CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

Drinking:
Springwater = great dive bar, with a certain danger element thrown in.
Red Door West = pretty good. It's the kind of bar where someone will correct you if you don't use both their first names (i.e. "It's not just Billy. It's Billy WAYNE.")
Yazoo Brewery Pub = great! but open at odd times.
The Villager = right in Hillsboro village. Fun and dive-y, but full of Vanderbilt students (yuck).

Coffee:
Fido -- Hillsboro Village -- used to be an old pet shop (still has the sign)
Bongo Java on Belmont -- It's got a nice porch and the coffee is pretty great. Try a Paleta as well (mexican popsicles -- delicious)

East Nashville is a whole 'nother can of worms, but equally as fun.

The Country Music Hall of fame is GREAT and totally worth the $18. They have Gram Parson's suit with the poppy flowers and pills. It's great. The Ryman gives hourly tours, and that's just down on Lower Broadway heading downtown (Flying Saucer is just off of Broadway, but closer to Vanderbilt).

so i guess i *could* fall asleep...

i'm fucking starving over here too.

The Great Escape is on 21st Avenue (sort of parallel to Upper Broadway). TONS of used records/cds of all types. One of my now-coworkers took me there on my interview lunch and I decided then that I could happily live in Nashville.

Grimey's is on 8th Avenue. It's got vinyl and cds, but beware of the instore, that might block the funk/reggae/new releases record section.

Phonoluxe is over on Nolensville Road (next to an awesome Mexican restaurant -- La Hacienda), and it's all used stuff, and a bit pricey. But, if you're looking for Dolly Parton's entire oeuvre on vinyl, that is the place to find it.

after my trip to nyc this month i had to check my carry on because i suddenly had a messenger bag filled with a couple hundred dollars worth of records.

This is going to be fun, I've never been to a "real" bachelor party before. Supposedly it's going to start with 40s and Wii games (4 player style, we're big nerds) and end with shooting shit with a 20 gauge. We're not really strip club types, but we want to find the most comically bad stripper possible just for lolz somewhere in there too. From the bride-to-be's assesment, that shouldn't be tough.

It's not a real bachelor party until somebody's hanging naked out the window on a sheet.

Oh yeah, if it happens it'll definitely be the latter.

And I'm staying AWAY from the firearms as much as possible. That was the best man's idea. I actually hope people get drunk enough that someone comes to their senses about that shit -- but that ain't likely.

Hey, no problem! Enjoy Nashville. It's a fun town and full of strip clubs. You won't have a hard time finding some awful ones, I'm sure.

I like Newspeak and the how the methods of deception by the Party are at once really over the top and plausible. Also I like that Orwell can write about feelings as well as ideas in a way that so so so many sci-fi writers can't.

I think here is as good a place as any to say that BSG lost me for good when the characters said "Frack." That was too egregious to ever forgive.

and oh, yes, there was always plenty of alcohol at least at all times.

So, my opinion on MW suits: Great for people on a budget or people like Jeff or John who just need a damn suit without a lot of flufferall or mess, or discerning people like Jesse looking for a suit to have on hand but who one day want a nicer, suit-for-life suit.

Also John re: suits upthread: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It didn't lose me, but that annoys the shit out of me.

Now why didn't I think to try that?

Man, that takes me back to 10th grade.

Just like violent TV >>>>>>>>>>>>>> actual violence

frack vs. frell (from Farscape)

I use FRACK all the FRACKIN time.

Boy oh boy am I ever bored this afternoon. *sigh*

2. This technique will become much less effective if everyone starts using it! Also, it's the bizarre/surprise element that makes it work. And the fact that I'm not involved in the argument at all. If the two of us were arguing, and I started to just go "AAAAAAA," it would not end the argument.