How's This For Irony?

2007-07-22T20:41:00.000-04:00

A long damn time ago, the city of Raleigh, NC closed 2 blocks of Fayetteville Street downtown and made a pedestrian mall. Man, it was nice at lunch time and when the city hosted events. However, the businesses along this pedestrian mall blamed it for killing their businesses. Since folks couldn't park next to the businesses, they had to park in parking garages or on adjacent streets and walk to the mall. Well, that may have been true, but it was still a nice place at lunch time and when the city hosted events.

Well, you know how "people in charge" are. Over time every damn decision they make becomes like a pendulum. So for 30 years or so, we have had a pedestrian mall. Now, pedestrian malls are out of fashion so the the "people in charge" demonize them and pay millions of taxpayer dollars to rip them out and restore the original street. 30 years from now, we guarandamntee you that Fayetteville Street will once again be a pedestrian mall. But that's another story.

What we found ironic, and we have to credit the wife (yes, the wife who....) for this one. A few months after they "opened" up Fayetteville Street, they decided to have a grand reopening party. So, what did they do to celebrate opening up Fayetteveille Street? They closed Fayetteville Street for the party celebrating opening it back up. We love this place!

Welcome To The Naked Whiz's Whizlog

2007-06-27T21:07:00.000-04:00

Welcome to our Whizlog. It's the newest way that you can log your thoughts and ideas to the Internet. Just like we pioneered the introduction of Whizcasts to bring audio material to the masses around the world, we bring you Whizlog! This might be as successful as the chat room we used to host! :-) Or the online discussion forum. :-) again. Whatever, if anyone asks if The Naked Whiz has a blog, you just tell them "No, he has a Whizlog!" We don't plan to limit ourselves to charcoal or ceramic cookers here, but rather post about anything we damn well please. So, again, welcome. We hope you enjoy the show.

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And don't forget that Whizlogs, just like those old fashioned blogs are upside down. Up is new, down is old. We thought you'd need to know that. That's why in a few days if we post something new, the "welcome" post will be at the bottom. Isn't it strange that the more you read, the further back in time you go? Sorta like some kind of time warp or something....

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