No snark taken - but I wouldn't have minded one bit! It's a trick question... there really is no relation. It was a twitterish post, to be honest. I got the PTO rejection letter today (or was it yesterday - I'm work-smooshed) and I had tons of country on my mind. I mixed the two issues for no reason whatsoever other than they weren't good enough for separate posts and I was too lazy to do long stories of explanation for both.
I suppose I could link the issues post-hoc; As the frightening economy has many people searching for employment or alternative employment my rejection letter from the PTO shows my kinship with the blue-collar USian laborer who often is characterized as a fan of country, fans who in turn romanticize those blue-collar workers who made USia an industrial powerhouse. Also, country music, when played backwards, is often comprised of a set of lyrics in which a man finds a dog and/or truck, stops drinking too much, acquires a wife/lover, and gets a job. I always loved that joke
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Date: 2009-03-14 10:56 pm (UTC)I suppose I could link the issues post-hoc;
As the frightening economy has many people searching for employment or alternative employment my rejection letter from the PTO shows my kinship with the blue-collar USian laborer who often is characterized as a fan of country, fans who in turn romanticize those blue-collar workers who made USia an industrial powerhouse. Also, country music, when played backwards, is often comprised of a set of lyrics in which a man finds a dog and/or truck, stops drinking too much, acquires a wife/lover, and gets a job.
I always loved that joke