Monday, December 06, 2004

Greensboro is rated a dangerous place for pedestrians. I buy it. My neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks and it is a scary place to walk or drive at night. But as Sam Hieb notes, at least part of the problem is with the pedestrians. Every weekday morning, the stretch of Greene Street by the city hall complex looks like a video game where you try not to hit people darting out into the road. As reported previously, the offenders represent "a heartwarming diversity of dumbness." This morning, it was a bottle-blond in a bright red sweater, talking on a cell phone as she sauntered across the street. I had to come to a full stop to avoid hitting her. This block is a real problem. Is it going to take a fatality for Greensboro police to do something about it? 1:35:16 PM    comment []

ACC Hoops: "The ACC dominated SEC this weekend. It wasn't a formal thing like the Big 10 challenge, but there were several games and the ACC won them all." 1:18:38 PM    comment []

From Eric Muller's Reason mag review of Michelle Malkin's pro-internment book:"(E)ven political columnists are bound by ordinary rules of inference and logic, and it is on this score that her book fails even more spectacularly." 1:16:25 PM    comment []

UNC law is recruiting John Edwards. 1:07:15 PM    comment []

David Wharton: "(T)he biggest change at the north end of downtown Greensboro in the next few years will be the transformation of Summit Avenue." He wonders if Greensboro developers will recognize the opportunity. 1:05:21 PM    comment []

The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission has moved into an office in downtown Greensboro, and is beginning the public phase of its work. Beginning in January 2005, the seven-member Commission will take testimonial statements and analyze documents, including court papers, newspaper articles, and police reports, in its quest to produce a detailed report about the events of November 3, 1979 in Greensboro's Morningside Homes. -- Chewie World Order 8:59:22 AM    comment []

If you want to know why normal people are intimidated and grossed out by the art world, the NYT is part of the problem. Whatever the self-involved glamor factor of Art Basel may be, the Times has covered that aspect of the art fair as the lead story. The Times isn't making it up, just spending a lot of ink on it. Lisa survived the fabulousness pretty well. She went to a dinner party where this guy did the seating arrangements by feeling the energy of each guest and then assigning them a seat. Man, she didn't let me feel her energy until our fourth date. My favorite Times quote was from our old pal (and former Weatherspoon curator) Amy Cappellazzo, now co-head of contemporary art for Christie's worldwide. Said Amy of her rich clients who flocked to the show: "They'd prefer to spend $500,000 here or at auction on something they could buy privately for $50,000. These people are traders, and they're incredibly savvy about markets." Hmm. If they are that savvy about markets, wouldn't they prefer to pay market rates instead of 10x? But that's why Amy is where she is, and I'm not: the art market has its own logic. 8:30:33 AM    comment []