June 29, 2007
John Street In Revenge Of The Nerds
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Our mayor, John Street, is similar in a lot of ways. He, too, has a Blackberry. And he is willing to wait in line for an iPhone on 16th Street. He's been there since 3:30 a.m.
"I want to know the kind of things that are on the market," Street told KYW 1060. "I believe that we are a city that's leading the way in many respects in the use of technology. We got a late start in this city but we're trying to catch up.... I might be able to learn something here with the use of this technology that might help us in the city."
That's right: John Street is going to fix the city with his downloads of White Stripes MP3s. Of course, the mayor has to do things like, oh, I don't know, be the mayor of the city, and the iPhone doesn't go on sale until 6 p.m., so he's going to be signing all his important papers (or whatever the hell a mayor does) while waiting in line for his phone.
He also has to leave for a few events during the day and will have someone sit in his chair. Please, please, please let it be a homeless guy I'm friendly with so I can steal his seat. Actually, wait: There's Wi-Fi there, isn't there? I could blog from John Street's folding chair. Well, maybe not. Either way, Street will be cutting in line since he has to leave to go cut ribbons.
"We live in a geeky little world here," Street said to Mike DiNardo. "Times have changed dramatically. It used to be the people seen as geeks were kind of looked down upon. But not anymore!"
Hm. I'm a little torn here. I do think the mayor should have better things to do than wait in line for an iPhone. However, if I were mayor -- I had photos of all the other candidates with Shetland ponies who were not their wives -- I'd totally get an iPhone. I might work on that homicide problem, too, though.
Update: Photographic proof.
Mayor Street in line for iPhone [KYW 1060]
Posted by D-Mac on June 29, 2007 09:05 AM
Posted to Geeks
, John Street
, iPhone
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Comments
...This is just TOO easy.
Posted by: Larry West for Mayor at June 29, 2007 10:48 AM
you MUST go there to live blog this!!!
Posted by: rubylegs at June 29, 2007 11:22 AM
I emailed The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. I suggest many do the same. This would be an awesome piece of journalism to interview John Street. He obviously does not see the absurdity and unbased delinquency in his behavior.
Posted by: BubbaFats at June 29, 2007 12:29 PM
I can't believe that Street is so obtuse that he can't realize how stupid this is.
Then again, he went on TV to ask kids to "put the guns down"...so maybe he is.
Man I can't wait for Nutter to take office.
Posted by: Michael at July 1, 2007 11:44 AM
Alycia Lane for mayor! We need a mayor who looks good in a bikini!
Posted by: ALB at July 1, 2007 11:49 AM
This is pathetic. Someone needs to embarrass this man. I guarantee you will get on tv if you stand across the street from him with a sign that says,
"200 people murdered in Philadelphia while John Street spends his days waiting in line for an iPhone."
Posted by: Andrew at June 29, 2007 10:11 AM