If all of these projects really do bear fruit, then what will the pissers and moaners, the nabobs of negativism, and the naysayers have left to keep them riding along in that great tradition of Worcester, this town that they love to hate?...
Well... as a card carrying pisser and moaner, a lifetime member of the nabobs of negativism, and most definitely a heretic naysayer, I'm sure that we'll be able to weather this storm of mounting success and find enough to sustain at least a semblance of a suspicious attitude on other, lesser projects...
In the end, though, it's easy enough to see that we have never really had all that much to complain about, except for years of premature announcements and over-enthusiastic predictions. Somebody says they're thinking about doing something, and all the pols squirt love juice for the cameras. Another guy says they're going to buy some property for a dollar and build a factory, and the pols all pop their corks and start celebrating...
This has been the modus operandi for years, to wildly celebrate the tenuous beginning... and then nothing happens.
It's possible that they may have learned their lesson. And it's also possible that we may have a lot less to complain about in the future. But let's make sure that when there really is something to crow about, and there really is something that's definitely happening, that the event is marked with great pomp and ceremony.
And the biggest something to crow about, of course, will be the day that the wrecking ball takes its first swing on the old dead mall. That day should be a celebration, a day long downtown party, complete with jugglers and clowns, street vendors and bands playing, and most definitely a day when we can drink beer on the quad, with the streets shut down on all four sides of the common, fire truck klaxon horns blaring, marching bands and baton twirlers, and at least one vendor selling cotton candy...
Because if the event isn't marked with at least that level of celebration, if the big climax to six years of bullshit rhetoric is just going to be some quietly executed lineup of speeches for a tiny, boring mid day event such as the one they're planning for next Tuesday morning at the airport, then it will be clear to me that the making of political hay in this town is something our local politicians have still got entirely ass-backwards.
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There will always be fuckups to complain about as long as Parkman Mike is around.
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