WASTED DAYS ARE THE BEST: My brother and I spent the day touring music shops. (My wife is at the indie film festival, and my daughter is weekending with cousins). We managed to avoid buying anything, which is no small feat, and we had lunch at a Knoxville institution: the 25-year-old “Ali Baba’s Time Out Deli,” a hole-in-the-wall place that’s run by Arabs and serves “kosher-style deli sandwiches.” Although it’s in the middle of the ‘burbs, it has a campus-like ambience. The crowd today included a doctor in scrubs, a rather busty woman in shortshorts and a “Coyote” tank top, some young Arab guys, and a dreadlocked Jamaican. The food was good, as always, and cheap. Then we sat on the patio at Charlie Pepper’s and had a beer. Ah, a good day.
Don’t do that enough any more.