Tag: the south
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These Are a Few of Our Favorite Folks!
Nobody exists in a vacuum, least of all people who call these crazy internets home. As bloggers, we’re constantly being inspired by the brilliance around us, especially the nuggets of beautiful wisdom that float up to our Brooklyn laptops from below the Mason-Dixon line. So today we thought we’d share with you a few of…
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Zelda & Scout Holiday Gift Guide: The South
It’s December, and while holiday decorations exploded all over every retail establishment somewhere around Halloween, now is when the pressure really sets in. ‘Tis the season of gifting, of wish lists and dwindling bank accounts. Everyone takes to this process differently. Zelda is a compulsive gifter: Nothing makes her happier than browsing the boutiques (or,…
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Just Folks, thus far…
Hi lovelies! It’s been three months (ish) since we launched this here blog, and with it the Just Folks feature. We’ve heard from so many of about your journeys from Dixie to Dumbo, about the things that people get wrong (and right) about life below the Mason-Dixon line, and about your current adventures as a…
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A Dirty Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste: 9 Life Lessons We Learned From Steel Magnolias
While Nora Ephron shaped our cinematic visions of New York, the single biggest cinematic influence on our views on life in the South was Steel Magnolias. From the big hair to the epic levels of snark and sass, we identify with these ladies big time: An alternative name for this blog could have been Clairee…
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Playing Dress Up
I don’t understand where my clothes came from. Somehow, in the past six years, I have amassed enough of a wardrobe to need to prune it drastically at least once a year. This plethora of clothes was not always the norm for me: For most of my life, I did not have an adult wardrobe,…
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10 Awesome Southerners to Dress Up As This Halloween
All Hallow’s Eve is nearly upon us, a festive season of masquerades and sugar highs. I don’t know about you, but Halloween always has a tendency to sneak up on me. I start each year with grand ambitions of a great costume — cute but not slutty, clever but not so niche as to be unrelatable (I’m lookin’…
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Just Folks: Patrick Cox
Mondays on Zelda & Scout are all about you! In a series we call “Just Folks,” we talk to Southerners who have found their way to New York about where they’re from, where they are now, and what home means to them. Tell us your story here! This week we have Patrick Cox. This mathematician,…
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Say (Beer) Cheese!
Have you ever discovered that something you thought was totally commonplace, so normal that you never even gave it a second thought, was actually entirely unique to your specific existence? It blows your mind. It shakes up your world for a second. I had one of these moments recently, a mini-earthquake of my existence, all thanks…
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Ev’ry Wildcat Star Will Shine
Note: This is the first mention of sports on this blog, but not the last. We wouldn’t be doing the South justice without some mention of college sports and the surrounding festivities. *Zelda would like the readers to know that she knows what’s right in the world and therefore does not support the University of…
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Bless your heart, New York: Sweet or Unsweet
This article is part of an ongoing series titled “Bless Your Heart, New York,” in which we ever so sweetly remind the Big Apple of the things they are doing oh so wrong. Bless their hearts. Dear New York, We need to talk. There is a question every Southerner holds near and dear to her…
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