Current Verbosity
Spin The Coyotes
What if you wanted Greg Jamison to go away? What if you managed to get a story published that made it appear Greg Jamison was begging for a deadline extension while providing public assurance his bid was likely to succeed? That would make him look bad, wouldn’t it? It would make it easier to later dismiss him as a legitimate contender to own the Coyotes, right? Sure it would, and it did. All Publicity Is Good Publicity A local PR guy tweeted a ludicrous comment insinuating the measure of the seriousness of Coyotes bidders is directly related to the number of visits they have paid to his friend Jerry Weiers: “New #PhoenixCoyotes bid serious barometer: how many times, if at all, met with #glendale mayor.” The same firm volunteered or has been hired to Rumpelstiltskin the straw of the Amy’s Baking Company disaster. The theme is blaming their client’s tragically misanthropic behavior on cyberbullying. Not THEIR cyberbullying, that of the nefarious … [Read More...]
On The Company Dime
March 12, 2013 We heard that three members of the Glendale city government; Mayor Weiers, CM Gary Sherwood and CM Sam Chavira were in Washington, DC. According to a March 11 post on Mr. Chavira's Twitter feed as a caption to a photo: @Chavira4Council: Speaking at Pentagon with Mayor Weiers & CM Sherwood in support of the F-35 program at #Glendale Luke Air Force Base While the photograph depicts Mr. Chavira at a podium, I suspect there was no podium involved with any F-35 discussions. Since Luke Air Force Base is in CM Chavira's district, it makes sense that he might have business in Washington as would the other two gentlemen. Making The Rounds I saw a similar picture … [Read More...]
Spin The Coyotes
What if you wanted Greg Jamison to go away? What if you managed to get a story published that made it appear Greg Jamison was begging for a deadline extension while providing public assurance his bid was likely to succeed? That would make him look bad, wouldn’t it? It would make it easier to later dismiss him as a legitimate contender to own the Coyotes, right? Sure it would, and it did. All Publicity Is Good Publicity A local PR guy tweeted a ludicrous comment insinuating the measure of the seriousness of Coyotes bidders is directly related to the number of visits they have paid to his friend Jerry Weiers: “New #PhoenixCoyotes bid serious barometer: how many times, if at … [Read More...]
Can’t Buy Me Love
I like music, especially live music. Bea and I attend as many live shows as we can, we see people everybody has heard of and people hardly anybody has heard of. We saw the Rolling Stones three times the last time they were touring, even managed to make a weekend in Vegas with The Who one night and the Stones the next. We have eclectic tastes in music and thoroughly enjoyed Lyle Lovett, Guy Clark, John Hiatt and Joe Ely on stage together at Mesa Arts Center. I know who Arcade Fire is and like them even though they're from Quebec (anti-Coyotes hockey joke). Yeah I'm old enough to have sneaked out of the house to haunt the Fillmore East back in the Hendrix and Cream days. The last show we … [Read More...]
Goldwater Hopes Misguided
December 30, 2012 As we wind down 2012, the arena management agreement between the City of Glendale and Hockey Partners is approved, signed and delivered. That's another giant step toward the Coyotes bright future in Glendale completed successfully. The R-12-02 referendum halfhearted and error laden attempt by Ken Jones and Francine Romesburg followed the similarly error filled R-12-01 attempt into failure, this time they didn't even bother turning in any petition sheets. Instead, Ken and/or Peggy Jones sent an email to lame duck mayor Scruggs with "cc's" to some current and future City councilmembers and staff. Because, perhaps, Ken/Peggy are so used to making errors, they … [Read More...]
Older Verbosity
Amy’s Baking Company, and the Coyotes
You can't make this stuff up. The latest craziness discussion will require YOU to do some work, I'll wait while you Google (or Bing) "Amy's Baking Company" and read some of the results. Click here … [Read More...]
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Software engineer and overall web technology guy. A curmudgeon of the most irascible sort that works hard and likes hockey a little bit.
Living happily in the desert with a great woman and five kids. Well, most of the kids only show up once in awhile, but the three dogs are always here.