thats the people that matter!
File all of the lawsuits you want with your pretty little Obama and McCain Girls...Bob Barr has got Cat Woman on his side...
Figured you'd like to know that...
The Appalachianist
Thats the people that matter!
File all of the lawsuits you want with your pretty little Obama and McCain Girls...Bob Barr has got Cat Woman on his side...
Figured you'd like to know that...
The Appalachianist
posted by Hill Billy Rave | Wednesday, August 20, 2008
22 Comments:
I don't know which one I liked best--the woman who would have been an anarchist but likes money too much (so she's now a liberatian) or the woman who said she's a Republican all the way (followed by the shot of her butt as she wiggles away)
I know, Sage, that is a tough choice...Cat Woman is pretty good with that whip. Comic book charecotrs, those are the people that really count in this election. You know, they've got them special powers and all.
Hello! Sorry I've never said hi before even though I've been lurking around your blog for awhile. I spent some time in your neck of the woods, so it has been nice to have a window into the goings on back in the mountains.
As for your question, I am both - well working on it anyway - anthropology is the umbrella covering the different ways to study humans and you just specialize from there. I've got a thing for bones - and at the moment I'm studying the old stuff which is pretty awesome.
Great Youtube clip, got to love the irony that the Joker (the true anarchist) says he is going to vote for McCain, but Romney was his first choice. Nice.
Looking forward to the next post :)
Pipsqeak, "lurking"...I feel so stalked....LOL. My neck of the woods? Where abouts? Or I should ask you at your place.
That was the Joker? I thought it was. I couldn't say for sure. I've got a theory on that. He identifies with his strugle for anarchy that to finally gain it he would feel unimportant and unfufilled. So he is going to vote for something to mantain his struggle with. He knows this, so he doesn't vote Democrat, that would be too much, so he compromises and goes for a Republican. Besides, the Anarchy Party went into chaos at their convention and Bat Man is just a vigalante.
lol...I love the idea of App being stalked through the Appalachian Forest....
Spooky.... all the little ghosts of varmints following him around, probably a couple of Bears and Elk too.....*cue creepy Dracula-style music*
NOTE TO SELF; Must resist urge to make Deliverance joke about GA or Hillbillies!!!
Pipsqueak, are you a Grad Student, by any chance? :o)
I am soooooooooooooo offended by this . . . I love cat woman and to watch her pop the whip is . . . er, well like really wonderful, but like I can't believe they could find that many Republicans in California like how many was that and er, well the young woman who said like she was a Republican and then turned and went away however and like wow! showed so much of herself that like I was so offended . . . I had to watch so many times to come to terms with like what she was wearing which was like very little . . . everyone knows a true Republican would not be caught wearing such an outfit . . . er, . . . can you put another one of these on the blog . . . it is almost as much fun as waitin' in the bushes for a wild pig to run through . . . . . seweeeeeeee! Enjoyed it greatly. Bill
Stephanie, I did have a Bobcat sneek up on me on Cedar Rock Mountain once. I've got a picture of him in the Archives somewhere, early days of the blog.
If I whisper the names of two of my dogs, Bear run and hide...Or fight. One did get beat up a little last month.
Bill, Republicans can let it hang out...Uhm...Wrong choice of words maybe. But, you notice Cat Woman, the real funone, the one that can put your eye out with a piece of braided leather is a Libertarian? Oh Yeah...Watch it again.
I'm enjoying this, as now I know what App's taste in women is.
Fake boobs and trashy..... I think she is possibly a transvestite....or transsexual..... Well she'd had the top done, don't know about the bottom half....
I'll stop now, I'm scaring myself.
I'm slightly worried that App has gone off the rails recently....I was thinking about him today so I wrote this post for him.
There is an increasingly homo-erotic subtext to this blog, and I think this paticular post is just to throw us all off the scent.
App, I know you're a Libertarian, but COME ON!
NoEmpireNoMore: im in ur bibul, rewritin teh Scripchur Enjoy!
And remember:
Iz in the valli of dogz, fearin no pooch
Stephanie, who are you reffering to?
Oh, don't worry about me...
Stephanie - Yes, I am a grad student...can you feel the stress through the net? haha, I worked so hard to get here and now I am wondering just what the heck I have gotten myself into.
App - I have my roots in Appalachia (I'm from a nice little river valley on the western edge of West Virginia), but I dated a guy from Waynesville in college a few years ago and fell in love with the mountains when he took me home and showed me around.
Lots of amazing and fun places - you have to love Asheville, but I think Cataloochee is probably one of my favorites. Driving up those twisting roads - I had to stop looking out the window cause we were so close to the edge of the road and the possibility of rolling to our death. They have been releasing Elk up there, and a whole herd was out in the field as we drove in - just beautiful.
Of course all of these good feelings were before the boy thought it would be funny to throw rocks into the bushes as we climbed a secluded little path. I thought we were being hunted by a mountain lion and was in tears with fear before I realized he was being an ass. Apparently, you mountain boys have a sick sense of humor ;)
And you are right, you haven't posted much about the mountains for awhile - I see something that needs to be added to your to do list. Though when you do talk about it,you paint such a clear picture of your area - I can almost see the tree limbs movin in the wind and the sun tryin to shine through them, the mountains close in the distance and hear your dogs barkin off somewhere in the underbrush. In my head its a mix of Cataloochee and Sunburst Rock.
I think you are onto something with the Joker - kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy for him - he perpetuates the "problem" he is fighting against because it is more the struggle that defines him than any real goal. Although when it comes to the new batman movie, I don't think that Joker would so much vote Republican as blow up the convention because he thought it would be funny. Very scary and very realistic character in that film. I liked that it took it all seriously - that criminal could and does really exist in this world.
At this point I am not really sure what I will be researching for my thesis - I have about 6 months to figure it out and I can already hear the clock ticking. I'm looking more at the archaic time period - more developed societal structures than the early stone tool cultures, but pre-Contact.
What I am looking at potentially is the pre-Mississippian and Mississippian cultures (Mississippian stretched from the midwest all the way over to the Appalachians). The time frame I am looking at is any where from 1000 AD to 1000 BC - so the earliest would be about 3000 years old.
Have you heard of Cahokia? In Illinois, it was America's largest pre-Contact city - that was Mississippian culture.
Here is an interesting fact about how developed the Mississippians were: everyone has heard that American Indians had been growing corn for a long time in certain areas, but in the Illinois area (and maybe in other places - but this is the area I studied in undergrad) the villagers at and around Cahokia were farming catfish and trading them with tribes as far south as the Gulf Coast. Pretty amazing stuff and something I think kids in school need to hear more about - this country didn't start when Europeans pushed their boats onto the shore.
Pipsqeak...Real quick, you said so much.
I know Mississipian. But, Townville was Mississipian. Moundville was some city it's self.
Every Cherokee knows corn came from the headwaters of the French Broad River(Read James Mooney)...And, "rolling to our death", that's Cataloochee, LOL.
I was in on a Bear kill just up from Sun Burst last year, on the east side of the river. I've got a Dog lead tied to a tree up there.Twister caught his limit at Sunburst. A
It's late, I'm going to bed. Good to hear from you. And my Dogs are raising hell.
(PS, I'm writing a novel about Mississipian times)
A.I, your comment section is starting to get more bizarre than your posts. I never thought that was possible.
They are, Murf. They get feverishly off topic. It's a jungle on here.
So who are the Yard Nazis voting for?
Everone knows the Choctaw invented corn . . . who are the yard nazis anyway? Well the postings might be strange, but they are funny, well policed, and informative. It is interesting and when folks get serious very informative about the mountains . . . I would like to know more about precontact culture. The Indian tribes were much more developed and sophisticated than is ever taught in school, but not much is taught in school anyway . . . just a thought. I'm pickin' at you 'cause I know your Cherokee roots . . . but did I tell you my grandson is on the Choctaw rolls . . . only a hundred times. My daughter finally got him some glasses . . . he came out of the doctor's office shouting, "I can see! I can see! Look there is a building over there!" It was embarassing. I told my daughter, "See!" as in I told you so! You do a good bloog! Bill
a Mississippian novel? very interesting. What is the setup for it?
Congratulations on the bear. Does it taste like chicken just like gators are supposed to? ; )
Pipsqeak, nothing to congratulate on the bear. Honestly, we would not have killed it if it had not had hold of a Dog. I didn't kill the Bear. Good race though.
About the Novel, well, It's a once and a while thing I do. I've not worked on it much lately due to a technicality. But, I'm not quiting either. I did have a recent surge of creativity. Honestly, I've found this blog henders that.
So, quick stats, Late Pisgah Phase (I personally know Patricia Lance), on Tuckasegee River and south slopes of the Balsams...So far. I need to go somewhere else with it, but, I'm not sure where...Thinking...
Bill,
"not much is taught in school anyway . . " quite a statement from a School Teacher.
Thanks about the Blog, but, I plan on doing a post and then backing off of it for a while. Getting a decent balance in there...It's training season you know. And, yes, I did let the Dogs loose a time or two yesterday.
So much is left out of school . . . maybe life is a better teacher or the "school of hard knocks" as they used to say, or as my father said, "If you wait for someone (a teacher) to teach you, you will be waiting a long time. The so called culture wars are really battles of curriculum and definition . . . only a few politically correct types are allowed a "voice." Lots of people are left out . . . mill workers, poor whites, southerners, mountain folk . . . the mix changes, and we are mostly ignorant. Someone was at a bar the other day when the Russians invaded Georgia. I was told that half the people in the bar thought the Russians were just outside Atlanta . . . so much for geography . . . I know it sounds too wierd to be true . . . I don't think so . . . maybe it was the beer.
Oh No! Russia wants shrimping rights off os St. Simons! Before you know it they will be in Tate City! The only thing that keeps SC and Alabama apart is Goergia.
Heck, Georgia wants to move the line north about a mile or so taking parts of NC and Tennessee.
That's a long story, but if they do those Russians will...
That is sad, that so many can be so...Ignorant.
You hit on something, Bill, "Lots of people are left out . . . mill workers, poor whites, southerners, mountain folk." Allot of people don't know a Jim Crowe Law when they see one, and Jim Crowe Laws were as much about controlling those folks as it was controlling Colored People.
The Yard Nazi's loved Bush 4 years ago so I'm assuming they are going to vote the for the McCain, the semi-Republican.
I guess they've got to take what they can get....
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