Himalayan Fusion has opened on the downtown mall. I took a picture of their sign (which has a logo!) back on June 14. There is no menu on the door but there is now a sign in the window: Lunch Buffet $6.99.
I wonder when I’ll try this one…Monday?
Without a doubt, the most un-C-Ville night in the history of C-Ville…photos in future..
Drunk man heads to bed…
A source told me that La Taza was broken in to last night. A lock was jimmied, a window was broken, and the computer/register was attacked. They are currently waiting for the police to document the crime scene.
Yesterday I went for my run and as approaching the 4th street underpass I noticed two people having things thrown at them from the tracks above. Some yelling began and the people moved along. I then was moving under the bridge and a chunk of garbage hit my arm. I glanced back and it was just the local youth having fun flinging garbage at people.
45 minutes later I was finishing my jog and running past everyones favorite place of Friendship. I notice police cars on two different corners in the area, and suddenly a police swat-like van pulls up, and three individuals in bulletproof jackets jump out and head in to the complex. I kept running.
As I mentioned in a previous post, petty crime skyrockets in this place in the summer.
Looks like the BAR has approved the 9 story building with lots of pedestrian stuff in the complex. That all sounds great, but will there be a single place that bans smoking for outdoor patrons?
I noticed at the Short Pump Mall that no smoking is allowed within the confines of the outdoor pedestrian mall. This mall is basically in Richmond, and yet it has no smoking. Could such a thing ever happen here, or are people just in love with their cigs here in the village?
I went running in our 90+ weather earlier tonite and inhaled about a pack on a short run. Virginia is for lovers…of cigarettes. Heat never stops them. Cold never stops them. And I’ll bet they can smoke all over a tall (9 story) building in a single bound.
An interesting in depth look at what the world may look like in 2050 as more and more people live in cities as opposed to rural environments.
We don’t build a city and towns with city centres any more you add city centres afterwards as an aesthetic afterthought or as a consumption opportunity. We simply have a collage or pastiche of almost random urban spread which ultimately collides and creates cities and then we start adding the trappings of conventional cities.
I guess this goes well with C-Ville thinking it is the center of the world, and getting really excited over the 30th anniversary of the main attraction of town…the downtown mall. If the heat isn’t unbearable, I’ll get some great pictures of parents holding cigs next to their kids during the kids day celebration - the highlight of the 30th anniversary.
After hours of discussion at a City Council meeting a chain store putting a logo on their store front has been approved. I wonder who got the payoff. If the council had listened to Rob S. this would have ended many moons ago.
Of course the council didn’t want to run out of things to discuss, so they are once again trying to stab new development in the back. Will this village ever get a nine story building? Will we ever get a theater with stadium seating? Will we ever become a city?
Read more on TheHook. TheHook is usually on top of things, but when did Waldo become a subject matter expert for CraigsList issues? Why wasn’t he featured in the Top 20 of C-Ville in the C-Ville this week? Where was I? Am I not the best spokesperson for the village? If only I owned $50 million dollars of local real estate. Then I might have been included. Oh well. Maybe next year.
So craigslist.com has finally made it to the village. What can we expect from this? Cheap cigs? Cousins for marriage? Interesting personals? Low cost guns?
Well, guess what…on day one some interesting ads have already shown up. I wonder if the local C-Ville parents in this progressive city are happy campers. I wonder if the photos are of a parent in C-Ville.
WARNING: This link is pornographic in nature, although it is just a typical ad here in town. Link: C-Ville ad on craigslist.
I’m glad this progressive village continues to move forward.
The weekend here in the village has been trickling along at the typical pace of the south under unbearable heat. Absolutely nothing is happening. I was getting discouraged at the lack of interesting news. Typically when school gets out and heat picks up the bang bang rate usually cranks up. During the past few weekends all sorts of guns were going off (including the ‘Panda shooting’) and people have been shot and arrested. This weekend finally picked up with a homicide in the downtown area. Bang bang…someone is dead. I don’t know about the kiss kiss part, but I did love the movie.
Since I’m still wondering if the village is #1 at anything, maybe I should go with this as the new slogan. Charlottesville: The best small town for murders. Or maybe I should just go with crime rather than murder. Tough call. With crime I do know that if you park in the wrong area, your cell phone and iPod will be stolen in just three minutes.
I’m not sure of how many have been killed so far this year (only two that I’m aware of), but it is only June. At the rate we are going we will easily make it to the national average of ~13 murders per 100,000 by the end of the year. With just one random murder thrown in the mix our numbers could skyrocket.
An even bigger question is can the village continue the drastic increase in robberies when October rolls around. Can we continue our pace of increasing at 400%/year. That would be impressive.
It is so hot out.
One thing that really pisses me off is this village that claims it is the number one city in America, or the best place to live in America. These statements are ludicrous and are pure opinion. I know any single male over 35 would give you a drastically different view of this piss ass village.
One thing C-Ville loves to chat about is how nice and homey the area is. A report about over/under pricing of homes recently hit the news, and guess what? Charlottesville is #1 in the commonwealth in overpriced housing. However, among 317 cities Charlottesville only sits just below the top quarter of overpriced homes. Our homes are only overpriced by 29%. What a great thing. If you look at average home price, we make it all the way up in to the top 20%. Wow. We are working our way up to the highest price city in America. Do you think we can do that?
So, should I count that as the best place in America? Or should I move to some place that has housing that is at least CLOSE to reality? Here is a list of places that are all better deals that the village: Salem OR, Grand Junction, Spokane, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Madison, Denver, Rochester MN, and Buffalo. Of course, I’m skipping another 200+ places.
Charlottesville, the #1 overpriced city in Virginia. Can that be the new slogan they slap on all the promotional BS that this place cranks out?
Looks like a few new food places will be opening up in the not so distant future. In village terms that could be between now and 2040 (when they plan to have the first 9 story building).
 
Drop by my Flickr for up close views of the exciting new signs. If they open, I’ll be sure to get a report (although I have a feeling the salad place won’t be very exciting, and will be expensive compared to the Country Store).
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