April 17th, 2012
…in the south suspenders are always in fashion, from holding up the levi’s to dressing up the tux. on little boys, old men, and groomsmen, rainbow colored to james bond white. (get the cool ones below here) and with a bowtie.. oh.my.
February 27th, 2012
««« notes for a southern gentleman »»»
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February 13th, 2012
not much cuter than a southern gentleman in a bowtie.. bump it up a notch to..
a bowtie plus seersucker (swoon) or gingham, and always with suspenders.
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{and does it get any more southern than a bowtie for man’s best friend? get one here}
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December 29th, 2011
»»»» william faulkner once said, “well, between scotch and nothin’, i suppose i’d take scotch. it’s the nearest thing to good moonshine i can find.” one thing southerners have in spades is history with bootlegged liquor. moonshine that is. so much so that it recently (finally) made it’s way to the liquor store and became all legal. not saying it’s “all” legal now, just saying some of what’s made is now legally on the shelves. arkansas had it’s first legal moonshine hit the open market last year (and the husband has a bottle…) and some other southern states are following suit (like south carolina). and I have to tell you, in case y’all living outside of the south were wondering if it really is a big deal in the south still.. it is. i have been to too many parties to count where sometime in the evening the backwoods, bootlegged, mason jar full of high spirits comes out and makes the rounds. too. many. to. count. moonshine, alive and well in dixie and now a few legal bottles to boot.
December 8th, 2011
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September 26th, 2011
….have you ever read a book and the minute you’re finished you want to pick it up and start all over again. it’s such a good feeling to be so wrapped into someone’s story telling that you never want to leave. the help is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. i might have been the last person to have read it, i don’t know how, i love the south and southern fiction. but escape me it did until a few weeks ago. now aibileen and skeeter and mae mobley, all will be with me for life. a book that glimpses into the hardships of a time not long ago, the love between maids and the children they raise, the stories of the south, the good and the bad. i wish I found myself picking up books this rich and rewarding every day. if somehow you’ve missed this book, put it at the top of your list. you won’t want it to end but you won’t be able to help yourself from devouring it cover to cover.
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September 6th, 2011
yes ma’am. in the south it says nothing about age and everything about manners…
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August 22nd, 2011
moonpie & rc cola. it doesn’t get much more southern. moonpies were the solution to coal miners request for a hearty snack that didn’t require them to stop working, as they often didn’t have time for lunch. they quickly became a favorite and southern staple, especially when paired with an rc cola (another southern born treat). there’s even a country song from back in the 40′s called give me an rc cola and a moonpie…. you know when people are singing about a pie its kind of a big deal. moonpies got shipped by the thousands to soldiers during the war, nascar fans took them for snacks on race days and thousands get thrown from floats during mardi gras. and here you were thinking it was just some wafer filled, chocolate covered snack.. and really it’s got a whole legacy behind it. southerners do like their food, no secret there, and it’s not all fried chicken and cornbread.
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August 2nd, 2011
which do you say? (i’m pah-con, in the south the pee-can is out back) (;
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