Monday, June 22, 2009
Daily Diversion / Hannan ParchMay Farm Center: Where Cool Springs Meets The Green Mile
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:44 PM
* Phase 1 -- Situate new ParchMay Farm Center on the site of old Tennessee State Penitentiary * Phase 2 -- ??? * Phase 3 -- PROFIT!Makes sense! Poke around the site for even more hilarity. In the meantime, we'll be trying to discover the identities of the as-yet-unnamed evil geniuses behind it, so that we may shower them with praise and comped domestic drafts. Update: ParchMay is no longer an orphan. We're happy to announce that local software designer Rick Bradley is the proud father of Nashville's Best Parody Website of 2009 (so far). Congratulations Rick! What your baby lacks in beauty it more than makes up for in satirical whimsy. You should be proud.
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That gives me an idea for a parody website, where the May Town concept is move about 3/4 mile up Old Hickory Boulevard to several hundred acres of worn-out farmland that no-one mentions exists because there's that whole "pristine as when the Almighty made it" image of the Bend to be maintained. Yet if you drive out there you can't miss it.
It would be presented as an honest alternative to burning up the good farmland, while keeping the close proximity to the CBD. That's the joke... an honest alternative instead of just more obstruction and NIMBYism! I slay me!!
See, you put a city on that several hundred acres bereft of any agricultural value; desolate because it is deforested land that has eroded so much through decades of farming that boulders just stick up from the ground. I could show joggers out for their morning stroll tripping on one rock and cracking skull open on the next. Giggles! I could show the 35,000 commuters driving in on Humvees or walking on stilts. There could even be a hamburger joint known for the freshest ground beef, where you could see the animals herded onto this land to graze, break their legs on the rocky outcroppings, then go swiftly to the butcher. Edgy.
Lastly, there would be the protests over the emminent destruction of the largest remaining agricultural catastorphy in Nashville, noting that you have to go way out near Woodbury in Rutherford county to see such agriculturally-induced erosion. Protesters holding signs like "Never forget", "Farming to bedrock rules!" and "Rocks, not concrete!"
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