I live in Fayetteville, and we thought we'd never be able to get rid of it. We thought we were stuck with it no matter what. It was such a beautiful day to hear that they were leaving Fayetteville and relocating to Downtown Rogers. We truly appreciate your sacrifice.
You know what is going to happen. You're a bit of a Titanic nerd who knows a lot about the Titanic and its sinking. You know that attempting to prevent the Titanic from sinking could cause major disruptions in the timeline, but it's different now that you are aboard. You could perish along with all of the others who perished. What would you do? And if you decided to take action, what would you say to convince those of the Titanic's eventual demise?
I moved to Fayetteville in 2012. I didn't know much about BBB before moving here, other than that it was a well-known large city festival. I thought it was going to be kind of comparable to Memphis in May with a big BBQ and music feel. I was very wrong. As I lived here and worked downtown during the event, I noticed it was mainly a biker festival with little-to-no BBQ focus and almost no blues music. There were plenty of kind bikers, but there was also a very seedy, dangerous element, especially with known criminal biker gangs taking over local bars during the event. I had a few run-ins with the latter, and it was not fun.
From the start, it seemed to me to be a festival that was the complete opposite of Fayetteville. It saddened me every year to see it take over our city. A giant, obnoxious, loud carbon-producing festival in a city known for being more environmentally conscious. Inviting in a festival that was not Fayetteville in any shape or form.
I never thought we'd be able to get rid of it. Every time people complained, you heard the same refrain of how much money it brings in and how charitable the group running it is. Maybe one positive thing that emerged from Covid was getting the ability to free Fayetteville from the grasp of BBB.
Every September since they moved, I'm reminded of how happy I am to see it no longer here.
To be fair, neither of these prices is really about the house. It’s about where the house sits.
On the left is a beautiful modern home in Lake Tahoe, surrounded by mountains, forests, and one of the most famous scenic destinations in the country. Asking $1.595 million.
On the right is a very dated, seen-better-days house in Bentonville, Arkansas, asking $1.9 million. Bentonville is in the Ozarks, so it does have beautiful scenery and outdoor recreation nearby. It’s also the headquarters of Walmart, which has helped turn the area into one of the fastest-growing and most desirable markets in the region.
And that's the part that makes these Zillow listings so crazy. The Bentonville house is like $300,000 more expensive than the Lake Tahoe house.
The house itself obviously isn't worth $1.9 million. At that price, you're buying the land, the location, and the future development value. Bentonville has become that expensive.
Still, seeing a fairly ordinary little ranch house in Arkansas listed for more than a much more impressive home in Lake Tahoe is pretty crazy.
Jason Truelove joins Kyle Smith and Chad Hall in vying for the Ward 4 position currently held by Teresa Turk.
Personally, I'm not a fan of Teresa Turk. I voted for her initially to help remove John La Tour from office after his multiple anti-gay, anti-equality POVs. I had high hopes for her, but soon realized she wasn't willing to work with fellow city council members or be pragmatic in her approach to leadership. She turned out to be a bit of a disappointment.
I plan to vote for Kyle Smith. From what I've learned about him and seen about his time on the council in the past, I think he'd be great for the position again. Honestly, his comments on Facebook on various topics really endeared me to his positions and him as a leader. I really like his point of view on things and will support him as the new council member of Ward 4.
No music will be allowed between the hours of 10 PM and 9 AM. The permit will allow live music 10 times a year.
I'm curious what others think. Do you like the current location of the fairgrounds, or do you think it should be relocated?
Jason Truelove joins Kyle Smith and Chad Hall in vying for the Ward 4 position currently held by Teresa Turk.
After the latest episode, I couldn't help but think back to all the discussions earlier this season.
One of the oldest rules in TV and movies is this:
If you don't actually see a character die, there's always a chance they aren't dead.
That doesn't mean every fake-out ends with a character returning. Sometimes a character really is gone. But if the audience is shown an interrupted death, an obscured body, or an off-screen death, writers have intentionally left themselves room to reveal something different later.
Earlier this season I argued exactly that regarding Bernard. A lot of people insisted there was no possibility because we saw plastic being wrapped around his face, then a wrapped body carried to the incinerator. My point was never that he definitely survived; it was simply that we never actually saw him die, and we never knew with certainty who or what was inside the wrapped bundle going down the staircase and into the incinerator.
The latest episode is a good reminder that, especially in mystery shows like Silo, what seems obvious isn't always the whole story.
It's one of the reasons I enjoy this series so much. It trusts the audience to make assumptions and occasionally uses those assumptions against us.
It began with a light in my bathroom. I could see all of these tiny piss droplets on the tile when this one light was on because of its angle. I always thought that when I took a piss, I was fairly cautious. Every time, the stream went into the bowl. I tried different angles of approach, pissing toward the front, the back, on the water, and not on the water after noticing these tiny droplets. However, the droplets continued. Urine mist splashback. I also always wear socks when I'm at home. I was repulsed by the idea of using my socks to clean up the leftover urine on the floor before putting them in my bed. So I started sitting.
The one I like the best, because it ended up with a positive ending, was the story of first-class passenger Richard Norris Williams II. He was a tennis champion that spent a lot of his time on board in the squash court. As the Titanic was sinking, he and his father jumped from the ship into the freezing water. Sadly, one of the falling funnels crushed his father, but the resulting wave washed Richard toward one of the collapsible lifeboats. He clung to side initially but was eventually pulled inside. He spent the rest of time until rescue in knee-deep freezing water in the lifeboat.
After rescue, doctors on board the Carpathia recommended immediate amputation due to his severely frostbitten legs. He refused. He spent the remainder of his time on board dragging himself up to the deck every two hours to walk, forcing circulation back to his legs. He eventually made a full recovery. He went on to win the US National Tennis Championships later that same year, and won a gold medal at the 1924 Olympics.