My Bandana Reps Tampa
The Weekly Planet's Scott Harrell has a good idea this week: Battle of the Bays.
The title for his agenda is kind of lame, since it's really only one bay that gets in the way of transversing from Tampa into St. Pete, and vice versa, but the idea is sweet. He's proposing a series of contests wherein each Bay-area metroplis competes for total regional supremacy.
Who can kill a dance-off? Which place can crumple the other to tears with artistic pretension? Where did the hottest, most intense historical event take place? Who, and we're starting to ask the big questions here, can cook the most scrumptiously delicious fish?
Me and PopStat once thought about entertaining this dialogue, but quickly realized we should probably resolve the whole NY/NJ thing first. Besides, I tend to prefer Tampa (obviously), but I think by Planet standards, St. Pete would blow us out of the water.
I'll throw a little fat on the fire and say that's because, in SoHo, we're a bit too arrogantly cosmopolitan to care about anything that isn't within our immediate frame of reference, which is Harrell's whole point. You can run with that as you please.
The title for his agenda is kind of lame, since it's really only one bay that gets in the way of transversing from Tampa into St. Pete, and vice versa, but the idea is sweet. He's proposing a series of contests wherein each Bay-area metroplis competes for total regional supremacy.
Who can kill a dance-off? Which place can crumple the other to tears with artistic pretension? Where did the hottest, most intense historical event take place? Who, and we're starting to ask the big questions here, can cook the most scrumptiously delicious fish?
Me and PopStat once thought about entertaining this dialogue, but quickly realized we should probably resolve the whole NY/NJ thing first. Besides, I tend to prefer Tampa (obviously), but I think by Planet standards, St. Pete would blow us out of the water.
I'll throw a little fat on the fire and say that's because, in SoHo, we're a bit too arrogantly cosmopolitan to care about anything that isn't within our immediate frame of reference, which is Harrell's whole point. You can run with that as you please.
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