I’m on the advisory committee for The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression‘s free expression monument, which is being built on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, in front of City Hall. The structure of the monument — which is a large chalkboard — has been completed, but the slate is being mined in Buckingham …
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Mobile auto detailing.
Perhaps it’s not a representative sample. Spotted on South First Street, December 4, 2005.
Sorensen graduation in Charlottesville.
This past weekend, we of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership’s 2005 Political Leaders class had our final monthly session and our graduation ceremony. The bulk of our weekend was spent in the dome room of the Rotunda, which was a fine note on which to wrap up the ten-month program. On Friday night we …
Five Guys opening on the Downtown Mall.
Corner of Fourth and Main, December 4, 2005. This will end badly.
Service Dogs of Virginia graduation.
Amber and I attended this year’s Service Dogs of Virginia graduation this afternoon. The graduates were Ciara and Dandelion, Mark and Ivy, and Tappan and Rocky. It was sad to see the puppy raisers give up their dogs, but the (human) graduates couldn’t have looked more pleased with their new friends.
Charlottesville food blogs.
There are now no less than three Charlottesville blogs about food, I have realized. First, there was Eric’s World of Food (though Eric and his wife, Bella [also a blogger] are moving out west, so soon they won’t count), followed by Brian Geiger’s The Food Geek, and then, most recently, Darlene and Chris’ “Eat Air …
Snow!
It’s snowing out, the first time of the season. It’s somewhere between a flurry and a decent pace — more of a mood-setting Thanksgiving Eve snow.
Chris Makarsky vs. a cow.
I know I shouldn’t be laughing but, hey, it’s funny. Charlottesville blogger Chris Makarsky was headed up to the Umphrey’s McGee show at the 9:30 on Thursday night when he ran into a little trouble in Madison County. (No, not a speed trap.) Chris writes: i saw a big, black object about twenty feet in …
Progress on VPTC blogging discussion.
David Hendrick has an article in today’s Daily Progress about the Virginia Piedmont Technology Council panel discussion on blogging that I spoke at last week. While panelists put forth various reasons why businesses needed to understand the still relatively novel world of the “blogosphere,” speaker and long-time blogger Waldo Jaquith put the matter succinctly. “You …
Spiegelman at Virginia Festival of the Book.
Virginia Quarterly Review can claim credit for a real coup: getting Art Spiegelman to be the big guest at the 2006 Virginia Festival of the Book, here in Charlottesville. Melanie Mayhew writes in the Daily Progress: VABook! 2006 will feature Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-illustrator of graphic novels “Maus” and “Maus II” and the memoir …
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