Mitchell Lawrence

@mitchelll

Tennessean, Genealogist, Conservationist, Appalachian and Ozark Mountain enjoyer. Occasional takes on politics and Americana music. Wokest person in Tractor Supply. Views my own, because no one else wants them.

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Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· 17h

#2 there is the W Road. Guess how it got its name.

Apple Maps screenshot of a series of VERY compact switchbacks which make a W shape.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· 5d

Cursed

Syracuse is apparently the “Best” at podcasting

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· 12d

Based solely on this wall decor, guess what kind of restaurant this is. I guarantee you are wrong.

Framed cross-stitch needlework art of flowers and leaves on a wood plank wall

Framed AMERICA NEEDS PEROT poster from 1992 on a plain wood plank wall

Lithograph style memorial print of the GOAT Dale Earnhardt #3, RIP

Will The Circle Be Unbroken Vol 3 album cover by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band featuring basically every country/folk singer from the 80s/90s

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Jul 9

It makes you think

Demographic stats for Maine, showing it 95% white

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Jul 5

Homemade peach ice cream and homegrown fried green tomatoes. That’s the America I believe in.

Tray full of fried green tomatoes (and a few squash slices)

Glass bowl full of off white ice cream with a metal spoon

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Jun 30

SCOTUS looking at the “Well Regulated Militia” line in the 2nd amendment vs making shit up entirely in the 14th amendment

Bart Simpson looking through a telescope

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Jun 15

Hmmmmm

Screenshot of the sections of the Port Byron Wikipedia article.

Geography
Demographics
Tug Fest

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Jun 2

Off the lathe, a gift for some neighbors. They lost a beautiful plum tree during the ice storms in January. I was able to get a piece with minimal cracking and turn a small change dish from it. Tung oil finish. Hope they enjoy the keepsake.

Round, rich brown plum dish with flat sides resting canted on a quilt. Good grain visibility.

Same dish, more from the side, showing the nearly straight sides

Bottom of the dish with the recess from the lathe chuck. Written on the rim: “American Plum”

Written in the center “05/26 M. Lawrence”

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· May 21

James McMurtry had this shit nailed in 2005. Time is a circle.

Lyrics to “We Can’t Make It Here” my James McMurtry.

Will work for food, will die for oil
Will kill for power, and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks

So let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake
Let 'em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· May 19

Sometimes when we get bored on long car rides, my wife (raised objectively agnostic) and I (Private Christian school K-12) will listen to the audiobook King James Bible. Her reaction anytime we get through any culturally significant Bible story is basically Patchy the Pirate from SpongeBob.

Patchy the Pirate from SpongeBob, in the midst of saying “That’s it?”

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· May 10

“At least the trains ran on time”

Supermarket price tag on a dozen medium eggs for 99¢

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· May 6

Scipio Aemilianus this man is not.

Polybius relates a well-known anecdote of Scipio's reflections on the mutability of human affairs following the sack of Carthage:

Scipio, when he looked upon the city as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. After being wrapped in thought for long, and realizing that all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom; that this happened to Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said:

A day will come when sacred
Troy shall perish,
And Priam and his people shall be slain.
And when Polybius speaking with freedom to him, for he was his teacher, asked him what he meant by the words, they say that without any attempt at concealment he named his own country, for which he feared when he reflected on the fate of all things human. Polybius actually heard him and recalls it in his history.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 27

Monday mood

Five foot high stack of hand split red oak firewood. Fiskars ax in foreground mixed ash and plumb scattered in front too.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 27

This small drinking cup, carved from a steer horn in 1844 by my slave-owning 4th great grandfather.

Tan/brown cow horn cup, with a zigzag pattern etched around the rim on a dark wooden table

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 25

I wished I was in Austin, mmmhm. In the Chili Parlor Bar Drinking Mad Dog Margaritas and not caring where you are

Mad Dog Margarita in front of a bottles of Del Maguey Vida Classico Mezcal and Crafted Cordials triple-sec. And a lime.

Mad Dog Margarita:
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz triple-sec
2 oz mezcal

Shake, pour over ice, enjoy, preferably to a Guy Clark song

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 21

Your radio station plays songs about trucks and beer. My radio station plays songs about psychedelics, getting shot, and being horny. We are not the same.

WMOT 89.5 Nashville playlist.

Turtles all the Way Down - Sturgill Simpson (about psychedelics)
Outlaws Prayer - Mike McClure (about getting shot)
Dry Spell - Kacey Musgraves (about being completely, unspeakably horny)

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 21

Artist rendition

Infowars VasoBeet Complete dietary “supplement” but ONION is shittily pasted over BEET on the label by yours truly

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 2

wint @dril
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Apr 1

Time to dust off a classic:

Tweet by GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic

Gorsuch normally: it's completely within an employer's rights to castrate any employee Gorsuch on reservation law: I am issuing this ruling from Piscataway land,

6:46 PM • Apr 21, 2023 • 706.9K Views

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Mar 27

The perfect encapsulation of Matt Schlapp as a person:

Simon Maloy @SimonMaloy

"matt schlapp" is the sound made by two pork chops falling onto a linoleum floor
1:49 PM • Jun 15, 2018

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Mar 2

Are the forecast/record numbers flipped here? Forecast numbers don’t line up with the chart, but the Record numbers do.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Mar 2

Top tier dollar store candy find

GUMMY
BACON & EGGS
ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED

$1.25

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Mar 2

Hopefully this one specifically. And explained this way.

Calvin and Hobbes Black and White photographs page

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 28

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed

Narrow boardwalk over dense greenery pointing towards the Rocky Mountains. Some pine trees in the foreground.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 28

Trump secures the crucial Holden Bloodfeast vote to maintain the congressional majority.

Shitty line drawing of an obese man in a wheelchair with an IV drip wearing a tie. Text states:

Holden Bloodfeast
(R) lowa
-118 years old
-Please god just let us nuke Iran, nothing else matters, I'll do anything please | just want to see burning flesh one last time before I die
-Respectable bipartisan

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 18

The duality of Reddit answers.

r/Chainsaw 4y ago

Can I use 2 stroke marine oil in saw gas?

• northman46 • 4y ago
No. The oil for water cooled engines like outboards is different from that for air cooled engines like chainsaws. Look at the bottles to see what standards they meet.

AdHocSpock OP • 4y ago
Thanks..I got some marine 2 stroke oil while cleaning out a house we sold and was wondering if I could use it as saw mix. Didn't want to chance it without more info..

FirefighterNo9762 • 2y ago
I've been doing it for 40 years and no problems.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 16

No time to find a they/them barista so I’m making my own Woke Coffee at home

Box of La COLOMBE Lyon coffee, “supporting the ACLU”. The text is surrounded by a diverse cast in Corporate Memphis style, waving pride flags, BLM symbols, social justice signs, etc etc

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 10

Every masterpiece has its cheap copy

1999 album Beach House On The Moon by Jimmy Buffett

Elon Musk © X @elonmusk
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Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.
There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime.
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SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
This will so insanely cool *
12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 9

Watched the first half and Bad Bunny from the Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone in Nawlins. The lady behind us thought Lady Gaga was Bad Bunny’s girlfriend.

Upscale lounge seating. Half a TV with the Super Bowl on the right, jazz band on the left. Mardi Gras wreathes on the windows.

Mitchell Lawrence@mitchelll· Feb 9

I’m nearly as Online™ as they come and I have heard of literally none of these.