what do you know about KNOXVILLE?

will be in town from the 21st thru the 28th of december, marooned at parents house in tellico village, someone will need to rescue me

prettiest city in the world around xmas imo

the old krutch park at christmastime was a great little wonderland, with all the lights on trees. i haven't seen the new krutch at christmas, but i imagine it doesn't measure up.

yeah, you clearly haven't seen it!

they've basically extended the krutch decorations throughout downtown, surrounding a giant blur xmas tree on gay st

it looks amazing

the blue lights on market square are so pretty right now. i may go walk up there tonight. want to go with, rox?

perchance!

they've basically extended the krutch decorations throughout downtown, surrounding a giant blur xmas tree on gay st

sounds cool. i just really liked krutch in its fenced-in hidden-garden incarnation.

(a move back to knoxville is looming ever more likely, btw. still a lot of details to work out, but the idea is pretty attractive in lots of ways.)

out here in Tellico Village until Monday afternoon. Wheeee.

Who wants to go see Fantastic Mr Fox sometime in the next coupla days?

blur = blue btw

hmmm. maybe monday. i work a lot this weekend though

I'm here again! Mostly holed up with family though as usual. Anything crucial changed in town that I should know about?

since when?!

uhm...was last here briefly in June, before that last Christmas. I'm not really plugged into things anyway, just saw the thread and thought it would be wrong somehow to not pop up and say "I'm here!"

well welcome back!

haha thanks, sorry if the above seems sort of persnickety! family life, what can i say.

not persnickety at all, imo

yay! I have been out of the country for six months and plunging back in by way of my family life has sort of broken all my social instincts. So far the main changes I've observed in the States are my family's acquisition of like three hundred remote controls, several of which don't control anything and one of which has to be constantly switched between different modes (ie, "TV" to change channels, "AUD" to turn the volume up).

Also my dad got married and they're swapping some furniture around. But everybody's still on the Atkins diet so there is some comforting familiarity around here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNvaRunyuc

Y'allllllllllllll! I may have figured a way to swing big ears but it's a little fiscally irresponsible...

fiscal irresponsibility is ilx's middle name

fiscal irresponsibility is my entire way of life

fiscal irresponsibility is very knoxville

i might be swinging by sometime around march/april during a fiscally very irresponsible trip around the world..

also lol @ blur tree

yeah so i'll be in knoxville for a few days. flying in a few hours. anything exciting happening? what's this park i should visit?

pls keep encouraging ;)
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krutch park while the xmas lights are up, but i think they take them down this week :(

any music happening in the next week? seems like there is nothing happening at the pilot light.

It is snowing in Knoxville and they closed the Gay Street bridge. I live in the Old City so I walked up and took some pictures. Our city looks so pretty when it is a marshmallow world.

near Krutch Park:
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs122.snc3/16956_392638520075_846520075_10552395_402393_n.jpg

Gay Street bridge and JFG sign:
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs142.snc3/16956_392652700075_846520075_10552457_5090943_n.jpg

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs212.snc3/21973_240897172092_500947092_3699461_7298202_n.jpg

Krutch Park

oooh

Those are gorgeous photos Nijoli! So jealous you guys get all that pretty snow - it never snows here :(

Thanks, Trayce! We never get snow, either, which is why I got so giddy and excited over our two inches.

went up in the sunsphere the other day. surprisingly, it didn't smell like piss. was a neat view. downtown knoxville is kind of ugly, though.

parts of downtown are ugly, and it definitely doesn't look like much from above. but at street level i think gay street and some of the little streets south of market square are nice, and market square itself too. plus i always like the sort of rough/ragged edges of everything. part of its personality.

and i love that photo of krutch park.

Neighbors Oppose Man's Plan for Music Studio, Sperm Bank

http://media.knoxnews.com/media/img/photos/2010/01/11/011210mpc1e_t607.jpg

Sequoyah Hills homeowners will be appearing before the Metropolitan Planning Commission Thursday to oppose a neighbor asking to turn his house into a duplex plus operate home occupations that would involve music lessons, scheduling musical performances and a Jewish sperm bank.

hes awesome

music lessons, scheduling musical performances and a Jewish sperm bank.

"Well, it wouldn't be AT THE SAME TIME, ya know"

Also, what's all this about football riots?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAsxnRaTAg

this thread always delivers

thompson bros. photography (i.e. of "thompson photo" fame)

http://dlxs.lib.utk.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?sort=thmpsn_se;q1=thmpsn;type=boolean;rgn1=ic_all;med=1;view=thumbnail;c=thmpsn

hello

does this PWN SHOP still exist?? and also the record shop next to it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/kenhere/PWN.jpg

crossposted from the cocaine thread: the inevitable knoxville connection.

Published in 1985!

the city is rich in lore.

ken c: lookee here - http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2615+Chapman+Highway,+knoxville,+tn&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.443116,79.013672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=2615+Chapman+Hwy,+Knoxville,+Knox,+Tennessee+37920&ll=35.949193,-83.913617&spn=0.006479,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=35.949328,-83.913677&panoid=uqB-jFHxqV3WKq2IRiLnnA&cbp=12,243.37,,0,1.5

The record store is the Disc Exchange.

Just got back from Knoxville an hour ago, actually...saw the Necks at the Bijou Theater...absolutely stunning!!

Pawn shop still exists, Ken!