Greasey burgers, Bourbon, Faulkner, The Grove, Rebel Flag,Hwy 61....

'Tis the American dream.

 

It was good. But not really a story at all.
It was 20 descriptions of places. Although he did explain the Allen, Texas football stadium scenario so that it's not as outlandish as it appears.
The only story within his story was on Boobie Miles.

 

The guy's a great talent, but his blind spot for his home state gets in the way of both his writing acumen and his reporting skills. Somebody puts a noose on the James Meredith statue and that merits one paragraph? Wow.

Social scientists and other apologists have been trying to tell us for three decades that Mississippi has seen the light and reformed. Yet without quirky open-primary laws, which will surely be repealed or amended, they'd have surely elected a guy who pals around with Klansmen to the U.S. Senate.

 

The lady is 65 so to Boone I guess that counts as MILF ass - no doubt wrinkled and not as firm as Kim's

Boone better watch is back. She seems to specialize in marriages to men with lots of money and not a lot of time left.

 

Maybe GILF was the more appropriate term.

 

Thompson seems to cast a more cynical eye on Texas then his beloved Mississippi.

Love this passage on Southlake:

"Almost everything about the school's fixation on tradition comes from a desire to have all of the good that comes with growth without any of the bad. The town even built a faux town square, centered on a green space, dotted with all of your chains: Anthropologie and Ann Taylor, Lucky Brand Jeans and Lilly Pulitzer. A sleep center for fat, snoring husbands and a fertility center for their wives. A plastic surgeon to hold off time, an orthodontist to fix imperfect smiles. Sports bars and dog bakeries. It isn't a town square as much as a eulogy for the town squares many of them abandoned in their journey here. The gathering place serves the same purpose as Allen's enormous, broken football stadium. They are cries in the wilderness."

 

Fake downtown Southlake is a running joke around my friends and family. Southlake is such a new affluent subarb, even on the Metroplex standards of new, affluent suburbs, that building an old-timey town square really is comical. It deserves all the cynicism one can muster, though rather than being a legitimate attempt to grasp at a sense of community, it's really just a high-end outdoor mall wrapped in pretty packaging.

 

Odd that Thompson made no mention of Southlake Carroll being a quarterback factory of late. Greg McElroy, Chase Daniel and Kenny Hill have all come from there.

Guess it didn't fit in with the narrative of high school football being about broken dreams.

 

"Turns out, Jerry World is badass."

Just as long as you have access to the private owner's club.

 

Piece loaded with cliches. This ground has been covered many times before.
"PREP FOOTBALL IS OUT OF WHACK" --> not a new observation.

 

The natural gas at the high school in New London was really interesting and a story I'd never heard, though. I'll have to look into that.

 

The passage about Southlake is great, I'm pretty sure the only people in love with Southlake are those from Southlake.

What I don't really understand is what exit on I-20 do you take to get to Allen and Southlake? Both aren't anywhere close, Allen especially. I guess he needed to get the $60 million broken palace in there somehow, but it's not anywhere near I-20.