Dear South Knoxville,
I just want to say goodbye – parting is such sweet sorrow. I’ll miss you and your quirky, hit-or-miss neighborhoods. I’ll miss your new southward development sprinkled in with the early 1900’s blue collar houses. I’ll miss your cheap gas at the Pilot and Kroger. I’ll miss your awesome farmer’s market on Chapman in Colonial Village. I’ll miss being equidistant between the Kroger and the Walmart/Home Depot. Goodbye Smoky Mountain Wine & Spirits, I’ll miss you and your 10% off Wednesdays most of all – leaving you is probably why I quit drinking.
You served me well South Knox, you and that teeny tiny Lakeview house. You were perfect for me when I moved to Knoxville to get my MBA. You were quiet and pleasant, full of older homes with lots of character, even if your crazy drivers kept me from biking to school. And I won’t even hold against you the frequent power outages that first summer, especially the day you left me without power for 12 hours when I needed to be online practicing for the GMAT, which I was taking the next morning!
Goodbye, redneck-dog-abusing-neighbor – I won’t miss you at all, but am glad I got to tell you like it is before I left. Goodbye, awesome-vet-student-neighbor who took care of my dog when I traveled – Hayley and I will both miss you! Goodbye, all you crazy lake-dwelling ducks who stand stupidly in the road, because the thoughtless neighbors entice you to cross the street by feeding you from their porch.
I must leave you because MBA school isn’t the only thing from which I’ve graduated in the last couple years. My life continues to evolve on many levels, one of which is my romantic relationship. I have to leave you because I decided to move in with my guy, the first guy I’ve lived with, besides my brothers/dad, in all my 35 years. That’s a pretty big deal so I hope you won’t take it personally, SoKnox.
We had a good run and I think we both got a little from each other. I’m sure I’ll still come visit from time to time, although now being in between Turkey Creek and West Town Mall I can’t think of why. Oh I know, because you still have my teeny tiny house, and I hope you’ll treat my new tenants well (as soon as I find some, that is). So I won’t say goodbye, but rather, I’ll see ya soon!
And with that I say – hello West Knoxville! I hope you can change my preconceived notions about your newly constructed cookie cutter houses, lacking any real character; and your noisy, heavy traffic, and poorly timed red lights. Sure, the amenities are nice to have nearby, as is the greenway, but I hope you will reveal to me some heart, some soul, something that makes me feel like you care whether I’m here or not. I don’t just want a place to live – I want a community and I’m hopeful you can provide one for me!
Goodbye… hello!
Knoxville had highest gas price in USA at $5.87/gal, led by Mayor Pilot.
Today, Knoxville News "Sentinel" newspaper censored and banned Pirate News TV blog from its RSS listing of Knoxville blogs. The URL link to Pirate News TV was deleted from the html code on the left-hand sidebar, and the RSS agregator blocked syndication of all Pirate News TV articles.
If you want Free Speech in USA, then complain to KNS dictators about the censorship of the news reported by Pirate News TV, and demand reinstatement of blogging rights.
KNS previously censored and banned PirateNewsDotOrg from posting Comments to daily news articles. This is a Super Secret Censorship that actually cesnors the censorship from the person being censored. The Comments are still visible to the poster, but not to anyone else. The banned person is never notified they are banned, so they keep posting month after month, year after year. This waste of time appears to be one of the major military tactics of DARPA.mil, inventor of the internet. Free Speech don't matter when nobody's can hear it.
Bankrupt KNS was paid a $20-million bribe, er, "Taxslave Investment Funds", by City of Knoxville Municipal Corporation, for propaganda services. How many other Knox buisnesses would like corporate welfare, especially during a Depression? This government paycheck makes KNS a government contractor, which must abide by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, as proven by every supreme court and US Congress. It's THE LAW!
Here's the Pirate News that KNS does NOT want YOU to THINK:
2,000 jobs axed today in East TN, with 600 lost at SeaRay, not counting 2,000 new illegal aliens to steal more jobs and drive down wages.
"You WILL pay any tax increase I tell you to pay! You CAN afford it!" screamed Skull & Bones mayor/ambassador Victor "Victoria" Ashe, to the lawyer for SeaRay, at Knoxville city council in October 2000. SeaRay said they'd rather close their factory and leave Knoxville, leave TN and leave USA, than pay a $500,000 tax increase by predatory annexation without representation, and without any improvement in services. Today SeaRay finally closed their doors in Knoxville.
"Sitting on Council, I was in the presence of evil. There was just darkness. Hopelessness."
-Knoxville councilmember Carlene Malone, Metro Pulse, "Malone Alone", December 13, 2001 (now owned by KNS)
"Knoxville must be the most corrupt city on earth. People worry about the
national government but it's the local government people need to fear."
-City Councilmember Carlene Malone to Pirate News TV, regarding arson of her 2 cars by city towing contractors running cartheft rackets, before she sued Ashe and city council for holding illegal secret meetings
Pirate News TV video: Barack the Magic Negro
Pirate News TV video: Bush Eats Shoes
It's a Depression, Stupid!
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/01/its-depression-stupid.html
Jew Kissinger wants New World Odor in Gaza Massacre
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/01/jew-kissinger-wants-new-world-odor-in.html
Israeli Mossad run all wiretaps for NSA in USA
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/01/israeli-mossad-run-all-wiretaps-for-nsa.html
Israeli Jews bomb schools, kill 30 Semite kids
http://piratenews-tv.blogspot.com/2009/01/israeli-jews-bomb-schools-kill-30.html
Jew Roseanne Barr blasts Israel as 'Nazi state'
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85126
Wall Street professionals predict a US Civil War to begin in 2009
http://www.infowars.com/?p=5938
Pirate News TV in Knoxville Voice (out of business as of today)
http://piratenews.org/knox-voice-pirate-news-tv.pdf
Owners of Knoxville News Sentinel worship Satan at Jewish Bohemian Grove nudist compound:
http://www.archive.org/details/DSIBG
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Wow… that comment was… unexpected…
Anyway, awesome post, I’m VERY happy to be the “guy”!