A birdie sends in this question:
Anyone know why there is a second crane at the Landmark Construction Site? Are they taking down the original crane or speeding up construction?
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I guess it could depend on the type of crane. Is it a stationary crane like the one that was already there or is it a mobile crane on wheels?
The existing crane is being disassembled and removed.
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/home/headlines/38559537.html
Doesn’t this talk of Halsey Minor belong on the Broke-Ass-Homeless Thread or the Lawsuit Thread?
And there is a new crane going up at UVA. Crane fun in Charlottesville!
http://uvatoday.org/blog/?p=739
@4:
with non- recycleable building materials like tires,styrofoam, or straw, mud…
i’m certain we can figure out something. i just wish we already were.
Well, they were done with the crane and so why keep it up?
One assumes that at some soon point they’ll need the crane to raise the 75-foot bust of Halsey Minor and his haircut, to be mounted on the rooftop of the Landmark.
Could i reiterate that Landmark is a chain of luxury hotels in, I believe, Dubai or somewhere… and wonder again aloud why there’s not a third HM lawsuit related to trademark appropriation? Better Landmark than Jefferson Tower, or TJ’s Inn or something… but it doesn’t seem like anyone in the PR/Creative department worked late thinking-up this present name. Was “Trump Towers” taken?
r u secretly writng a novel about HM?
@8 Come on – seriously otter, the guy is but a Halsey Minor Leaguer.
oh, i know he is hair-challenged, and likely soon broke from his Landmark investment, and likely losing Southeby’s/Christie’s/other lawsuits; but still, he seems fun because he has a bad tantrum-y temper, a sloppy and somewhat juvenile writing style, loves to answer criticisms of himself on blogs, and just seems generally to be aping the gentry and aping cultural saavy (low and high culture). He’s awesome!!!
That’s all what makes him so fun, and such a PRIZE for charlottesville. I just want to keep his name going around, and hope that as he grows up he’ll become even more of a ‘character’ around town, become another Sam Shepherd or Trixie Kuettner or someone like that, boozing it up, getting into barfights, walking the Mall in World War One Flying Aces hats skin-tight leather pants and feather boas, etc.
/something of an embarrassment for Woodberry Forest and UVA though. But they can take it.
PLEASE STFU ABOUT HALSEY FUCKING MINOR
Understand, Donk.
You were a late-comer—missed all the impassioned defenses of him launched by 80% of Cvillains back when he offered to buy everyone on the site drinks (and re-negged, i think?), and his own several piquant comments here. But I think he may be all we’ve got, and we should enjoy him as much as possible even if it fans his ego–and I have no objection to that, so long as he is good enough to continue being spectacular or a spectacle.
It bores me too, immensely–but whom else do we have to talk about as a cultural icon here in Cville? Whom do we have and who is celebrity?
It would be inane to talk about Jefferson. Dave Matthews is a genuinely good guy and a pal and doesn’t live here. Every time i mention Coran Capshaw I get half of the commenters crawling up my butt saying what a handsome, cultured, moral Prince he is. Sam Shepherd is gone. Nobody wants to tangle with Waldo; the editors of Hook and Cville are ghosts behind their papers and not public figures themselves; nobody gives a shit about local politics except for Kevin Cox (bless him) and even if they did they don’t know the name of any of the local officials. Local bands are all pussies and none of them are fellating each other on stage or smashing-up hotel rooms. UVA profs and grad-students are non-entities, and collectively contribute nothing funny or visible or commentable (no cows on the roof of rotunda, no interesting demonstrations).
We spend more time talking about recognizable vagrants than about any notable public figure.
It’s just nice when a ‘gossip site’ can gossip about people in like quantity to gossip about events or places.
And it’s nice when a small town, a community, can elevate and celebrate its oddballs and freaks and heroes.
ack! sorry. the Archives were down, probably. Floozy said you are a ‘nice guy’—please forgive.
anyhow, all I said was: “…blah-blah-blah Halsey Minor… he’s all we got.”
If we want to talk about oddballs, what the heck ever happened to Matt Farrell???
@17 is that you, matt?
We spend more time talking about recognizable vagrants than about any notable public figure.
Which is how it should be. Its in Leviticus or something.
Did I sound like I was wearing a bowtie?
@17
he thank god vanished from public view and public life between five and seven years ago, not sure if by choice or if he was driven away by public boredom with his juvenile antics. in any case he had nothing left, nothing more, to contribute to downtown—if he ever contributed ANY-thing other than semen and pitying laughs from his viewers.
@17 he was a fucking clown.
@20
is that rhetorical?
i heard he was living on a country estate with a beautiful wife, a rose garden, and a cat.
@21,22
that was harsh
My name is richard and I’m here to tell you guys when you’re being mean.
That was harsh, shen.
that’s right!
@17 Is that Halsey? What happened to posting under your own name
So what you’re saying is: Don’t be a Dick.
@23
do you know him at all, ever met him? it seems pretty unlikely, pretty unlikely.
He’s a fucking clown, brought only juvenile antics, shame, and petty woe to our city and citizens.
Of all the losses we’ve seen in Cville Downtown culture in the last few years,
he was the most likely to have gone, and he most deserved to go, unmourned.
fer fuck’s sake, don’t be deceived.
wrong thread and please let’s drop it. i can type faster than you,
and can say more pissed-off and caustically critical things
about that fuckwit than any of you can utter in defense of him.
@29 That pretty harsh and not nice. Let’s not beat up on anyone (other than Ethan)
Life’s way too short
@29
okay, fine. i really heard he was living in a dugout canoe by the Rivanna, eating garbage scraps, and reciting metered verse to raccoons.
but i always liked him so i prefer the country estate version.
@31
sorry, dieter. i came not to slander him but bury him. Let’s praise Halsey instead.
@32
you can’t have known him then. maybe take a minute to meet him. But i’ll let it drop.
@33
so, evidently, is the ethical commitment to The Code.
@34 That’s cool have a Tiddy Bear
Floozy told me to get one for Shen as well!
@34: Did I hear the H word? Zip it!
@35: I want that so bad…