Lee Gardner

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I mean, this is as classic as it gets.

She rules.

I say NOTHING but pictures of Mark and Laura Lee without their wigs. That’s what should be on our money—images if Mark and Laura Lee without their wigs

Susan Alcorn is one of the greats and she shreds so hard on this.

Contra Madre, by Nomad War Machine and Susan Alcorn 7 track album

It’s Bandcamp Friday, and preorders are now open for the swan song from the late pedal-steel virtuoso Susan Alcorn, improvising with metal duo Nomad War Machine. It’s on my label, and I’m honored and humbled to have a hand in getting it out into the world.

I looked at the Big 10 schools for a comparison group and a few of them were up there with the most booming SEC schools, but most had much more modest increases or were flat/declining slightly. Flagships generally are doing better than regionals, small privates, etc.

Salt Life?

How SEC Universities Won the Enrollment Wars The ascendance of Southern flagships is a story of sun, football, and a sophisticated recruitment strategy.

I got curious about the booming enrollments at Southern flagships, even as big publics elsewhere cut programs. The appeal of gamedays and Greek life plays a big part, but aggressive recruiting does too.

How SEC Universities Won the Enrollment Wars The ascendance of Southern flagships is a story of sun, football, and a sophisticated recruitment strategy.

This is a thoughtful and well-researched piece (featuring quite a few higher ed faculty members, including me) on the growth of most SEC universities. The reasons behind this growth are complex.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

There is nothing good about it.

There is, I regret to inform you, an accompanying hand gesture.

You are in for a world of hurt, I'm sorry to say.

This I Believe: If you have to repeatedly encourage the goobers in the audience at your show to form a circle pit, you do not, in fact, deserve a circle pit.

I lived in TN for most of the first 30 years of my life, hiked all over, and never saw a bear in the wild except once from a car window on the Cades Cove loop road.

Black bears do not want to get you, but they were wondering if you had any snacks?

Grazie mille.

Being the philistine that I am, I must ask an honest question: How does one pronounce her last name? Cause based on my rudimentary understanding of Italian, the double “z” should make it “nuts-y,” but that just seems too on the nose.

A computer cursor hovers over a website button reading “accept all cookies.” Now you chuckle.

Happy December, everybody!

My meatball design tutelage at the paper instilled that reversed or knocked-out type was best avoided unless you could go for the highest possible contrast (i.e. white on black) or a large point.

Pope stands holding a baseball bat on a plane

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Random RPG attacks.

Working today and was reminded that James Meredith, the first Black student admitted to the previously all-white University of Mississippi in 1962, is still alive at age 92.

More hot takes: Geese is fine. Things that you don’t care for can exist and find favor with others without it constituting an attack on you personally.

Ask not for whom the news dump dumps—it dumps for thee.

Not judging or proscribing, just observing (if I could have responded in-thread, I would have). It was not A Thing in my family or many other hillbilly-derived families of my acquaintance. Hence the question.

An image of gooey mac and cheese

OK, my fellow Appalachian-Americans: Is mac and cheese part of our cuisine? I don’t believe I ever had it until a sleepover (with a family Not From Around Here) when I was a teen, and I certainly don’t remember it being a staple on holiday tables in East Tennessee. Not gatekeeping, just curious.

Nice placement!

#betteridgeslaw

Total Baltimore thing (my wife is a native).

I was just discussing this with @wendycloudberry.com: mac and cheese is not a hillbilly food item. At all, ever, much less at a holiday meal.