Epic Failure in a national magazine about West Asheville

Mens Journal a fairly respected magazine printed a little article about West Asheville, you can read this here.

The problem with this is yes its in fact a pipe dream, a very misleading dream.  The article talks of how quaint and remarkable, with of course mentions the gut wrenching "Progressive" title.

Ok here are a few facts . . . . 

Haywood road is a decent area, decent, not this orgasmic land of bliss and perfect harmony that its painted by some.  It has its charms most of which are run of the mill restaurants and trendy eateries.  But beyond this Colony there is an evil side, a very dark and sinister side.  28806 is considered by most to be West Asheville, well in this area code there are no less then 3 section 8 projects that are notorious for crime activity.  The types of crime are, prostitution, drugs, robberies, assaults, and various other minor crimes.  Yes this does spill out into the other streets and neighborhoods in the 28806 area code so no, the Colony doesn't represent this area fairly, nor accurately.  There is a reason why the "locals" call this area "Worst Asheville", and by locals I mean the folks that have lived here all their life and call this place home, not "Paris of the South".

This area also has a business that is notorious for violating alcohol laws as well as drug laws, plus to boot someone was shot in the face on the premises.  This area also claims a good bit of the river where bodies are found, and found often.  Places in this area that we have not mentioned you do not go into at night, or during the day.

Jumping the Shark

Ok not like that but you know where the term comes from right?  No, then watch this was definition of  a TV program going down hill, same can be applied to local bloggers.

The reason for this; is that several local bloggers think of themselves as celebrities and the authority of news or opinion.  The biggest issue is they take themselves entirely too serious in the fact they are just a blogger, like your humble writer typing this.  Sometimes a blogger will get a chance to write for a local rag and first start of doing ok because their writing style is just ok, no offense, not everyone can be everyones failure's hero, Hunter S Thompson (yeah I said it, its called free speech get used to it).  So they write for this rag, and suddenly it becomes musings of their children . . . . yeah no one cares about your kids, your favorite beers, the stress of growing old, and how artsy you claim to be with your average B/W photography.

Others have a blog that has entirely jumped said shark in other ways and thats loosing focus of your original message:  Asheville the good and the bad to; Asheville the land of milk and honey where nothing bad happens.  Sad to say lots of bad things happen here and Im just not talking about crime I am talking about the whole city at large and in her wrinkles, the caked on makeup, and some people taking advantage of the still grand old Lady, Lady Asheville.  I live here too and blowing smoke up my ass doesn't help your case or cloud my viewing, and I lived here longer then the lot of them trying to tell me something I missed.   

I know for a fact parts of town are dangerous not just at night but during the day as well, some people don't get this about any town.  All they see is that horrible moniker "Paris of the South" not Asheville the city, or Asheville the largest city in between Knoxville TN and Greensboro NC.  They are blind to the town around them and roll right along unknowing that this cities economy is living off life support, that the infrastructure is on borrowed time and that those in this city with an agenda care nothing for the city is at stake.  

The only care that is given is to the loud crowd and a overrated arts community that wants every nickel and dime of tax money but does nothing for the city, yet they have a District.  A district of ratty buildings in a crappy part of town, thats not a district at all its a couple of blocks that claims to be its own entity just like the colony of Haywood road.  The Colony is one strip of road that looks like its own town that is now being propped up as hip area.  Step outside that area in multiple directions and you will a much different story.

Im not painting a negative picture, but trying to shine a light on the problems, because ignoring problems does not make them go away.  City Hall needs 3 million in repairs and the city is more occupied with building yet ANOTHER park in an area of town that makes no sense to build a new park.  Downtown associations give money freely to a group that gives nothing back to the community then a feel good feeling, a drum circle.  Its about as original and thoughtful as a street musicians spread throughout the world, but some people think they help.  Yeah someone might buy a beer or soda and watch the noise pollution for an hour.  Big whoop, what about the the rest of the community at large here and you think what this brings in is that staggering amount of cash to the downtown area.  They bill this ritual as "Family Fare" but all thats downtown is Bars, clubs, and coffee shops, with a trinket store here and there, wow down town has family written all over it.

Asheville is NOT weird . . . Another insult to my fair lady Asheville

So the Asheville Downtown Association (ADA) is giving the the Drum users of Pritchard Park in downtown some more toys.

Now I know this is a non-profit orginization but these people boast the Drum Circle is a local favorite and tourist attraction?? Among who? Who in their right mind comes to Asheville for a Drum Circle??  But alas they are sure that this is a good idea so they are going to supply these people with more reasons to not go down town on a Friday night.

This is part of the Cancer that is killing Asheville at the moment, crap like this.  The same group could of given the money to help fix and keep up the Thomas Wolfe House located, in guess where down town Asheville.  What's wrong with it you might ask?  Take a look right here -

So if we care oh, so much about down town why don't they paint the house in a proper fashion to where it doesn't peel?  If this was a rust art or a group of unwashed hippy's looking for a hand out then they would go bankrupt giving them money.  Not only would they pour endless amounts of precious tax dollars down the drain, they would throw a fund raiser to support them.

If Thomas Wolfe could see Asheville now he would spit, and wonder what the hell happened.  They blew up Beaucatcher mountain for the open cut for starters, A tunnel was out of the question apparently.  Letting the streets and roads go for the sake of rustoleum and fads, let the just about EVERY nice victorian in house in Asheville become a bed and breakfast, every piece of downtown get turned into a Coffee Shop, bar or some other worthless place.  He would have problems recognizing his boy hood home as well due to the unkempt mess that it is in.  

He would see a city that has sold its soul for trendiness and fads, he would see the local rich art pushed to the wayside for water colors and rusty art.  He would see the locals get trampled on a almost regular basis, he would see the lock step politics that rule this town now.

I, like allot of Asheville citizens are completely ashamed of this town and what it has become now a days.  Its sad when the locals of a town do not even step foot in their own downtown unless its for Court, Jury duty or to pay taxes.

Asheville sold us out, but we are not for sale, the COAL is a burning, the fire is stoked and some plan to help rescue Asheville's rich history.

A day in the life of Hypocrisy . . Err I mean Asheville . . No wait it was Hypocrisy . .

Its seems that this weekend its upon us once again, no not the wretched drum circle, or Bele Chere, no its the new waste of effort and misleading 36 hours of "A day in the life of Asheville".  Its where one over-rated photographer rallies the other over-rated photographers to go out and capture Asheville on Film or disks in their camera's.  Then the 1st over-rated photographer makes a book or website or something,  but I do know this.  Now I AM NOT saying that all the photographers in this town are over-rated, but any tom, dick or mary with a camera is considered a talented photographer, and if I said it once I have said it a MILLION times, taking a picture and making it black and white does not add meaning, get over yourself.

This is not going to show the true Asheville, these photographers are never going to step foot out of downtown Asheville other than to take pictures in the Colony of Haywood Street, maybe the River Arts Building (The call it a district but its 4 buildings grouped together, painted bright and in disrepair, not really a district), North Asheville, and maybe Montford.  Asheville is a large city, the largest city in between Knoxville TN, and Greensboro NC, its really not a small mountain hamlet of diversity that it claims to be.

The places that the Asheville lover's won't take pictures will be, Oakley, Oteen, Sondley, Haw Creek, Arden (Yes Arden is in the city limits), Skyland, Tunnel Road, Kennilworth, Riverside area and Beaucatcher area.  You know why?, They are not located down town.  All the pictures will be are portraits on not locals but transients, the trustafarians, the non-locals.  This does not portay Asheville in its true form, it portrays Asheville faux-culture of hippies, rusty art and fads its collected from previous times. 

No I am not impressed with this, if this was a city wide activity then maybe it would be a good idea, but right now its just down town, and I will tell you as a tax paying citizen of Asheville NC of 33 years our downtown is NOTHING to brag about.  Street musicians, panhandlers, drum circles, and mobs of transients loitering on the sidewalk is going to portray the land of apples, the land of the sky in a positive light?  No its just going to attract more weirdo's and people that do not care about the locals to live up the Faux "Paris of the South" moniker.  Our downtown is full of Bars, a couple of clubs and coffee shops where is the diversity???  Its not existent when you look at proof, if you listen to a downtown worshipper they would claim it was the most diverse place on earth.  Now before you think I'm a local hick, your wrong, I am very diverse in many ways with a very open mind, I like several people in the area is tired being treated like crap because we don't like what our town has become.

Asheville is NOT Paris, Asheville is NOT this orgasmic hippy commune where you can do as you please.  We have laws, structure and we have locals that are treaded on a regular basis.  Take the ever so lovely Pigdemic article from our local mountain rag that promotes openness, and kindness, with a progressive stance, so they can make fun of the locals, open minded huh?

This really exposes what most of the non-locals think of the locals, and you know what I say, to hell with them.  

The culture here is more rich, and wonderful and more open an caring then ANY of his trustafarian garbage that is pushed down our throat on a regular basis.   All of our "Local" craftsmen are are pushed out and forced to struggle for water colored rorshack looking inkblots, B/W photography of crap that wasn't interesting before the b/w effect,  Twisted rusty art littering the down town area, drum circles and so forth.  

People this is NOT the real Asheville . . . . 

How much spending is wasteful spending, on the local level that is?

According to a local weekly rag, the tax money that was spent on this years inaugural HATCH  Festival came to $30,000 . . .   $30k that the city of Asheville is not getting back in the time of a recession so that about 20-30 people can throw their own little party at the tax payer expense.  It was held in bars and clubs, it wasn't real festival and no one even new about it.  But thats what this town does spend public money on a few of the "loud crowd".

Same with everything else in this town from the dreaded rust art to the drum circle that pollutes pritchard park in the summer months.  This town DOES NOT care about its local citizens, it only caters to the freaky bunch that add nothing to the Asheville society.  Wastes $30,000 on 20 or so people so they can feel good for a weekend.  Thirty Thousand Dollars can buy a lot of groceries for a struggling family.  Clean up down town, 1 year teacher salary, almost enough to pay for another police officer or firemen, but no they will furlough area teachers and let these folks party for a weekend on tax payer dime.  Thanks Asheville City council, your just great.

You read that right, this so called festival was aimed toward; artists, entertainers and other self proclaimed individuals.  Now the festival organizers say this tax dump was in the works for 2 years but not a single piece of advertising appeared until 2 weeks before hand.  Hell the when monster truck rally's come to the area we see ads for those things for MONTHS ahead of time.  So it came and some even called in to question how professional the so called professionals of their field actually were.  Well in a town that you can call yourself something it automatically makes it so, because no one will check to make sure you are what you say you are.  When doctors have a convention they have DOCTORS giving lectures they just don't invite anyone to speak that says they are a doctor without check first.  They just don't think, none of them beforehand, it sounds like a good idea so lets do it, especially with tax payer money.

Well to put it bluntly, every idiot in the Asheville area claims to be an "Artist" of some sort, and no they fail miserably at this act.  Every unoriginal moron thinks they can open an art gallery or art museum, and even the artist itself will flood the area with their crap drowning out the real talent.  Even the graffiti artists get encouraged by these morons into their craft and mantra "An blank space on a building is just a blank canvass".  Not all that glitters is gold in Asheville and you see these folks flock together patting each other on the back and pouring piss into each others boot is the problem.

Friends yes, but these people go beyond that encouraging someone to produce their "Art" even though well just because it,s different doesn't make it art.  This goes for photographers too, if I see the same picture taken from town mountain road, from the same spot one more time, Im going to scream.  And no leaving the shutter on for the trails effect isn't cool anymore its over played.  And taking a picture of rust art turning it black and white is not original or edgy, is pathetic and played out.

Get a clue, your not artists your just a bunch of spoiled individuals made to believe that you are special by someone along the way when your just as special as anyone else, your not.  Your also not artists but call yourself such so you don't have to go by another title transient, and unemployed.  You painted a picture, took a photo, welded some metal together, or played with your own feces, good for you what do you want?  Recognition?  Only from your small minded friends and buddy's that want something. . . . Think about it.

The Return of Of Rusty Crap and more Asheville Shenanigans

Abomination # 1 Returns to Asheville streets,  The most overrated Energy Loop, yes my friends and readers the pile of crap.

  

Yes at Bele Chere in 1982 this costly, overrated pile of junk was set in front of the city county plaza, yes people i'm talking in front of the court house and possibly the 2nd most beautiful building in Asheville, City Hall.  I remember being a small lad of people laughing and sighing and yes out rage over the this piece of so, called art.  This was just one of the many, many rust art pieces to puncture the heart of Asheville.  From this point on at night you could see the homeless sleeping on it, urinating on it, and other nefarious nasty things all for the sake of art.  Well it makes its return to public display once again as a donation to the city that city resources will be used to take care of it.  In a recession and we got shoddy art work on the brain, got to love the Asheville Brain Trust . . . . 

Abomination # 2, Today marks the return of the Flat Iron Sculpture in front of guess what the Flat Iron Building up town.

Imagine this its a Iron Sculpture of guess what an IRON.  This building was a popular frame 8 story building from the 20's and 30's, New York has one.   It just doesn't make sense to have on the street paid for with tax dollars.  I'll admit its a bit better then other other Rust Art that litters our down town streets but its the principle.  Other buildings don't have Iron boxes in front of them to signify that its a box shape but the Flat Iron building needs an Iron.  What this is, is expensive back drops for people to take their picture in front with.  Another thing that is NOT part of Asheville History, Rust Art is not what so ever part of the Asheville heritage.

And the local book exchange teeters in the balance because people are just taking books not exchanging like they should.  Didn't know that their was that many copies of Hunter S Thompson Novels in the Asheville area that needed to be read.  The point is people are taking without leaving books in their place, for EXCHANGE but its their own fault.  Its also the Asheville Mindset that you have to bee SEEN doing something, from being seen downtown, to being seen as something as personal as READING.  Heaven forbid you did anything in this town without being seen; drinking coffee, to to surfing the bloody internet.  I have all of this at home Coffee, Internet, books and a comfy place to enjoy these things WHY would I want to go someone just to be seen reading, or drinking coffee or even on the internet?

Its an image and Asheville is full of symbolism over substance, either it be a pretend scene that it clearly does NOT have, or an Art movement where anyone with a Blowtorch, paintbrush, camera or anything is considered an artist, or if your hobby is reading you have to be seen doing the task in Asheville.  I know a little town in the mountains of Western North Carolina that needs an enema and to get over itself.

People being comfortable in ones own skin is something that some in Asheville need to work on, with out looking to be seen doing anything.  Something that Asheville portrays is trying to be freaky, well its not if everyone is doing it, its not being different its called Status Quo.

Lame Excuses

Something funny came up on a local blog, in defense of a local "Liberal" Weekly Column writer they said it was hard to write a 700 word essay every week.  I love the local blogs and weekly's you know the ones that try to be hard hitting journalism but fails epically on every level.  Its just a local rag that takes itself way to serious, if they loosened up had a little fun instead of trying to be political on local and national level.

If this is the case then why are they doing it?  Oh, its because they are a local faux celebrity where a they own a separate blog and everyone is to caught up being buddy, buddy.  See that is one of the problems of this town, is the buddy-buddy system, that if you don't worship at the writers altar of self indulgence then you are wrong.  Even if you express a different opinion then what is supported the progressive oh so tolerant mindset of this town erupts in name calling, and to a lesser extent poo throwing at this highest form.  Yes lots of people have a blog and their is a lot of back patting involved.  For a town that claims to be diverse and tolerant a lot of the blogs in town say the same thing, what is so diverse about that?  Its not, not all, this is what makes this town a town of Hypocrisy.  

If you would like to be so Progressive and so outside the box, then stop copying pasting what everyone else is saying in your sad little world?  Oh, if you do you will be kicked out of the cool kids club, oh darn if thats what it takes then leave me out of that world.  Even an idea that matches their opinion but stands outside status quo will be blasted.  How very tolerant, guess it would kill these people to turn off NPR, put down that Hunter S Thompson Novel, and set down that PBR to think for themselves.

Because to be progressive in this town is to actually be as close minded as you possibly can be, and if you speak out against it then you are retorted with lovable terms of endearment of Repug, Repig, right-winger, fascist, and you get the point.  So much for the claim of being progressive and open minded, the definition of free thinker in this town really means party lines and status quo and if you speak the slightest bit for yourself or what you believe in you are immediately labeled and attacked, this is coming from a group that talks about how tolerant we are and should be to other people.

Well it doesn't work that way and you know what unfortunately its not just a "Asheville" thing, its a nationwide.  Look at the runner up for the Miss America Pageant feminists are even attacking her for her response to that cursed question not that fact this contest parades women around in their underwear in front of millions of people.  But no, having the same opinion of the current POTUS is a bad thing, but everyone else is missing that point.  The runner up shares the SAME opinion of the people that voted DOWN prop 8, and most of America, and even the President of the United states, but no one say anything to him.  But a silly blow hard pseudo celebrity on the internet is attacking her along with MSM and feminists.

Where was the Feminists when the MSM attacked Sarah Palin?  She was representing them, a strong, Mother, Governor, and college graduate was running for vice president of the US, and these so called bastions of Women's cause let her get attacked and ran through the mud, because of she's a republican or someone they never heard of her.  And now we have the Wife of the POTUS that bought some $540 pair of shoes and Palin was ridiculed because the GOP DONATED some expensive clothes to her that she had to GIVE BACK.  But the wife of the POTUS gets a pass because the current POTUS is popular.

This has to stop or we are all royally screwed in the end, the hypocrisy has to come to an end and I know it won't but we are in for a really, really bumpy ride.  The bitter party battles must stop the holier then thou attitude has to, Guess what has to STOP.  Not just one side but both sides, the immediate chastising of one side is a little, well one sided.

Back to Asheville, where the loud crowd calls out who ever it sees not following in lock step with popular opinions, or the ever so popular status quo.  In a town that claims to be diverse and open minded its pretty damn closed.  It should be Asheville where you are accepted if you walk alike, think alike and talk alike. 

770 words as of the last paragraph, it wasn't hard, wrote that in the middle of fixing dinner and cleaning up in one evening.  Its not that hard to write a musing get over your grade school crush of a blogger and think for yourself once in a while.  

Local Area news Organizations Fail on an Epic Level

On a late Sunday evening on 5/3/2009 in one of the suburbs of Asheville NC mother nature hit.  In an evening that nothing was predicted but rain a severe thunderstorm moved into the area and kicked up a storm, how much of a storm?

Well from those photos of Tree's uprooted and Leaning on Houses and blocking roadways it was bad enough for all the local media outlets to ignore most of it.

The problem with this is if this was a water pipe busted in North Asheville, Biltmore, Downton, or the Colony of Haywood Street there would of been live report all evening and constant updates.  Hell if Rutherfordton got a new red light the there would of been live coverage for at least 5 minutes on the local news station.

So is the everyday life outside the Tunnel, Biltmore, the bridge and the Colony of Haywood street.  Oakley just has to turn its head and take it on the chin every time something like this happens.  Most locals say Tornado touched down, maybe a small one but the local news stick with thunderstorms.  If that was the case the tree's would of been moved this last winter, which was one of the windiest on record.   This was more then just strong wind.

This is what you get when you have town which its city that does not care about the locals and only caters to the Loud Crowd that take up space down town.  Because thats all that matter is Down town Asheville the most over rated town on earth.

** Mail box numbers where edited because I respect my neighbors, I support them not exploit them.

Oh noes . . . .

Someone doesn't have their head shoved up the rear of a local blogger so they just got called out and told to go on to another board.  So is life in this town, if you don't follow blindly the thoughts of others you are called out and made fun of for thinking just remotely different.

Well Im sorry their captain, sensitive, so called Progressive, about their little crush on their blogger friend.  For one like I said if somone doesn't want criticism or someone disagreeing with her then disable comments, allow for friendly comments, or better yet get some thicker skin because the world does not revolve around what they say.  Or what ever local blog, website or newspaper that publishes it.

It appears that their are some in Asheville that is not taking their crap anymore at all, none, zip, zilch, nada.  The 1st Amendment is a TWO way street so get used to it  . . .  And by the way PBR Tastes like Cat urine . . . . . . . .  Wait that was mean, it tastes like Warm Vomit.

This is still of the wonderful land tolerant progressives that live in this over rated hippy infested town.

Scuttlebutt and other yapping

Just like the brainwashed drones that litter the streets of Asheville NC the like to stick together and pat each other on the back each time one of them quotes NPR or something lame like that.  The topic Im talking about is Racism in Asheville, apparently some of the tragically hip noticed "For a town that claims to be Diverse where are the people of different colors?"  Well we do have people of all colors and races all over Asheville, for the most part Asheville is warm, unless you go down town or Now Haywood Road in West Asheville.  

This is because the down town and haywood road is filled to the brim with hipster, smug, snarky, tragically hipsters that celebrate one nationality, the bohemian/hippy culture.  Thats it, any jackass can open a store an cell crappy 2nd hand clothes that was rejected from the salvation army and goodwill;  Open yet ANOTHER Coffee shop in the area; We have a chain of FIVE, FIVE, count it FIVE Head Shops in the Asheville area selling the SAME crap.  Trinket Stores, and "Art Exhibits" by art I mean Rust and water colors from a Kindergarten class.

But no Ethnicity celebration from the Masses of good ol progressive Asheville . . .  wait we have -

Greek Festival

Kawanza

Goombay

Thats it because that tax beaten horse of Bele Chere does NOT count.

Asheville not so much of an open city as it claims.

Welcome to Earth week or Just another week in the town of Loud Asheville

So this week is earth week, the bastard son of Earth Day April 22.  This is a day that supposed to bring attention to the Global Climate Crisis.  Not that this garbage is shoved down our throat every day now for the past several years.  And all this nonsense talk of carbon credits and wastes of money like that, yes that is what it is a money making scheme and a flat out lie.

Now look, I drive more of earth friendly car then ALOT of the folks that spew this drivel here in Asheville.  Yes the tragically hip and loud crowd drive SUV's with Protect the enviroment crap bumper stickers on them, It helps to feel justified.  To protect the earth we need to have a bunch of concerts and get tog-ethers, that helps the cause all these people in one place destroying that area.  Drive your hybrid ignoring the fact that the making of one Hybrid car does more damage to the enviroment then buying a used gas guzzler.  But its not the point of buying the hybrid its symbolism over substance and just like everything about this town Its about being seen.

The earth has raised one degree in the past how many years???? yeah research that.  That California will be swallowed up by the pacific, HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN SAYING THIS??? At one time it was earth quakes, another it was Platonic shift, and now its global warming.  Let me tell you this, The earth is going to do what its going to do and we don't have allot of say so when it happens.  Now Im not saying that humans have no impact but to say that a volcano eruption does HOW MUCH Damage vs Man????  Shouldn't these blow hards be trying to plug up volcanoes since they are such a detriment to the environment.

You know the earth is a giant Etch-a-sketch and when the time comes it will "Clear" itself just has it always has done for millions of years.  We are no means in a climate crisis, if we were then I must report that right before Easter I had global warming all over my yard and front porch.  The Mid west can attest to this as well with rampant flooding and freezing that caused floods and terrible damage at the same time.

In closing I will continue to lesson my waste as everyone else should, but if they don't its their business not mine.  Just don't bring that Al Gore rhetoric to me about Global Warming, Im not buying it.

Oh and here for you Electric Car Fans This is a REAL hoot -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenertransport/5176216/Environmental-benefits-of-electric-cars-dismissed-as-fiction.html

Makes you wonder why the MSM isn't reporting this???

Asheville, Asheville, Asheville . . . . . . You loud mouth blow hard

The day was 4/15/2009, tax day . . . the day of Tea Party.  The city county plaza in front of the Buncombe county courthouse was packed, no official numbers but I think we had close to 500 to 600 people there maybe more.

Now this was great, it was for one Peaceful no arrests actually and come to think of it not ONE reported arrest out of the hundreds of thousands of people that protested in hundreds of cities nationwide, and that is great!

Here are some of the scenes of the protest here in Asheville NC.

Now when the local professional protesters you know who, the Anti-War, and th Enviromentalist people usually end with the police breaking it up and someone going to jail in the end.  Not today, it was about peaceful protesting not "Showing your Ass".

Why is Asheville a loud mouth?  Because everyone chastised the people for this tea party on a local and country level.  All that was heard was "tea-baggers" and "tea-bagged" real grown up from the opposing side huh?  

My own video -

"Not bad for a bunch of Terrorists"  lol

It was a group of people with their children crying out to DC to STOP SPENDING, and you know that scares them that so many people can turn off the MSM and think for themselves and how they want their tax money spent.  Not on Pork, not on redistribution, and not forcing a state to take the money wether they want it or not.

It was sour grapes that a Grassroots movement that did not have a political ideal in mind, it was calling a spade a spade.  So much for the loud crowd, all these idiots can come out to save A tree or bad mouth an ex president but no one can come out to call out the zoo both Elephants and Donkey's.   Asheville How progressive.

Some thing Sad in the Grand Ol town of Asheville

Check this out - http://www.biltmorepark.com/

This is a new 'Down Town" complete with Condo's theater and places to shop in the Arden area.  Arden is basically south Asheville just for logistics.

Now this is what is sad, Downtown Asheville has become such an over burdening cesspool of filth and garbage that people with money, the same people that either make or break a town decided to build another downtown.  Oh yes, and this down town is classy unlike the current down town now.  

Its sad because, down town you can't do anything you want to do unless its cool and hip.  For example - Being against Chain restaurants when these hypocrites clearly support Chain places down town, Chains like Doc Chey's and the Mellow Mushroom and their are a few other as well but those are the most popular.  Why is that they support some chains and don't support others?  Hypocrisy, plain and simple.  So since the original down town as become too much of a hassle to building anything and if you want to land scape YOUR land hippies show up and cry about it.  So developers built a new one, a better one, without Drum Circles, Bums, Hippies, kooks, and wanna be hipsters.  Without the City saying its part. a new downtown reborn hopefully the court house and city hall will move as well.  Then maybe the current city will cease to exist.  

Local Citizen does the unheard of . . .

Happy Easter Asheville!

BREAKING NEWS FROM ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA

You heard it here first, Remember The story Broke Here!!!!

Local Hippies and Trustafarians face realization that the sun does not rise and set in Asheville's Anus.

By:  Edgy NDN Reporter from the Oakley Times Copyright 2009

Local lay abouts and drug smoking hippies in state of disbelief that the sun does not set in Asheville's Anus.  This was proven when one pay their bills and turned on their cable to find out that their was a whole other world out there.  Needless to say these people were shocked.

Kook #1 - I payed my bill, turned on the Tube and there it was staring at me, a world that didn't resemble 1978, I passed out . . . . 

More news as news develops.

Local residents shocked to find out that the Asheville City limits extend further then the Tunnel, the Bridge and the Biltmore Area.

By:  Oakley Hooligan Reporter from the Oteen Gazette Copyright 2009

Asheville city council and area residents shocked and alarmed that there was more to the city of Asheville then what they thought.

Councilman Do nothing:  I knew we had more people in the area but never did I think that it extended as far as it did.  We are shocked the city was so big and the rest of the city was so modernized compared to our little mountain town.  We will launch a $100,000,000,000,000 Study to find out about the surrounding areas with a NY Firm, this study should take 10 years.

More to come as news develops

When did Bloggers get to treated as main stream news???

I have a blog so I am obiviously right about everything I say. Well That is what several local bloggers around good ol' Asheville NC think. They won't allow too many negative posts on their boards or allow anyone to think different then they do. Its just not right.

In Asheville the saying goes like this "Be Progressive and be a free thinker, just as long you believe what everyone else believes in" Or in some cases the blogger has to say, even when that blogger is talking out of their ass completely.

Yes, Yes, good for you, you sit in a coffee shop and/or Bar in the neighborhood and spit your one sided venom chastising anyone that speaks up to you because you are so High and mighty. You Sip your Joe, or what Trendy beer at the moment (Something Local or PBR Cant be seen without drinking a can of cat urine brewed through a hobo's ass) and Type and type, type, type you all are the type of ass holes that blog in person so you can be seen blogging, and go to blogging meetings with other bloggers because its about your sad 15 minutes of fame.

Masterbating with one hand while your typing with the other, and listening to NPR on a wireless in your pocket, can't go to the toilet without listening to NPR or what ever preach to the choir Progressive station your into, Yea progressive radio is going to give you all the facts, from all sides of the story, heaven forbid you actually looked up some info on your own.

Do what they say in lockstep and make sure no one questions you or what you type because you have a blog and there for you are a god, and now we have twitter, I can't wait till you utilize that garbage to to keep us up to date with your drivel.

If you was so Tolerant and so Progressive why dont you think for yourself instead letting someone else make your mind up for you.  Its same people that always say "I vote for (Insert a political party) because my daddy and grand daddy did" Yeah that party changed since then.  Things are not so black and white as you think the views are.

So you call yourself a Progressive and a Liberal, and that you like to add free thinker with an open mind.  Then why do you disagree with ANY opinion that isn't spoon fed to you by you narrow minded group, NPR, University Professor, or AM Station angry radio program?  Think about it preach about intolerance and you don't know that using the word intolerance is the definition of intolerant. . . . . . . 

Asheville and the Inconvenient yet Convenient Money maker

So here we are right smack in the middle of a Recession with not much of an end in sight.  And the good folks that was voted to Asheville City Council have decided to Go Green, in a recession.  Hybrid this and hybrid that not fully understanding that a Hybrid leaves a bigger "Carbon Foot Print" then a used vehicle.

But its symbolism over substance, that is what this all stands for, since Asheville is portrayed as this orgasmic, feel good, center of the universe.  With a touch of lets pretend to be San Francisco, with that "Paris of the South" BS.  Asheville is NO Where near as Progressive and ahead of the curb as it thinks, its just those that drink the water around here buy into that garbage.  Yeah well its officially no fooling anyone, anyone that can think for themselves.

So the recession is here and Asheville is concerned with Bike Paths, Greenways and Green Buses or the ever so smug "Hybrid".  Apparently the Roof of the Dump AKA the Asheville Civic Center was just given a Green roof . . . . .  This cesspool and money pit was given a new Green Roof, wonderful planning of tax payer funds, lets put a green roof on a building that probably won't last for 5 years.

More to Come As the news come in.

Hypocrisy on a small mountain town

Week end week out the so-called progressives in this town pitched no less then a 5 year old tantrum about global warming.  This past weekend was "lights out for global warming" for an hour, ONE HOUR.  Guess what city failed on a epic level, but you can't guess ASHEVILLE.  I was driving around and noticed up town that no lights were off things were as normal.  Can't look hip up town if the lights are off . . . . 

This is what this is about, plain and simple, these jackasses want the rest of us to believe their global warming horse-shit, but when the time comes to lead the way, they skip out.  You see these people only care about one thing and that is being seen yes its symbolism over substance in this town.  The people like to walk around with their nose in their air, talk with their eyes closed, Spew crap about how diverse this town is but their is no diversity, not the way they talk about it. 

Talk art and "their art" when this art is nothing but rusty metal and a picture of something black and white to look edgy.  A picture of dog shit in black and white is still a picture of dog shit and doesn't add any artistic merit.  But I Will give them credit they do stick together sucking each other's asses on how edgy or unique their art is.  To be an artist and a successful  one you need one thing, TALENT.  

More to come of the Hypocrisy of this place, and those that masturbate to that horrible saying "Asheville the Paris of the South"  This is not Paris . . . Thankfully, This is Asheville NC . . . .   And the 14 year wood-stock is ending . . . 

3/29/2009 Start of An era in truth . . .

Hello anyone that has stumbled across my new and exciting blog.  I am going to tell a story, a story into the world of Asheville NC.  You may of heard of it, or you may not, if not then for your reading pleasure -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheville,_North_Carolina

Most of the people that live here are nice and enjoyable, hard working and industrious. There will be people that will

blow smoke and out right lie about Asheville. I am here to off set and deliver the truth of Asheville and the

surrounding area's. There is allot of confusion about this town and I am here to balance what others try to portray

Asheville as being a land of honey and no problems. Well its not . . . If you want to read a preach to the choir blog

about Asheville look elsewhere, but if you like quality Photo-journalism and a object-able view of The city of 

Asheville,Then Sit a spell and enjoy.