Lewis Grizzard
In the time between 1980 and 1994, if you lived in Atlanta you heard about Lewis Grizzard. Some people loved him. Some did not. He told good old boy stories about growing up in rural Georgia. Many of them were enjoyable. He also made social and political commentaries, which upset a few people. This is a chilly tuesday morning repost, with historic pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
PG had mixed feelings about Lewis. The stories about Kathy Sue Loudermilk and Catfish were funny. His opinions about gays, feminists, and anything non redneck could get on your nerves. His column for the fishwrapper upset PG at least twice a week.
In 1982, Lewis (he reached the level of celebrity where he was known by his first name only) wrote a column about John Lennon. Lewis did not understand why Mr. Ono was such a big deal. PG cut the column out of the fishwrapper, and put it in a box. Every few years, PG would be looking for something, find that column, and get mad all over again.
The New Georgia Encyclopedia has a page about Lewis, which expresses some of these contradictions. “If Grizzard’s humor revealed the ambivalence amid affluence of the Sunbelt South, it reflected its conservative and increasingly angry politics as well. He was fond of reminding fault-finding Yankee immigrants that “Delta is ready when you are,” and, tired of assaults on the Confederate flag, he suggested sarcastically that white southerners should destroy every relic and reminder of the Civil War (1861-65), swear off molasses and grits, drop all references to the South, and begin instead to refer to their region as the “Lower East.” Grizzard also wore his homophobia and hatred for feminists on his sleeve, and one of the last of his books summed up his reaction to contemporary trends in its title, Haven’t Understood Anything since 1962 and Other Nekkid Truths (1992).
In the end, which came in 1994, when he was only forty-seven, the lonely, insecure, oft-divorced, hard-drinking Grizzard proved to be the archetypal comic who could make everyone laugh but himself. He chronicled this decline and his various heart surgeries in I Took a Lickin’ and Kept on Tickin’, and Now I Believe in Miracles (1993), published just before his final, fatal heart failure.”
As you may have discerned, Lewis McDonald Grizzard Jr. met his maker on March 20, 1994. He was 47. There was a valve in his heart that wasn’t right. The good news is that he stayed out of the army. At the time, Vietnam was the destination for most enlistees. The bad news is that his heart problems got worse and worse, until it finally killed him.
Sixteen years later, PG found a website, Wired For Books It is a collection of author interviews by Don Swaim, who ran many of them on a CBS radio show called Book Beat. There are two interviews with Lewis Grizzard One was done to promote My Daddy Was a Pistol and I’m a Son of A Gun. This was the story of Lewis Grizzard Senior, who was another mixed bag.
PG found himself listening to this chat, and wondered what he had been missing all those years. The stories and one liners came flowing out, like the Chattahoochee going under the traffic slogged perimeter highway. Daddy Grizzard was a soldier, who went to war in Europe and Korea. The second one did something to his mind, and he took to drinking. He was never quite right the rest of his life. His son adored him anyway. When you put yourself in those loafers for a while, you began to taste the ingredients, in that stew we called Lewis Grizzard.
PG still remembers the anger that those columns caused … PG has his own story, and knows when his toes are stepped on. The thing is, after listening to this show, PG has an idea of why Lewis Grizzard wrote the things that he did. Maybe PG and Lewis aren’t all that different after all.
Zoom
With the world one month into covid19 lockdown, I decided it was time to broadcast. Everyone was having virtual meetings online. It was time for this neo-luddite to join to show. But how?
I don’t have a smart phone, or a laptop. My phone is an ATT flip phone, which I am told is really a smart phone. Finding the app online is too much work for this device. If I am going to zoom with the zoomers, I need to get a microphone. I had a 2000 era webcam, which can serve until something better comes along. Or so I thought.
Hank Green suggested a microphone. Amazon said “Get it as soon as April 22 – 27 …,” which was not helpful. An hour or so later, I find a mic at a local retailer. I place the order, and get the confirmation. I drive to Marietta, and ushered into the retail facility. Everyone is wearing a mask, and acting nervous. They do not accept cash. The package is handed over, the credit card swiped, and I am on my way home. The rude, aggressive drivers are not staying home.
Now, to get a camera. The web cams I see online look a lot like regular cameras. This does not mean that a Finepic T-400 will work online. That golfball shaped webcam, from 1999, quit working around the time of Windows Vista. It looks like a camera is going to be needed.
A few minutes later, a few webcam options turn up. Unfortunately, none of them are in stock, anywhere. Apparently, I am not the only person trying to play zoom catch up. Finally, I see a computer shop downtown. The lady seems to say that she has a webcam, but is closing the shop in a half hour. I run down there. The lady says that she can have the camera for me the next day. Twenty six hours later, I get a phone call. I go back downtown, and get a cheesy box, with a device inside.
A community I am in is having a virtual heart circle. I plug the camera in, and figure out how to make it stay on top of the monitor. I plug the microphone in, and click the link. I am now a part of the zoom generation. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
The Boiled Frog Myth
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@jimgoad Didn’t this guy physically attack two different Vietnamese men for being Vietnamese? Beware the virtue-signalers. There’s no need to virtue-signal in public unless you’re insecure about your virtuousness. ~ @chamblee54 “if the people at the bottom are thrown into the dull and the opium abuse thats a very bad thing” ~ In 2015, Salon posted a festive piece. “Indiana’s Mike Pence is starting to look like Lester Maddox — without the spine.” I made this comment: “It is highly unlikely that anyone will know who this Pence person is in forty four years.” Political predictions are risky. ~ Ben Franklin sent a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy on November 13, 1789. In this letter he said: “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!” ~ “you know there’s risks there too you know yeah and the idea of putting a dollar figure on a human life is repulsive to most of us I think intuitively in this context but in fact we do it all the time” ~ This has what politics has come to. It is not supporting a candidate/incumbent. It is seeing how many rude things you can say about the other candidate/incumbent. Increasingly, this name calling includes people who support the candidate/incumbent you do not like. It is a sleazy dirty business, and it makes me ashamed to be an American. ~ “it made me feel like this is a dirty business like I don’t want to be a part … it’s they’re trying to change people’s opinions with deception it’s not like they’re trying to tell you how good their guy is they’re using deception yeah they’re using fuckery it’s sleazy its sleazy it’s a sleazy business” ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
The Democratic Party 2020
Throughout the democrat presidential reality show, I put off making a choice. I said I would wait until the Georgia primary, and see how things looked. This primary was scheduled for March 24. This was 12 days after the Atlanta kicked off covid-19 lockdown with a snowjam shopping spree. Soon, all public events were cancelled. The primary is scheduled for June 9.
Joe Biden is presumably going to be the nominee. The last challenger, Bernie Sanders, dropped out the other day. Sleepy Joe is looking like another “it’s his turn” candidate. These IHT candidates seldom win. Donald Trump has not done a good job as President, and deserves to lose. It remains to be seen if Sleepy Joe is the man for the job.
Tulsi Gabbard made a good impression. She makes opposition to regime change wars the focus of her campaign. The ferocious opposition that greeted Tulsi indicates that many establishment Democrats feel threatened. The good news is that Tulsi is 38 years old. This is less than half the age of Joe Biden, or Bernie Sanders. Tulsi, and Pete Buttigieg, will be around for a while.
There were 7 candidates when this post started. This compares to the 7 dwarfs, or the 7 husbands of Elizabeth Taylor. The silly 7, in first name order: Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard.
@amyklobuchar “U.S. Senator from Minnesota and candidate for President. Text AMY to 91990 to join our homegrown campaign” Amy Jean Klobuchar, the wife of John Bessler, did not make much of an impression. She was the only candidate to wear a dress in the Las Vegas debate.
@BernieSanders “U.S. Senator from Vermont and candidate for President of the United States.” Bernie Sanders is one of two candidates with no middle name, resulting in descriptive initials. BS had some good ideas for spending money, and equally bad ideas about how to pay for it. BS has awesomely obnoxious fanboys, the Bernie Bros. One of the worst was Nina Turner, a paid staffer.
@EliLake “I know there is a lot handwringing in the pro-Israel community about Bernie’s decision to BDS AIPAC. Why? His absence is clarifying. If you’re under any illusions that a Sanders presidency would not be hostile to Israel, now you know.” This commentary at Bloomberg.com was a signal that the BS campaign was doomed. If AIPAC is opposed to your candidacy, you are not going to win. This suggests that the Mike Bloomberg candidacy was not just a vanity endeavor.
@ewarren “U.S. Senator, former teacher, and candidate for president. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, @CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.” Bless her 0.1% Cherokee heart. The former Elizabeth Ann Herring married, and divorced, Jim Warren. She kept the Warren name after she married Bruce H. Mann.
Sen. Warren displays preferred pronouns in her twitter bio, which is grounds for automatic disqualification. She has a few good ideas, and just enough onstage charisma to keep her interesting. Sen. Warren is mentioned as a possible VPOTUS candidate, despite being 99.9% white.
@JoeBiden “Senator, Vice President, 2020 candidate for President of the United States, husband to @DrBiden, proud father & grandfather. Loves ice cream, aviators & @Amtrak” Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is married to Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden. Mr. Biden is 77 years old, and in obvious mental decline. He should not be running for President. We are stuck with him.
I foolishly gave the Biden campaign my email address. Between May 7, and June 26, I received 88 emails asking for money. Every time one of these messages came in, Windows put a popup message on my desktop. “I’m Joe Biden, and I approved this message.”
@MikeBloomberg “Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and mayor of NYC. Running for president to defeat Donald Trump & rebuild America. Tell me your thoughts on America: 859-695-6453.” Michael Rubens Bloomberg tried to buy the Presidency, and failed. There is speculation about his true motives. “In 1975, Bloomberg married Susan Elizabeth Barbara Brown … divorced Brown in 1993 … Since 2000, Bloomberg has lived with … Diana Taylor.”
@PeteButtigieg “Afghanistan veteran, South Bend’s Mayor Pete, husband. Running for president to rally Americans together to meet our urgent challenges. Boot-Edge-Edge. (he/him)” Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg is married to Chasten Buttigieg (Glezman). “Mayor Pete” was an interesting figure, inspiring unlikely support and intense opposition.
Pete did not handle the race issue well. After The Root called Pete “Lying MF”, the Mayor called back to chat. In that interview, he said “systemic racism, and white supremacy in particular, I believe, is the force that is most likely to destroy the United States of America.”
The current health crisis has put medical workers under the gun, working long hours under dangerous conditions. Mayor Pete wanted to punish Doctors with non-compliant racial values. “we also need … removal from their jobs if you are racist. If you’re nakedly racist, then you have no business being in charge, of being in care of anybody.”
@TulsiGabbard “US Presidential candidate standing for a better America. Wife, Sister, Veteran, Surfer, Friend. #StandWithTulsi #EndWastefulWars” Tulsi is married to Abraham Williams. Rep. Gabbard has shortcomings, and might not be able to win a national election. However, she is the first conspicuously anti-war candidate since George McGovern. Given America’s profitable passion for killing Muslims, it is not surprising that the Gabbard candidacy ran into such emotional opposition. Pictures today from The Library of Congress.
Thomas Jefferson Said What?
PG was wasting time with facebook when he saw a friend say “Damn I love this quote”. The passage being praised was “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Desmond Tutu. The rhetoric alert started to flash. These days, the wolf and the sheep buy their clothes at the same Walmart. To hear some oppressors talk, they are the ones under attack. It is tough to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Often you can make things worse by getting mixed up. Sometimes the best thing to do is mind your own business.
Ok, now that is out of the way. Some lines sound good, but don’t hold up to a bit of thinking. As for the veracity of the quote, Desmond Tutu may very well have said it. (or maybe one of his rivals said it, and Mr. Tutu copied it.) The quote has been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, Edmund Burke, Patrick Henry, and probably others. Almost no one has a source, for the quote, from the dead white guys.
A post called MISQUOTING THE FOUNDERS did not mince words. “The only problem with this scene that has been repeated many times across the country is that Thomas Jefferson never said that, never wrote that, and quite possibly never thought it. Our aspiring politician had fallen victim to the perils of popular misattribution. You could fill a book with misquotes and misattributed quotes we hear repeated regularly today. Right now if I Google “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent” the entire first page of results wrongly attribute it to Thomas Jefferson. The quote and its many variants have been attributed in the past to Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke, but no record exists of the quote in any of their writings or contemporary accounts.”
On November 13, 1787, Mr. Jefferson wrote a letter to William Smith. The letter is full of zesty quotes. “What country before ever existed a century & a half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
A few lines above that, Mr. Jefferson said “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.” Twenty years after he wrote this, Mr. Jefferson was President. He probably did not want to deal with a revolution when he was President.
Getting back to the quote about tyranny, Martin Porter wrote an entertaining essay, A study of a Web quotation. He gives credit, or blame, to Edmund Burke. First, a list of different versions is presented. This is a clue that something is awry. The conclusion: “There is no original. The quote is bogus, and Burke never said it. It is a pseudo-quote, and corresponds to real quotes in the same way that urban legends about the ghost hitch-hiker vanishing in the back of the car and alligators in the sewers correspond to true news stories.”
Mr. Porter wrote a follow up essay, Four Principles of Quotation. These principles are: Principle 1 (for readers) Whenever you see a quotation given with an author but no source assume that it is probably bogus. Principle 2 (for readers) Whenever you see a quotation given with a full source assume that it is probably being misused, unless you find good evidence that the quoter has read it in the source. Principle 3 (for quoters) Whenever you make a quotation, give the exact source. Principle 4 (for quoters) Only quote from works that you have read.
If these principles were to be used, then there would be a lot less hotheaded talking on the intercom. Those who are trying to influence you to the justice of their cause will not want you to read this. Pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress. These pictures are Union soldiers, from the War Between the States. When war is discussed, all inspiring quotes are in doubt.
This is a repost. It is written like James Joyce. In the past year, doing due diligence on alleged quotes has become a hobby. Many people don’t care who said it, if they agree with the thoughts expressed. The prevailing thought is that an idea becomes more true with a famous name at the end. If the famous person is deceased, and cannot defend his/her reputation, that is not a problem. People do not like being told that Santa Claus does not exist.
Mike Pence And Lester Maddox
This is a repost from 2015. In the five years after, Mike Pence has served as Vice President of the United States. In the post was this sentence: “It is highly unlikely that anyone will know who this Pence person is in forty four years.” Political predictions are risky.
Salon posted a festive piece the other day. The headline: “Indiana’s Mike Pence is starting to look like Lester Maddox — without the spine.” What about the Governor’s breast, thigh, and wing?
Mr. Pence is the media punching bag of the moment. In a few days, someone else will screw up, and the nabbering classes can pick on someone else. The riffraff law will be lawyered out in the courts.
The question here is the connection to the former Georgia Governor. It turns out to be a rhetorical gimmick. In the first paragraph, author Joan Walsh essentially repeats the headline. “… even before Pence began to look like a 21st century Lester Maddox — without the spine.” This is the last time Lester is mentioned. He is used as a bald headed Honey Boo Boo.
It is ironic that Lester is this famous, forty four years after his term in office ended. There are many bad things you can say about Mr. Maddox. However, Georgia survived both him, and smiling Jimmy, as Governor. It is highly unlikely that anyone will know who this Pence person is in forty four years.
The second part of this feature is a previously published piece about Lester Maddox. PG was twelve when Lester was elected, and has many memories of the four years that followed. The post goes into some of the mixed feelings, and tells a couple of stories. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
There has never been a politician like Lester Garfield Maddox. He was elected Governor of Georgia (with help of a quirk in the state constitution) in 1966. PG was 12 at the time, and saw the spectacle of the next four years with amazement.
Before we get started on this, we should remember a couple of things. Lester Maddox became notorious when he shut down his restaurant, The Pickrick, rather than serve a black customer. He was a segregationist, which means he did not want black people to have the same rights as white people. Looking back from 2020, it seems incredible that civil rights legislation was needed, 56 years ago, so that 30% of Georgia could eat in a restaurant. PG does not condone the actions, and attitudes, of Lester Maddox, or the people who supported him.
There is style, and there is substance. While the substance of Lester may have been horrible, the style was a sight to behold. He could ride a bicycle backwards, and did so whenever a crowd was there to watch. (PG saw this at halftime of the Peach Bowl.) Lester was on The Joe Pyne Show and The Dick Cavett Show, and walked off of both.
This section from a previous post tells one story. The Governor was speaking to a group of reporters. He was announcing the appointment of a Black man to a Selective Service Board.. The reporter said it was the first Black man to serve on a draft board since reconstruction. What did the Governor think about this? The Governor said “Gee”
The screen returned to the Channel Five newsroom. The men at the desks were all laughing. The weatherman looked up at the camera and said “That’s a tough act to follow”
Whatever you might say about Lester Maddox…and there is no shortage of bad things to say…there has never been a public official that entertaining. As for being a tough act to follow, the next Governor was Jimmy Carter. As for the weatherman, PG saw him in a parking lot once. It was raining heavily. The “Gray Ghost” looked at PG with an ironic smile, as if to say “I am sorry”. The weatherman, Guy Sharpe, is on the right in the picture below this post. He is signing a book.
In 1970, the Governor of Georgia could not succeed himself. Lester ran for Lt. Governor, and spent the next four years feuding with Governor Jimmy Carter. Lester ran for a second term in 1974, and was trounced by George Busbee. (The slogan: “Elect a work horse, not a show horse.”) When Jimmy ran for President in 1976, Lester made a point of badmouthing Jimmy. In his own way, Lester Maddox helped Jimmy Carter get elected President.
Lester appeared on the Joe Pyne show. Lester was later on the Dick Cavett show. Another Cavett guest was Truman Capote. After Lester walked off the show, Mr. Capote said, in his own inimitable way, “I ate at his restaurant one time, and all I have to say is, it was not finger licking good”.
Still Packing In Crowds
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Tom Waits is a guy who probably has a song that I would like but I don’t want to go find it oh I guess probably like one or two songs for one song pick a fucking song here a lot of you pick a song and it sounds like he’s taking a shit ~ completely take over other trees at least it looks okay it looks it looks dope but he’s it’s weird dude it’s ~ @AdamHSays Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 47, and post the fourth sentence. Don’t mention the title. @chamblee54 Judy had an elegant gold-and-white suite overlooking Boston Common gardens and pond. ~ of all of the presidential candidates that were in the race like everybody has dropped out and as well which of them would you want in a covid situation? – Tulsi – Tulsi that’s by the way that was my answer as well I don’t I didn’t want her foreign policy that’s one of the reasons I wasn’t like gung-ho ~ Keith Jarrett is an odd piece of work. I saw him at the Great Southeast Music Hall. I sat down too close to the stage. I found out after the show that he was giving me dirty looks, because I disturbed his concentration. ~ what do you think would happen If some guy gets Corona and he’s got it fucking bad systems are shutting down this is it he’s gonna die and he wants to have sex again but he doesn’t want to get anybody sick so he fucks his dogs oh my god and then like all the symptoms go away and he realizes like he’s found the cure and now he has this moral obligation like does he call the CDC and say hey I’m kind of embarrassed to tell you guys this but I think I cracked it and what if it’s only his dog but if everybody has to come to his house and fuck his dog ~ @chamblee54 @robertwrighter @kausmickey I’m getting a little sick of the guy myself ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
War Stories
Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. ‘We don’t have half dozen nuggets,’ said the teenager at the counter. ‘You don’t?’ ‘We only have six, nine, or twelve’ ‘So I can’t order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?’ ‘That’s right.’ So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets. (Once, I asked for sweetener, and they only had Splenda and sugar.) This is a repost.
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, ‘I’m almost out of typing paper. What do I do?’ ‘Just use paper from the photocopier’, the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five ‘blank’ copies.
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine. Mother:’I just gave him some ant killer……’ Dispatcher: ‘Rush him in to emergency right away’
I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those ‘dividers’ that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn’t get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the ‘divider’, looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code, she said to me, ‘Do you know how much this is?’ I said to her ‘I’ve changed my mind; I don’t think I’ll buy that today.’ She said ‘OK,’ and I paid her and left.
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM ‘thingy.’
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. ‘Do you need some help?’ I asked. She replied, ‘I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can’t get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?’ ‘Hmmm, I don’t know. Do you have an alarm, too?’ I asked. ‘No, just this remote thingy,’ she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, ‘Why don’t you drive over there and check about the batteries. It’s a long walk….’
Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
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