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In the late nineties I went to any class I could to learn how to write better music.  At one class, hosted by ASCAP, Dan Keen, the head of ASCAP’s gospel music division, played a song by an artist he was very excited about - a guy named Wes Cunningham.  I got excited too.  I waited over a year for that disc to finally come out and when it did I listened to it incessantly.  Ve

Due partially to some Ike-related distribution glitches, but primarily to some panic buying on the part of locals, there is a gasoline shortage in Middle Tennessee. Many stations have plastic bags over pump hoses and those with supplies have lines of cars backed up for blocks. It has a very early 1970s gasoline embargo feel to it.

Written by a friend of The Porch, Taft Ayers

The pdf is worth checking out if you're interested in what's coming down the pike for funding and assistance for those who are homeless....

The best day to trip, because it leaves you all day Sunday to get the fuzzies out before having to cope with the unenlightened on Monday.

I could go on and on about the influence of the following videoed group, but I'm buzzing out on the hard stuff at the moment; so I'll just link you to the oh-so-seminal Thirteenth Floor Elevators (do click the link) and present the closest thing to a radio hit

As you may have guessed, that rarely happens–seeing as how many of Time’s columnists and I do not really, shall we say “see eye to eye” on things.

But this is a gem I couldn’t pass up passing along:

Okay, thats great and there's nothing wrong with charging someone $90/month if they can afford it, but what happens to those who can't afford it? Granted, $90 a month is a helluva deal for most folks; the closest thing Nashville has is the Salvation Army and they're running $70 a week - but your first night there is free - oh boy!

You may have heard that Congressman Barney Frank — perhaps the closest thing we’ve got to a sitting left-libertarian and certainly one of the few on the hill with anything resembling honor, or even a basic a grip on right and wrong — has introduced the

Eric and Katie over at Nashville Restaurants have stumbled upon Manny’s House of Pizza in the Arcade downtown. If you’ve ever visited this great little pizza place, you know that this is the closest Nashville gets to having it’s own version of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi.