Jimmy Clausen is going to be a resident here soon, a fact that, as Facebook knows, makes me want to hurl.
In two more months, the Levines will have given enough money to NFPs that all buildings in Charlotte will be called The Levine Somethingorother. Building names will start to become so indistinguishable that Anthony Foxx will decide to ban the name from buildings and change the city's name to Charlevine.
The Bobcats are in the playoffs for the first time ever. The city is honoring their accomplishment by lighting up some of Uptown's buildings orange, including the BofA tower. A true testament to how obsequious Charlotte is to its sports teams - the first day that BofA's tower broadcast that it could, in fact, be a color other than Panther blue, was yesterday. Yep, the Earth, on its Day, got totally snubbed for a basketball team. Michael Jordan had some input, so the tower actually looked red.
Wells Fargo's board, turns out, is incestuous.
Bank of America is still here, helping to keep thousands of bankers from crapping their pants.
Tiger is coming to Quail Hollow.
Tiger's ex-f-buddy porn star friend, Joslyn James, is concurrently coming to to the UC. I predict at least one police blotter story to come of it.
In NC news...
Obama is shacking up at the Grove Park Inn.
Early voting for NC's US Senate seat primaries is underway (no one much cares.. though if you want a good laugh, read the last four paragraphs of this article about Burr's 'competition').
Ends up that the dude who gave up the iPhone prototype went to NC State. Go Pack.
Good goings ons...
Along with Tiger, we're having an influx super-famous black people.. Oprah was here to interview Rielle Hunter (who reminds me of a contestant on the Bachelor); Condoleezza will be here to give Johnson C. Smith's commencement speech; Obama has come and gone, speaking at a company that no one had heard of. Even now, no one has heard of it.
Between tonight and tomorrow, The Light Factory is doing a cool City Block project; Charlotte's version of Amazing Race gets its second run; and hundreds of people will go get drunk in a field that happens to be adjacent to a horse race.
A new Farmer's Market concept will open in South End mid-May; there are bees on top of the Ritz Carlton Uptown, which is apparently a good thing for the environment; it's warm here now -- Alive After 5 is back; Pops in the Park is forthcoming, as is the Whitewater Center's River Jam; the mountains and the beach have beckoned; the lake is beckoning; a new sushi restaurant will be opening soon downstairs.
I guess I won't mention the county budget woes, which are threatening libraries, mental health programs, and middle school football in repeated succession. oh yeah, and the state has problems in that budget area, too. I'd like to see Bev and Erskine duke it out.
oh, charlotte. such a silly place. but you are mine... for now.
