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mattbellIt's a little-known fact that Sevierville TN (pronounced severe-vull by the locals) is home to the world's largest As-Seen-On-TV store. I didn't even know such stores existed. Of course we had to peek inside:
Yes, dearie, you can microwave bacon, now in this convenient new appliance. What a convenience! And it still tastes great!
Don't live in Tennessee? Don't worry, they have a website!
Yes, they advertised products one at a time over the broadcast medium of television, aggregated all these products for parallel browsing in bricks-and-mortar retailers, and then ensured that you neither need experience the harsh linearity of televised communication nor the logistical hassle of leaving your house by creating an online retailer. Woohoo!
We went to an annual Barbecue & Bluegrass festival in Sevierville. The barbecue and the music were amazing.
The barbecue stand on the right had the classiest setup, and their logo gave me fond memories of my 2006 Burningman camp.
Note the irony of the happy dancing pig at a barbecue & bluegrass festival. Here's a closeup:
I mulled on the nature of how humans sanitize and package their world so as not to offend our own sensibilities while eating some very tasty pulled pork.
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Religion and conservative politics go hand-in-hand here. Note how the hotel allocated its four lines on the marquee.
Yeah, that just about covers it.
Religion was also turning up in some unexpected places:
The latter pic was taken in a Walgreens! Gatlinburg also had the conservative/religious equivalent of the kitschy hippie T-shirt places on Haight-Ashbury (you know, the ones that sell shirts no real hippie would ever wear). These places sold the full complement of these mess-with-your-head secret God message T shirts as well as some very moronic hunting T shirts with slogans like "Deer & Beer... what more does a man need?". I assume most real hunters don't wear those either.
(More religious shirts here)
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While browsing Google Maps to see the area where our lovely cabin in the woods was situated, I noticed this:
Boogertown Rd
The 12-year-old in me had to check it out. Thus I present the following very blackmailable photo:
According to the infallible internet, the word booger has a second meaning similar to "bogeyman". One of the numerous legends about how the town got its name involves just such a bogeyman.
Yes, dearie, you can microwave bacon, now in this convenient new appliance. What a convenience! And it still tastes great!
Don't live in Tennessee? Don't worry, they have a website!
Yes, they advertised products one at a time over the broadcast medium of television, aggregated all these products for parallel browsing in bricks-and-mortar retailers, and then ensured that you neither need experience the harsh linearity of televised communication nor the logistical hassle of leaving your house by creating an online retailer. Woohoo!
We went to an annual Barbecue & Bluegrass festival in Sevierville. The barbecue and the music were amazing.
The barbecue stand on the right had the classiest setup, and their logo gave me fond memories of my 2006 Burningman camp.
Note the irony of the happy dancing pig at a barbecue & bluegrass festival. Here's a closeup:
I mulled on the nature of how humans sanitize and package their world so as not to offend our own sensibilities while eating some very tasty pulled pork.
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Religion and conservative politics go hand-in-hand here. Note how the hotel allocated its four lines on the marquee.
Yeah, that just about covers it.
Religion was also turning up in some unexpected places:
The latter pic was taken in a Walgreens! Gatlinburg also had the conservative/religious equivalent of the kitschy hippie T-shirt places on Haight-Ashbury (you know, the ones that sell shirts no real hippie would ever wear). These places sold the full complement of these mess-with-your-head secret God message T shirts as well as some very moronic hunting T shirts with slogans like "Deer & Beer... what more does a man need?". I assume most real hunters don't wear those either.
(More religious shirts here)
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While browsing Google Maps to see the area where our lovely cabin in the woods was situated, I noticed this:
Boogertown Rd
The 12-year-old in me had to check it out. Thus I present the following very blackmailable photo:
According to the infallible internet, the word booger has a second meaning similar to "bogeyman". One of the numerous legends about how the town got its name involves just such a bogeyman.
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Date: 2008-08-03 07:16 am (UTC)It looks like iseenontv.com is real. I never checked until now.
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Date: 2008-08-04 10:41 pm (UTC)