If you have a brain you know that Richmond’s biggest problem is the race/class divide left to us by four hundred years of racism. We’ve talked about it a length. It affects every aspect of our city in deep and complex ways. This I know. What I don’t know is why the Richmond Free Press [...]
Tagged by J! This was originally “eight habits or facts,” but habits are so much more interesting than facts. If I run out of habits I guess I will thrown in a few facts. Every night I brush my teeth and then read about fifteen verses of the Bible. Me and the wife have been [...]
Today Catherine Keiper posted a comment on my recent post about the Department of Community Development’s charrette. It wasn’t necessarily about the charrette and I feel like it might derail interesting conversation about Richmond. So I deleted the comment and have reposted it here: Hey Ross. I read your comments you left on my husband’s [...]
This weekend was the downtown Master Plan kickoff and hands on session. Much has been said of it across the internets (particularly here and here). Instead of rehashing what people have already said I thought I would list out some of my group’s (including Joe Kohl of Dover & Kohl. Hey do you guys need [...]
Wtf is a charrette first of all? I have no idea; my dictionary *and* spellchecker are both clueless. From what I hear, if you care about Richmond and are interested in having your input included in Richmond’s Master Plan you need to attend this “charette.” The deets are: 6.30pm tonight (Friday the 20th) at Plant [...]
Since we had such a grande ol’ tyme doing the zombie epic we decided to start a new fictional project: Gifted & Talented. In fact I set up a whole new website to hold all of our ongoing and (hopefully) future fictional projects. You can check it out at fiction.haduken.com. Read it and weep.
There goes our last chance of having a Virginian in the White House in 2008. The esteemed Jim Gilmore has dropped out of the race. During his brief candidacy, many people wondered, “why is he even running?” Many more wondered, “who is that guy?” In any case, it goes to show you that even if [...]
Here’s my share of this weeks haul:
As previously mentioned I’ve been MIA from my good and loyal Internets friends as a result of lumber, nails, and cement. After fourish days of intense labor I got a fence! Pics after the jump.
I have been MIA from the Internets for close to a week now. I had a fence to build. I don’t really *do* things that physically manifest themselves in the real world: sheds, fences, mowing, yardwork, etc. But last week, along with the help of my father (really my father with the help of me) [...]
This weekend the wife and I took a trip up to Fxburg to see Matt and Maura and explore the mysterious Rappahannock River. Let me say a few things. First the clientele at the Fredricksburg section of the Rappahannock are different than those I see down at our River. They are less … sophisticated. I [...]
I’m not saying that the DIE HARD/TRANSFORMERS fever that is sweeping the nation (particularly my peers) isn’t justified. I am just bewildered to say the least, as I apparently missed both the Die Hard and the Transformers train the first time it swept through town*. It is fascinating how much you all start squirming, pumping [...]