KyKurmudgeon

A reader suggestion: www.thedud.ick.

A couple for consideration: www.tangledwebbs.ego and www.vanishingpointe.uho. Join in the fun, people.

After six months of dealing with legislative sessions and/or the run-up to legislative sessions, the ol’ Kurmudgeon feels the need for some fun time. Thanks to Jerry Richardson for suggesting a way to have that fun, assuming you all help me out a bit.

What we’re looking for is an appropriate, albeit fictional, Web site name for the Webb site, that block of downtown Lexington where historic buildings got razed to make way for something or other that, as yet, shows no signs of materializing.

I’ve been spending most of my time in Frankfort lately, so I’m not current with the Lexington street chatter on this issue. But I understand some folks in town now refer to the block as Centrepit. So, we’ll start the conversation by suggesting www.centrepit.ugh as an appropriate name for our non-existent Web site.

Get the idea? Well, ramp up your creativity and send your suggestions to lkeeling@herald-leader.com today. Or tomorrow. Or next week. Or whenever that oh, so perfect idea pegs the needle on your giggle meter. I’ll be sharing the best of them with readers in days to come.

There is no deadline for this little contest. No prizes either, except for the laughs.

I remain unconvinced that downtown Lexington needs or can sustain a development on the massive scale of the proposed CentrePointe. However, I do believe a new government center is needed downtown. Perhaps then, the former Lafayette Hotel now occupied by the Urban County Government could be restored to the glory of its heyday, either as a hotel or as a combination of condos and hotel. Louisville's Brown Hotel proves such restorations can be done successfully.