SP3

Watching the sun set on another press night, most of it spent installing service packs. What fun.

Radio From Space

We canceled XM radio for a while, but ended going back with a combo of them tossing some really good deals at us to return, as well as generally missing the service. Once you've had it, going back to regular radio is hard. I mean where else can you have Grant Random call you a bastard moments before playing the seldom heard Chi track from Korn, with the even more rare Twist intro? Not many places my friends.

The Classics

Morning, coffee, and a paper.

Lots Of Yellow Post-Its

Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays all died. Rube must have been pulling his hair out on this one.

So Let It Be Written

Courtesy of Stevan Steinhart, who has worked here for 25 years, the very first Nashville Sc3ne ever published. The 20th Anniversary celebrates its years as an alternative weekly. For several years before that it was a "shopper" as pictured here. Read about the transition from one to the other here.

The Party Sc3ne, 4

The cakes. The one on the right says "Free. Thinking..."

The Party Sc3ne, 3

The opposite vantage was a perfect shot up Broadway.

The Party Sc3ne, 2

The views from the outside balcony were great: From this vantage you could see the river and the Titan's stadium, as well as the Hard Rock across the street.

The Party Sc3ne, 1

The Nashville Sc3ne's 20th Anniversary party was tonight, held at One-Eleven. As per usual Mari and I arrived unfashionably early. Here's the interior space.

The Scene

The big 2 - 0.

Angel Food

Ellen would be so proud.

It's Been Ages

Amazing how hard a three day weekend makes going back to work on Monday.

Chugging Home

Back to the homestead.

Cool World

Met up with the Ireland clan and spent several hours at the incredible Aquarium here.

Hot Art

Slept in, ate, then wandered around the artsy village across the bridge. Mostly by car since it was approximately 8 trillion degrees out.

Chattanooga Choo Choo

This is the "Victorian Lounge". The bar at the hotel, where we enjoyed 6 Patron margaritas between us and got pretty happy to end the day.

The

Here is room 2007, this is our new room. The air conditioning in this room is so frosty we eventually had to turn it down because we were freezing. Freezing so good.

That

Here is our room, which was cool. Only it wasn't. You see the uninsulated, metal train cars don't do well in the sun when it's 100 degrees outside. It was about 90 in the room. We were both sweating. We called the front desk, the maintenance guy came out and basically told us when it gets this hot, there isn't much they can do about it. Later one of the workers admitted he'd never stay in one, "they're sweat lodges in the summer and ice boxes in the winter." So here's a Chattanooga top tip, if you want to stay in the train cars go when it's mild.

Is

Here we are outside our room. One of the actual train cars from the Chattanooga Choo Choo they have converted into a hotel room. You pay extra for this unique experience.

Boy

The lobby of the Choo Choo Hotel.

Me

We decided to do it up right, as knowing how often we travel we probably won't be back. That meant staying at the train itself.

Pardon

After a leisurely morning getting ready and dropping the dogs off at the kennel, we're on our way to Chattanooga.

Get Lost

Delayed post, a new game was started today. Odyssey is right, I've never seen a console game that spans 4 disks.

The Scene

The reverend at a church I drive by almost every day nearby killed a little old lady for spilling paint on his boots. (Editor's note - It wasn't the church I was initially thinking of, it was one in Madison.)

Here We Go

Started Yevgeny Zamyatin's distopian novel "We". To finally finish the distopian trio.

Streetscapes VII

The Sommet Center (pronounced So-May). Where the Predators play.

Couch Potatoes

Life's hard when you're a dog.

Planning Begins

Starting to plan our first trip to the Big Apple, though it won't actually be happening until December.

Not The Sharks

But still better than the Red Wings. For those you of you uninterested in hockey, the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup tonight.

Fan Fair In Disguise

The CMA Music Festival, formerly known as Fan Fair, descends on downtown Nashville. (Blurry photo 647.)

The Scene

Alan Jackson on the cover, no doubt so visiting Country Music Festival goers will gobble them up, with a Bonnaroo section as well. When hicks and hippies collide.

Howl Late

It only took me nine days to remember to change my calendar. That's got to be a record.

Layers

 Mari makes a mean Mexican salad.

De Tails

Because dog posts are awesome too.

Details

Both of the cars are shiny and clean. It must have been car washing day.

Mas Transit

The Mas Tacos truck, only it's less blurry in real life. I'd never eaten from them before, and it turned out to be very tasty. An informal vote thought they should start coming every week.

Twenty-Year-Old Tacos

For the Sc3ne's 20th anniversary the mobile Mexican food vendor Mas Tacos was invited to set up in our parking lot, and we were all given a coupon for three tacos and a drink.

You Shouldn't Have, Really

When you need that little something special, give Cornhole.

The Scene

Tales of music deal woe.

Night Mode

Another press night down.

Just Another

Cat blog.