A quick note from Tampa Bay

Ever since the RNC convention has lost a full day of ‘activities’ RNC Chairman Reince Priebus issued the following statement “We’re not cutting any of our speakers. We need to hear them all, so what we’re doing is asking them to ‘pick up the pace’ and speak a lot faster. There will be no pauses […]

There’s Something about the Virgin mary

“From certain angles it does look like the Virgin Mary,” says acting manager Melanie Todd of Hamburger Mary’s in Ybor City. Yes, it has happened again, and what is it about the West coast of Florida that makes it the epicenter of ‘Virgin Mary’ sightings? Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague, often random […]

How can we let a slice of salami come between us?

Dear Tampa, Although we’re not ‘sister cities’ I feel we’re very close. We live in the same State, tolerate the same legislature and enjoy the same types of immigrant populations. We should stick together. Have you heard that your buddy Miami has gotten slammed all over the place from the amount of our traffic, rudeness […]