Hump Day in Nashville
Including A New Stadium, Tourist’s Corner, Denizen’s Corner, & Hump Day Weather
This camel plays defense for our Titans indoor football team.
Originally published in ILLUMINATION, Oct 19, 2022
Tourist’s Corner
Everyone is at Tootsies Orchid Lounge today celebrating the old Nashville as it waves goodbye in the rearview mirror.
You remember, when the greenways weren’t concealed with yellow crime scene tape. When the hotel tax was affordable. When a person could buy a hotdog from a street vendor and then jump on a pedal tavern to wash the whole music city experience down with some suds.
When Fair Park was Fair Park and not a soccer stadium. When auditoriums were for the Rolling Stones and Garth Brooks, not some roller-derby played on ice. Back when our football stadium was open to the sunshine.
Opryland was, well, Opryland.
Well, kiss it all goodbye. Go on down to Tootsie’s and commiserate.
The new Nashville is here!
Denizen’s Corner
I think it’s pretty much a done deal.
Our mayor was on a local television station this week with a quick explanation of how building a new, domed stadium would not cost taxpayers a dime, but would instead be financed by an increase in the hotel tax, the team itself, a projected super-bowl, Rolling Stones and Garth Brooks concerts and a secret stash he keeps on his unicorn ranch north of town in Joelton.
That, of course, is exactly how he informed us of how we, as a town, had always loved hockey, and how we always loved soccer, even though in reality, they were both brand new to us.
The more we spend on a place to play, the quicker we’ll like it, is the theory.
“The hotel tax will give us a new domed stadium and get the ya**ees to pay for it,” he exclaimed gleefully to a reporter who was inadvertently recording the conversation.
He will be tied up for the next three weeks trying to walk that one back.
Hump-day Weather
Today’s Power word is FROZEN.
Not the “Disney kind of FROZEN,” but the “Oh Lord, I guess that’s the end of the fresh tomato pie for this year FROZEN.”
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