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Go Ahead…

Sunday, January 19th, 2003

Message to Mike Bloomberg:

I dare you to challenge the Rolling Stones. Go ahead. Ban Ron Wood and Keith Richards from the Big Apple. In fact, I’m begging you. Call a press conference.

Announce to the world: “I, Michael Bloomberg am hereby declaring that Ron Wood and Keith Richards — parties to the biggest act in the history of rock n’ roll — are banned from New York City until they answer a summons for the crime of smoking a cigarette while performing on stage. Yes I, Michael Bloomberg, possessing enormous fortune and — judging by my behavior — miniscule manhood, think that I and my anti-tobacco crusade are bigger and ballsier and more important than the Rolling effing Stones.”

Would that be great? After all the rock n’ roll arrests: lewdness, public indecency, obscenity, inciting a riot — Bloomberg arrests the Rolling Stones for smoking a cigarette.

Hey New York! Wake up and smell the lox! Your mayor? He’s a fucking fascist!

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4 Responses to “Go Ahead…”

  1. #1 |  Dave |  January 20th, 2003 at 12:31 pm

    I really can’t stand that non-smoking law. Not that I’m a smoker myself, but I really don’t mind when people do in a bar, in designated smoking areas, in dance clubs, etc. But, I don’t like when someone lights up in line for a roller coaster when your already smelling the body odor of about 400 people around you. I just think that some disrespecting smokers ruined it for the rest of those who actually smoke where it won’t offend much of anyone.

  2. #2 |  Bobby |  January 20th, 2003 at 1:04 pm

    Yeah he’s an ass for getting so worked up over the Rolling Stones smoking on stage but at least he shot down that ridiculous cell phone legislation.

  3. #3 |  alina |  January 20th, 2003 at 10:01 pm

    Bloomberg is disgusting.

  4. #4 |  Jimmy Antley |  January 21st, 2003 at 11:15 am

    Hey Dave, I would actually appreciate it if someone would light up something to mask the smell of the 400 people lined up for the coaster. I don’t see a problem there. Do you think cigarette smoke smells worse than BO? How bout incense vs. garlic breath?

    Let’s start a discussion on that – probably pretty applicable to the New York City thing.