Spence had just enough time left in his three minutes to ask the council and the audience watching from home to visit www.monkeywhale.com and www.artbeatgreensboro.org.
Somewhere around this time, City Manager Mitchell Johnson got the idea that Spence and his crew might be playing an April Fool's day joke. He asked Councilman Robbie Perkins to use his PDA to search for monkey whales on the internet. And Perkins finds an, a-hem, adults-only site.
Word spread. Later, after the council returned from a temporary break, they noted that folks shouldn't take Spence's advice, that those sites just aren't family-friendly. Even further, they asked the city staff to strike his comments from the video record, which is posted online after the meeting.
I see that the monkeywhale.com blog has now been added to We101.com. Welcome monkeywhale.
The whole "un-family-friendly" silliness about monkeywhale astounded me at the time and filled me with woe about the online talents of our elected officials (at least, some of them). We've either completely lost our sense of humor or worse, our Council-ors just don't get it, which is becoming about the worst thing I can say about a candidate. For any office.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see the monkeywhalers at We101; hope the Coucil-people either take a crash course and learn that http isn't a 4-letter word.
Ah yes, I remember that night.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the welcome. We're glad to be here amongst this vibrant community. We're plotting something, so stay tuned. Save the Monkeywhale.
ReplyDelete