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Friday, 7 June 2019
quote [ Dr. John, the six-time Grammy Award winner whose gritty voodoo-inspired stage persona and whimsical way of speaking were as beloved in New Orleans as his piano-playing, has died. ]
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arrowhen said @ 5:50am GMT on 7th June
I've lived in Louisiana for the past 10 years, and while I generally think of the natives as "like dogs, only with strong opinions about college sports instead of all the attributes that make dogs awesome," I do think that "strange sycophants" is also an apt description. Except most of them don't even have a Doctor John to suck up to, so they have to make do with sucking up to the sportsball team from the local college they didn't even go to, the bullshit version of history they learned in the 49th best education system in the country, or, you know, Jesus or whatever.
Also, voodoo "curses" are just shit that practitioners made up to profit of the preconceptions of tourists and clueless local white people, and even if they were real, no one capable of casting them would have bothered to travel north of I-10 to do so, at least before Katrina.
arrowhen said @ 5:51am GMT on 7th June
I've lived in Louisiana for the past 10 years, and while I generally think of the natives as "like dogs, only with strong opinions about college sports instead of all the attributes that make dogs awesome," I do think that "strange sycophants" is also an apt description. Except most of them don't even have a Doctor John to suck up to, so they have to make do with sucking up to the sportsball team from the local college they didn't even go to, the bullshit version of history they learned in the 49th best education system in the country, or, you know, Jesus or whatever.
Also, voodoo "curses" are just shit that practitioners made up to profit off the preconceptions of tourists and clueless local white people, and even if they were real, no one capable of casting them would have bothered to travel north of I-10 to do so, at least before Katrina.
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arrowhen said @ 5:50am GMT on 7th June
I've lived in Louisiana for the past 10 years, and while I generally think of the natives as "like dogs, only with strong opinions about college sports instead of all the attributes that make dogs awesome," I do think that "strange sycophants" is also an apt description. Except most of them don't even have a Doctor John to suck up to, so they have to make do with sucking up to the sportsball team from the local college they didn't even go to, the bullshit version of history they learned in the 49th best education system in the country, or, you know, Jesus or whatever.
Also, voodoo "curses" are just shit that practitioners made up to profit off the preconceptions of tourists and clueless local white people, and even if they were real, no one capable of casting them would have bothered to travel north of I-10 to do so, at least before Katrina.
