And now it's Friday!

Hooray! Despite my disappointment that there was no ER last night, I must say that the Kathryn Erbe Show was quite entertaining.

Today is gonna be a busy one again--I am supposed to be doing some research over at the library (the archives are housed in the original Birmingham Public Library Building built in 1927, which is, of course, haunted) on a 1915 H.S. Kress store building downtown that is in the process of undergoing an unsympathetic updating, made more frustrating by the fact that 2/3 of the building (and its facade) is owned by one person, and the other 1/3 by someone else, and neither wants to work with the other and neither really wants to do anything but slap on something to cover up the crap someone slapped on there in the Fifties, and even though the building was once a very nice prototypical Kress store, all of the significant pieces of the storefront--the stone base on the bulkhead and the prismatic glass transoms and terra cotta column ornamentation-- was long ago taken to the city dump.

Neither owner wants to start work, giving the excuse that they really don't know what to do and want to make sure they coordinate with the other owner and do it correctly so the facade once again reads like a single building. To which I say, "Shyeah-right!"

If you would like to see the building I'm researching, go to the Birmingham Historical Society website and look on the page for Education--there are several giganto-humongoid PDF files of various downtown tours and stuff for school kids--one in particular is called the "Going Downtown History Hunt" and is full of neat pictures of Old Birmingham. Look on page 3 for the Kress store.

Anyway, not much for you today, although I'm sure lunch with My Friend Jeff™ will be cause for extra fun bloggage. (Although not as much fun as the person looking for Saudis in Bikinis might wish!)

Y'all come back after while and we'll talk some more.

(Shouldn't that be "burq-inis"?)

UPDATE--I just noticed that the Smiter of Big Swingin' Dicks Charles Austin is back blogging with not one, not two, not even three (even though I miscounted earlier) but a whopping huge FOUR mighty Scourgings, No. 57, 58, 59, annnnnd 60. Will he get to 74 before the end of the season? If Ricky baby keeps lobbing eephus pitches, he just might!
posted by Terry at 9:07:00 AM