Sunday May 18, 2008

For the host of tonight’s
Academy of Country Music Awards:

Und was für
ein Bild des Christentums 
ist dabei herausgekommen?

_______________________________

“How’d yuh know deh was
such a place,” I says, “if yuh neveh
been deh befoeh?”
    “Oh,” he says, “I got a map.”
    “A map?” I says.
    “Sure,” he says, “I got a map
dat tells me about all dese places.
I take it wit me every time
I come out heah,” he says.
    And Jesus! Wit dat, he pulls it out
of his pocket, an’ so help me,
 but he’s got it– he’s tellin’
 duh troot–  a big map of
     duh whole f_____ place….”

— Thomas Wolfe of
 Asheville, North Carolina