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The ride to Knoxville was long and sleepy. It was almost 500 miles along only two roads, from I 10 to I 75. We are staying in a lovely parking lot outside of Knoxville where there is a Christian store adjacent and several GM dealerships down the way. I hurt my shoulder lifting one of my bags in the lobby, and am not doing any pushups as a result of this.
As one would expect great things to happen in Knoxville, they had an outdoor concert last night featuring Edwin McCain, of I’ll Be fame. There were loads of other jam bands and whatnot on the mainstage in the town’s market square, and music in the handful of bars lining the strip of concrete that is transformed into a pop music playground for 12 consecutive Thursdays each year. I had forgotten that Edwin’s music feature tenor sax as much as is does, his biggest hit concluding with a sax solo. Good for all of us, but especially good for the tweens singing along while holding their cellphones above their heads.
The late night band in the adjacent bar featured the following instrumentation: drums, organ, bearded singing, vibraphone, electric guitar, mandolin, baritone bugle, timpani, electric bass. They may travel in a VW bus and definitely like to get high. I accidentally locked them out of the bar when I closed the door to the alleyway as I left the establishment the back way.
There was a hanger on named Charlie Brown at our table for a bit of the night, who showed his Medicare card as provenance regarding that desirable situation. He was wearing millions of dollars of rings that he only takes out of the safe for special occasions, and could use them to fight the guy selling roses out of a garbage can, with whom he has a long standing dispute. This is the Knoxville they don’t tell you about.
Gordon Edes of boston.com uses the phrase “in the offing” many times in each article about the red sox. He also failed to mention in either of 2 articles the other day what position Ichiro Suzuki plays for the Mariners. This slippery phraseology is unacceptable.
As one would expect great things to happen in Knoxville, they had an outdoor concert last night featuring Edwin McCain, of I’ll Be fame. There were loads of other jam bands and whatnot on the mainstage in the town’s market square, and music in the handful of bars lining the strip of concrete that is transformed into a pop music playground for 12 consecutive Thursdays each year. I had forgotten that Edwin’s music feature tenor sax as much as is does, his biggest hit concluding with a sax solo. Good for all of us, but especially good for the tweens singing along while holding their cellphones above their heads.
The late night band in the adjacent bar featured the following instrumentation: drums, organ, bearded singing, vibraphone, electric guitar, mandolin, baritone bugle, timpani, electric bass. They may travel in a VW bus and definitely like to get high. I accidentally locked them out of the bar when I closed the door to the alleyway as I left the establishment the back way.
There was a hanger on named Charlie Brown at our table for a bit of the night, who showed his Medicare card as provenance regarding that desirable situation. He was wearing millions of dollars of rings that he only takes out of the safe for special occasions, and could use them to fight the guy selling roses out of a garbage can, with whom he has a long standing dispute. This is the Knoxville they don’t tell you about.
Gordon Edes of boston.com uses the phrase “in the offing” many times in each article about the red sox. He also failed to mention in either of 2 articles the other day what position Ichiro Suzuki plays for the Mariners. This slippery phraseology is unacceptable.
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