My friend, Reed Tricket, has a 12-year-old chocolate Lab who died today. Woody is a rather famous dog, locally. Indeed, I can’t think of another Nashville dog in recent memory whose obituary has run in the Tennessean.*
Woody was a Nashville celebrity canine who appeared in all of the TV ads for the car dealership Reed runs. Everyone knew Woody. Even as Nashville has grown more and more into a major-market feeling city, Woody is one of those icons that helped keep a small-town feel on the local TV early-morning news programs.
I’ll miss Woody.
*Perhaps the most famous Middle-Tennessee celebrity dog was Franklin’s Buddy, the first American seeing-eye guide dog, and subject of the TV movie, Love Leads the Way.
This Time.com article suggests that July 7, 2007, will be the biggest wedding day ever. Apparently, the 7/7/07 thing is thought to be lucky by a few people.
Exactly 30 years ago, my wife and I were planning a wedding (translation: my now mother-in-law and friends were planning a wedding). When I realized we were going to be married in July, I lobbied hard and long for the date July 7, 1977. However, unlike this year, when July 7 falls on a Saturday, in 1977, July 7 fell on a Thursday. For some reason, the wedding planners thought Thursday was a really bad day for a wedding — even if it was 7/7/77. So, rather than having a 30th anniversary on 7/7/07, we’ll have ours on 7/16/07. (If we had been older and wiser, we would have done a secret, civil ceremony on 7/7 and had the formal one the following week. Heck, a few years ago, one person I know — whose initials are Rafat Ali — spent six weeks getting married all over the world.)
A funny post-script to our wedding date, however, is that for years, my mother-in-law sent us anniversary cards on July 7, as that date was so discussed, it was the date she remembered as our anniversary.
Popular Nashville blogger (at least with my sample group of one — me — she’s popular) Katerine Coble has been recruited by WKRN to be the guest anchor-blogger at the station’s blogger-hugging aggregator site, Nashville is Talking, following the resignation yesterday of the blog’s founding producer, Brittney Gilbert. Her first few posts reveal her light-touch humor in describing her pinch-hitting role and a thorough round-up of the Nashville blogosphere’s reaction to Brittney’s resignation.
This move communicates (to me, at least) that WKRN powers-that-be are not clueless.
Later: On her personal blog, Brittney has links to dozens of N’ville bloggers’ posts regarding her resignation.
