August 11
...serving up your daily dish.
PGA? Bah humburg. The Prop, who blogs from a secret lair closer to the lush green landscape of Baltrusol than we are in Baristaville, colors the tournament a giant inconvenience:
The PGA Championship Golf Tournament starts today for real, although we have been suffering its effects since Monday. I would estimate that private jet traffic in and out of Morristown Airport has tripled in the last few days and the number of corporate helicopter flights overhead is up by at least that much. A half dozen major thoroughfares over the other side of Summit are closed for the duration. We see blimps cruising around.
You can't drive along Rt. 124 without getting stuck behind some "official" PGA vehicle meandering along, looking for the Madison Hotel -- always a Buick and always with out-of-state plates. Even though the Open is in Springfield (insert Simpsons joke here), evidently the demographic that travels with the PGA Tour prefers the plumier clime of Morris County to the urban bustle of Essex or Union.
Always a Buick? Gag us with a golf club. (Just kidding). But seriously, doesn't this make everyone glad we didn't get the Olympics?
Meanwhile, for those who can't get enough of Tiger, there are grounds passes and parking spaces still available on Craigslist.
FYI...Buick is one of Tiger's main sponsors and the official car of the PGA Tour.
Is it true that one must be over 50 to buy a Buick?
Posted by: frosty | Aug 11, 2005 1:27:43 PM
Hey, they have been closing Valley Road, between Clairmont and Van Vleck every night this week to put in BRICK CROSSWALKS! At least the PGA Championship has osme relevance compared to this waste of time. They are jackhammering at 10:30 at night! It's funny how they want to put in a noise ordinance to ban leaf blowers on Sundays because it disrupts the quality of life, yet jackhammering in a residential area at bedtime makes sense.
Posted by: MyManMisterC | Aug 11, 2005 3:38:02 PM
MyManMisterC, not for a second do I believe that 10:30 is bedtime for you. If it was, you'd be no man of mine.
Posted by: walleroo | Aug 11, 2005 11:28:14 PM
Frosty, you can buy one if you're under 50, so long as you're at least 20 pounds overweight and bald.
Posted by: walleroo | Aug 11, 2005 11:29:22 PM
Where is Martha Burk now that we need her? Imagine closing off PUBLIC streets for a golf tournament at a PRIVATE club that does not have - to the best of my knowledge - even one left-handed transsexual Siberian as a member! We need to take up a collection and buy someone a Buick.
Posted by: conan the grammarian | Aug 12, 2005 11:57:53 AM
