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pinksoniaI don't know how well known this youtube video is outside of New Orleans.
It was doing the rounds here about a year ago because we have all shopped at that Walmart (it's the Tchoupitoulas street if anyone cares).
Anyway, my co-historic analyst likes to look at the NOPD crime reports during lunch. Today they reported that the "singer" in that video was in a multi-hour standoff with the police yesterday after threatening to kill his neighbor. That lead us of a youtube search to see if he had any other songs which ultimately resulted in this, an acoustic version of Wally World. We we cracking up for a good 10 minutes.
I can even.
Wuthering Heights - There are all sorts of reasons I should like it. It's from my favorite time period. The setting has some gothic sensibilities - which I tend to love. I am all about Charlotte Bronte's works (had I not picked Letter From New York yesterday I would have picked Jane Eyre and I like Villette almost as much) and people tend to act like her sister is similar. But I don't like it. Not even a little bit. I feel like all the characters in it are such vile humans that I spend the entire novel wanting to slap some sense into people (and I rarely say that I want to hit people even in jest). Ugh. Really, the only reason that I have read all of this book is that it was the only thing I brought will me on a plane trip to Europe. I literally had nothing else to do if I put it down. Grumble.
It was doing the rounds here about a year ago because we have all shopped at that Walmart (it's the Tchoupitoulas street if anyone cares).
Anyway, my co-historic analyst likes to look at the NOPD crime reports during lunch. Today they reported that the "singer" in that video was in a multi-hour standoff with the police yesterday after threatening to kill his neighbor. That lead us of a youtube search to see if he had any other songs which ultimately resulted in this, an acoustic version of Wally World. We we cracking up for a good 10 minutes.
I can even.
Wuthering Heights - There are all sorts of reasons I should like it. It's from my favorite time period. The setting has some gothic sensibilities - which I tend to love. I am all about Charlotte Bronte's works (had I not picked Letter From New York yesterday I would have picked Jane Eyre and I like Villette almost as much) and people tend to act like her sister is similar. But I don't like it. Not even a little bit. I feel like all the characters in it are such vile humans that I spend the entire novel wanting to slap some sense into people (and I rarely say that I want to hit people even in jest). Ugh. Really, the only reason that I have read all of this book is that it was the only thing I brought will me on a plane trip to Europe. I literally had nothing else to do if I put it down. Grumble.
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Date: 2012-08-24 01:58 pm (UTC)Also, THEY SAID "MAKING GROCERIES!" One of my linguistics professors claimed "people around here" often say that, but I was very skeptical. I've lived "around here" my whole life, and never once have I heard a fool say "making groceries." Until today.
But anyway, Lafayette =/= New Orleans, so I'm still calling bullshit on his claim.