country – Snake & Tree

Still on Subsistence: Redneck Survival and The Walking Dead

Crossbows, accents, and bad bitches. The Walking Dead is the white trash Game of Thrones.

We can feel guilt or shame about our ancestors. Or we can drink a lot and get to work.

DACA, undocumented-gay-boylesque-dancing Alabamans, and what Trump got wrong–per usual–in the State of the Union.

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were both legacies. I think she got the short shrift.

Stoll’s book of Appalachian history was released in November of last year. The responses are wild, so here’s mine.

Thoughts after Trump’s American Farm Bureau Conference speech. Short and sweet? It was lame.

Willie Dewitt Dawson drove a black Lincoln Continental with “kingpin” on the front license plate. Don’t piss off the boys from Alabama.

Some families enjoy a Christmas ham and caroling. My family enjoys not having possums in the attic and a good mullet.

Quick Cash and Payday Loan merchants are fixtures in most rural towns. This is why I hate them.

Shame, poverty, and gospel music. Dorothy Allison’s seminal work has it all.