In case you are glued to cVillain and never visit other sites, I highly recommend you visit these sites and the articles for their awesomeness:
1. Coverage of Steve Earl, who performed at the Paramount last night was done photographically by Tom Daly and with written word by Shaun Harvey on cvilleMUSE. Shaun begins… “As Steve walked out on stage a roar erupted from the crowd. He strapped on his guitar and a harmonica and for the first thirty minutes of his set he played songs from his extensive catalog of early classics. There was ‘Tom Ames Prayer’ and an awesome version of ‘South Nashville Blues’.”
2. Coverage of the One Million Dollar Sign Budget by Outskirts. I really, really enjoy it when Outskirts Guy goes on tirades. This one, in particular is worth the read. When you begin with “How fucking dumb are the locals?” how can you go wrong?
3. Local Real Estate Analysis by Jim Duncan. Our resident expert on local real, Jim gives us a much needed slap to the face. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Daily Progress story about record housing inventory resulted from Jim’s diligence and research associated with an analysis of early 2008 Charlottesville real estate.
4. Personal Issues. Ah, our resident guest blogger, Stanley lives with a roomate who adopted a black widow spider. That thing is scary… even scarier when it goes to town on a cricket.
5. Food treasures? Cogwheeler in his/her blog “Notes from C-ville” reviews the Highland County Maple Store. Scroll down to the bottom of the article. Maple syrup donuts!? I’m in love.
6. Garden much? If you garden locally and you don’t read Life in Sugar Hollow, you are missing some serious expertise. Sugar Holler has just started her spring garden. Why do I care about this? Because, I can barely keep a cactus alive and I love watching her garden as it grows. The pictures on this blog are great.
7. Love story gone awry. Anoop, who was fondly in love with Continental Divide (read our review here), has now fondly fallen out of love with his former “favorite restaurant.” Why? Simple, for Anoop, “as always, the food was good, but Continental Divide has become more trouble than it’s worth.” But, you must read about the service issues that he has experienced in order to fully understand this conclusion.
Now, go visit other blogs and make them happy someone is reading their stuff!
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The best part about the sign article is that the poll on the side shows cVillain as the best news source in Charlottesville.
oh gawd, now everyone is gonna see Stanley’s spider. Thing gives me nightmares, I swear.
Anoop’s review is great. Nobody should go to a place with that kind of service.
gah, I think I made it through 2 seconds of that spider video before I couldn’t handle it anymore…I hate spiders…especially death spiders.
That is sad about the continental divide…I’ll definitely think twice before recommending it to anyone now…I wonder if he spoke with a manager about how disappointed he was, I think I would have especially if it was a place I used to frequent.
1M on signs, baha…sounds like Charlottesville…how much have we spent on the Meadowcreek parkway plans? I’m sure its completely ridiculous.
Having grown up with all kinds of creepy crawlies and things capable of killing me (Seriously, my childhood lessons were: This is how you run away from a gator. This is what a copperhead snake looks like. If you hear the rattle, don’t move. Don’t worry, I know that spider’s as big as your head, but it’s harmless. That possum probably has rabies, don’t go near it. Etc.) the idea of keeping a black widow spider in a jar in your home still scares the bejeesus out of me.
As does that video. That video is freaky.
Don’t mind spiders, and didn’t watch the video, but no internet thread about spiders is complete without clocky.
Sweet dreams…
Now that you guys mention it, I don’t even know where that spider is right now. I mean, presumably still in the jar. Somewhere. In my house.
/shudder
//sending shudders in mc’s direction
@6: photoshop!
please, please photoshop.
Nope. Clocky is famous, and very real. Its a Huntsman spider from Australia.
Crikey! That’s a biggun!
I’ve seen a Huntsman in real life! They’re actually pretty kick-ass. Not really toxic to humans, rarely aggressive, and damn do they help with your bug problem.
@ 10 True. Besides in Australia, there’s only about a brazillion other ways nature can kill you.
Nightmares. Forever. But I have to agree that (after surviving the prehistoric-sized insect life to be found in Florida) a spider such as that could be useful.
There’s an albino one on google image search that will haunt my dreams hereafter.
This one looks like it has a sweet mustache. Sort of like that Mythbusters dude.
@7: I am never going to your house again.
/legs pulled up onto seat, glancing around nervously.
@14: Sweet Jeebus you gotta warn us that’s a huge ass photo. I peed my pants. NSFA. Not suitable for Arachniphobes!
@ 16 i would have peed my pants too, but my vagina was already empty…
/has the HUGE heebie-jeebies now. AUGH!
@14 Kill it. please kill nature