A sign reading “Halsey Minor’s Big Failed Erection” bravely sits underneath the inactive Landmark Hotel construction site. Some prankster(s) plastered these signs across the entire front facade of the Landmark Hotel site. With a bankrupt construction bank and lawsuits between Minor and his development partner, Danielson, it looks like we aren’t going to experience a Charlottesville luxury hotel anytime in the near future.
Related posts:
- Minor Sues Danielson over Breach of Contract and Fraud
- Updates on Landmark Hotel Construction Halt
- Charlottesville’s Halsey Minor Gets Profiled in Conde Naste’s October 2008 Portfolio Magazine
Another sign I have seen and know about very well could appear there before long. Reads as follows:
CAUTION: FIASCO
Watch the skies
It was Outskirts Guy!
THAT
IS
AWE
SOME
god bless a prankster.
congrats on making it onto gawker. http://gawker.com/5264511/halsey-minor-having-trouble-getting-it-up
I hope whoever made that sign knows they made it into gawker
Cool – O
Gawker brah
Yeah I had to say something on there about this (I’m on there some of the time, but unless the thread was started by Alex Pareene… not so much) :
“alorsenfants” (me on Gawker — I’ve been on for 4 years)
3:42 PM on Thu May 21 2009
@SultanaEleusis:
Hiya –
Halsey Minor was once a minion in my father’s corporate hustle: headhunting in New York.
Whatever.
I know his father, a kinda (while a nice man) slovenly realtor, who, if you meet him, will probably bend your ear for a while, talking about his son and how he doesn’t understand his highfaluting ways.
Kinda agree?
Anyways — it’s what it is, down here.
Greetings from Charlottesville. And: if you read Cvillain… I’m the guy who goes by “Vert”.
A demain,
I’ve seen those signs there for at least a few weeks. Are they just being noticed?
…congrats on Gawker, though, yeah!
PLEASE tell me a Cvillain did this.
Anyone see the article about the growing pranking movement (was it in Esquire or Maxim this month?). Number of national organizations run by website/e-mail/text-message in cells. Bunch of them dressed in blue-polos and khakis and stood around in a hundred or so Best Buy stores across the country.
pranks are returning, yes! Next we need Scavenger Hunts, city-wide and open, like in My Man Godfrey the film. Anyone got the nerve to organize one?
Oh yes, a prank. Let’s go to Lowes wearing Home Depot aprons and walk around smacking people in the chops with a wet haddock.
the washington post magazine holds a scavenger hunt every year: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/magazine/features/2009/post-hunt/index.html
there’s a city-wide scavenger hunt being held in c-ville on June 6
no foolin’ ? is there a website or anything, or is it word-of-mouth where you show up and they hand you a sheet of paper and say GO! and nobody knows what the hell is going on?
who’s doing it? that’s awesome.
could you write a post, estherbunny?
we MAY want to add some Cvilain-specific items to the list (a fez, a lock of Halsey Minor’s Hair, a pair of Floozy’s knickers…)
no joking! i’m double checking with my friend who is running it to make sure i didn’t get the facts wrong … and to see how/if she would prefer to publicize said scavenger hunt.
thank you, estherbunny!
sounds awesome. bigger and stupider the items the better, and the choice of collection-point is soooo important. Central place fountain is ideal, if the list includes things like A Goat, A Mall-Cop’s Bicycle, Sparky’s Flaw’s Chins, etc.
sigh. ok it appears the scavenger hunt has been postponed until a later date … date not yet set. but if i hear any updates about it, i will post about it on cVillain. sorry to disappoint!
Don’t forget to bring a towel.
It was obviously this dude: http://www.outskirts.com/
someone was talking about releasing a shit-ton of live chickens on the Mall during Fridays.
I like the idea of Goodwill-buying every Mall-bum a suit and briefcase, getting them to wear them on the same day with sign around their necks saying “Will Work for 80K”. Or i suppose we could hand out about 500 kazoos at the next Pavilion Event. Volume/number/repetition is humor.
by all means write the check, dear man!
I always thought the whole Downtown Mall actually IS a shelter for homeless and otherwise disadvantaged… just to judge by the change and cigarettes that fly out of my pack/pockets everytime I walk more than a block along it; and for those requiring some sort of learning— to judge by the obscene and ignorant 10000-decibel shouts of classicm, racism, lunacy that i hear echoing across the place when I sit at a cafe or coffeeehouse.
Why do I so often-times feel that we live in a different town or at the very least in parallel universes?
“Why do I so often-times feel that we live in a different town”
because you’re a statuesque taut-calved hottie striding the Mall in your 500-dollar Scarpa speacial-order shoes and 3000-dollar The Oscars Red-Carpet mini-dress, and i’m a lowly shabby frayed-collar bohemian squatting in the gutter sniffing the breeze for your L’Air De Temps as you pass. You’re letting me eat cake, Floozy. What lowly vagrant like myself would ever ask you, basically an Oxbridge-Educated version of Chloe-Sevigny, for spare change or a cigareeeeeeet?
That, and because we DO live in different towns.
Y’all, he can be as weird as he wants. SO JUST DEAL WITH IT!!!
do i need to go back to making fart jokes and taliking about anal orgasms to fit-in on Cvillain? Donk is right…. it’s a long way to the Mall from my home in Neverland, and i can’t get there from here.
have you not sat on the patio at Mudhouse any time in the last twenty years or twenty days? Every time I do, I get some drooling smelly vagrant either interrupting my study of the CavDaily Comix to ask me for change/smokes, or a trainhopper-tribaltattooed scruffian plunks down at my table to tell me about the hangnail s/he got slipping drunk into a gutter-drain in the L-Burg railyards.
you people must just not be very samaritanly or nice-looking if these fine and eponymous sub-citizens don’t extend a needy palm to you.
Was the L’air de Temps part a reference to “White Oleander”? (book not movie)
in part, yes! how funny!
i think Floozy actually wears Arpege or, when she’s slumming-it, <Guerlain
Do you ever want to ask something of someone you don’t know yet are suddenly struck with a paralysing fear that you’ll offend them with an entirely innocent remark with your ignorance of their reality?
Can’t you walk?
/apologies ahead of time if you can’t. the former question is truly how I feel about asking you the second.
Ruthless, Floozy, ruthless.
hahaha… if there’s toes on your dick, does that mean it’s a foot?
Anybody know who hired Bovis to work on the project? I saw its banner on Water Street today. That is a big company.
must be HM himself—i think the Hook article said that he planned to hire all-new contractors, scrapping all the old, and go ahead with stuff?