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It's still Brandt and me that own it, I'm giving it up and moving on. We can't really feasibly live together anymore. :(

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm going to a baseball game tonight

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

knoxshows.proboards20.com sometimes has value.

Caitlin: come see my band on Friday! Pilot Light, 10! We will rock you like 4 hurricanes.

Go to Harold's yet?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Go Smokies!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Go to the Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg. I went to TN over Memorial Day and the shark exhibit is so good!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

oops hi. i have 2 more weeks here. my roommates refuse, refuse, to go to the egyptian place so i think i'm going to go by myself. one of them (a girl from tennessee) pretty much only eats red meat, hates vegetables, and hates restaurants that aren't american. she never even tries things! once i had to go to applebee's restaurant of barf and eat chicken because of her. i haven't tried to suggest sunspot to them but if there's no meat she won't eat it, so i'm going there by myself too.

ok enough complaining. i went to mackay's a while ago, but what is a used bookstore that's more...used bookstore-ish?

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

My friend John has a nice place called the Book Eddy, next to Disc Exchange on Chapman Highway. (At least, I think it's still there. I didn't actually go check last time I was in town.) You could drop by on your way to King Tut's.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i'll go there right now!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

god, just MAKE her go to king tut's. the food isn't "weird" at all, the guy who runs it is very aware of knoxvillians' leeriness towards any food that is not red meat + salt.. if he, his wife, and his daughter can't charm the pants off your roommate then yr roommate is not suitable friend material in my opinion.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

ok i think she went home for the weekend so i'm going to try (again) to get the other ones to go. if not, i'll just go. i just went to book eddy, it was awesome! i was going to go to disc exchange afterward but on the walk there from book eddy i stubbed my toe really badly so i had to go home because i didn't want to get blood all over their floor. i'll go some other time.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

we went to king tut's! it was incredible, i'm going back before i leave.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 8 July 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Mo's a trip, isn't he? Yay for King Tut's and Book Eddy.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

you were five mins from mine and tracer's cribbers

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

it warms the cockles of my heart that i may have played some small part in getting caitlin to go to KING TUT's.

anyway --

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Vice President Dick Cheney was heckled by protesters Tuesday as he spoke at the groundbreaking for a public policy center honoring former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker.

During Cheney's brief remarks, about a half-dozen people protesting the war in Iraq yelled, "War, what is it good for?" and held up a large banner saying, "Peace Now."

Cheney continued speaking and didn't acknowledge the protesters, who were escorted from the ceremony inside the University of Tennessee's basketball arena.

About 50 protesters, most of them appearing to be college age, demonstrated outside the arena. Several carried signs, including one that read "Honor Baker, Impeach Cheney."

Cheney said that Baker, a Republican who was President Reagan's chief of staff and ambassador to Japan, has brought tremendous credit to the university, to Tennessee and to the nation.

"It's good to know that far into the future people will come to this place and learn of Howard's career and his deep belief in the nobility of public service," Cheney said.

About 400 people attended ceremony, which coincided with Baker's 80th birthday.

The $25 million privately financed Baker Center is being created to foster greater appreciation of public service and understanding of government.

Baker is still remembered for posing a key question during the 1973 Watergate hearings that rocked the Nixon White House: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

"applebee's restaurant of barf" is my nu-hell

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

God, Applebee's is poor.

Are you in town, Tracer?

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

This is a good place to mention my favorite Knoxville news story of the week.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

no, although i am reading "a death in the family" for the FIRST TIME!!! (????)

hahaha "John now admits he got the dates wrong but he holds fast to his belief God is going to punish people for their sins, and it is coming soon."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

haw!

Are you coming for Thanksgiving? Letta brotha know, and we can go out for drinx in your Dad's Prius.

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

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― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

by chris mcintosh
http://public.fotki.com/thatsall/

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I miss Tennessee in the summer.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

oh he's found his big sis
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― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha! Yes, he is but a wee lumpkin.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I like me Knoxville cause good people like Roxy and Tracer are from there. Simple!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

creep

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

gypsy mothra too, and tombot

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

creep

No, crepe.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Roxy are you in town? I have a hectic schedule but I really want to go to the Pilot Light and maybe some pizza or something. Me and the lovely Emma B are here until the 20th.

I still miss Lucille's.

Strange and sad that the diner on the corner of Summit Hill Drive is now a car rental place. And that Woodruff's is a pub.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Strange and sad that the diner on the corner of Summit Hill Drive is now a car rental place.

TELL ME ABOUT IT! That place had the best breakfast on earth, no more, no more. And they left it looking like a diner -- fucktards.

The pub in Woodruff's is actually ok, though!

And yes, I am in town, but I am leaving to go on tour tomorrow night, returning the 20th. My band is playing Sundown (omg) on the 22nd! Big exciting deal! You should stay.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been to the pilot light.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I know that, and Bill Ward3n chased us out onto the dancefloor while we watched Cordero to make us pay for the beers I accidentally stole.

In other news, I saw a white duck with its eye gouged out in Fountain City Park Saturday. It was gross.

gotta love a duck

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

bill ward3n has a good name for someone who enforces admission fees.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

true

the beers I accidentally stole

Please to explain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ken and I on the last stop of Old City pub crawl, ordered two Schlitzes and just took them to the dance floor without paying. Faced. In my defense, Tenderhooks had just played a string of shows at the Pilot Light and I was used to drinking free beer there. Oops.

and i thought USA people are supposed to really like folks with english accents and expected free drinks.

although the girl who works at tomato(head?) prolly didn't get freebies either.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Roxy, myspace is being a douche, so I'll tell you here - in Louisville, you should try Headliner's, it is an awesome place and you guys would totally fit on their calender nicely.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you Nicka!

although the girl who works at tomato(head?) prolly didn't get freebies either.

Oh right! I totally forgot her. She sadly does not work there anymore.

what about emily2?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

was she the one who was playing the guy with the pretzel?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

emily2 quit working at Urban Bar and started waiting tables at Patrick Sullivan's (across the street). A week later I saw her working at Manhattan's (opposite corner in Old City), and now she is back at Urban Bar. Strange, but awesome, girl.

Re: pretzel -- ??

Tracer, have you been to WORLD GROTTO in the square yet? I'm not sure what I think about it.

haha sorry i forgot to tell you about this blog entry! haha it's totally you in a parallel universe (the bar is called urban!)
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8666352&blogID=105471967&Mytoken=7F46CA1B-CF12-4E96-BAFBF37E2C4931E6294435937

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

oh wait it's not it's union.. haha what the hell

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

you are calling me fat?!

erm no! i was throwing pretzels at you

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I no longer understand this thread.

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