Dear Visitor,

I am in Alabama. It is my first time below
the Mason-Dixon line. I have not yet met
a sharecropper or a kindly small-town
attorney, but I've passed an ammo shop
called Po'Boys Guns, driven through The
Friendliest Town in the South and sampled
a hush puppy. The hush puppy was like being
punched in the mouth with a cornmeal fist.

Other things:

1) It is impossible to overestimate the
charm that a Southern accent gives a
teenage girl.

2) There are chain restaurants here that
I've never heard of! One of them had
promotional signs that simply advertised
MEAT $1.99/ BUCKET and
BOTTOMLESS LUNCH

3) It's a little like Los Angeles where
no matter how determined you are not to
submit to the common stereotypes of the
place, you have to acknowledge that all
of them exist in full flower.

That is all right now...my perceptual
organs are dulled with booze and salty
foods.

-Maltball



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