Buffett memorial
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008I just got through watching Jimmy Buffett on David Letterman and I can’t help being struck by the fact that we as a community have done nothing to try to honor one of the most successful living Mobilians (if not THE most successful). Why not name the Causeway the Jimmy Buffett Causeway? Or find some other suitable place?
Hell, there are plenty of politicians who have things named after them around this town. Why not do something to honor someone who has been a monumental success in so many fields and who most Mobilians love to brag about when they’re jabbering with someone from another town? It just makes sense. And all you haters out there who will moan and act like Jimmy’s music is beneath you, I’m not saying you even have to like him. But you should at least respect the career he’s had and the success in writing, music, business and theater.
For that matter, it’s time Mobile forms it’s own Music Hall of Fame. It doesn’t need to cost a bunch of money. It could be without an edifice for a while at least. But we have an impressive musical history and it deserves a space, certainly as much as our sports hall of fame.
We need to tell the elected folks we’d like a statue of Jimmy in Bienville Square, or something along those lines.