As soon as I heard the name, that is precisely what I did.

Also.

The Clintons strike again!

I had a lovely Cajun woman in New Orleans tell me that this is the only correct pronunciation. She said, “A pee-can is what the tourists who urinate everywhere need during a night in the Quarter.” My family (who trace their roots to Arkansas) all pronounced it peh-KAHN, and I do the same.

I would have starred you for the use of “blowsy” alone, but the rest was also excellent.

That is not SheeshTheseNames, but someone called mlapa pretending to be Sheesh, i.e. a troll. Thank you for not ungreying that crap.

Shoot, my dad would give us a sip of beer anytime we coughed.

Rest well, Mr. Taliaferro.

And she never should be.

Horses are super smart. Or at least very selectively social (which indicates a certain level of intelligent discernment, to me.)

Canvassing Cop Cameron.

I hate having to star you throughout this comment section, but believe the correctness of your statements necessitates it.

That seal was just trying to tenderize the meat before consumption. Whether the dude or the octopus, though, is anyone’s guess.

Actual cannibal Shia LaBeouf. (This song is one of my favorite things! Closely followed by the video for this song.)

Oh, this film!

I wouldn’t have realized it until you mentioned it, but many parts of St. Louis would lend themselves well to this, visually and atmospherically. There are some truly eerie areas that have developed due to decay, demolition and depopulation over time. Add that to the still-rampant segregation and barely acknowledged…

I’d be willing to bet large sums that it was Condoleezza Rice who pushed for this. Carol Denise McNair was a friend of hers.

Re: the testimony concerning pornography. I think you meant Long Dong Silver, rather than the fictional pirate or the chain of shitty seafood restaurants.

A small correction I could make if I weren’t grey (perhaps you might be inclined to pass it on): this happened in St. Louis, MO, not East St. Louis, IL, according to the linked article. If you google Pruitt-Igoe, you can find info on the housing. If you enter ‘St. Louis, MO Cass Ave.’ you can see the space where…

The best people.