C-VILLE just unleashed the “25 essential Charlottesville experiences for real locals”. #6 is “Post on cvillenews.com”. Here is why, supposedly:
Waldo Jaquith’s Cvillenews website has always been on the cutting edge. Jaquith launched it in 2001, and since then he has never lowered the bar for highbrow Charlottesville information. A hyperlocal news site before hyperlocal was a buzz word in the news industry, Jaquith covers real topics of real concern to locals. When commenters finally graduate from spurting BS on shifty blogs, Cvillenews is where they go to grow up.
That’s funny considering that C-VILLE staff visit our site, and comment on it. Yes, that’s right, even though you are all educated, one day you will see the light and realize how inane our conversations are and unpopular this site is and then move on to greener, more intellectually stimulating pastures where you can have real deep and meaningful conversations with your peers.
For all you undergraduate bullshit spurters on cVillain and the other blogs, just know that you will eventually grow out of this phase and that the C-VILLE didn’t really mean to insult you. Oh wait, yes they did. BS comments to follow.
/still feeling hurt from the 17 comment e-penis, are we?
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Considering the amount of comments they get on their own blog the could be talking about themselves.
That is indeed a nasty, below the belt swipe at cvilleSTYLE.
cvilleSTYLE is TOO HAWT
what kind of belt?
One made from the skin of unborn goat fetus’. All the rage in Milan.
I prefer my blogs to be shifty.
I like Waldo’s site too, but that’s just a compilation of news stories of interest to him, first, and his readers, second. His value-add are the editorial opinions/summaries of the news stories. If you don’t have the time to gather news yourself, and you have similar opinions, then I guess it’s a good site. I troll all of the local news websites so a lot of what he posts is duplicative to me. Sometimes he posts a picture or links to an interesting blog.
cVillain isn’t really a “news” source. It’s more like the Lifestyle section or Page Six. I’m not sure how Cville can compare the two.
here’s a shift bs-filled comment: describe cVillain in 10 words or less.
Is this the new face of evil?
A blog overflowing with underutilized, overstimulated witty geniuses and hacks.
I LIKE SHIFTY BLOGS, WITHOUT THEM IT ALWAYS SEEMS YOU ARE YELLING.
by the way, here are the definitions of shifty from answers.com:
1. Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
2. Distinguished by frequent changes in direction: shifty winds.
3. Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful.
Whoa, whoa, whoa… this blog is shifty and for un-grown ups?
I’m soooo outta here. If only I had known sooner.
Last 5 posts on cVillain:
Charlottesville recession
Larry Sabato’s earmark problem
Car crime statistics
Pool at Meade Park opening
Swine flu diarist
First 5 stories in C-Ville Weekly’s rotator:
25 unique “local” experiences
Artini III pimping
Hard-hitting journalistic piece on pink wine
Casteen retiring
Interview with local band Sons of Bill
Which one is supposed to be serious and grown up?
Aaaaand Doc nails it.
that piece on pink wine should shift on over to Cvillain
that pink wine article has more cliche than a bottle of clicquot has bubbles.
“…anyone caught analyzing the taste of a rosé should have his glass taken away immediately.”
perhaps that’s only true if the writer lacks the ability to actually analyze the taste of a rose.
yeah, I get what he is getting at. rosé is “fun” and “light” and shouldn’t be taken too seriously, but you can still analyze the taste, g’dammit.
its a she this week. (where’s toby?) seriously. there are all those fruity-shit rosés
that taste like they’re pink & there are actually ones that have other flavors.
how do you make the accent aigu so i don’t have to keep copying & pasting shen’s?
push Alt + 130 or Alt + 0233
“Option+e” then “e” on a mac.
Or just use this awesome web utility…
http://www.copypastecharacter.com/
(clicking on a character copies it to your clipboard)
/♪♫ tra la la ♫
Way cool…. a depressed snowman wearing a fez. I’m using that everywhere☃… look I just did.
Oh sheeeit. This site’s going downhill now. ☝☝☝☝☝
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thanks! …um, i don’t know what a clipboard is.
☼☼☼When you copy something to paste it somewhere else, the “clipboard” is where it is stored. ☼☼☼
Srsly. Rosés have taste notes too.
But I lurve you Wistar. Why would you say such a thing?
PS there’s a link to her blog in the lower right corner, let’s go there and spurt BS
that list = FAIL
and by “that list” i mean wistar’s list of 25
.
Wistar? It’s nice that Cville lets you use your “gamer” log in but was Wii-star already taken?
that’s her real name jerko
Wistar is also the name of the breed all lab rats are descended from-
Vinegar Hill isn’t just a movie theater.
Yeah… there’s a super McDonalds there too! …and that Staples rocks.
And a hotel that nearly drained city coffers dry. Don’t forget the beloved OMNI!
i adore Wistar, flat-out. She may have been under constraints from the publisher (not editor)? She’s commented here before, I think, and certainly has supported us tacitly and very much supported other less-visible alt-media ventures/blogs/ labels/etc. on her own blog. I also like Cathy a whole ton-of-a-bunch.
But it may just be that this is part of a general local game and set-up of inter-media antangonism? a healthy mutual needling, as practiced by Hook against what they call ‘The Other Paper’ with some humor, and Waldo’s crack about us all being 19 yrs-old median-age and frivolous?
/waldo’s CvilleNews is a more ‘achieved’ work than his aborted live-feed appalachian-trail diary, e.g.
/haven’t seen the article yet, but keenly anticipating the study of it.
/lawsuits filed against: The Hook, The Cville Review, CvilleNews, Cvillain, Flavour Magazine…
Something else is wrong about this I just can’t put my finger on it.
I think I can put my finger on it.
What’s the point of linking to that? I don’t get it.
I have a question. What is so “essential Charlottesville” about:
4. Walk to work
14. Volunteer
21. Fight a parking ticket
22. Dabble in graphic design, writing, or architecture
Oh, I totally forgot, people in other towns don’t have legs, so they can’t walk to work, nor hearts so they don’t volunteer. Meanwhile, the justice system thanks the citizens of other cities for not fighting their parking tickets like those darn rabblerousers in Charlottesville.
Heck, even 3. Tailgate a UVA football game isn’t that unique. Other than the team, there is no difference between tailgating at UVA and tailgating everywhere else.
The ‘walk to work’ idea is discriminatory towards those with one leg that have to hop, due to a broken or lost prosthetic device. I would sue if I was a mono-ped.
Jesus! Why do people ALWAYS say this. God. I wish they would just stop, cuz it sucks.
i wish you would just stop bitching about other people’s comments. SRSLY.
You’re bitching about him bitching? This should be pretty.
Thor, that was a joke you dumbass
i meta’ed your brain.
Oh well fuck me
Oh shit we’re proving her right. Quick, someone discuss the angiopolitical ramificationism of the sociolious classology.
Which country?
pre- or post-industrial?
honesty though cvillain is here to talk about whatever.. we have plenty of meaningful conversations and plenty of conversations about frivolous things, but who cares. we’re not trying to pretend that people only talk about IMPORTANT SOCIOLOGICAL RAMIFICATIONS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY, REAL POLITIC, DEVELOPMENT OR WHATEVER OF CHARLOTESVILLE..
people want to know what’s going on with each other just as much as they care about “real” issues or whatever you want to call those which a VERY small group of people think are officially non-bs.
/not an elitist.
“Not an elitist”? Come on now, you’re a frickin’ Norse god, moderator, and now possible Shenanigans boy toy.
points 1 and 2 are obviously part of compensating for being a lessor mortal in real life. point 3 is a compliment for shen.
How long a line would that be?
when did that happen? Honestly can we get a post on what’s going on in the courtship of Shenanigans? That would be shifty.
I mean nifty.
You can all STFU.
You started it by offering Thor your virtue- just sayin’
I did no such thing. I uttered a saying. It’s similar to “Well, I’ll be damned” It’s not my fault you’re a perv and take things literally.
Ok you right, with the way you curse it’s unthinkable that the many snarkers on the board would want to take that the wrong way. Your use of the cursing invective not properly referenced to a predicate allows for numerous interpretations to issue from said invective. How else can we prove are shiftiness without such glaring examples of miscommunication?
Why do you think option #6 in the poll is doing so well?
Oh yeah, because having a potty mouth= slut.
Now you’re a sexist pig too.
PS English isn’t your native language, is it?
is dieter a foreign? is his name pronounced DEE-TER, like Mike Meyers’ character on Sprockets? until now, I always just assumed he was always on a diet.
she, methinks
Dieter is an albino male.
and albino lab rats are called wistar
You didn’t do all the math- it’s more algebraic then you’ve shown.
For example do sluts have more of a potty mouth then non-sluts?
Are there many potty mouths who talk a good game but are really not sluts?
Is it fun to tease those who over react ?
Dr. rontinJ- You may not touch my monkey- unless of course it was necessary during a medical exam
Wistar= albino rats? Whoa. You blew my mind. This thread is on so many levels. Shifty, my ass. THAT IS NOT A PROPOSITION
we need Hipsterbot to tell us what the new angiopolitical ramificationism of the sociolious classology is!
FYI, we don’t know if Wistar wrote that or it was written by an editor.
Cvillenews is boring as shit. I guess being “grownup” int he blogosphere = being boring.
How come the Cville or The Hook doesn’t publish local sports scores/stories and weekly paid obituary’s then the Daily Regress could just simply go away a little more quickly? And do we really need both The Hook and The Cville? Wouldn’t it be cheaper for local business if they could just advertise in one? Are they that different? That special, that cutting edge. I think NOT.
they are interchangeable, to me. oh, one has the rant.
When I was new here, bout ten years ago, I was always excited when the new weekly came out. It allowed me to distract myself from the existential dilemma for an hour or so. Then the weekly underwent miosis (mitosis?) and there were two, and I had double the distraction.
Then time went on and the quality went down and I realized that they were just printing the same self congratulatory shit again and again. They killed Savage Love to cow tow to the bouffant encrusted thought police. There was a weekly column updating me on what “Dave” was doing. The personals were stagnant. The non-syndicated cartoons almost aggressively bad. That horrible career advice woman appeared with her useless smarm. The same local “players” were fellated again and again and again. Every month there was a ‘20 year old crime’ filler story. Franklin Gothic Black came and went, came and went….
It beat me down. I couldn’t even be distracted when I was looking for something, anything to distract me. (which is pretty hard to do). I realized I got more fun of silently making fun of the pet rabbit psychics and lavender space gurus in Echo. These two weeklies have been at it a while. They should be better. But whatever, who am I to judge?
your ennui is infectious.
What? More sarcastic attacks?
FWIW, if you knew the circumstances of me landing in this berg, you would understand that ennui was the least of my worries. That is all in the past now. Now the weeklies just bore me.
Echo remains a bastion of ludicrous unintentional hilarity. Its like a Master Charles family reunion up in that bitch.
touchy, touchy. i respect the ennui.
Then the weekly underwent miosis (mitosis?) and there were two
The geek in me can’t allow it: An easy way to remember which one is which … mitosis- remember it as miTWOsis and that’s the one that multiplies, the other one is meiosis= meiONEsis which is chromosomes dividing ‘n shit.
Now you know and will never forget.
Ah thank you! Any advice on the stalagtite / stalagmite dichotomy?
/metatarsals and metacarpals i have down….
yes that one is easy… when your tights fall down, the mites run up your legs (tights being Eurospeak for pantyhose.) I would imagine mites to be the least of your problem in that situation but there you go.
Any thing else I can help you with?
I always thought of the M in stalagmites as the way that the grow (sort of pointy like the letter “M”).
I always remembered stalaGmites, G=ground, and stalaCtites, C=ceiling
I always remembered by looking at someone else’s paper.
she herself is ENTIRELY above reproach and not one of ‘those girls’ herself; I know this and attest to her probity without hesitation, but she left out the quintessential cville gal rite-of-passage:
being a 17-19 yr-old girl and wandering downtown looking for ‘fun and real life’ or taking a part-time restaurant job, but only getting drunk/picked-up/and done by some creepy old-guy bartender or band-member (who doesn’t bathe) on a sheetless dirty mattress on the floor in a group-house squat and then being brutally dumped when a new groupie shows up.
It’s time for “Weird Stuff I Make up” with your host otterdung
why DOES otterdung think every woman (except for wistar) is an unwitting skank? it seems to be a point he returns to more often than he should. is he just doing it to annoy me?
I think he’s been screwed over by lots of women
@67
yup.
i’m hoping you’re not yourself an unwitting skank, whence the annoyance. if so, apologies.
i speak from 20 years’ intimate experience of downtown mall bohemian and restaurant scene.
certainly not every woman, no more than every person does any of the other things on the list. it is however a readily observable and consistent trend/experience in the downtown. one of my best friends, bartender, had done approx 132 painfully young women in about 5 years of tending bar. another of my best friends, band-member has similar numbers and similar ages. these are by no means exceptional stats.
their participation does not forcibly make these women unwitting skanks. read The Bell Jar.
aw.
you might want to find some nicer friends cause they’ll probably have nicer women hanging around them. as an unwitting skank myself, i can’t personally ATTEST to the existence of nice women, but I’ve HEARD there are some around. somewhere.
i wouldn’t be so hard on them, it’s just that i CARE, you know, care for that grim-reckoning the morning or many years after when they realize….whatever they realize. And assuming widespread drinking-underage, illegal-drug use, drinking-while-driving… what’s a little (a lot of) statutory rape amongst friends?
true to the nicer friends. i went with the nicer-parts of Cville and left the rest, good and bad, behind so as not to regularly ahve my delicate sensibilities bruised… that is, until UVAgrape started saying ‘p*ssy’ all the time.
i heard there was one in rural Iowa, once.
you sometimes get really jaded working on/off with battered women, SARA, and the Women’s Center.
oh no you did not just play the “i work with sexual assault victims” card
Spelling it p*ssy like it’s a bad word makes you look like a pussy.
“i heard there was one in rural iowa, once.”
dude.
i am so offended.
What’chu tryin’ to say about Iowa?
IOWA=Idiots Out Walking Around
shit, row. is iowa the only place you didn’t live, once and rurally, being nice? sorry, i DID mean you.
and now, a message from our sponsors:
*every girl and boy deserves to wear white.
*Web W. Knightism is good differential diagnosis.
*with Simona gone, someone needs to counterpoint that the concept of virtue in persons (not genders) is alien to most, outmoded to all, and substantially absent from Cville.
/monica lewinsky didn’t inhale either.
“i wouldn’t be so hard on them, it’s just that i CARE, you know, care for that grim-reckoning the morning or many years after when they realize….whatever they realize.”
what if they realize they had a good time and learned some stuff?
all due sympathy, but you aren’t gonna be running into ladies who’ve had positive experiences lately at the battered women’s shelter. ya know?
I think he just used to hang around with some hos
he’s got hos in different area codes
that’s cool, no issue with hos or hanging around them unless it starts to make a person ASSUME s/he knows what’s up with a whole gender. then it’s bull shite.
Otter’s psychosis can be ascribed to a rare and here-to-fore unknown flavor of Internet White Knight-ism. Its very curious and needs further study.
Either that, or he has a trunk load of scarlet letters he is trying to unload from a leveraged position.
I think what Otter is trying to say is beauty fades, loneliness is forever
http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Failure-to-Launch-When-Beauty-Fades
Sorry, I’m super pressed for time these days I wish I had more time to argue about gender romance stuff (seriously, I love that shit) . . .
thanks Simona: don’t ever go changin’. yes, dead on.
Psssht I call bullshit. He was just rambling about what he thinks typical 17-19 year old C-ville girls are into. In his head.
But I do like me some Elizabeth Wurtzel. So…not a total FAIL.
i loved Simona’s article–she’s right in that i TRY to say such things, but stumble horribly.
heh heh heh to ticktock.
i think typical ones aren’t like that at ALL, Shen. At all.
but cville is esp pernicious, and a certain subclass of 30-40-ish downtown restaurant/bohemian/band/slacker/grad type trains himself to succeed in preying on 17-21 yr-olds. a phenom not exclusive to this town, but incredibly prevalent here.
what are you two kids doing awake at this hour anyhow? go watch a dvd or smooch or something–get off the damn interwebz—it’ll rot your brains.
Hey CVillain-
I’m on vacation and haven’t had a chance to read all your comments or all the fallout from the 25 Essential story, but I’m sorry if that line seemed directed at this website. It was meant to be a compliment to Waldo’s blog and not an insult to CVillain, which hosts many fine comments and many not so fine, like most blogs. The C-Ville editorial team came up with the list and I just filled in the content. I’ll respond at more length later but I promise I didn’t mean to start a controversy. I love all my Charlottesville people, C-Ville and CVillain alike.
Wistar
I really think it’s too early in our relationship for you to be dropping the L-bomb.
Wistar is so cute and awsome!
Seeeeeeeeee?!
How about a drink, first?
to sum up, most of what goes into CVILLE is the result of top-down myopic inanity, and the grunts on the front lines just end up filling in the blanks.
“No. The girls are easier over here.”
it would appear that evidence is being presented to the contrary. anyone want to take back their vote?
Happening.
Oh, acrimony
rampant in Cvillain hearts,
you always amuse.
Smirk upon my face,
what way can I enfeeble?
You suck and I don’t.
The shrill, haughty attempt at tongue-in-cheek humor is much more offensive than any mention of commenting on “shifty” blogs. I didn’t think the Cville could irritate me more than they did with their constant, inexplicable pandering to the Belmont folks and their precious gumbo restaurant. Dear god. But “25 Things” takes that level of irritating and raises it by a factor of ten.
I’ll keep this post brief. I believe I’ll go dabble in some architecture, writing or graphic design. Sounds like a cute little way to pass the time.
Don’t you love that the highlight of living here is eating donuts?
not donuts, tho … spudnuts
They’re just fried pastry dough, for fuck’s sake.
But…
/exhales waft of American Spirit smoke
…this place IS inane.
It doesn’t surprise me that the Cville would give kudos to Waldo Jaquith. It would be easy for me to go on and on about why I believe Waldo and his projects are worthy of mention – and I am just one person that has known him professionally for about ten years. The Cville could probably devote an entire issue to Waldo and it would make a great read.
The interesting thing is that I never would have considered this any sort of slam against cvillain.com unless I heard that particular opinion – or read it on cvillain.com. The fact that you made this a post – and highlighted the sentence that you decided was speaking directly to “you” is a pretty good sign that it might actually be time to grow up.
This site/concept seemed to have a lot of potential when it launched but somehow seems to have morphed into an online clique and the comments really aren’t worth reading most of the time.
Hey – it’s just my opinion – and I do believe you still take posts from those of us that visit from time to time – but don’t reside here. Hopefully those that have a vested interest in this site do take the time to read through the responses. Whether they/you/him/she cares – is beyond me.
The fact that I am even posting means that I am opening myself up to the possibility of a bevy of juvenile responses. Luckily, I don’t really care.
regardless of what the site has evolved into, the fact remains it is wildly popular and saves thousands of local villains on a daily basis from mean bosses, TPS reports, etc…..
Zing we welcome you.
No, but it’s okay because we all like, totally went out last night and did shots together. So much fun. See you next Tuesday ya’ll! Insert inside joke here!
Yeah….. especially since the story was about him, and the time he got caught with his cock in a rainwater barrel. Wot a laff.
I was just trying to ’stave’ off a little boredom.
/aquaphilliac
hahahaha…I was referring to Ethan not you… but you just confessed to banging a rain-barrel so it’s all good.
LOL. HILarious. So…Vert wants us to meet up next week but he said to totally not invite otterdung so don’t tell him you guys. Also I hear rhymeswithorange is hooking up with Dr. RotinaJ.
i forget who vert is. is she the one who asked if i ‘do this stuff just to annoy’ her?
either way, i think i may have a dentist appointment… in Azherbizhan… that evening, so many thanks but i’ll have to give it a miss!
bottoms-up, y’all (I can specify WHICH bottoms, but I suspect you’ll employ both, and in the up position).
totally
oh I am so glad I got the invite
shh, you’re going to make the lurkers jealous
“The fact that I am even posting means that I am opening myself up to the possibility of a bevy of juvenile responses.”
Janis, please don’t be that way. You know you are always welcome here!
lol “Real Locals” I could probably count the amount of Cville natives that post here on one hand.
The fuck is this? Venice Beach?
Yes
six-foot overhead break, Bra.
Hey – it’s just my opinion – but this sucks. Where’s the snarktastic wit of old? The kooky yet somehow relevant posts of yore? For all intense porpoises, this is turning into a glorified IRC/forum meltdown of anonymous (somewhat), vindictive, passive-aggressive, personal attacks.
Veuve Clique-y or not, what an interesting platform to dive into the cyber-collective conscious of this city. Whether you meant to or not, your ‘personality’, thoughts, opinions, etc. permeated through my own growing number of experiences and provided me with moments of “aha! i get it” whereas I’d be lost or oblivious to the strangely complex social bubbles of this town.
A butterfly flits its wings in Belmont and some poor Joe loses his job at LexisNexis while somewhere on the strangely cursory yet labyrinthine Downtown Mall Miss Daddys Moneybags is playing grown up with shady men at the bar (shen, love you, but it does happen).
The point of Cvillain, IMHO, is not so much the initial posts, queries, announcements, info, etc. as it is the subsequent tangents, diverted conversations; all inexplicably a lexicographical representation of who this city is, the people who live here, the people who used to live, the people who will live here, and the people who don’t want to live here anymore. This site never has, in any way, not welcomed those who happen upon this admittedly intimidating source of information, relevant or otherwise. It sets standards for its users and patrons but but doesn’t set about controlling people’s opinions, reactions, etc. for the sake of making one feel welcome. That’s what neighbors are for.
Nothing here should be taken literally, the posts or its posters. Again, just an opinion.
/had much more to say…mais, tres fatigue.
I would say that you are somewhat mistaken if you seriously think that NOTHING we post on this blog should taken literally. WTF?
minor glitch in the synapses, chum. used the wrong word. at work, exhausted, thoroughly and cynically amused by anything and everything at the moment.
What I meant was (paying attention, Thursty?), Nothing here should be taken so seriously, the posts or its posters.
A statement more directed at those who are overly sensitive to the supposed clique-ishness, depravity, irrelevance, unprofessionalism, etcetera, etcetera.