Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.

Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who assumes every body in earshot knows all about his parents and history and wants to hear an update about them at every opportunity. He looks young, but still manages to act 65.

In the possibility that there is going to be severe weather, one has to listen to their local jurisdiction with regard to what they would do anyplace else if they were living in a flood plain and if they need to evacuate, they need to evacuate.

Rock was born in the South, so saying 'Southern rock' is like saying 'rock rock.'

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.