tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3294539641455930658..comments2024-03-29T08:14:50.315-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Flashback 2007: Delightful and unexpected; Family vacation to Tennessee -- yes, TennesseeNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-61390977859861294462018-05-08T17:46:36.701-05:002018-05-08T17:46:36.701-05:00"I'd rather be me than Elvis." Now t..."I'd rather be me than Elvis." Now that's something we all need to learn - all things being equal......Paul Fedrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04384556977324071639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71044061073954468032018-05-08T10:46:58.151-05:002018-05-08T10:46:58.151-05:00Memphis! Wonderful town. Beale Street. Streetcars....Memphis! Wonderful town. Beale Street. Streetcars. A minor-league ballpark that's a gem. A riverfront complex called Mud Island, with a working model of the entire Mississippi River that you can cool your tired feet in. A rock-and-roll museum as interesting as the one in Cleveland, but much smaller. They even used to have the original Memphis Belle (the famous WWII B-17) on display, but the weather was eating it up, so it's now at the USAF Museum in Dayton, OH...another great place to visit.<br /><br />Of course, I saved the best for last...Graceland. Especially during Elvis Week in August. Busload after busload of goggle-eyed visitors from the UK and Japan. The candlelight vigil that began the whole phenomenon of candlelight vigils. And the grave itself, with flowers piled six feet high...the Full Diana. Walking past The King's final resting place was still free in the Oughts. Now it costs you thirty-five bucks. Elvis is still raking in the moolah, forty-plus years after he passed on. Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5472295784381451312018-05-08T09:40:29.313-05:002018-05-08T09:40:29.313-05:00Sadly, there's no more Gentry in Montgomery Ge...Sadly, there's no more Gentry in Montgomery Gentry, with Troy Gentry having died in a helicopter crash last September...Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08759160849219348375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-3020919271168135442018-05-08T08:57:29.184-05:002018-05-08T08:57:29.184-05:00Seems like Montgomery Gentry would be worth a list...Seems like Montgomery Gentry would be worth a listen. Apparently, the lyrics can be understood at least. A couple days ago, I listened to as much as I could stand of the Rolling Stones on an Indiana PBS station. Maybe they were singing important stuff, but I couldn't even understand the refrain, which was repeated at least a dozen times, and the sight of undead Mick Jagger hopping around the stage was off putting enough to cancel anything I might have gleaned from the song itself.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-13515328734877718652018-05-08T07:32:41.873-05:002018-05-08T07:32:41.873-05:00I visited Nashville for the first time this past y...I visited Nashville for the first time this past year. My most vivid memory is walking down the main music strip (Broadway?) on an early Saturday afternoon and struggling through countless drunken revelers checking out the bands in the bars. Seemed a little early to be lit up to me. The George Jones museum was sublime.<br /><br />A prosperous friend who has convinced himself Illinois is a cesspool was scouting property in the hills of rural eastern Tennessee. The realtor took him and his wife into a roadside general store and introduced them as visitors from Chicago. Consider the countless possibilities the clerk could respond with. She chose this: "You aren't gonna make fun of Jesus are ya?"Dennis Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03936110563379328219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-47533196859612273962018-05-08T07:16:35.300-05:002018-05-08T07:16:35.300-05:00excellent parenting taking your boys on such a tri...excellent parenting taking your boys on such a trip.i wasn't so lucky , I was raised by wolves. hitch hiked to the the smokeys with my girlfriend when I was 16. stopped at mammoth cave. <br /><br />took my 3 sons on the same trip a few years ago. have been there abouts many times in between. climbed mount le conte in the winter once<br /><br />love that area. so long as you bypass pigeon forge and gatlinburgFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.com