Shark Week hit CVS Pharmacy early in Montgomery County. Now
Vineyard Vines has their own custom official Shark Week apparel and accessories on display. Items include shirts, hats, ties and bow ties, tote bags and phone grips.
The store's tag line for the limited-edition merchandise is, "You're gonna need a bigger closet." You're also gonna need a bigger wallet - the prices on the Shark Week merchandise will inspire sticker shock in all who are new to Vineyard Vines.
Shark Week begins July 28, 2019 on the Discovery Channel. Vineyard Vines is located at Westfield Montgomery Mall.
Wow, I waded through the Shark Week post, waiting like the suspenseful theme music in Jaws, and surprise, no mention of how moribund MoCo jumped the shark and lost Discovery first from Bethesda, then Silver Spring. You have us all so much on edge, that you don’t even have to mention the “m” word to get us all riled up.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, have you noticed all the planning commission, design advisory panel and implementation committee items coming up on 7000 Wisconsin, 8000 Wisconsin, two towers at Bethesda Market, Metro Tower, 4 Metro Center and the mixed use tower at La Madeline? It looks like seven new high rise multifamily residential projects, and a sleek new two-story Audi Dealership, are advancing through the approval process.
6:02: None of those projects are relevant because residential housing has been a proven money-loser for the County, with the costs generated by the new housing far exceeding the revenue it generates.
ReplyDeleteCar dealerships open and close all the time in MoCo, but that hasn't changed the fact that MoCo is at rock bottom in the region by every relevant economic development benchmark, based on federal BLS statistics.
The fact is, Montgomery County hasn't attracted a single major corporate HQ in over twenty years. The ultra-rich are fleeing en mass to lower-tax jurisdictions in the region. Revenues and MCPS test scores are down, violent crime and rape are up.
Sad!
I miss the big shark at the Discovery HQ! It was also one of the couple of things the out of town bloggers knew about Silver Spring :)
ReplyDelete6:57 AM Dyer has strong roots in the area...he's a local guy-life long resident
ReplyDelete7:12 AM Let's just say Dyer doesn't need a GPS to get around the county.
ReplyDeleteFor residents, Silver Spring wasn't a big shark on a building :)
Please provide evidence to substantiate your often repeated claim that multifamily housing and ground floor retail space is a burden on the county.
ReplyDeleteDoes your claim include all of the benefits that urban residents provide, like supporting downtown businesses? The benefit of the creation of a diverse walkable community that is composed of more than just corporate headquarters that are dead at night and on weekends?
You claim that school impact fees and taxes, and residential property taxes paid by condo owners or apartment landlords as part of tenant rent are insufficient to cover the burden and underestimated quantity of students that are generated by high-rise multifamily residential. How would you modify these fees and taxes to cover their burden?
You question that ratio’s that are used to generate new students. Please provide your recommended adjustments that you feel would be required to fix your claimed problem. Please post a link to any study that shows what you consider a more appropriate ratio.
"Let's just say Dyer doesn't need a GPS to get around the county."
ReplyDeleteBecause he has an ADC Atlas?
7:20: You set yourself up for another bodyslam, Saul Alinsky. We know that residential development costs more than it brings in in revenue by looking at the County budget - it's in the red every year. Which means expenditures (duh!) far exceed revenue.
ReplyDeleteIf residential/mixed-use real estate was a boon in taxes, we would be flush in cash, especially with growth rates as high as 800% in some parts of the County this century.
We are not flush with cash.
We have a structural budget deficit as far out as the forecasts go.
Case closed.
Impact fees quite obviously need to be hiked significantly.
Why do you need a study for a new student ratio, when we know from historical data that the current formula is consistently underpredicting the number of students? It's clear we need to adjust to a more realistic number.
6:57: No, because I'm a lifelong resident.
Many thousands of people are life long residents it does not make you special
DeleteI love the ties...but I don't usually spend $65 for a bow tie for me.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, girls wear bow ties.
"Let's just say Dyer doesn't need a GPS to get around the county."
ReplyDelete"Because he has an ADC Atlas?"
Dyer: "No, because I'm a lifelong resident."
So you can find, for example, West Hill Drive in Bethesda, without needing to look at GPS, Google or Mapquest or an ADC atlas? Really?
Dyer's troll, going back many years, has always been angry about Dyer being a life long resident.
ReplyDelete5:26AM - Now that's the funniest thing I've heard all day. More likely it amuses the specific commenter you reference knowing how it will trigger Dyer.
ReplyDeleteThese days of social media and interwebs, being a life-long resident doesn't have quite the bump-up it used to have. For example, I've been here since 1963, that makes me not a life-long resident, but I have more local knowledge than someone born 8-10 years later.
It's one of those interesting things.
DeleteYou can buy followers, ads, etc. but one will never be a life long resident like Robert Dyer.
And that makes atleast one man very, very angry.
10:19AM Really? Why do you think that? Who? Name them.
ReplyDeleteIf someone is angry, why do you assume that's the reason?
It's like, to me it's starkly obvious that Robert Dyer hates Hans Riemer for being so successful in life and attaining goals Dyer could only dream about.
By your logic, that would be 100% true because I said so.
10:41: Your psychiatric episode today that fueled your every-30-second refresh and troll comment explosion also ended up again exposing you as a fake - your Hans Riemer laugher is the third thing today you forgot you posted in the past under a different personality than "Anna." #Oops
ReplyDeleteRemember you just claimed you always post as "Anna." #Oops
ReplyDeleteWhatcha gonna say to me when I stick my hand out, introduce myself and ask you all these pointed questions in person? Maybe I should make sure the cameras are running to ensure my safety after everything you've posted against me.
ReplyDelete8:37am please hush you oversized man child
DeleteYou'll never introduce yourself in public. You'll continue to watch Dyer from the shadows.
I'm me, only me and I post under my name. Period. We've been over this for 2 years at this point.
ReplyDeleteHow embarrassing for you to continually be flustered by a gal talking honestly.
What "episode" are you referring to? I made 9 comments yesterday across all threads.
You spend entirely too much time thinking up scenarios and motivations.
Hi, I'm Anna. I've lived/worked here in Bethesda since 1963. I spent 20 years in property management and 20 more in public accounting. I call you out for lies, exaggerations and for masking opinion as fact.
But most of the time these days, I defend myself by having to claim over and over again that, yes..I'm a real girl.
8:22 AM
1:22PM - I haven't seen Dyer anywhere I've been. Do you think I'm going out of my way for him? Pfft. Thanks for the chuckle.
5:37: Nope - you've referred to 3 past attacks on me yesterday that were not posted by "Anna," including the psychotic claim that I envy Riemer because he is married and I am not. LOL, what a nutjob.
ReplyDeleteYou two should just get a room already
ReplyDeleteAnna @ 7:58 -- Haha, yea, it sounded funnier in my head :)
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