Oh goody!  We now have a live webcam (via Action Greensboro) so we can all witness the destruction of part of Greensboro's history from the comfort of our cubicles.  The 1927 Bulington Industries Headquarters is in the foreground - Davis Love's old office is in the left corner on the second floor.  The Westerwood Neighborhood is in the background awaiting the first pitch in the new ballpark is slated to occupy the webcammed site in 2005.

On a related note: Two observations from a drive through downtown today.

I noticed concrete being poured at the site for Action Greensboro's new Center City Park.  Gravel is transient, trees and flowers can be moved easily enough, but concrete is, well... concrete.  How does anyone yet know where to pour concrete since the design firm that would supposedly finalize such things hasn't even been selected? 

A bunch of people were looking around the old Pet Dairy building on Summit Avenue.  They had neckties, clipboards and someone who speaks with heavy hand gestures in the entourage.  Maybe since the Palms is going to be folded into the new baseball stadium site they have decided to move the venerable club closer to the Aycock Neighborhood.  That would be fine by me, I wouldn't have to don nearly as much gay apparel to keep warm in the nasty weather because it would be just a short stroll on my way to take in the drag shows.

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The Carolina Peacemaker reports that Rev. Al Sharpton issued "(a) warning about the perils of forgetting the past..." and that he urged the audience to watch out for "Negro amnesia" during his recent visit to Greensboro to receive the Alston-Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award.

Best selling author Jerry Bledsoe, in a special to the Rhino Times, writes of a different amnesia and labels the Alston-Jones Award to Sharpton a "travesty".  Bledsoe rips: "Did they just not care that they might be forever tainting the sit-in museum with anti-Semitism, racial hatred and charlatanism in presenting this award to Al Sharpton?"

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I spent last night setting up categories for my blog.  Although everything is not working correctly yet, the categories over there, in the link box------------------->>>>>> will simplify navigation and organize everything as this blog gets larger.

It takes a while to go back through six month's worth of posts and categorize them but I figure if I do a month per night, I'll be done soon.  New categories are being added as I run across various entries.

Lex emailed me that my site has been loading slowly over the last few days, I am working on it.  I've got some scripting error that I haven't yet been able to locate

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