When was it that Jules Rivera started making Mark act like such a hick? He didn’t start out that way when she took over the strip. But it seems like every time Mark goes to some “Big City” these days, he gets all “Beverly Hillbillies” and can’t stop exclaiming “Goh-lee!” at the sights. Wonder if Rivera will have Mark trade in his jeans for some bib overalls!?

I don’t know what it is with Nashville, but on Monday, we were presented with an airport tarmac that looked like a flood in progress. And here on Nashville’s Broadway Street, it looks like that flood left a deep bed of mud on the street.  In any event, Agent Gunn and Mark are clearly driving out of town for some reason. Perhaps Mark booked himself into an out-of-town motel to save a few bucks.

Art Dept. That’s not a bad free-hand sketch of part of the Nashville honkey-tonk bar scene, though it looks a bit whimsical in the details. The place on the left with the yellow guitar to the left appears to be the Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Perhaps there are one or two readers much more knowledgeable than I am on other details.