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   Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:02:57 JST Eira Tansey

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   I'm so grateful for so many reasons that I got to live and work in New Orleans for several years, but one of them was really internalizing and learning the history that America has always been a funky, weird, and horny place and that any attempts to paint it otherwise are totally ahistorical at best, and often motivated by some really sinister politics at worst.

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:02:58 JST Eira Tansey

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     Now I'm obsessed with knowing whether it was the WPA that helped get this song preserved (peep the WPA stamp on the lower right of Alan Lomax's catalog record) https://www.loc.gov/item/afc9999005.5949/

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     Eira Tansey (teammidwest@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:02:59 JST Eira Tansey

     It's always a good time to cue up Jelly Roll Morton's iconic, nasty, and wildly horny song The Dirty Dozen, but especially lately since I'm so tired of America's neo-Puritans and neo-Prohibitionists. https://youtu.be/aRSMaKJySlY?feature=shared

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