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A Quick Look at Today:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, which will feature prepared food, fruit, veggies, handmade goods, and local artwork from over 30 local merchants, is set to take place at its new location on South 2nd Street, directly in front of City Hall, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Flagler Strong, a non-profit, hosts the market.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: At his law office located at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach, Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley presents his weekly unofficial town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. All topics are welcome, whether you’re a resident or not. There is typically a special guest at the events.
The Palm Coast Community Center, located at 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE, will host the Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m.
The Grace Community Food Pantry is open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. via drive-thru at 245 Education Way, Bunnell. Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Flagler County disaster relief organization, are in charge of organizing the food pantry. Feeding Northeast Florida assists local families, children, and active and retired military personnel who are struggling to put food on the table, as well as elders. Collaborating with nearby supermarkets, producers, and farms, we salvage premium food that would otherwise go to waste and turn it into meals for the underprivileged. A large portion of the food pantry’s operations and storage space are provided by the Flagler County School District. Give 386-586-2653 a call to volunteer, give, or offer assistance.
The Cinematique Theater, located at 242 South Beach Street in Daytona Beach, will host Random Acts of Insanity’s compilation of standups from Central Florida at 8 p.m. It costs $8.50 for general entry. Comedians from over Central Florida perform live stand-up comedy at RAI every third Saturday.
Elvis famously remarked, “There was a party at the Statue of Liberty, but I’d already read publicly of me going to it so I felt it was done already,” according to Martin Amis. It makes sense why we continue to believe that the news of his passing was false. The way the New York Times covered his death astonished me. Although he received two columns above the fold—not insignificant—the headline story on the left side switched to a non-story about Brezhnev, portraying Carter’s overture as a wise move. Carter, who must have been crying a little at that moment. Elvis’s funeral is still among the top five in the South. The other four? Bear Bryant, Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Long, and Jefferson Davis.
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Elvis exemplifies why the South-is-dead notion is so ludicrous. Whether it’s the neo-Confederates on the Southern League web page, the Bubba chauvinists, or the Elvis cults, one simply needs to browse the Internet—the least inherently Southern medium imaginable—to observe how it has evolved into yet another cultural tool for evangelization. As a result, one could spend a day—and Vernon Chadwick has undoubtedly done so many times—exploring the Elvis Home Page, Disgraceland, the First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine, Elvis and Jesus, Jesus and Elvis, the Lesser Elvis Banishing Ritual of the Sequined Pentagram, the First Church of Jesus Christ-Elvis, the 24-Hour Church of Elvis, and other Elvis sites endlessly, including the Greater Las Vegas Church of Elvis, where devotees can enjoy such wisdom as The King’s Prayer. It honors the King with solemn cyber-reverence and denounces false prophets such as Billy Ray Cyrus’ Achy Breaky Heart, which is the epitome of faux country and nouveau Nashville at its most heretical:
Who art in heaven, our King? sanctified by your hips.Come, Graceland, and sing your song.Just like in Vegas, in Reno.Give us our fried chicken today.Please pardon us, Achy Breaky, just as we pardon those who tread on our blue suede shoes.And steer us away from Billy Ray rather than toward line dancing.Forever and ever, you are the rock ‘n’ roll, the rhinestones, and the Graceland.Enjoy your time in Las Vegas.
From Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Politics, Culture, and Values by Peter Applebaum (1996).
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