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Random Tavinisms
Monday, June 11, 2012 at 04:44PM 
Yes, it's true what you heard!
Last Friday night TG and I -- together with Audrey -- met at The Channel in Greenville for a performance of Tavin Dillard Live!
We also met Tavin -- a/k/a Joel Berry -- after the show. What a dollbaby he turned out to be.
Ironically, for someone who spends as much time in front of the camera as Joel/Tavin does, making people laugh like hyenas, he seems a trifle shy in real life.
But he's a homespun sweetheart, and very giving to his fans, of whom clearly he has (and deserves) many.
Unfortunately the lighting wasn't good enough for an amateur like me to get large numbers of decent pictures.
Plus which, I was laughing so hard I could barely hold the camera steady.
But I got a few.
When we got to Greenville the weather was near perfect -- eighty-two degrees with humidity well under fifty percent -- and we enjoyed sitting outside for dinner.
Said repast was one of my favorite things in the whole world: hamburgers.
By the way if you happen to live within driving distance of Greenville, South Carolina, I encourage you to drive there and have a hamburger at Grille 33 on Main Street.
It'll make you forget all about Five Guys.
And that's saying something.
I hope you get to sit outside on a balmy evening like we did, with a server as efficient as she is friendly, as was ours, and enjoy your burger done just the way you ordered it.
Speakin' of eatin' here's a quote from Tavin's book (the one I won from commentin' on the Twitter), Milktose Analogy & 88 other things Tavin Dillard said:
"He eats like a horse and works like a dead man."
- from Trailer Park Guests
Speakin' of burgers, here's another Tavin quote you might like, from an episode that happens to be set at the Burger Shed:
"Bud's sister-in-law is down there and Bud, he runs the Burger Shed, but his sister-in-law, she don't run nothin' but her mouth."
- from Brother Bailey
Oh about those burgers we enjoyed? They had bacon on 'em.
"People said it took a long time for humans to get on the moon. I say if there was bacon up there, we woulda got up there a lot quicker."
- from Bacon
Oh and Tavin signed my book! He wrote:
Jennifer, Happy readin'! Tavin Dillard
And he gave me a big hug. I smiled all the way home to Columbia.
Happy Monday! Happy Week!
Reader Comments (5)
I had never heard of Tavin until you posted about him, but I thinj he's hilarious! I could hear him talking when I read his quotes.
Glad you could go, have a good hamburger and some good laughs!
Sounds like you had a great time, good to hear.
I do believe you are still walking on air! I bet he is a shy one when he is out of character. Such a sweet fellow!
And his saying about bacon is one of the truest things I've ever heard, LOL!
Good laughs, good burgers, such a good time, doesn't get any better than that!....G.
Sounds like a great day. I'm so glad that you and your hubby get out and do fun things. Hubby and I do also. It is so important because we don't know how much time we have and we should make the most of it.
You can't beat a good hamburger, or cheese burger.