August 27, 2007
Fenty Ponders Blackberry Spokesman Role
While he worked the crowd last Saturday at Eastern Market's re-opening, Mayor Adrian Fenty again made it clear that he likes to keep connected to city affairs at all times. Hanging from his belt were his famous three Blackberries -- one for mayoral duties, one for personal responsibilities and one for immediate contact with Police Chief Cathy Lanier. Rumors have circulated that he may be in the market for a fourth.
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Oh, Man.
Listen, I love the responsibility and accessibility, and I think a little geekiness is more than a good thing in a mayor.
But, damn. He's a good-looking guy, dresses relatively well, and then this.
Must get pretty loud when he drops those things to take a dump.
Get that man a utility belt with a Batarang and some Shark Repellant Bat Spray.
I think His Honor wears all those Blackberrys and a pair of ankle weights as part of his marathon training regimen.
Hi. I'm the mayor and I'm a tool.
Why does he need a Blackberry, rather than just a normal phone, for immediate contact with Cathy Lanier? Is she really likely to send him an emergency email?
Can't you have multiple email accounts on one Blackberry? Is it just to keep the cell phone numbers separate?
Seriously, does Blackberry know what an aficionado our Mayor is? Perhaps he really could be a spokesman or model (he is attractive enough) for them, and, in return, the city could get free technology from the company.....
nice pants.
perhaps the revenue from his spokesmanship could pay for the additional cost of school repairs??? This is why a hot mayor is crucial to City revenue streams.
Probably does it to keep everything separate and avoid any future "you use DC-issued and paid for phones for personal use" or "why don't you make yourself more accessible to the police chief".
Everyone knows we do that to a guy the second a crazy situation happens.
Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes says that people who use Blackberries lack personality, are unrealistic and poor managers of their time.
Rooney went on to add that it would be a lot more efficient to just call the poor bastard you are emailing.
for personal and for the police use, he could at least get the really tiny ones so that his pants don't fall down unexpectedly:
http://www.discoverblackberry.com/devices/device-detail.jsp?navId=H0,C101,P203
Thank God I have neither, but hands-free Bluetooth earpieces are 3 or 4 times more douchebaggery than a Blackberry.
Yo, Adrian! Is that a Blackberry in your pocket ... or are you just happy to see me?
Adrian, pleats? Really now, you know better.
No iPhone? What happenned to the 20-odd pieces his office snaked from the At+T store on launch day?
Now now, Moose, pleats can be okay if the pants are properly fit. It's the pleats and white polo together that are kind of killing me, though. He looks like he should be stocking videos at Blockbuster. Other than the three Blackberries on his belt, that is. So maybe that's why they're there?
How about a Bat Signal when Chief Lanier needs to contact Mayor Fenty? Will Chancellor Rhee also get a dedicated Blackberry too? Is Mrs. Fenty cool with this?
So many questions, so little time.
Perhaps Mr. Mayor needs to invest in a oh so stylish "man-bag" to keep all of those blackberries in!
Um, 2001 called, they want their ultra-cool beltclip accessories back.
Excuse me, Mayor, are those Bugle Boy jeans that you're wearing?
It's an ideas whose time has come - the stylish folio that can hold up to four CrackBerries... call it the PintFolio.
Umm, I think the big question is, "Who goes around taking photos of Adrian Fenty's groin region?"
Fenty deserves the Cliff Clavin award for unnecessary belt adornments.
ringtones buddy, ringtones
Who the hell would ever cite Andy Rooney approvingly with regard to electronic communications?
I don't cite Shakespeare on the efficacy of railroad travel, or Abraham Lincoln on airline delays.
Fenty needs to start using those Blackberries to fire the worthless dead weight city employees that continue to keep DC a third tier city. Until he gets serious about taking on the fact that DC is stacked to the rafters with useless, surly employees we'll only get so far as a city. It must make the decent employees (which are actually there) so frustrated to see the incompetence, laziness, and arrogance of so many of their coworkers not only go unpunished but actually be rewarded, year after year.
Wow Hillman. You can really weigh down a lighthearted post.
[note: this response is not an opening to expand upon your rant, or branch out into other not-even-tangentially-related topics.]
these comments have made my day. thanks guys!
I was thinking the same thing, guest 28. Whoever you are. I also thought, wow, way to force your own issue into the conversation, Hillman.
If you don't like my post, then don't read it. The topic is the Mayor and his Blackberries. That's pretty open.
If you don't like my post, then don't read it.
How do I know whether I like it until I read it?
smperk, actually I was thinking of a certain ex-DOJ employee who had to testify why he was using a personal GOP email account instead of his official DOJ email. Now we see the alternative course of action at work!