outskirts: life and times in charlottesville

The poll this week has drawn quite a bit of attention from readers that dropped me email. Some have requested other NBC29 people get added, and others have let me know a few tidbits of info about some of the NBC29 celebrities.

More info will get posted this weekend…developing story…

In other news, don’t go outside on Saturday unless you want to get taken down by 30,000 drunk people going out to stand in 80+ degree heat and thunderstorms, watch horsies jump around (caution: death of horsies is possible), eat barbecued pigs, and drink till they pass out in mud. That is what makes the south the place to die young (as life expectancy here in the south plummets).

Instead of spending hours driving out there, the locals should just walk/jog out there. It really isn’t very far you know. Of course, you would then stand a good chance of getting run down. They love doing that to pedestrians around here.

Update: Won’t get around to posting new info until Monday evening.

It seems as if the tribal elders want to spend the one million dollars on new signs because,

Charlottesville is a hard place to direct people, it’s a hard city to learn your way around for one thing.

How fucking dumb are the locals?

Do they not have the ability to learn how to read a map? Are they boggled by the perfect city roads that the tribal elders spend hours and hours debating at village meetings? Just because every road changes names an average of once every 1.5 blocks shouldn’t mean anything. Things like that are set up because rich white people owned certain things back in TJ’s day, including roads.

Remember how much the village wanted to spend on 4th Street crossing the mall? They claimed that it would cost almost one million to let cars run across the mall. Since that day the cars have been permanently running along the street, and NOT ONE FUCKING PENNY got spent on that road. Why was that going to cost 1M? Why the hell should a sign cost 1M?

Let’s think about this reasonably. If the elders say we will spend 1M what do you think we’ll really pay? Every single project (such as trying to put bricks on a 1/2 block area) have run over budget and over time. Can you picture 2.8 million bucks getting spent on signs in the next 5 years?

Pay me one million. I’ll put up some signs for you.

One thing about C-Ville…they really hate bicyclists and pedestrians. In a recent story I found out that when in a vehicle if you “accidently” run a bicyclist off the road, break his hip, leg, and ribs, you will get a $100 ticket.

Today someone accidently ran down a mother/son. I wonder if the driver was on a cell phone, or just in a hurry to get somewhere. When I was out running earlier at the intersection of 29 and Main (or is it Ivy at that point…names change about every three blocks around here) and while waiting through a light cycle I counted the number of drivers on cell phones.

14 out of 26 that passed by were chatting up a storm, and those are just the people that were holding one in their hand. Are there rules about cell phones in this commonwealth? I barely drive and don’t use a cell phone…so I wouldn’t know. Now…if I had an iPhone I would use that while driving to watch a movie. Those phones are sweet.

Nice shot from Daily Progress.