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Off to Nashville, where I likely won’t see the outside of the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center<\/a> until I’m in a cab back to the airport on Wednesday!<\/p>\n

Huh-huh-huh. . . He said, “Gaylord. . .”<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, the ultimate Beavis & Butt-Head DVD collection<\/a> comes out tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Off to Nashville, where I likely won’t see the outside of the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center until I’m in a cab back to the airport on Wednesday! Huh-huh-huh. . . He said, “Gaylord. . .” Speaking of which, the ultimate Beavis & Butt-Head DVD collection comes out tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-away","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":460,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/uh-huh-uh-huh-huh-huh","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":0},"title":"Uh-huh. 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