Ghosts Thumbnails
Shaenon: Some thumbnails from this lovely short storyline. I can’t thank David Blake enough for writing this with me and coming up with all the good ideas, including the Twinkie joke. And Jeff got a two-week break to write the next arc! Everyone wins!
Channing: This has been a great guest week, and the fact that there was technically two weeks of guest week just means there’s more of it to love. Thanks so much!
Son of a gun, they had big fun, on the bayou.
An interracial couple in 1963 Louisiana would have been very unlikely.
Might’ve been closer to 1970.
The game referred to there was in 1970; the first interracial marriage in Louisiana was in 1967.
Messed up the date.
THAT’s the element of this story that twigs as unlikely to you. Really.
Yes. I can accept the fantasy elements, but the mundane details need to be right.
Read about the 1965 AFL all star game to understand why.
They were rare, but there were a few. It might contribute to explaining their well-armed response to uninvited social calls.