And In Local News…

What Would You Think Of Me Trying This?


If I had an extra couple of thousand dollars lying around, here is how the headlines would read later this week in our local fishwrapper The Brunswick News:

Citizen Files Suit Against City

Art versus Firewood


The Brunswick News has learned that the city of Brunswick’s recent public arts efforts could actually end up costing the city money in court.

As partially (yet inaccurately) reported here in the pages of this paper, the city has recently been planning to restore the giagantic trunk of a tree that was removed to make way for extension of a large sewer line on K-street in downtown Brunswick.

Back in 2005, when the city was determining the fate of the magnificent 200 year old tree, this same newspaper came out against then Mayor Brad Brown and the decision to save money by removing the tree rather than rerouting the pipeline around its roots.

Now that the tree has been uprooted and killed, and after about three seconds of consideration, the Brunswick News believes that we should all just let “bygones be bygones” and let the old tree fade into history.

You know…”out of sight…out of mind”

Well, something like that…

Any hoooooooo….St. Simons island resident Virgil Rogers was so inspired by this paper’s coverage of Mayor Bryan Thompson’s efforts to resurrect the tree and have it carved into a piece of art funded by private donations and Arts Grants, that he IS ABANDONING HIS OWN PROJECT AND SUING THE CITY FOR THE FUNDING AS YET TO BE RAISED, and donating the proceeds to charity.

“We got to have more textbooks ‘cause I know that little chirren are wandering around trying to learn Spanish from video tapes and cassettes” said Rogers.

“We got to be a spending more money on food for the needie, and all them crack heads down on Wolfe street need a new shelter when the temperature falls down to 70 degrees in January. You know where blue gums come from don’t you?”

“I want to have that tree sawed up and split into kindlin’, then we’ll use the money left over to buy everyone in Newtown Brunswick that a wants one a bright shiny new fireplace.”

“After all, them mean old white folks out there on St. Simons Island have fireplaces, and 70 degrees is cold.”

“That’l teach them, trying to do that high browed art when people are freezing and starving and don’t have rocks to smoke.”

More as this story develops, If we can keep our reporters awake and sober.