Picking up the torch on all things Advance. Feel free to send in #BadAdvance. I’m going to “rebuild” this page with some reposts of old @AdvanceGuyNotes tweets
@cwebbonline The rain wasn’t the problem. Flying Marine One and ten other helicopters a third of the way from Paris to Germany, and back, in foggy weather conditions nixed the trip.
This weekend, a number of “seasoned” Advance men and women gathered near DC to remember Reagan Director of Advance Jim Hooley. One of the finest practitioners of our dark arts, Jim lived a full and consequential life. He organized Mike Deaver’s ideas into reality, changing the Presidency forever. #goodadvance
Second place chill award goes to @andyharnik for continuing to undertake top quality photojournalism, while drinking bourbon neat out of a rocks glass. 🥃🫡
It’s difficult to understand how they screwed this up, since it’s not terribly hard to clamp or lash the ridged frame to something…but #badadvance! At least they had some depth on the stage so it didn’t come down on all of them.
scary moment in hershey as @GovernorShapiro and crew nearly get hit by a falling backdrop.
ben franklin, a student of history, recalls the 2003 constitution center stage collapse that nearly hurt supreme court justice o’connor.
betsy ross quickly pronounced everyone ‘fine.’