These days I come and go from my cozy little home on the internet. I settled with this cool vaporwave theme then walked away like I did some shit. I’m probably gonna change it because the text editor is hard on my eyes and reading white letters on a pink background is mad annoying.
But what’s been up with me? For the most part I’ve just been recording some new songs and taking a walk at the park. I still skateboard but I keep hurting myself so I’m taking it easy to allow my body to heal. So in my absence at the skatepark I have been enjoying nature. The park I frequent is Joe Creason. Recently some private investors made an announcement that they want to build a huge tennis and pickleball complex along with a restaurant and well… that did not bode over well with the community.
I heard about the development on the news and when I went to the park the next day the community already had signs and pickets in their yards saying “Nature over Nets.” I was pretty happy to see that this was the response from the community given that it was a private firm coming in, talking about how they want to tear up the park to build some shit nobody asked for. I remember when the announcement aired on the news, they had this lady who was a local tennis champion expressing how she was looking forward to the development. It kind of made me upset even though there was this look of joy on her face. I just couldn’t believe that they wanted to tear up such a beautiful park to create private tennis courts that you had to pay for. Not to mention the line of pine trees that they would have had to destroy for the stupid parking lot that was gonna get rid of the little natural habitat area.
The city held a community meeting that I couldn’t attend because of work, and man did the community show out. Literally hundreds of people pulled up to tell the Mayor and the investors to GTFO. To be honest, they should have known that was gonna happen considering the signage that was ALL OVER THE PLACE. Post I saw on facebook from people made some good points as well. If you are not familiar with the Louisville area or Joe Creason for those that do, it’s literally right across the street from the Zoo. During the noon hours, traffic is terrible with people going to the Zoo or simply taking Trevilian Way to get to Poplar lvl or Newburg Road. So you get the point.
ALSO! The development plans called for a restaurant. Like what? The whole entire thing was out of pocket and I am extremely glad that Mayor Craig Greenberg agreed to listen to the voices of the community and shut that goofy shit down.
~ keep it all smiles
exploding rock™ 