Carly goes it alone
Rich is off in Tennessee. Actually, I think he's probably sitting in the Detroit airport at this moment, on his way to Nashville. He'll be there for the week, at which point he'll come back to Madison and then the two of us are roadtripping it to Pittsburgh-via-Ann Arbor, returning via Indianapolis. When we get home from that trip, Rich is off to Nashville pretty much immediately. So he'll be pretty much out of Madison for the rest of the month.
This all means I've got to carry this blog all on my on for a while. As astute readers may have noticed, we've been kind of short on entries lately. This can be explained partially by my having my own blog to express myself on, and partially on the fact that we're very busy people who never actually do or think anything interesting.
OK, occasionally we do interesting things, I suppose. But I'd say a scarily high percentage of our waking hours are spent working in coffeeshops. So much so that I'm guessing our new housemate probably thinks we're freaks, as we're almost never home.
In fact, I'm in a coffeeshop right this very second. Ostensibly reading How Policies Make Citizens but mostly I've been fooling around. I need to stop taking my computer with me when I go to read because it's such a distraction.
In any case, hopefully I'll manage to bear the weight of two blogs at once without boring the heck out of y'all.
posted by carly @ 7:46 PM
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4 Comments:
shouldn't you be working, sweetheart?
Rich - stop and Uncle Bud's and get me some catfish and hush puppies.
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Oooh, advice... lemme think...
Food
Elliston Place Soda Shop, on Elliston Place, just behind the Eckerds on West End at Elliston. Typical greasy spoon diner with AMAZING milkshakes.
Amerigo on West End at 19th Ave. My favorite was always the Duck and Sausage Pasta.
That microbrewery that's a block up West End from Amerigo.
San Antonio Taco Company (SATCO), 21st Ave across from the library. The worst tacos you'll ever have and cheap buckets of beer, domestic and imported.
The aforementioned Uncle Buds - somewhere north of the city - look them up in the phone book. Great catfish and other fried Southern delicacies.
That pancake place on 21st whose name I could never remember. Go early, there's always a line.
Music
You have to visit the Bluebird. It's where everyone who is anyone goes to try out new material. I can't remember where it's at now (somewhere off Music Square IIRC), but they'll have heard of it at the hotel desk. Ask them.
Go out to Opryland on Saturday night and catch a performance of the Grand Ol Opry. Even if you don't like country music you'll enjoy the Opry.
Ryman Auditorium - Broadway and 6th (approx. just head down Broadway, you won't miss it). Long-time home of the Grand Ol Opry.
Ernest Tubb's Shop on Broadway at about 5th Ave. Country music nostalgia.
Other than that, just head for the touristy areas along Broadway from 7th down by the river. It's one of those deals where it's tacky and tourist ridden, but that's where all the musicians go because that's where all the people are and that's where all the people go because that's where all the music is, etc.
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