It's Thursday, and I don't even care that tomorrow's Friday, because the weekend just means two more days to spend hiding inside. Yup, that's right — it's Don't Even Care About The Weekend hot.
Downtown St. Pete shopping/dining/movie-ing destination Sundial is for sale! Let's pool our money, buy it, and fill it with used rattan furniture shops and vegan restaurants that serve chili in a Frito's bag and 3 folk-punk venues and a single movie theater that only shows original 35mm prints, just to thumb our noses at gentrification and homogenized affluence masked as "progress" and to get things back to the way they was! (This is exactly why we'll never, ever have enough money to buy a third pizza topping, much less Sundial.)
According to consumer research site Value Penguin (OK, enough already), Florida leads the nation in credit card fraud. No! you say. The hell you say! you say. Then when you stop to consider that the three main ingredients in credit card fraud are super-lazy criminals, bored and under-trained people in hourly retail jobs and willfully ignorant consumers, well, sure, that makes sense.
And finally, greater amberjack season opens in Gulf state waters this Monday, Aug. 1. Somebody take me AJ fishing. I've never caught one, and I think we could all probably use a little R&R, wouldn't you say?
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 4, 2016.