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Weather: Partly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the mid 70s. Chance of rain 70 percent.
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- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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Today at a Glance:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.
Notably: According to Martin Amis, Elvis once said, “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.” No wonder we keep thinking that news of his death was fake. I’m surprised by how the New York Times played his death. He got two columns above the fold, which is not minor, but on the left side, the lead story going to a non-story about Brezhnev depicting “Carter’s overture as a positive move.” Carter, who just then must’ve been weeping at least a little. Elvis’s funeral remains one of the South’s five biggest. The other four? Jefferson Davis, Huey Long, Bear Bryant, and Martin Luther King Jr.
—P.T.
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Elvis is a perfect example of why the South-is-dead theory is such a crock. One need only surf the Internet-the least intrinsically Southern medium imaginable-to see how it has become yet another cultural vehicle used to spread the gospel, whether it’s the neo-Confederates on the Southern League home page, the Bubba chauvinists, or the Elvis cultists. Thus, one can spend a day-and Vernon Chadwick no doubt has many times-surfing from the Elvis Home Page to Disgraceland to 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 without end, where the faithful can partake of such wisdom as “The King’s Prayer,” at the Greater Las Vegas Church of Elvis. With solemn cyber-reverence, it pays homage to the King and castigates false prophets like Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Achy Breaky Heart,” the quintessence of faux country, nouveau Nashville at its most heretical:
Our King, who art in heaven Hallowed by thy hips.
Thy Graceland come, Thy song be sung.
In Reno as it is in Vegas.
Give us this day our fried chicken.
And forgive us our Achy Breaky
As we forgive those who step on our blue suede shoes.
And lead us not into line dancing,
But deliver us from Billy Ray.
For thine is the Graceland,
and the rhinestones,
and the rock ‘n’ roll,
Forever and ever.
Viva Las Vegas.
–From Peter Applebaum’s Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (1996).
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