Knoxville520.com

My Mysterious Knoxville520.com Odyssey:
How a This Website Led Me to the Alter of Hillbilly Music and an Incapacitated Hooker

Sure, I was downtown when Knoxville520.com launched its inaugural “pub crawl” marketing blitz. For a while I thought Knoxville520.com was a part of the gay pride event that was wrapping up on Market Square. While I am all for gay rights, and I like Melissa Etheridge, all I wanted was beer. I quickly accepted the Knoxville520.com free plastic red bracelet just to prove I am open minded, but, “No thank you, I don’t have time for a demonstration of this website or to play gay bingo because I am too engrossed in trying to make eye contact with a bartender.” After completing my ritual “walk through” of all of the downtown taverns, I was just amazed at the friendliness of these Knoxville520.com people. They even gave me a t-shirt! My final stop was at Uncorked, the wine bar attached to Oodles restaurant. The Yankee Jass Band was setting up, but their leader, vocalist Sara Schwabe was not with them. One of the Yankees said Sara was all about Knoxville520.com and that she would be singing during the last half of their show. The Jass band immediately launched into their instrumental set with “When Johnny Comes Matching Home.” Alright already, so “we’ll all feel gay.” (I had no idea Sara was gay! I knew she liked Cabaret music and theatre, but I am not one to stereotype.) It was not until many beers later that I learned she was not gay (not that there is anything wrong with being gay) and that she was not promoting gay rights, but she, instead, was fronting and maxing an exciting new local entertainment website. I am a local music fanatic so I was very pleased learned there was finally one place to go to find a calendar and other information about the local scene. And over the next few weeks, I kept meaning to look at the website. I really did. But I do not have a computer at home and it was always when I would log off of a library computer that I would remember this new website.