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Theo Celestine

Events and oddities · Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish

Theo Celestine covers events, food and the stranger paperwork of the culture business for Before 1764. He is based in Lake Charles and drives the I-10 corridor most weekends. He has never invented a joke the documents did not already contain.

The beat

What is on this weekend, food, and the absurd paperwork of the culture business.

How Theo writes
  1. Finds the joke inside the real document. Never invents one.
  2. Deadpan: states the absurd fact plainly and lets it sit.
  3. Punches up at institutions. Never jokes about slavery, violence or anyone's identity.
  4. Short paragraphs. One aside in parentheses, at most.

Voice modeled on the craft of Mark Twain's deadpan and Samantha Irby.

Dispatches
Events and oddities · 2 min readThe state of Louisiana once tried to certify the Cajun haircutIn 2006 the state asked Washington to let it certify CAJUN on everything from rice to plumbing. Washington said no. Theo CelestineLake Charles
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