Ah, the southern lights….

How are they not famous? Sound and inexplicable absence from all media formats reminds me of Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers... youtu.be/167Z1szCb2M?...

Can’t recommend Ben Lerner’s Topeka School enough. Really, read it tonight instead of watching this.

Hey, I was writing something about this. Here are the relevant academic sources: [Richard] Peterson (Creating Country Music 60) and [Bill] Malone (Country Music 42); Ford: Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from “Mr. Ford's Page” in the Dearborn Independent. Dearborn Publishing Company, 1922.

The King Jamelle Translation kills it.

And I'm loving his Twit photo. It screams: "who told you I went to British public (ie private) schools and Oxford!?

Dumber still, his "logic" depends on the ability to disagree with "the fact," you know facts, reality. I'm nostalgic for the days when to disagree with reality was to be insane.

Sure there's a Whataburger up there, but that's also where all the traffic is. Cheyenne Mountain, Cheyenne Canyon, Broadmoor: we're down south and really enjoy the proximity to trails and to downtown.

Yes, exactly, where is my book contract!!!!

Oh ... and Lawrence Levine has a few great chapters in The Unpredictable Past on 1930s culture. A bit dated but a good place for grad students to start.