Gay ole Opryland

Gay ole Opryland
Originally uploaded by jacquichris.

I originally titled this photo Gayland, before I realized how easily it would be misconstrued. The Opryland Hotel, like most of Nashville, has been purchased and improved upon by a person of the last name Gaylord.

His empire is vast and ponderous and his reach long. Were we characters in a comic book film, Gaylord would be the prospering megamillionaire with hidden megalomaniac tendencies and the inevitable unearthing of a death ray...