Guys: NBC. Have you heard of it? Maybe? Sorta kinda? Yeah, it’s pretty famous. It’s a network television station. They have a show called "The Today Show" and other shows, too. Now, as some people might remember, NBC went through a rough period with the end of "Seinfeld" and "Friends," but the network is back […]
Occasionally there are sites I like to give shout outs to not because they have any staying power or even any significant entertainment value beyond an initial five minutes, but because the initial five minutes you spend at the site are more entertaining that the first five minutes you spend on other sites. These sites […]
Why are the most obvious things always the last things to come to mind? In other words, why haven’t I written about the Charlottesville Blogs site yet? Realizing that I hadn’t written about it yet for this column was like the time I was giving a stranger directions to the Rotunda that involved many lefts […]
Every day I seem to realize anew that people are crazy. Every day this elicits from me some comment to some person along the lines of “People are crazy,” “It blows my mind how crazy people are,” or “How do people walk around all day inside these brains? They’re crazy!” Inevitably, my companion accepts these […]
I am getting to that age of being just past the age of being able to stay abreast of the latest “thing.” I know this because I do not know the answer to the question, “Is Facebook already passé?” But when I asked a friend who works at Wired whether these social networking sites were […]
Sitting at dinner with a few friends the other night, one friend recounted how, when she used to babysit, she would set the clocks ahead and tell the kids it was time to go to bed; she would then raid the refrigerator. “Literally,” she said, “I would change the clocks.” Another friend—a high school English […]
For months now it’s seemed everyone has been biting their nails in anticipation of when the housing bubble is going to burst. Well, the needle may finally have touched the balloon: Toll Brothers—the nation’s largest builder of luxury homes, previously reported by C-VILLE to be scouting Albemarle for future development opportunities—recently announced plans to scale […]
For 25 years hippie artists David and Elizabeth Breeden have been sitting on 1,000 acres of prime property just five minutes south of town. But last spring the Breedens put much of Forest Lodge, as their property is known, on the market. Speculation as to who would grab the hefty parcel ran rampant—but lately, a […]
It’s not uncommon for a common type of snob to thumb his or her nose at the notion of "anthology," be it an anthology of modern American poetry (ah, Norton) or an emo-themed mix CD. I’ve never really held that attitude, preferring instead to just be thankful that there are people out there that have […]
One of the best and worst things about Charlottesville is that it’s a small town. This is a dichotomy that I have long struggled with: On the one hand, I delight in knowing a good piece of gossip about the random person sitting next to me at the bar; on the other hand, I cringe […]