Have we done a Bon Jovi "Livin' on a Prayer" opening joke for Wednesday yet? We can't remember. Eh, just have a Radler with lunch today and remember you can start mentally checking out around 2 p.m. tomorrow. Hugs!
So the Tampa Bay Rays' inconsistent early-season action got weirder and more interesting over the last couple of days, when they made some club and season records and raised some eyebrows by demolishing the Toronto Blue Jays 13-2 and 12-2 in their last couple of games. In a more exciting sport, those scores would equal, like, thousands of points.
In other good (and long-overdue) news, Florida's Department of Health finally ordered all hospitals to begin issuing birth certificates that include the names of both same-sex parents. Yeah, this is a thing that hasn't been done in the 16 months since marriage equality became a protected legal right in the state. Man, bureaucracy really provides all sorts of peripheral opportunities to be an obstructionist douche, doesn't it? Anyway, we're stoked. Score another one for love.
And finally, St. Pete was one of a baker's dozen of cities chosen out of more than 125 to participate in a "Maker Cities" summit sponsored by online handmade-stuff marketplace Etsy, because OF COURSE IT WAS. Would this particular "Maker Cities" summit perhaps be located in Brooklyn? OF COURSE IT IS. Time for a craft beer-fueled fixie caravan up the coast, people.
This article appears in May 12-19, 2016.