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minervacat at 11:25am on 04/06/2007 under tv:sg1
minervacat at 11:25am on 04/06/2007 under tv:sg1OKAY SO MAYBE I DO HAVE SOME PERSONAL CANON.
Cam Mitchell Might Have Gone To High School In Kansas, But There Ain't No Way He's From Kansas (aka, Things I Know About Camshaft): a manifesto
partially it's the browd's accent, which places him nowhere but southern north carolina to me -- southwestern, really, not even quite pure charlotte. but partially it's just cam, who exhibits all the behaviors that i associate with good southern boys. he loves his parents. he's polite to women. he talks about his grandma a lot. i have to flap my hands helplessly here, because there's no way to explain why the ways he does these things are more southern when cam does them than they are midwestern or great plains, but they are, and you'll have to trust me on that. cam mitchell is southern.
i would guess that his parents are both from western north carolina (or possibly far eastern tennessee), if not directly up in the mountains, then from the piedmont west of winston-salem, when the land starts to climb and the sky gets big. hickory, maybe, or morganton, or johnson city and cullowohee north and west of asheville respectively. they were probably high school sweethearts. his daddy went to n.c. state, his mama went to duke (if her family had some money) or to unc-greensboro (if they didn't). cam's got a passel of aunts and uncles; all the boys in his parents' generation went to state or appalachian, most of the girls went to unc-g or got married, except for his daddy's oldest sister, who went to carolina. she's the black sheep of the family.
cam's an only child but i bet he grew up with a ton of cousins around -- his dad's military, so the family may have spent some time overseas, but i think it's more likely that whenever his dad was deployed, his mama packed cam up from whatever base they were on and moved back home with her folks for the duration. cam's got cousins coming out his ass, at least two or three if not more that are very close to his age, and at least a dozen in the fifteen years on either side of him. his cousins have names like vance and granville, nash and surry and caswell, even the girls. if the kids of cam's generation were lucky, they all escaped being called carteret and yancey.
(cam's favorite cousin, his daddy's youngest sister's only girl, got saddled with the worst in the family: brunswick pamlico prouty, because his daddy's sister moved out east soon as she got married, and she took to the coast the way nobody else in the family did. everyone who's not family calls brunswick "pam", and she doesn't let on that it's short for something. the family calls her wick. cam thanks god every time he talks to wick that he was only named for two basketball coaches. wick teaches economics at ecu, she married a prioleau from charleston, and she's the only damn good thing about visiting greenville.)
cam himself was named for eddie cameron (his mama's choice) and everett case (his daddy's choice), and he's glad every day they went with everett and not case for his middle name, because cameron case would just be too much for him to cope with.
he may have gone to the academy but i think it's more likely he went to n.c. state, too. they've got a big afrotc program and an engineering school; in my head, cam has a bs and an ms in aeronautical engineering from state. he was one of three state fans who was actually sad when herb left, because he liked the motion offense. he hates the new acc (I CAN HEAR YOU NOW: MIN ARE YOU PROJECTING ONTO CAMERON MITCHELL, and the answer to that is YES I AM THANKS FOR ASKING) but he likes the idea of a football championship game. he has season tickets to state football and hasn't been to a game in years; he gives his tickets to his cousins but he keeps buying them.
i think cam can cook, if he puts his mind to it. he cooks more now that he's on his own than he does when he goes home, just because his mama and his grandmama and his aunts and his cousins do it better than he does. he eats okra, fried or boiled. he knows that the right way to serve grits is with cheese, butter, and salt & pepper. he drinks crappy american beer. he prefers his tea sweet and his barbeque eastern carolina style, pulled pork and a vinegar-based sauce. he opens doors for women. his accent gets thicker when he drinks.
and that's what i know about cameron mitchell.
now, if you will excuse me, i have to attend my fifth baseball game in four days, and i must sunscreen up the boobs before we go. (if you want to ask questions about the cam mitchell in my head, go for it; i'll answer comments when we get back.)
Cam Mitchell Might Have Gone To High School In Kansas, But There Ain't No Way He's From Kansas (aka, Things I Know About Camshaft): a manifesto
partially it's the browd's accent, which places him nowhere but southern north carolina to me -- southwestern, really, not even quite pure charlotte. but partially it's just cam, who exhibits all the behaviors that i associate with good southern boys. he loves his parents. he's polite to women. he talks about his grandma a lot. i have to flap my hands helplessly here, because there's no way to explain why the ways he does these things are more southern when cam does them than they are midwestern or great plains, but they are, and you'll have to trust me on that. cam mitchell is southern.
i would guess that his parents are both from western north carolina (or possibly far eastern tennessee), if not directly up in the mountains, then from the piedmont west of winston-salem, when the land starts to climb and the sky gets big. hickory, maybe, or morganton, or johnson city and cullowohee north and west of asheville respectively. they were probably high school sweethearts. his daddy went to n.c. state, his mama went to duke (if her family had some money) or to unc-greensboro (if they didn't). cam's got a passel of aunts and uncles; all the boys in his parents' generation went to state or appalachian, most of the girls went to unc-g or got married, except for his daddy's oldest sister, who went to carolina. she's the black sheep of the family.
cam's an only child but i bet he grew up with a ton of cousins around -- his dad's military, so the family may have spent some time overseas, but i think it's more likely that whenever his dad was deployed, his mama packed cam up from whatever base they were on and moved back home with her folks for the duration. cam's got cousins coming out his ass, at least two or three if not more that are very close to his age, and at least a dozen in the fifteen years on either side of him. his cousins have names like vance and granville, nash and surry and caswell, even the girls. if the kids of cam's generation were lucky, they all escaped being called carteret and yancey.
(cam's favorite cousin, his daddy's youngest sister's only girl, got saddled with the worst in the family: brunswick pamlico prouty, because his daddy's sister moved out east soon as she got married, and she took to the coast the way nobody else in the family did. everyone who's not family calls brunswick "pam", and she doesn't let on that it's short for something. the family calls her wick. cam thanks god every time he talks to wick that he was only named for two basketball coaches. wick teaches economics at ecu, she married a prioleau from charleston, and she's the only damn good thing about visiting greenville.)
cam himself was named for eddie cameron (his mama's choice) and everett case (his daddy's choice), and he's glad every day they went with everett and not case for his middle name, because cameron case would just be too much for him to cope with.
he may have gone to the academy but i think it's more likely he went to n.c. state, too. they've got a big afrotc program and an engineering school; in my head, cam has a bs and an ms in aeronautical engineering from state. he was one of three state fans who was actually sad when herb left, because he liked the motion offense. he hates the new acc (I CAN HEAR YOU NOW: MIN ARE YOU PROJECTING ONTO CAMERON MITCHELL, and the answer to that is YES I AM THANKS FOR ASKING) but he likes the idea of a football championship game. he has season tickets to state football and hasn't been to a game in years; he gives his tickets to his cousins but he keeps buying them.
i think cam can cook, if he puts his mind to it. he cooks more now that he's on his own than he does when he goes home, just because his mama and his grandmama and his aunts and his cousins do it better than he does. he eats okra, fried or boiled. he knows that the right way to serve grits is with cheese, butter, and salt & pepper. he drinks crappy american beer. he prefers his tea sweet and his barbeque eastern carolina style, pulled pork and a vinegar-based sauce. he opens doors for women. his accent gets thicker when he drinks.
and that's what i know about cameron mitchell.
now, if you will excuse me, i have to attend my fifth baseball game in four days, and i must sunscreen up the boobs before we go. (if you want to ask questions about the cam mitchell in my head, go for it; i'll answer comments when we get back.)
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