"Whose gonna take my picture from now on?"
Shucks Tom, ya put me on the spot. Of course I'll take your picture,
hell I shoot Larry, just wish I were a better shot. Let's see how
much crap I get for that one.
Do I "…grant [you] credit as a free thinker for endorsing something
Werner likes and Larry doesn't?" No, if I were to take your `claim'
literally, I know too much of your acceptance of dogma to believe such
a claim. Figuratively possibly, but you do appear from this
perspective to damned literal, I think you've chosen the wrong
adjective, perhaps open minded would be closer.
You're likely right "…it might help [me] to stop thinking of the world
in two camps - pro and anti Larry." But what fun would that be? More
literally, `cause I know that deep down it's where your itchin' to go,
there exists a clear and present danger to the future of Asbury Park
and its name is Fishman.
In real estate as in most markets, there's a remarkably accurate
adage, `be a bear or bull don't be a pig'. In my 34 years of real
estate experience, I've never seen a novice walk into a deal as rich
as Larry has with the waterfront. He has a near fail safe opportunity
to make a terrific sum of money. How has he dealt with this
windfall"? Daily he squanders it, frittering away good will, a great
market, a fabulous site and marketplace expectation.
Which leaves us with "I hope politics hasn't destroyed our friendship,
Skippy Paparazzi!". For starters, I now know I'm writing to Tom and
that's a good thing; secondly, have I stalked you or someone you know?
Thirdly, unless I'm terribly mistaken, you're a guy; I really dislike
guys calling me Skippy–you sound like my mother!
Outside of the above, and if we can keep the monster trucks either on
the street or Fishman Parkway, I've no reason to end our friendship.
Hell, you're fun to shoot.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Skip,
>
> You are so "off topic" now and in so many directions that I won't
> respond to it all.
>
> If you really followed Asbury Park politics beyond this board Skip,
> then you would know that I have had two very public disagreements
> with Asbury Partners, and it wasn't one sided; they publicly shot
> back at me. One disagreement had to do with financing, the other
> with what types of business would be on the boardwalk. That Asbury
> Partners disagrees with me on these topics doesn't mean I should put
> on battle gear and declare my hatred of everthing they do.
>
> Do I support them in general? Even mostly? Certainly. I like the
> idea of high density residential. You may disagree, but neither
> opinion makes us bad people or subject to constant scorn on this
> board. Now, I also wasn't happy with Larry for stealing my line
> about this not being the right time for families to move here (yes -
> I'm convinced he stole that right from my columns).
>
> My point is Skip, it might help you to stop thinking of the world in
> two camps - pro and anti Larry. I look at issues and decide them
> one by one - not by whose "team" I'm perceived to be on.
>
> In fact, I very publicly in a column endorsed Werner's plan for more
> density to the north to free up some money to save assets toward the
> south.
>
> Now comes the test Skip: Do you grant me credit as a free thinker
> for endorsing something Werner likes and Larry doesn't? Or do you
> continue to just lump people together (the building block of
> prejudice) and resort to more name calling and sarcasm?
>
> By the way, I enjoyed your post alleging that Monster Trucks are
> my "aesthetic." I do get the metaphor, and the insult you hope it
> to be. If you truly wish to compare lives and determine which of us
> is more cultured, it will be pointless without an agreed standard
> for culture. For instance I would place having a fun time with my
> kids at a parade and the fair that followed, including the truck
> ride, to be extremely high in importance. Aimless fun is as
> important to thier development as thier music lessons, sports, art
> study, etc. Child rearing, including memory building of many sorts,
> I accept as a high water mark of culture. East Coast elitists may
> disagree. So what. Who cares.
>
> You used to stop up to my office, chat, hang out with me in bars,
> etc. I hope politics hasn't destroyed our friendship, Skippy
> Paparazzi! Whose gonna take my picture from now on?
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