What Sucks About South Florida
This book tells it like it is. It is an invaluable resource for anyone traveling to or considering moving to South Florida.
It's a look at life in Florida from the perspective of a disaffected transplant. It includes links to sites about the SUCKY weather, the SUCKY wildlife, the SUCKY crime, and many other topics about stuff that generally SUCKS in Florida!!!
It's only $10.00 (+ $2.50 S&H). To order, email me at
scooter262@yahoo.com
24 hours 7 days a week, and I'll tell you where to send your check.
There are so many great things in the book that I
couldn't possibly list all of them here. Plus, if I did, you wouldn't have
any incentive to buy it! But here are some of the things it covers: Butterfly World 3600
W. Sample Road, Coconut Creek, (954) 977-4400 Highlights: One of
the world’s largest butterfly collections.
Attractions:
Located in Tradewinds Park. Open 7 days a week: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday
Beaches:
The Death and Afterbirth of Fort Lauderdale Beach
Fort Lauderdale has moved a little more toward corporate America, and away from its roots as a place for mindless fun. This latest project, Beach Place, is about the last thing South Florida needs. It eliminates another "pure" beach, a place where people can come just to enjoy the water, sun and sand, and where you can actually see the beach when driving by.
For years, Fort Lauderdale has been removing the life from it’s beach. The process began with the kicking out of the spring-breakers who brought energy and youth. It is now complete. Beach Place, a 100,000-square-foot retail and restaurant complex along the newly renovated beach, has just been finished.
In addition to the shopping and restaurants, Marriott will soon open Beach Place Towers, an 18-story luxury time-share property built atop the project’s 6-story parking garage.
The party bars that provided night life have been bankrupted. Now big business and button-down corporate America are free to sink their teeth into another area and gouge out their not-so-fair piece of the pie.
Warning: rant follows
Fort Lauderdale is just following the standard recipe for success in the new, kinder, gentler America: kick out people who don’t have large amounts of disposable income, discourage local young people, then bankrupt the local bars and nightclubs. Presto! Let in corporate America in the guise of a giant mall/shopping center. The area is now completely safe for the boring, fat, middle-aged tourists who will descend in droves on places like Beach Place.
I can’t stand Fort Lauderdale. They had a vibrant, happening city, with restaurants and nightclubs that people came to and spent money at. But that wasn’t good enough for the old, bitter sons-of-bitches who ran the city. Now the fuckers have what they deserve: a deserted, decrepit, decaying beachfront. They brought it on themselves and I hope it stays that way forever. Fort Lauderdale makes me sick. Rest in Peace spring break and the wet T-shirt contests of yesteryear.
Done ranting: resume normal programming
Personalities:
Jorge Mas Canosa
One thing that must be said in the context of discussing South Florida and organized crime: Jorge Mas Canosa is not a mobster. The magazine New Republic called him one, and got slapped with a libel suit which Canosa subsequently won. So, for the security of my loved ones, just let me reiterate that I do not consider Canosa to be a mobster. Just because a man has political friends whom he helped elect and appoint in all sections of Dade County government, as well as far-reaching business ties into every sector of the South Florida economy, and just because he then uses these ties and alliances to further his personal agenda, and just because everyone hoping to get elected or to get a government contract comes before him and offers obeisance, well, hell, that doesn’t make a man a mobster.
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