Esbee has the virtual tour of the downtown Winston-Salem baseball stadium that’s being built. Actually YouTube has it and Esbee found and shared it. Whatever, it’s cool.
USA Today has an article about the decline in the amount of trash Americans are tossing out, and how that might be related to a down economy. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County construction waste is one of their examples:
•Winston-Salem/Forsyth County, N.C. The 19% decline in
construction debris in 2008 is "more likely related to economic
factors" said Jan McHargue, solid waste administrator.
Since the Chamber of Commerce and local realtors recently blamed the drop in new development on onerous city development ordinances I’m assuming they’ll do the same here.
Shawn Johnson won gold and silver medals in gymnastics at the recently concluded 08 Summer Games in Beijing. Obviously it’s time for her to cash in and help her parents pay off the multiple mortgages they took out to finance her Olympic dream. I’m thinking she can do better than the Ortega commercial below. Let’s just say that people online are having fun with her line, "Ortega makes my taco pop."
If you’re from Winston-Salem you’re probably thinking, "What?!" based on the headline of this post. Well, I’ve engaged in an age old media trick of getting you to read this based on a deceptive headline. The Buena Vista I’m referring to is Buena Vista Terrace in SE, Washington DC, a decidedly different Buena Vista than our bucolic enclave here in the Twin Cities. You might have figured out my trickery based on the fact that it involved double parking, something other than crime also not commonly found in W-S’s Buena Vista. If this was a radio or TV news broadcast you’d have been able to figure it out because in DC the location would have been pronounced "bwayna vista" rather than our local pronunciation of "byoona vista".
My buddy Dan sent me the link to that picture to the left. I love my Krispy Kremes. I love my cheeseburgers. I love my bacon. Mix ’em all together, though, and you’ve got one nasty looking culinary experience. Even more surprising is that the picture was taken at the Google NYC cafeteria. Somehow I always envisioned Googlers as the types who wear Birkenstocks, when they wear anything at all, eat tofu and get around town on Segways.
I’m thinking that Krispy Kreme needs to organize a contest and have people enter their craziest concoctions that use their doughnuts in the mix. It truly would be a win-win for them and their hometown (Winston-Salem of course). Think about it: they get plenty of PR and Baptist Hospital gets an instant boost in admissions. Heck they could even have the contest in Baptist’s parking lot.
BTW, this is the second Krispy Kreme burger story I’ve run and both came from Dan. The first was about the burgers being sold at a minor league baseball stadium, which honestly makes much more sense than Google’s cafeteria.
So I woke up and flipped on the TV at the ungodly hour of 5:45 a.m. to check the weather on WXII and see what the youngest should wear to the bus stop. Had I hesitated a mere three seconds to fully wake up I’d have realized the TV wasn’t necessary as it was raining so hard it sounded like Santa and his mangy reindeer were on my roof four months early and playing a game of soccer.
As I eased into full consciousness I realized that the anchors were talking about the Winston-Salem Journal and so I turned up the volume. Seems that the Journal is having some issues with its printing press so they turned to WXII to let their five remaining subscribers, me among them, that they need not wade through their ponds yards in search of their paper since they won’t be delivered anytime before leaving for work. Fully appreciating the irony, and wanting to help my homeys downtown in that bustling hive known as the WSJ newsroom, I’ve decided to provide my fellow readers with a faux-Journal until the Journal’s back on its feet. Here goes:
If this doesn’t do it for you I guess you could just go to the Journal’s website.
– Most if not all credit related problems trace back to mortgage ills. So much for last year's assurances that the mortgage meltdown could be quarantined from the rest of the economy.
– Exports and savings might be the salvation and the future of the US economy. If that's the case then we're in for a long, painful economic ride but one that will eventually make the country more secure.
– If the second point is true then we won't be returning to 'normal'. I'd say that's a good thing, right?
Befuddled 