Last Sunday’s Martinsville Bulletin ran a story about the Patrick Henry Community College School of Craft and Design in uptown Martinsville. Better known to the Virginia blogosphere as the Artisan Center, where we held a pajama party the first evening of the Blogs United in Martinsville conference last August. Southern Living magazine has had a writer and photographer on assignment there for a while in preparation for an article that will be published sometime in 2008.

Art? My big fat granny! They call this stuff art? Look at this bowl I purchased there last summer. It’s fine I suppose for the use I put it to, holding the leftover coffee grounds until I can get them to my composter, but I would never set that thing out where people can see it.

If Southern Living wants to highlight the arts in Henry County they should send a photographer to follow Cindy Price around. Now that girl’s an artist. I have all her CDs and I’ve even put together a Cindy Price outfit. Cut offs, a belly shirt, and of course, the hat and boots. I need some leather pants, though. Since Cindy has been on my mind lately, I’m beginning to reconsider Ward Armstrong. He has been a great Cindy supporter, supporting her just like he has the people of his district. I hear that he even recommended a lawyer for her.

I don’t know what the people here think Southern Living can do, we just had a half page ad in Blue Ridge Country magazine and it didn’t help anything at all. I’m starting a campaign that is sure to be effective in getting our local economy back on track. I’ve just sent e-mail to CMT to let them know what great talent we have here in Henry County. It wouldn’t surprise me to see them roll in here long before that Southern Living piece hits the presses. I’ll even bet they get here before NASCAR comes back.

UPDATE: (From Alton) In case you haven’t figured it out by now, 4 of us got together for a special April Fools Day post. As the plan was put forth by Ward Smythe some several days ago, we decided to follow the tradition of several of the better known comic strip artists and “substitute” for one another for this post. I placed all the names in a McDonald’s bag and then wrote down all the names on a page in alphabetical order, except I placed my name last on that list. I then drew names from the bag, assigning badrose to substitute for Greg, Greg to substitute for me, Leslie and Ward turned out to be reciprocal, leaving me to write for badrose.

So, Greg has not really moved in with Greg(2), he’s not even considering a move to Charlottesville to hook up with Rick Sincere. His satirical post “Some Announcements” was very well written by badrose.

While I do enthusiastically endorse Jeff Evans over Roscoe Reynolds, I think Greg did a great job imitating my rather unique style of writing. He even fooled Chris at STD, check out this post.

Leslie and Ward worked just as well off each other I think, with each writing in a very convincing manner imitating the other.

Badrose loves art, especially folk art. Her home is filled with it, and the “Starry Night” bowl made by Joyce Wray is among her favorites. As much as she loves art, her feelings for Ward Armstrong run just as deep in the opposite direction. As for Cindy Price, well, you would just have to live here to believe that story.

Alton did a great job impersonating me (it’s not easy being me!)   To see what I did to poor Greg, go here!