Good Morning, RVA: 30 degree drop
It’s like the temperature just mic dropped.
Photo by: kettukusu
Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and that’s pretty much today’s high. Temperatures will drop steadily, and there’s a decent chance of rain throughout the day. It’s yesterday’s evil weather twin.
Water cooler
Yesterday, Dr. Bill Bosher died. Growing up in Chesterfield County, I remember hearing Bosher’s name constantly from teachers and parents while he served as the county’s superintendent. Ryan Nobles has some reflections on his Facebook.
A former UR football player, who suffered multiple concussions before leaving the team, was found dead this weekend. Every week it gets harder for me to watch football. I can’t see the sport lasting through the end of my life–which, most likely, will not be cut short by serious injury to my brain–without serious changes.
As of yesterday, you can register for the 2015 Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k. It’ll cost you $30 until the end of the year, when prices begin to increase incrementally. Sign up now, and save some bucks.
Are tacky lights just a Richmond thing or are they a thing elsewhere in the country? Not that I give a hoot about places elsewhere, just wondering. Richmond.com has spent the, what I’m sure was incredibly annoying, time and effort to put together this giant list of tacky-light prospects for you to cruise by in a high-occupancy vehicle. For the somewhat technically inclined, Richmonder Casey Liss provides a quick bit of code to help you self-guide your own tacky light tour.
Don’t worry, you guys. The owners of two strip clubs, Club Rouge and Daddy Rabbits, “meant no disrespect” when they hosted a White Trash Night. I feel vaguely disrespected by just the name “Daddy Rabbits.”
Today’s best headline comes from WTVR: “No rose smelling at L.C. Bird.”
Sports!
- Rams head to Normal to take on Illinois State at 8:00 PM. Look for the game on ESPN3.
- Caps face the Canucks at 7:00 PM. Also: “Washington Capitals release adorable puppy calendar.”
This morning’s longread
Poetic (In)justice: Column
This, the best byline ever written, should be enough to convince you: “Erik Nielson, assistant professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, is co-author of an amicus brief filed in Elonis v. U.S. Michael Render (aka Killer Mike), a rapper from Atlanta, released a new album, Run the Jewels 2, in October.”
Within the legal system, this view is becoming increasingly apparent. As recent research has revealed, rap lyrics have been introduced as evidence of a defendant’s criminal behavior in hundreds of cases nationwide, frequently leading to convictions that are based on prosecutors’ blatant mischaracterizations of the genre. Ignoring many of the elements that signal rap as form of artistic expression, such as rappers’ use of stage names or their frequent use of metaphor and hyperbole, prosecutors will present rap as literal autobiography. In effect, they ask jurors to suspend the distinction between author and narrator, reality and fiction, to secure guilty verdicts.
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For centuries, Richmond’s idea of Christmas decorations was a single white candle in the front window of every house. That is all you would ever see. Ever. Then some Yankees moved here and they were used to colored lights strung along the gutter. Then we had some oddballs move down who decorated even more. A radio deejay from the ’80’-’90’s — Barry “Mad Dog” Gottlieb, organized driving caravade, then a bus tour of the dozen or so houses that went beyond good taste, and that was the Tacky Lights Tour. Every year it got bigger. More Yankees, more competing touring companies, more Southerners joining in, to arrive where we are today, but it is still called Tacky Lights. Even the Botanical Gardens figured it out as a massive moneymaker for their off season. If you want to be different now, organize the Single White Candle Tour and find the diehards who are hanging on to that tradition.