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fuflans's avatar

here is a true thing:

we were supposed to be in asheville last week with a production of a fairly graphic play about a gay hate crime. only we got a better financial offer.

i haz SUCH a sad i can't tell you.

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Chris Grrr's avatar

It is well worth the drive. Beautiful mountains all around. Socially, it's like an island of sanity...

I want the t-shirt mentioned in the article, for realz.

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Chris Grrr's avatar

The louder, the truer.

(That should probably be in all caps but my left index finger is lazy and reprobate today.)

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Chris Grrr's avatar

"Protection" meaning the same thing as "religious freedom", defined most excellently on this mommy blog yesterday.

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chascates's avatar

I believe they have a couple of beer and BBQ festivals each year that are highly recommended. My beer mags hold Asheville in high regard in a part of the world RC Cola and SWEET tea reign supreme.

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PsycWench's avatar

Southern Culture on the Skids?

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

They're having one in Tampa. August would be perfect, I think...

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Some weapons should remain concealed.

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Pierre_de_Fermat's avatar

<i>...Another, missionary Jesse Boyd, expressed incredulity that Americans in large groups could be drunken louts, even when offered the precious gift of salvation by a man shouting at them through a bullhorn ...</i> Probably should stay away from college football games.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Sort of like the fundies and Lubavitchers who show up like clockwork at the NYC Gay Pride Parade every year, to wave their sad little signs and stare <strike>longingly</strike> disapprovingly at the near-naked bodies on display.

Their presence seems to inspire the boys to be especially lewd, for their benefit.

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chascates's avatar

Asheville is also one of the few places in the Deep South to have great beer bars and microbreweries.

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chascates's avatar

"It's 'cock-a-doodle-do' not 'dude'll do a cock'! (Chaz the Intolerant Chicken from Conan show.)

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PubOption's avatar

Full Proof Gospel Ministries, praise the Lord and pass the moonshine.

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Paul MacDonald's avatar

"Don't come back to Asheville,"

and waste another day.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Jesse Boyd has not been heard from since, but a pillar of salt bearing an uncanny resemblance to Jesse has been spotted on the southbound side of Route 25A.

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PsycWench's avatar

Asheville IS the San Francisco of North Carolina. Been there (Asheville) many times.

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