Larry Kelley: Nobody Loves Tweaking Amherst More
Poking around on the collection of Western Mass blogs known as Blognewsnet.com/pioneervalley, I found the very passionate and truly funny blog written by Larry Kelley. Larry and I have known each other, mostly through people we both know in advertising and business, for many years. Like me, he takes this blogging job very seriously, rarely missing a chance to put up an updated post, or add a photo to make it even more fun.
Today on his ‘Only in the Republic of Amherst’ blog his head was a classic: His Lordship’s Carriage, a post that included a photo of the political-slogan covered rear view of an Amherst Selectboard member’s Toyota Camry. With its dizzying array of political Korrectness, everything from the old saw about ‘the military holding a bakesale’ to the letters IRAQ with an ‘N’ falling right where the Q was. It is like so many Pioneer Valley Bumpers, filled with trite, unworkable sayings that just plain annoy me.
Larry agreed, and who else would put up that great headline?
March 7, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
Nothing (except family, God and country) is more serious than blogging–although my wife would like to know when this “job” starts paying. Mr. Weiss is actually the Select Board Chair and thinks of himself as a Strong Mayor (although he only precides over his Royal Court on Monday nights from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm). Of course we have a Town Manager who runs things 9 am-5 pm Mon thru Friday (or perhaps Mon-Thurs) for $125-K annually, who also thinks of himself as Mayor Boss Hogg.The worst of two worlds. Yeah, the comment I hear most from honest working folks (who always whisper it and ask me not to ascribe it to them in print) is that I say things they are thinking, but don’t have the chutzpa to trumpet publicly.