So, on my daily trip to the local websites, I discovered this gem (text added for truth):
The flash thingy refers to “17 comments and counting” on an article discussing the various restaurantama news from the week (escafe rebricking pains and their new chef and the failed proposal for a creole restaurant in Belmont). While the commentary is pretty boring (think basically 3 people discussing Belmont over tea and cookies), it does bring up some interesting issues regarding the the denial of zoning rights for the creol restaurant. The owners bought a residential property next to a commercial property and hoped to rezone it for restaurant use.
/Either way, C-VILLE, to compare e-penises, we average 35 comments per post.
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I don’t imagine it’s a boring commentary to Belmont residents who continue to contend with the noise and traffic. The real story is how horribly biased the story is in favor of those two who didn’t get what they wanted with their ill-conceived French Creole restaurant plan.
i didn’t know you could comment on the Cville website. I guess the Hook must allow comments also, b/c there was that lawsuit—or was that just against the print version of Hook and the e-Cville News (where they tried to get Waldo to release the ‘real names’ of commenters)? Do Cvillains read and comment on Hook/Cville pages? When they do, do Cvillain names appear (or a boldface indication that they ARE Cvillains) and do their gravatars show?
As to the restaurant, french creole would be lovely–i miss jambalaya and etouffes and so on. More, though, it’d be amusing to clutter up BYo’s backyard with swanky cafes… and would make for better people-watching from the balcony at The Local.
if you follow the link, you’ll see that not only do cvillians comment, they get yelled at for calling hannah & andrew bitches, though not in so many words
hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Wasn’t there a restaurant like this on the corner that closed recently?
Hey, those are some mighty fine paintings in the background *cough cough*.
The new chef at escafé is awsome, the city has been dicking around on the bricking and should compensate somehow (like at least calling off the noise ordinance police – yeah, we’re dancing that dance again), and the house restaurant in belmont is a weird idea. I mean toaster museum I could see, but H&A’s Living Room Gumbo Emporium? I dunno.
And I always find the comments on the cville website to be so self serious, and there’s always this supressed rage that seeps through the delicately worded opinions… Its like reading the Miss Manners collumn without her good natured sense of humor.
Look stubby, this story is about a week stale. What about the rally they organized at the Free Speech Monument, then it goes to city council, etc. Get a toe grafted onto that thing, d00d.
Belmont needs the following:
a 100 story building.
a bridge and or tunnel to Dyke, VA
a Woolworth’s Store
NO more restaurants.
how about a motorcycle race track?
Or a Nascar themed SUPER STORE
Um Dr. Freud is it bad when a man wants to build a tunnel to Dyke?
“Either way, C-VILLE, to compare e-penises, we average 35 comments per post.”
Is that the sound of Cvillain’s equally small ePenis hitting the conference room table in a battle over ePenis size with the C-Ville Weekly???
With just 7 comments in this specific thread thus far.
I’ve always suspected that the Hook actually has an eVagina – excuse me while I contemplate what kind of 3 way action would happen should the C-Ville Weekly, the Hook, and the Spicy Bear get it on.
it’s dirty, however you imagine it
Better be careful or the schoolmarm/editor will come in here and tan some hides. She don’t cotton to you whippersnappers gettin’ all negative on c-ville. Even though the comment on that page might set a record for them. Most days there comment section is like a frickin’ abandon town with tumble weeds blown down the street. They have been embarrassed for too long by the likes of us or the Hook.
THIS MEANS WAR!
(well I’m bored and a good war might be fun and really can they bring the snark?)
I have personal knowledge of the head honcho over at CVILLE making disparaging remarks about cvillain. NO MERCY
Cathy Harding? More like Cathy Hardly.
gotnothing
tell that bitch to put her pink cowboy hat on and do some more pushups.
Guys, guys. CVILLE weekly is a GREAT magazine………… for picking up after my dog when he poops on the downtown mall.
I can’t imagine why anyone would have negative comments about Cvillain/thor. I mean look at the high quality of THIS post. I say, if you want to waggle your little willy, you go for it!
(thor could you embed this?)
This is why we need war! poetry, not on my watch!
20 comments, now we’re talking!
In this small town, an average of 35 comments per post does give you some bragging rights – an inch or two worth at least.
And let me be the first to say, by that standard, C-Ville Weekly has a bigger pussy than the Hook!
So that’s Cathy Harding, the woman who will never ever _ever_ let us forget that Charlottesville doesn’t have a strip club. Hmmm.
Poetry read by a few, listened to by even fewer
I am not really sure why personally bashing Cathy Harding needs to be a part of this. You are welcome to think that C-ville is a crappy paper, though I think you are wrong, but getting all middle school on the editor is pretty lame. Cathy, as far as I know, is a really cool, smart lady and she is really good at her job.Not to mention, you don’t give her much reason to say anything nice.
“personally bashing”, how thin is your skin? When you make yourself the prime focus of your newsroom podcast you are in fact make yourself the face of said paper. What have we really said negative?
Actually, 40 views, 1 rating. Don’t be shy.
This is just pathetic. Seriously, y’all, why so personal and mean-spirited? What is the point? Even if the editor of C-VILLE made negative/critical remarks about C-Villain, I’m not hearing you say she was making disparaging remarks about individual people.
If she posted here she would lose all credibility (especially in the “e-penis” thread). Someone has to do the actual journalism. Tiny Twig Thor should hire an actual writer and pay him or her. I know one unemployed Odious Scat who could actually get this story (Belmont house restaurant thing), talk to the people about the ridiculous protest at the speech monument, the city council stuff, but he does have a hard time stickying up to the facts somethymes. He is not hard to find around here. Paid writers, what a concept.
colfer, remember your special game. and if you want “real journalism” you can read anything else in town.
Come on y’all. What is the point of being so mean? Cathy is awesome. If you want to critique the paper, go on with your bad self. Don’t just make random rude stuff up about the editor. Weak.
Oh Sian go back to the acorn out of which you fell, you nut =)
I, for one, was totally kidding. I adore Mrs. H, as she and my mother were friends from way back. I adore her sense of style (which she didn’t always have, btw) and I adore her awesome arms, which I never noticed when I was a teenager but I notice every time I see her now.
In fact, if I was a true bitch myself I could post photos of Mrs. H looking more like Tina Fey in her flashback-to-the-90s episodes than the current cowgirl cum hipster we all know and love.
One last admission: I’ve seen Mrs. H laugh plenty, but I don’t think I’d ever seen her smile before the above-posted poetry video. Rare sight.
i couldn’t tell you were kidding btw. i don’t know you.
Give me a fucking break.
Guess what, if you put a half naked woman standing in front of a seated man on the cover of your magazine — a magazine that kids read &/or see on newsstands — you might think you’re winning some race to the bottom, lowest common denominator, sex sells look at me I’m such a ruthless capitalist game. But you’re not. You’re pissing off a lot of people in the community and engendering a lot of ill will toward your brand and if you’re the face of you’re brand, guess where its gonna be directed.
huh? who’s pissed and why?
No offense Lagrape, that wasn’t directed at you.
thank you, colfer. layabout hack vagrant you mention probably can’t write news; tho’ his bread needs any butter he can find.
Cathy looks kinda hawt in the video, really.
my original point exactly
ooops, sorry Simona. that was an inappropriate personal observation based on me being the lonely LCD and a crooked man in a crooked house, rather than a comment about the post or the journalistic merits of Cville/Hook. i normally go in big for ad hominem, but i tend to defend both Hawes (Hook) and Cathy (Cville) in whatever they do just because they are both really nice to me. I don’t think either one of them is necessarily up to the editorialist par of Ann Coulter, for example, but they are both excellent editors always and excellent journalists when they allow themselves that freedom, and are both as editors probably squeezed by publishers and advertisers in ways that make neither of them happy.
No, really, that’s what I meant by hmm, I was surprised. If you want to stand up for Cathy, by all means, and that’s exactly the way to do it.
But petty accusations of being lame, pathetic, and weak made on behalf of standing up for her are going to backfire, because its an invitation to delve into exactly what it is we don’t like about her as I did above.
Now its way past my bedtime, so, good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.
let’s just remember to not do any personal attacks* and treat others like we would want to be treated
*unless they are politicians
*or gingers
Weakness spurs negative speak & attack. See it all over the world and see it on this blog, right here in our own little town. Spicy Bear Mgmt team/Kyle – your weakness comes through clearly here. Doesn’t matter what you (or your poser entourage) say or how you respond, you know it’s there.
by weakness you mean writing in pink on a screenshot which happens to have escafe dudes on it about an e-penis? personally i think that’s homoerotic, but then again we live in a weak (minded) world.
oh .. wait .. are you a c-ville weekly employee/owner? do you remember we don’t do personal attacks? it’s funny that every comment you make is in defense of c-ville and attempting to harm kyle and spicy bear, but that’s ok, we live in a jealous world. your prior comments, in case you forgot:
http://cvillain.com/2008/12/16/c-ville-weekly-kicks-integrity-out-the-door/#comment-102278
http://cvillain.com/2008/10/15/advertising-online-why-advertising-dollars-will-move-away-from-traditional-mediums-and-onto-the-internet/#comment-88178
http://cvillain.com/2008/10/01/recycling-cover-stories/#comment-85310
http://cvillain.com/2008/10/01/recycling-cover-stories/#comment-85252
Translation: Tiny little fists balled in impotent rage shaking at an unforgiving sky.
Doesn’t matter what you (or your poser entourage) say or how you respond
Oh. Well. Allrighty then. Nevermind.
I’m a poseur not poser-
poser is the french verb to pose, poseur is the perferred term of the two
Kettle, Pot.
I’m so confused. I thought we were jovially mocking C-ville Weekly in a fun, light-hearted way (something I’m sure they’d do right back).
When did everything become “negative”? Weren’t the comments here all sarcastic? Does cVillain need just one huge sarc tag to warn people?
Maybe so. She really is charming in that video, but if people can’t take a jovial mocking it invariably goes downhill.
all local media can go fuck themselves with the rock hard cock of their own self-absorbed myopia. big old fish in an itty bitty pond.
our pond, Doc… our pond.
this is sortof funny:
http://www.cvillephotonight.org/?p=97
“Matthew Rosenberg is I am a photojournalist currently working for the Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia. This site is meant to be a way for area photographers to share their work and meet other talented artists in the area.”
particularly the ‘is i am’, but also the ’share their work’ part.
hell, wrong thread, sorry.
wow, Google is fun.
he IS from new jersey–who would’ve KNOWN? (burlington times) and he ‘attended’ something called the Rochester Institute of Technology, which appears to be one of those places that alternates ads with HairClubforMen during slasher-films at 3am on the bad cable channels; looks to be a mail-order/matchbook-cover diploma.
wow, a winner from the word ‘go’. watch out, Spicy Bear!!
hell, wrong thread again.
what’s the hell did you put in this drink, Bunny?
this is all really funny, except that your counter is a lie. its always off by one, so that even though no one has commented, the article will say “1 comment.” or for example, this will be the 57th comment but the headliner says it already has 57 comments.
I mean it’s one thing to use viagra, but i think we all have the same thoughts on the swedish enlarger (or the cvillain enlarger)…
Cathy, I LUUUUB your new Facebook profile photo. I’d like to think I had an influence on that.