this will answer all of your questions but it is in Chinese

November 24, 2014 12:38 PM

The Shack Up Inn is a hospitality institution just outside of historic Clarksdale, Mississippi. Their FAQ page helpfully provides information regarding any questions you might have about amenities, bedding quality, or Didelphimorphia reproduction.
posted by theodolite (15 comments total)

From a shotgun shack singing Pentecostal hymns
Through the wrought iron gates to the TV room
He had a little world, it was smaller than your hand
It's a rockabilly ride from the glitter to the gloom
posted by batfish at 1:03 PM on November 24, 2014 [2 favorites]

Oh, so that's what a shotgun shack is. For some reason I had just assumed it was some kind of shack full of shotguns. Which is perhaps a stranger place to find yourself.
posted by eykal at 1:21 PM on November 24, 2014 [3 favorites]

That Chinese video is pretty informative. I was disappointed that they chose someone with such an absolute bog-standard Mandarin accent to do the voice-overs though. I was hoping for an extremely rural, earthy Sichuan accent or something to give the listener some idea of what the original speaker's accent was like. Bad Voice of America! -10 creativity points!
posted by 1adam12 at 1:42 PM on November 24, 2014 [3 favorites]

Which is perhaps a stranger place to find yourself.

Indeed. I would suppose you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
posted by ricochet biscuit at 2:02 PM on November 24, 2014 [16 favorites]

Same as it ever was.
posted by jenkinsEar at 2:14 PM on November 24, 2014 [4 favorites]

Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon was written while Harris was holed up in a shotgun shack while his father was dying.
posted by Slithy_Tove at 2:19 PM on November 24, 2014

Ah, this is a nice appetizer before we hit the road in a couple of weeks to see my in-laws in Greenville, MS. This page also has the elegant web design of my father-in-law's angry libertarian website.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 2:43 PM on November 24, 2014

I stayed there about a decade ago. I don't recall the website being so awful, but they had all of the important amenities: beer, live music, and a mini Moon Pie on your pillow.
posted by stefanie at 3:01 PM on November 24, 2014 [3 favorites]

My understanding has always been that they are called shotgun shacks because the doors line up front to back. If they were all open you could shoot a shotgun straight through the house.
posted by Benny Andajetz at 3:37 PM on November 24, 2014 [1 favorite]

Sorry, I'm having trouble calibrating. Is this a joke site of some kind? I'm having one of my days when I can't tell when people are kidding or not.
posted by Mogur at 5:01 PM on November 24, 2014

The Shack Up Inn is very real and very awesome. (Latter is personal opinion, of course.)
posted by mrg at 5:44 PM on November 24, 2014

Looks like the sort of place where you can't touch the second shelf in the refrigerator, because that's where the owner keeps their rootbeers and their double-thick Oreo cookies.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 5:49 PM on November 24, 2014

"The Ritz we ain't"
Uh, yeah. I think I got that one on my own, but thanks.
posted by xedrik at 8:08 PM on November 24, 2014

ricochet biscuit: "Which is perhaps a stranger place to find yourself.

Indeed. I would suppose you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?""

Totally off-topic, but I'm surprised the Once in a Lifetime video hasn't been turned into omnipresent animated GIFs. It's as if it were designed for it.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:30 AM on November 25, 2014

Sorry, I'm having trouble calibrating.

On it.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:47 AM on November 25, 2014