Happy 4/20! Heh, pot. (Sigh.)
A big ol' gator wreaked havoc on early morning Veterans Expressway traffic yesterday, mainly by just being a big ol' gator on the Veterans Expressway. Which is kind of like Boston traffic coming to a standstill because everybody saw a guy walking out of a Dunkin Donuts…
Enduring symbol of everything wrong with entitled, fearmongering white-male America Bill O'Reilly finally overdrew his harassment account, and was fired by Fox News. At least he's still got his millions, his hate for his ex-wife and his certainty that he's the victim in all this. The most infuriating thing about it is, this guy will go to his grave thinking he's awesome, and not at all a misogynist taintblister who sowed fear and division not even because he believed it, but just for money.
Travel + Leisure released a survey ranking Tampa the 7th ugliest city in America. Which is actually why CL is (not really) moving its offices to St. Pete, as (originally inaccurately, now just equivocally) reported by the Tampa Bay Times. If anything, this is a sign that it's time the creatives abandoned St. Pete to the developers and the cluelessly affluent, crossed the bay and took up the mantle of Keeping Tampa Ugly(tm).
And finally, a Tuesday-night pro tennis match in Sarasota was interrupted by loud sex noises from a nearby apartment. The line judge might've said he was out, but it sounded like he was definitely in. ZING! Thirty love? More like dirty love, amirite? ZINGZING! I got a million of 'em, folks. OK, I had two of them. Get back to work.
This article appears in Apr 20-27, 2017.