NEWS FLASH: Big Hard Rock Park Meeting on Monday!

That guy who runs Horry County's impotent economic development cabal - see it's such a do-nothing joke that we don't even know what the heck it's called, nor do we care - Hugh Owens, is all a-twitter and scurrying all over town whispering to anyone who'll give him the time of day, that he's locked-up a buyer for the tanked Hard Rock Park.

He's telling folks that he has a "secret" meeting setup for Monday morning at the law offices of Nexsen-Pruet at the Market Commons on the old Myrtle Beach Air Force base, with local govenment officials and the "deep pocketed buyers," to discuss incentives and concessions.

Glory hallelujah, and thank you Jesus!

Hugh Owens has single-handedly saved the Redneck Riviera!

What a guy!

The Myrtle Beach Insider ace investigative team has found out that one of Owen's alleged investors is the nephew of the fourth cousin to the great grandson of the now deceased Herve Villechaize, Mr. Rourke's diminutive sidekick from the old late 70's TV show Fantasy Island, who wants to rebrand the bankrupt park "Erotic Fantasy Island."

Word is also on the street that Mark Whittle, the recently exited head honcho of the floundering South Financial Group, and personal financial advisor to Governor Mark Sanford, is prepared to invest $18 million dollars, that he found under a rock, in the park deal.

Break a leg on Monday Huey!

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope." Dr. Seuss

Ah, and so the fun continues on the Redneck Riviera!