Intowners and the media have "Something" To Say...

Mr. Langford's "Something" has begun. The inaugurations have been done, tax proposals made, job cuts been suggested. Intowners and the press have "something" to say: Mostly it's "We don't like it."

Randomly overheard (and paraphrased) comments heard over the past few weeks:
'I like the free computers for school children program. Too many kids graduate
with no skills."

'I don't understand why Larry went about asking for this tax increase without
going to the people first. Everybody knows we the city will need more money
to do the things we need to do. We need to be raise property taxes because
they're too low.'

Much of the press is negative:
John Archibald: Langford takes city to La-La land

Kyle Whitmire: "The Loquacious Larry Langford"

Things have begun to happen in the city that were held up by the previous administration. Kyle Whitmire calls our new mayor Leapin' Larry. He's jumping for sure and the rest of us are waiting on the second foot to drop.

Sage Advise...

Somebody's trying to give people travelling Intown a message. Given how much of disease is caused or made worse by stress, I'm thinking that whoever is responsible for the new signage going up on the 6th Avenue side of Children's Hospital may purposely be leaving this work partially finished. To see this look toward the hospital when you are in front of Magic Johnson's Burger King on 6th Avenue.

Here come the leaves again..

To get the correct effect of the title you must hear Annie Lennox circa The Eurhythmics in the 80s singing "Here Comes the Rain Again" in your head. Wiki says she's been called the greatest white soul singer in the world. Perhaps that's why her song so channels my feeling of the blues when I think about The Fall. Her song is what I heard yesterday when I had the urge and the energy to fire the first salvo against the "Rain of the Nine Trees", as this years war against the nine trees in my yard shall be called. Somehow the annual ritual of of keeping my yard clear of the previous years growth is a tad more fun to think about when Annie's voice is ringing in my head. Actually the words from the song transpose well too:

"Here comes the (leaves) again/
Falling on my head like a tragedy/
Falling on my head like some new emotion"

I've made a promise to myself: this year they will not get more than a couple of inches thick in my back yard. That's the best I can do. My emerald zoysia grass makes me lazy in the summers because it is soooo low maintenance. Whoever's considering new sod needs to get some of that emerald zoysia.

Tell me some of your fall yard ups and downs.