@JonahDispatch “I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor”
Who is prepping her for TV hits? Bobby Flay? Miss America pageant contestants? Do her handlers even hear how ridiculous this all sounds?
@DanZangrilli Dan, I will never understand what it is that the rest of us are supposed to learn from witnessing that family endure cancer. Two generations. Absolutely inexplicable. Mike and his brother Brian were quality people. The world is a lesser place without them.
@_NoahHiles Mike was a work colleague of mine several years ago. I was honored to know him. A quality human being: thoughtful, pleasant, had a cheerful demeanor. He and his brother Brian had impeccable taste in music. Seems unfair that two people who lived so vibrantly are gone.
@consequence I did not expect Robert Smith to be a warrior of the game, insisting that the halftime of these World Cup games remain 15 minutes. Because halftime shows are for the Super Bowl. Never let American culture infiltrate European football.
So Canada is paradise, huh? They exported Justin Bieber. They insist that cold is tolerable. The ridiculous insistence that they invented curling? And now, it appears that they do not have fire fighters. I’m done with that place. Take care of this damn smoke Canucks.
@ThatEricAlper Sitting. The lights go down, excitement for the emergence of the band…everyone should be standing. Except the horse-toothed jackass in the seat behind me screaming for me to sit. Fuck that guy and the other curmudgeons like him.
Sitting in the waiting room at the doctor (I’m not sick). A few feet from me is an adult wandering around the room on a speaker phone call. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1, not an asshole and 10, super asshole), how much of an asshole is this person?
Just a reminder that neither of the songs titled “4th of July” - the one by X or the other recorded by Sufjan Stevens - are about the celebration of American independence. Put those on your July 4 party playlist at your own peril.
@colin_dunlap It is my understanding that the GE leadership has been anticipating this for more than a year. Razor thin margins and an increasingly competitive landscape and it was time to get out. Kroger trying to head off westward expansion by Wegmans, who is looking to grow.
@colin_dunlap Colin, you are talking about experts who would be able to steer the planning of the celebration as it relates to the nations history. What about the actual events associated with with the celebration? You would want to have a team curate events too. Who ya got on the panel?
I have just been informed that Alexi Lalas still employed as one of the expert halftime commentators during the World Cup. Apparently, the rumors that he was replaced with dryer lint, a commentator who test audiences said offered better takes, were incorrect. #Fıfaworldcup