Street lingo can fade fast. Common terms may become incomprehensible just ten years from now. Many of my readers are also not American, so here's a three word glossary:
Bear: a chunky and hairy queer. This sub sub culture even had its own magazine, Bear. On one cover, "OVER A TON OF FRESH MEAT AND FUR"!
Catcher: a receptive queer.
Rachet: Louisiana black pronunciation of wretched. Baton Rouge rapper Boozie Badazz defines it as "to be ghetto, real, gutter, nasty."
Drunk enough, a bear pitcher may just get it on with some bitchin' rachet. Racial harmony achieved!
I just revised the ending to include this quotation. Tocqueville:
"The Negro race will not again depart the shores of the American continent, on which the passions and vices of Europe have set it down; it will disappear from the New World only by ceasing to exist. The inhabitants of the United States can put off the misfortunes they dread, but today they cannot destroy their cause."
Amazing how much he saw and understood just passing through.
It is said that in the Constitutional Convention(1787) both General Washington and Benjamin Franklin opposed the admission of Jews into America. Robt. E. Edmondson is authority for the following quotation from the diary of Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, a member of that convention. The Jews deny the authenticity of this historical memo but that is characteristic of the Jews. It is their custom to destroy documents of this type and then deny their authenticity. The statement is evidence of the vision and wisdom of Washington and Franklin:
"I agree fully with General Washington—that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jew.
'In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
" 'For over 1700 years the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world today give it to them in fee simple they would at once find some cogent reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other peoples not of their race.
'If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you,gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.`
Asians might not have imported other races as slaves but the Jews have scored a major victory. Japan has announced it is importing 820,000 foreign workers starting with Nigerians. Japan is going to get a lot more exciting if they follow through with it.
Next the Jews will teach Japanese how to destroy the lives of anyone who complains about the resulting crime.
I recently left my section 8 apartment in a majority black neighborhood in an economically depressed city that is over a quarter black. It wasn't a pretty picture and sounded worse. There are beautiful moments and people in any place, but after an intense police standoff in front of the place on Memorial Day, the inability to walk peacefully in the neighborhood, screaming neighbors, constant window rattling bass and various other urban concerns I decided that anywhere outside of South Bend city limits would be better than the current situation. I was right.
It's been a month on the road, stoned as usual, but trying to make it work in the "big corn" of central Indiana. Motels,. campgrounds and a few nights "roughing it". Last night was spent in a baseball dugout in Peru, Indiana next to the Nickel Plate rail trail. Miles of walkable, bikeable asphalt passing through sparsely populated cornfields and small towns. Tonight is a tent night at lake Mississinewa resoirvour. Insects, frogs and white people doing peaceful white people stuff. I'm no white nationalist, but this is nice.
Thanks. It's been a trip. I'm learning to camp on the fly. I'm trying to get into the men's shelter in Kokomo which isn't far away. It's a smaller, rural/industrial city. Much different than South Bend. Things are slower down here. It felt good to pass an Amish lady in a two wheeled buggy yesterday. Beautiful sky, corn all around. I'm worn out, but not down and out. The cheap motels are the worst. I'm camping in a non electric site for seventeen dollars. The stars out here are something else.
I don't take many pictures although I've got something for picnic tables, amazing furniture. Anyway, the James Dean bust in Fairmount was a weird one, kind of creepy. He was born in Marion not far to the north and grew up in Fairmount, classic small town.
With some of my goofy stoner antics, I could probably monetize this somehow. If given the time and means ; I'll follow any trail, backroad, railroad right away that I can find. I get into some weird, burnt out industrial and boonie country places that most people beyond tweakers and and the homeless never see. Acres of abandoned parking lots returning to nature. Abandoned Holiday Inn swimming pools lost in the Japanese honeysuckle, places like that. I've thought about it, maybe call it Among the Honeysuckle. It's invasive and it's everywhere around here, almost impenetrable in places. I'm enough of an oddball and knucklehead that I just trek and gawk. With all of the wind farms around here, it's like goofball twenty first century Don Quixote from a high mileage 2006 Buick Lacrosse.
It's the state of low budget motels that I've been pondering here lately. I book the cheapest places that I can find through Super. The thirty and forty year old places are becoming refuges for itinerant workers, addicts, you name it. Places that were "nice" thirty years ago are rotting from the inside and outside from neglect as new "nice" motels are being built nearby. I've got a strong stomach, and the odors at some of the places are downright dubious. I find the out of doors a cleaner situation if there are showers nearby. I'm charging my phone right now in the shade on a ninety degree day at a picnic pavilion at the bottom of the Mississinewa Dam. Built in the 60's by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it's impressive.
I'm pretty camera shy and basically I'm "one of those people" for the most part. If I can get any video without coming off as patronizing, I'll do it. I do meet a d talk to people out on the trails and in the parks whenever I get the chance. That was one of the problems in South Bend, things were so down and out hostile on the street level, friendly conversation was very hard to find.
When you catch people in a relaxed atmosphere, it's so much easier to talk. I met a retired factory electrician walking his retired rescue dog "Charlie Dickens". We had a great conversation and I learned some neat things about life in Kokomo. I'm getting into the men's shelter. Spoke with them today. I might be attending to some basics and be out of the loop for a bit, but I'll try to keep you posted via comments or email about the process as it goes. Your writing.amd travels have been a great inspiration Linh. They have definitely changed how I see things and interact with the world in general. That's what good artists do, inspire. Many thanks as always. I'll try to keep you posted.
By recording people, I just mean audio. When we write down what people said, we tend to translate their idioms and cadence into our own, so an actual voice recording can help to correct these distortions.
Thanks for clarifying that Linh. When in doubt, listen to a professional. That's good advice.
One of the things that stands out, almost mystifies about your writing is how well you give voice to the people that you interact with,( ...and no typos. What's with Philly? You and Jim Goad never fuck up where typos are concerned.)
A close study of people and places has got to be a starting point. Much appreciated.
Some thoughts on the deadly Solingen knife attack. The city is known for its world-class cutlery, especially knives. Just as you can’t recklessly label your cheese Gruyère or Comté, you’ll get your ass sued by branding your nail clippers or tweezers “Solingen.”
Solingen’s Festival of Diversity was, almost as an afterthought, its 650th birthday. What will its 700th birthday be called?
I like the photo of the ladies going into the water. Is that front beach? The lady coming out of the water in the shorts is caught by the lens as poetry in motion. The homestay I'm in - located in a Malaysian rain forest above Seremban - is a world away from Vung Tau and you'll never see sights like that here. Still we all have to make do with what we have, appreciate your writing and photography.
Nice article. Just fyi Linh and all there's no such thing as Jews, Muslims, Nazis, Christians, Mormons, Catholics, etc. or any other old-world, illegal private banker, divide and conquer, fake man-made religion usury labels, books, symbols, and buildings. And never has been. We're learning many people who don't get into any man-made religions have always known this, all throughout history. It's all just feigners and unaware people at any time in the history of any of it. Personally, I've known this since becoming a young adult, having had the opportunity to observe and think for myself about it, mostly.
Hi everyone,
Street lingo can fade fast. Common terms may become incomprehensible just ten years from now. Many of my readers are also not American, so here's a three word glossary:
Bear: a chunky and hairy queer. This sub sub culture even had its own magazine, Bear. On one cover, "OVER A TON OF FRESH MEAT AND FUR"!
Catcher: a receptive queer.
Rachet: Louisiana black pronunciation of wretched. Baton Rouge rapper Boozie Badazz defines it as "to be ghetto, real, gutter, nasty."
Drunk enough, a bear pitcher may just get it on with some bitchin' rachet. Racial harmony achieved!
Linh
Hi everyone,
I just revised the ending to include this quotation. Tocqueville:
"The Negro race will not again depart the shores of the American continent, on which the passions and vices of Europe have set it down; it will disappear from the New World only by ceasing to exist. The inhabitants of the United States can put off the misfortunes they dread, but today they cannot destroy their cause."
Amazing how much he saw and understood just passing through.
Linh
It is said that in the Constitutional Convention(1787) both General Washington and Benjamin Franklin opposed the admission of Jews into America. Robt. E. Edmondson is authority for the following quotation from the diary of Charles Pinckney of South Carolina, a member of that convention. The Jews deny the authenticity of this historical memo but that is characteristic of the Jews. It is their custom to destroy documents of this type and then deny their authenticity. The statement is evidence of the vision and wisdom of Washington and Franklin:
"I agree fully with General Washington—that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the Jew.
'In whatever country Jews have settled in any great numbers, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within a state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
" 'For over 1700 years the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world today give it to them in fee simple they would at once find some cogent reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other peoples not of their race.
'If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you,gentlemen, if you do not exclude the Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.`
I found this very interesting history, especially since I remember reading once that making Hebrew the national language in the US was being discussed in its early days. I went looking for some information on that, and found a number of articles. One such article is at https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-story-of-how-hebrew-almost-became-the-official-u-s-language/.
Asians might not have imported other races as slaves but the Jews have scored a major victory. Japan has announced it is importing 820,000 foreign workers starting with Nigerians. Japan is going to get a lot more exciting if they follow through with it.
Next the Jews will teach Japanese how to destroy the lives of anyone who complains about the resulting crime.
I recently left my section 8 apartment in a majority black neighborhood in an economically depressed city that is over a quarter black. It wasn't a pretty picture and sounded worse. There are beautiful moments and people in any place, but after an intense police standoff in front of the place on Memorial Day, the inability to walk peacefully in the neighborhood, screaming neighbors, constant window rattling bass and various other urban concerns I decided that anywhere outside of South Bend city limits would be better than the current situation. I was right.
It's been a month on the road, stoned as usual, but trying to make it work in the "big corn" of central Indiana. Motels,. campgrounds and a few nights "roughing it". Last night was spent in a baseball dugout in Peru, Indiana next to the Nickel Plate rail trail. Miles of walkable, bikeable asphalt passing through sparsely populated cornfields and small towns. Tonight is a tent night at lake Mississinewa resoirvour. Insects, frogs and white people doing peaceful white people stuff. I'm no white nationalist, but this is nice.
Hi Troy,
Please send us more sketches like this. It's fascinating!
Linh
Hi Linh,
Thanks. It's been a trip. I'm learning to camp on the fly. I'm trying to get into the men's shelter in Kokomo which isn't far away. It's a smaller, rural/industrial city. Much different than South Bend. Things are slower down here. It felt good to pass an Amish lady in a two wheeled buggy yesterday. Beautiful sky, corn all around. I'm worn out, but not down and out. The cheap motels are the worst. I'm camping in a non electric site for seventeen dollars. The stars out here are something else.
I don't take many pictures although I've got something for picnic tables, amazing furniture. Anyway, the James Dean bust in Fairmount was a weird one, kind of creepy. He was born in Marion not far to the north and grew up in Fairmount, classic small town.
https://images.app.goo.gl/ftP3zvS5V2VdHCwG9
You should start writing a Substack to chronicle your adventure. It would probably become very lucrative I for one would follow it.
Then turn it into a book. As the US declines they're still be more not fewer vagabonds
Hi Al,
With some of my goofy stoner antics, I could probably monetize this somehow. If given the time and means ; I'll follow any trail, backroad, railroad right away that I can find. I get into some weird, burnt out industrial and boonie country places that most people beyond tweakers and and the homeless never see. Acres of abandoned parking lots returning to nature. Abandoned Holiday Inn swimming pools lost in the Japanese honeysuckle, places like that. I've thought about it, maybe call it Among the Honeysuckle. It's invasive and it's everywhere around here, almost impenetrable in places. I'm enough of an oddball and knucklehead that I just trek and gawk. With all of the wind farms around here, it's like goofball twenty first century Don Quixote from a high mileage 2006 Buick Lacrosse.
It's the state of low budget motels that I've been pondering here lately. I book the cheapest places that I can find through Super. The thirty and forty year old places are becoming refuges for itinerant workers, addicts, you name it. Places that were "nice" thirty years ago are rotting from the inside and outside from neglect as new "nice" motels are being built nearby. I've got a strong stomach, and the odors at some of the places are downright dubious. I find the out of doors a cleaner situation if there are showers nearby. I'm charging my phone right now in the shade on a ninety degree day at a picnic pavilion at the bottom of the Mississinewa Dam. Built in the 60's by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it's impressive.
Yo Troy,
Introduce us to the people you meet! Let's hear their voices. It's not a bad idea to use your phone to record them to get their speech more exact.
Linh
Hi Linh,
I'm pretty camera shy and basically I'm "one of those people" for the most part. If I can get any video without coming off as patronizing, I'll do it. I do meet a d talk to people out on the trails and in the parks whenever I get the chance. That was one of the problems in South Bend, things were so down and out hostile on the street level, friendly conversation was very hard to find.
When you catch people in a relaxed atmosphere, it's so much easier to talk. I met a retired factory electrician walking his retired rescue dog "Charlie Dickens". We had a great conversation and I learned some neat things about life in Kokomo. I'm getting into the men's shelter. Spoke with them today. I might be attending to some basics and be out of the loop for a bit, but I'll try to keep you posted via comments or email about the process as it goes. Your writing.amd travels have been a great inspiration Linh. They have definitely changed how I see things and interact with the world in general. That's what good artists do, inspire. Many thanks as always. I'll try to keep you posted.
Hi Troy,
By recording people, I just mean audio. When we write down what people said, we tend to translate their idioms and cadence into our own, so an actual voice recording can help to correct these distortions.
Linh
Thanks for clarifying that Linh. When in doubt, listen to a professional. That's good advice.
One of the things that stands out, almost mystifies about your writing is how well you give voice to the people that you interact with,( ...and no typos. What's with Philly? You and Jim Goad never fuck up where typos are concerned.)
A close study of people and places has got to be a starting point. Much appreciated.
Hi everyone,
Some thoughts on the deadly Solingen knife attack. The city is known for its world-class cutlery, especially knives. Just as you can’t recklessly label your cheese Gruyère or Comté, you’ll get your ass sued by branding your nail clippers or tweezers “Solingen.”
Solingen’s Festival of Diversity was, almost as an afterthought, its 650th birthday. What will its 700th birthday be called?
Linh
I like the photo of the ladies going into the water. Is that front beach? The lady coming out of the water in the shorts is caught by the lens as poetry in motion. The homestay I'm in - located in a Malaysian rain forest above Seremban - is a world away from Vung Tau and you'll never see sights like that here. Still we all have to make do with what we have, appreciate your writing and photography.
Hi Jimbob,
Yes, that's Front Beach.
Rain forest above Seremban sounds pretty good! We're among the luckiest people.
Linh
Dear Linh,
Nice article. Just fyi Linh and all there's no such thing as Jews, Muslims, Nazis, Christians, Mormons, Catholics, etc. or any other old-world, illegal private banker, divide and conquer, fake man-made religion usury labels, books, symbols, and buildings. And never has been. We're learning many people who don't get into any man-made religions have always known this, all throughout history. It's all just feigners and unaware people at any time in the history of any of it. Personally, I've known this since becoming a young adult, having had the opportunity to observe and think for myself about it, mostly.
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