Jesse Fox Mayshark, formerly of Metropulse fame, has launched The Red State Reader. It features some former writers of the Metropulse and the artist formerly known as South Knox Bubba. It’s left leaning and focuses on The South and the misconceptions about The South. Jesse is now a New Yorker but lived for a decade in Knoxville. Here’s a taste:

Some days after Election Day in November 2004, I was walking to the deli on the corner a few blocks from my apartment on the lower Upper East Side of Manhattan, and I passed two men standing outside a bar, smoking cigarettes and talking. “They hate us down there”, one man said. “They hate us!” “Well,” the other man said, “I don’t know. I go to South Carolina every year, and…” The first man cut him off: “No. They hate us. They were glad when September 11 happened.”

So, go on. You know you want to see how that ends.

Posted in uncategorized on September 23rd, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |