Our City is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year. That is put into perspective when one sees a 30th generation Japanese rice farmer displaced from ancestral fields by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt.
We don’t have that sort of multi-generational continuity here. We don’t have any 250 year old trees, people get impatient and cut the big ones down. We do have a nuke-u-lar plant the next county over. We care for the parts of our history that don’t interfere with the seamless operation of automobiles.
We are sensitive revisionists, we ask “is the military statuary appropriate?”
We remake the place. We remove the parts that offend. Then we apologize.
Category: dolls
snow
Guard doll.
day of rest
“Church door close due to Rapture.
Sinners you’re to late.”–Rt 312, eastern NC
laughing mannequin
Saw one of these in Staunton. Saw two more in Beaufort. They are multiplying. Kuru mannequins.
stake out
The Commonwealth of Virginia vs. George Wesley Huguely, V continues in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, 315 High Street, Charlottesville, VA. Media have the entrances covered. Unobserved approach would be subterranean or under the cover of smoke or darkness.
150 years ago the cavalry had a knack for arriving where it was unexpected but technology has erased that advantage. Even Thomas Jonathan Jackson mounted on Little Sorrel can’t outflank the radio waves.
boomer rodents
Your grandparents can provide you the names of these revisionist chipmunks.
Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet consisting of grain, nuts, fruit, berries, birds’ eggs, small frogs, fungi, worms, insects and on occasions small mammals like young mice.–Wikipedia
The voices of the group were all performed by Bagdasarian, who sped up the playback to create high-pitched voices.–Wikipedia
caution: RISD student ahead
earlier fork
flier
Statue was once on the edge of a cliff. Now it is in the middle of a plaza, trivialized by the flat pedestrian surround.
R.E. Lee
solitary commander, rebels arrested
wheelbarrow
early stages of the Christmas setup