May We Suggest…

Time once again to stop “carping” and start “making things better” in our town. As official ‘Shat gadfly Toieshat keeps pointing out, that Oprah sign downtown is getting mighty depressing.

We’re not surprised that the building’s owner, Ronnie Sturdivant, is fervently hoping for a Winfrey-sized miracle; Derm’s never-sleeping downtown chronicler noted last month that the man is in arrears on his property taxes for the Oprahplatz to the tune of over 16 large.

Well, we’ve all soldiered on with his starry-eyed crusade for this long, but the time has come to pull a Pelosi here and shut this mother down.

Hey Ronnie, since downtown’s nip/tuck is almost done, how’s about following suit with your windows overlooking the nostalgically named “CCB Plaza,” huh? Maybe lower your horizons a little bit, you know? Here are a few humble suggestions that would make our day:

And as always, now it’s your turn, ’shatters! Hammer the comments field with even better idears (shouldn’t be too hard). We’ll pick the best one and give its contributor some kind of stupid-ass prize or other.