Monday, September 29, 2008

To Kill a Fairgrounds

I've shown some role models for Memphis' kind of kid-unfriendly civic leadership before, but I missed one. A big one.

Mr. Radley, Boo Radley's pop.


So mean, he got his own optical zoom.


Here he is closing the knothole to thwart the children.




In dishonor of the closing of the Mid-South Fair in Memphis.

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Visual Musing on Imaginative Leadership

How's it that Memphis civic leaders remind me of this guy
Toy-Hating Burgermeister Meisterburgeror this guy

The Child Catcher, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
but never this guy?

Willie Wonka

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