Mentions (13)
"I was in Portugal and Spain this winter and I was struck by how fat a lot of kids were. In some places they were so common and so large, it felt like being in Tennessee or something."
"perhaps a culture of independence and self-sufficiency leads to an emphasis on self expression and exploration. some great art and great personalities in tennessee"
""took away my opportunity to have a family like my own biological family because of these horrible laws that they put in place.""
"I've heard more optimism in impoverished regions within Tennessee and West Virginia than I have from middle class, regular holiday-ing folks here in the country."
"This is absolutely daft. 'Swear words?' I'd say the average 12-year old already knows all the bad words in the book. And a 'Naked woman'? Is Helen Lovejoy running the school board?"
"Like I recently went to Tennessee to hang out with her and her family and I was taken aback at how different everything is down there. Seeing her in her element like that with her short denim shorts and boots, march sun shining unapologetically down on her golden blonde hair got me bricked like craz"
"This time last year I was held up at a small dive bar in Tennessee, among townies, bartenders, sinners, and strangers alike. I frankly recall very little of the day as I do for most my stint drinking whisky, though a feeling of longing persisted that day and the subsequent months after."
"She had a computer in her bedroom and she ended up long-distance dating a guy from Tennessee who then later mysteriously 'died' in a car crash."
"Here for the holiday and genuinely the infrastructure seems like a third world country, the people are Jim Crowe era racist, and someone kept trying to argue with me that I am a commie for not thinking business owners shouldn't pay any taxes because they give people jobs and help the economy"
"Then all of a sudden you cross the Tennessee river and there's "New Homes starting from the 300's" that are massive and hideous."
"or anywhere but here. tenne-fucking-see. i'm moving to chicago in a few weeks. trying to, at least. its hard to fight the urge to run away. to take that money ive saved and get out of the states. maybe do workaways in ireland or sweden."
"Arkansas, Tennessee and the quad state area gonna get vaporized."
"My dad is a quintessential apolitical American that has never voted and could probably not name the current vice president. He grew up in Brooklyn but raised us in the boonies of Tennessee, so his regional/cultural affectations are neutralized as well."