Yes, I said I was giving up this hobby, but a recent McBride post reminded me how I chose my blogonym. She hasn't used the term as much recently as she did awhile ago, when it seemed to be a daily feature, but perhaps she will revive it in memory of me:
Nelson's comments fit neatly into the media template, so it's no wonder we're not hearing a lot about them outside of the Freeman.
The
post was about Waukesha Mayor Larry Nelson taking a little shot at Brookfield and Delafield for being snobbily pretentious:
At the end of a very long special meeting Tuesday night with developers of two large projects – a Wal-Mart Supercenter and “The Shoppes at Fox River” – Nelson asked those proposing the latter to drop the extra “p” and “e” from the word “Shoppes” in the center’s name. “It reeks of ostentation and pretentiousness like Delafield and Brookfield, and that’s not Waukesha,” he said.
Perhaps Waukesha should welcome a Wal-Marte Supercentre, too.
