The image below is a 2005 TBT article I still have about the Tampa blogger scene. The big boy was Tommy Duncan. He stopped blogging around 2008, and was never seen again. Here is what Creative Loafing said about that era: "The 40-something blogger founded the most-often-cited independent Tampa Bay news blog, Sticks of Fire, in Feb. 2004, and the site, without much financial assistance from advertising, is still going strong today with a stable of more than a dozen regular contributors. In 2005, Duncan was featured in a tbt* story about the young lions of the local Internet. Today, about half of them have fallen by the wayside or (in the case of famous sexy blogger Rachel Moran) moved to New Jersey. Duncan keeps on posting. The local digital scene has grown, but he's not sure it has improved in quality."
In all of the years that I drove a cab I have never picked up a flagger now matter how they looked. I would rather have a problem gettng my lease money than being dead. Another reason is if something happens when you have taken a call the police will have something to go on, phone number or address. Hope you do well on Abe's birthday Larry 157
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Larry is right. The Tampa driver that recently was killed was dispatched but it may as well have been a flagger...he used a cell phone and that is how the cops found him. Thanks for commenting Larry 157
ReplyDeleteI would totally pick up either of them, Asheville is a tourist town and tourists may get outrageous but they generally have money, :)
ReplyDeleteI am glad you see the humor in this. Since you ate a cabbie, you will appreciate my tactics. The flagged I picked up today got the treatment I Gove all flatters. Are you going home? Work? Doctor? When they give details, I fell better. Get a clear a presise destination. Chicks are always good...says Bill Clinton!
ReplyDeleteI actually drove in tampa in the early 80s and it was a completely different vibe, I would probably pass the fat chick if she tried to hail me in tampa ;)
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