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Godrays

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

Godrays over the I-40.

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Fowl

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

Okay, look, I get the whole Memphis/Egypt connection, but the monstrous Bass Pro Shop Pyramid stands out as painfully garish in a town which already celebrates the garish.  I fled west across the Mississippi River to get away from it.

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Sun

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

Made a quick pilgrimage to Sun Studio before leaving town.

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Taste

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

Considering the size of the Graceland museum complex across the street, I was struck by the modest size of the mansion itself. Per usual, America has it’s priorities straight.Each visitor is loaned a heavily-rubberized iPad with a neck strap which … Continue reading →

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Liminal

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

In a sleepy corner of the Graceland museum complex, I found myself in a convention hall-sized room with an audience-worth of chairs set up facing a screen at one end.  There wasn’t a single person there.  The movie played to … Continue reading →

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Filmography

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

I guess I never grokked how many films Elvis starred in.  They range from the famous……to the plausible-but-silly-sounding……to the are-you-fucking-kidding-me-that-has-got-to-be-a-joke-right?

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King

Posted on March 31, 2018 by d4vid

Visited Graceland.  Across the street from the mansion itself is a museum complex celebrating Elvis’s music career, film career, car collection, and plane collection.  And, no, despite the bombardment of Elvis songs from every direction, I couldn’t get Paul Simon … Continue reading →

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Studio

Posted on March 29, 2018 by d4vid

My cousin Sean just moved to Nashville a couple months ago.  He’s created a fantastic studio space in the attic of the place he and his friend are renting.  Listened to some of his stuff and he’s doing great engineering … Continue reading →

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Clouds

Posted on March 28, 2018 by d4vid

Like Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain is now also a tony residential neighborhood.  Over the years, important battles were fought here against the Indians and during the Revolutionary War.  But during the Chattanooga Campaign it was firmly in the hands of … Continue reading →

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Knob

Posted on March 28, 2018 by d4vid

Commanding from Orchard Knob in the middle of Chattanooga, Ulysses S. Grant could see both Missionary Ridge to the east and Lookout Mountain to the southwest.

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Knell

Posted on March 28, 2018 by d4vid

Missionary Ridge (not to be confused with Seminary Ridge in Gettysburg) is now a tony residential neighborhood looking down on Chattanooga from the east.  The Confederacy held the high ground.My man George Henry Thomas’s men were ordered by Grant to … Continue reading →

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Rock

Posted on March 28, 2018 by d4vid

Visited the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park which straddles the Tennessee/Georgia border. As a railroad hub, Chattanooga was critical for the Union to take before it could invade the Deep South and, they hoped, end the war.Named after the … Continue reading →

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Pickle

Posted on March 28, 2018 by d4vid

As I had expected, the Shoney’s staff was unamused by my repeated Rick & Morty references.  But, hey, this trip hasn’t been an entire waste of time.  Job opportunity!

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Sampler

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

Ate dinner at a place called Sticky Fingers that claimed to be the best BBQ ribs in Chattanooga.  I ordered the sampler so I could try the dry rub, spicy, sweet, and regular.  Couldn’t finish them all in one sitting.  … Continue reading →

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Hello

Posted on March 27, 2018 by d4vid

After leaving the Great Smokey Mountains and then inching my way through the the horrible Souther fried tourist trap of Gatlinburg, I rounded a corner in Pigeon Forge and stumbled on Dollywood!  Seems like it’s the kind of place people … Continue reading →

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