Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Live From Jacktown

 Who says downtown doesn't have entertainment? 




34 comments:

1962guy said...

I'm pretty sure this is not what Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and many others had in mind.

Anonymous said...

Can't be Jackson... no guns involved.

Anonymous said...

Retaliatory gunfire in 3,2,1…

Anonymous said...

Is hood-rat fighting part of your cutting-edge journalism these days? What's the point?

Anonymous said...

Look at all that content of character on display.

Anonymous said...

Right around the corner from JPD and not a single officer in sight. With the amount of problems the City has seen with the bars downtown, one would think JPD would have an officer parked outside each one or on each street.
On the bright side, at least they were just fighting and not shooting on another.

Anonymous said...

Just keeping it real.

Anonymous said...

Long ago, maybe in the early '80s, there was an Italian villa, where there was some sort of "play", set around 1900 - basically the time when Italy was coalescing as a nation, and the Bugatti Brothers were making rakish cars and unforgettable furniture - a few decades after the period depicted in 'Il Gattopardo', and maybe a decade prior to that of 'Gli Occhiali d'Oro'.

The play was named something like 'Il Annunciato', or Il Annunzio, after the Protagonist (Gabriele D'Annunzio?), who probably met a bad end (as did basically everybody), after Mussolini rose to power and started pushing fascist morality. Playgoers would walk THROUGH various vignettes, where the actors would reenact moments from the life lived by the Villa's chic Avant-garde inhabitants. What are plays like that called?

The idea has spread, and one hears of old cemeteries and antebellum mansions, in Mississippi, where one walks through, hearing bits of the lives of...

But Jackson could do even better. The whole place IS - already - an entertainment district - a play AND real-life: REALISM-MADE-REAL, art imitating life imitating art - with real possibilities and real consequences. As today's excellent video demonstrates, it's a horror movie and a comedy - simultaneously.

Jackson's a walk-through play where you can actually DIE. I say, START BOOKING TOURS!

Anonymous said...

Yall always complain about the shootings and talk about how we used to just fist fight and call it a night back in the day. Give them guys credit (and gals).

Anonymous said...

somebody must've disrespected somebody else

Anonymous said...

@1:26 PM I have been to the Angels on the Bluff in Natchez. Descendants relay the history of their ancestors. Since the Natchez cemetery was segregated for so long, you go into the Black, White, Italian, Jewish, etc areas and you will see grand mausoleums and hear fascinating tales. An example is a Natchez Jew who discovered and documented that Yellow Fever was spread by mosquitoes before Walter Reed published his work.

Ben in the Jack said...

First, @2:02, that was awesome and perfect. Second...what was that fighting style the first girl in the pink was using? Ghet Kwon Do? Lean back and throw like a rock'em sock'em robot?

Anonymous said...

If wig pulling fights ever become an Olympic sport, all medalists will be from Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Ops normal, nothing to see here, move along.

Anonymous said...

This looks like a typical drunk mistletoe gala night except they have real boobs and booties

Anonymous said...

That poor wig.

Anonymous said...

Thugettes.

Anonymous said...

This must be "'ladies' night out," with hubby watching the kids.

Anonymous said...

3:41 wins. Let’s move on.

Anonymous said...

somebody must've disrespected somebody else
February 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Someone's Honor Was Tarnished & They Demanded Satisfaction...

Anonymous said...

The brain trust that will decide the Mayor of our Capital City.

Anonymous said...

@6:03 PM wins, with @4:10 PM a close second.

Anonymous said...

Where did this take place?

fed up in Jackson said...

that last fight was in the middle of state street, and that is just totally unacceptable. Seriously, I thought we would have a better police presence. pitiful

Anonymous said...

Orange man forgot the one most important part of fighting, he didn't strip down to skin.

Anonymous said...

more racists ass bullshit from the king dick sucking fish himself.

Anonymous said...

8:43, KF posted the Mistletoe fracas, and I don’t remember you commenting on how racist that was

Ben in the Jack said...

You sound like a voice of reason and integrity. Tell us more.

Anonymous said...

Is that Jaylon Robinson's dad at 8:43 AM?

Anonymous said...

In all my 40 years, I have never engaged in behavior resembling that. Fascinating. I wonder if these people have kids at home and jobs to be at the next day?

Ben in the Jack said...

If you do something a Democrat/liberal doesn't agree with, you're a Racist/Nazi/Homophobe/Bigot/Misogynist/Fascist. You weren't aware of this? They are, after all, the party of tolerance.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I suppose he should've titled this "Outdoor Sunday School class shows how to lift Jackson up in the eyes of other people."

Anonymous said...

Thank you, 2:14, for providing a real-life example! Do you know what that play genre is called? And thank you for that sample bio. It was something I NEEDED to hear about, for personal reasons.

Anonymous said...

These folks are playing hooky from JPD’s Conflict Resolution Class…



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