19 MAR 06: THE BUSY SEASON
I had a topic in mind for today - but so much is happening this weekend that I've decided to take a quick look at all of that, and get to that big topic on Monday. Saddle your ponies, here we go....
+ A source I tend to trust tells your blog the Mediterranean Café on Sidney Simons Boulevard has lost its liquor license. I'm not sure what happened to cause this. Perhaps the ouzo had too much booze-o....
+ Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue visited local Republicans at the Columbus Trade Center. I wonder if anyone asked the Governor if he had any regrets about releasing the money to expand the building a couple of years ago.
(Sonny Perdue came to Columbus to talk about the new Kia plant, and about improving education. But I didn't hear any reporter ask him the most vital question of the week - is he for or against Jane Fonda?)
+ Democrats held their own rally and barbecue in Russell County - and some people in attendance wondered why more people don't "get off the couch" and vote. Has it ever occurred to them that voters find the singers on "American Idol" much more believable and likeable?
+ WRBL revealed Columbus police found a meth house recently on Fulton Road. It was a vacant house owned by developer John Flournoy. So which realtor tipped off police to this?
+ Columbus State University held a "topping" ceremony for its "Riverpark" arts campus downtown. Let's all be thankful C.S.U. has no budding performance artists, who illustrated the topping with Cool Whip.
(I saw a tent up for this ceremony above the Columbus Riverwalk, didn't know why it was there - and wondered if S.O.A. Watch has decided to be like NASCAR, and hold two events in Georgia each year.)
+ The annual "Thunder in the Valley" Air Show began at Columbus International Airport. Dozens of noisy planes took to the sky - yet somehow, Phil Carter still was able to scream over them in Bill Heard Chevrolet's commercials.
+ The Lanett Airport was closed for improvements, relating to the planned Kia plant in West Point. If Lanett calls its airport "international" before Columbus does....
+ "The Great Columbus Clean-Up" was held at the Civic Center. I didn't quite understand the reason for this - because didn't Lonnie Jackson recruit all sorts of groups to do this the last two months?!
(But seriously: The Great Columbus Clean-Up allowed people to turn in all sorts of recyclable items. Keep Columbus Beautiful even accepted computer items - and who knows how many of those mainframes with Celeron processors had dents in them.)
+ Phenix City staged what may have been this area's first St. Patrick's Day parade. This couldn't happen on Broadway in Columbus, of course - because too many drunks would have tripped over curbs and construction tools in the Streetscape blocks.
+ The Columbus RiverCenter put tickets on sale for "Lord of the Dance" April 17. Someone told me this sort of show shouldn't be in Columbus so soon after "Riverdance." Wait until this man learns the Columbus Symphony actually has
concerts more than once a year.
+ WCGT-TV 16 presented a "Saturday Night Special" version of the gospel music show "Video Inspirations" - including a commercial for Phenix City palm reader Prophetess Mary. Is THAT how the prophets of the Bible were inspired to write those lengthy books?
+ GCW "Hi-Voltage" showed a pro wrestler in Columbus named "The Biohazard." We don't know how many fans with ringside seats passed out, after holding their breath for several minutes....
+ Comer Gymnasium hosted the Georgia state Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Only a couple of miles from there, the phrase "golden gloves" refers to what the dinner servers wear at Green Island Country Club.
+ The Blue team beat the White team in Auburn University's annual "A-Day" football game. But shouldn't we be a bit concerned when the final score of this game is 7-0, while the Cottonmouths won their hockey game 11-5?
(The leading receiver in the A-Day game was someone named Tommy Trott. Only a couple of years ago, Auburn University officials were preparing for something else with this name -- as they chased the head coach out of town.)
+ In an NCAA basketball playoff game WRBL actually broadcast, Alabama was ousted by UCLA 60-59. The Crimson Tide did well, considering they ended the year with only seven healthy scholarship players. Cut down one more, and they'll match Bobby Cremins's old Georgia Tech teams.
(What? What's that your saying? What about Kansas? Uhhhhhh -- all I can say is that the NCAA ban on the Bradley Braves nickname is starting one year too late.)
+ Instant Message to the driver I saw go around TWO cars on Second Avenue, then turn right in front of them at Fourth Street to cross the Oglethorpe Bridge: I don't know where you were going - but I hope you had to stand in line for about 15 minutes once you got there.
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