The following submission for DINGUS BATTICUS’ column was a result of Lil John McKee’s recent duck hunting and beer swilling weekend with some college football teammates from over 30 years ago. Dingus shares a kindred spirit with his erudite agricultural icon–Lil John Mckee (Swamp Rat). Larry D–Larry Davis–one of the beer-swilling meatheads, wrote the following […]
Farming Haikus
December 8, 2010 3 Comments
(Clarksdale, Mississippi) By Lil John McKee This installment of Lil John’s Ag Corner (or whatever you homies want to call it) owes its origins to my favorite agricultural humorist, Mack Ray, a farmer near Marion Arkansas, who wrote several years for a national cotton magazine. Sadly, Mack is no longer entertaining the farming community with […]
DIMETHOATE BLUES
November 22, 2010 Leave a Comment
By Mr. Lil’ John McKee Guest Bohemian Multiple choice question- 1. From the following three choices, which is the most appropriate to put in iced tea? a. Artificial sweetener b. Organophosphate insecticide c. Tea is a symbol of capitalist oppression Greetings. To all you yellow-bellied, lily-livered, tofu-eating fraidy cats who chose the first answer – […]
Delta Bohemian – what is it?
November 22, 2010 13 Comments
Madge Howell and Billy Howell have created the Delta Bohemian website at www.deltabohemian.com Check it out and see what you think!
Rain is a Good Thing in the Mississippi Delta
November 21, 2010 2 Comments
(Clarksale, Mississippi) “ Hey John, I really have been praying for rain; I hope you get some…I watch the Weather Channel every day” “Uh…..thanks, Mama, but it’s close to harvest now, and we don’t want any rain now for a long time. Appreciate the thought though.” Two weeks later…. “Hey John, I’m glad to see […]
More about Poor William’s Whims
November 6, 2010 Leave a Comment
POOR WILLIAM’S WHIMS (and yes, I am referring to myself in the third person here as do many preachers and politicians, but I do so with much irony and a sardonic grin on my face) seeks to share interesting quotes, funny thoughts and gestures, vocabulary words—not always defined (in the hope that the reader will […]
Advent of a whim
June 2, 2010 Leave a Comment
By Poor William (Clarksdale, Mississippi) The creation of a written whim is an unusual process. Poor William has never taken a journalism class and possesses little experience writing beyond laboring over a plethora of college papers. Consequently, it has been necessary for him to find his “voice” without the assistance of formal training. I think […]
The Definition of a Metro Redneck
April 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Metro redneck is not necessarily an oxymoron—words that don’t go together, but it might raise the ire of those with latent tendencies and or an aversion to anything not clothed in camouflage and smelling of cordite—gunpowder. According to one definition found in the Urban Dictionary, a metrosexual is a “normally […]
Poor William’s Weekend: No Clowns Required
April 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
By Poor William (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Poor William has previously addressed his appreciation for all things Bohemian, though what constitutes Bohemian is somewhat subjective and no longer defined by what approaches abject poverty. A literal Bohemian is a native or inhabitant of Bohemia, the former province located in western Czechoslovakia. A more modern application applies to […]
Hey, Bruh, Lend Me a Dime
January 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
By POOR WILLIAM (Clarksdale, Mississippi) “Hey, Bruh, lend me a dime?” This was verbatim what Poor William was asked, or was it told, on his way to Delta State University in on Saturday. He had stopped to purchase gas for his bumper-sticker-encumbered Jeep, when out of the corner of his eagle-eye, what should appear but […]
A Whole Bag of Cookies
December 12, 2009 Leave a Comment
by POOR WILLIAM (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Rip the ribald jester, local Clarksdale, MS hairdresser and Clark Street savant, told a tale recently that analogically sums up a modern day Mississippi Delta dilemma—the lack of delayed gratification. Now, Poor William rarely turns down an adult beverage, is known to eat all that is before him, eschews […]
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