Jerry Wayne Longmire is a Houston-based comedian who is not just Texan, but very Texan. In this video, he describes a very relatable experience that, as a fellow Texan, I feel in my sweat-soaked overalls: Longmire must look at his energy bill as the summer heat (made all the worse by the moisture blowing in off the Gulf of America) erodes his being.
Longmire tells the story as the long-winded Southern novelist William Faulkner would. Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi is geographically far from East Texas, but not culturally far from this kudzu-stangled land ruled by mosquitoes, cottonmouth snakes, and languid despair.
-via Elai
