The new (and old) Tom Champion!

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

http://www.somervillema.gov/NewsDetail.cfm?instance_id=1610

Comments

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Tom Champion won't get out of my head. He was on WBUR today pimping their Mother's Day flowers fundraising effort.

[tom-champion.livejournal.com]

Waaaaah! Just wait til my mother-in-law hears you called me a pimp. She'll track you down and wash your mouth out with soap.

But, hey -- if you were listening to 'BUR, I guess that means you support public radio, too. 'Cause otherwise you'd just be freeloading.

Besides, I'm in the private sector now -- so I can pimp with impunity (as long as I don't do it on DSLJ).

[etana.livejournal.com]

I love you, mr. tom pimp champion.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Not to worry, I have my WBUR membership all paid up. No need for the flowers, but I appreciate you doing your part for mothers-in-law & WBUR.

[bex77]

I sent him a hearty welcome from the community theater folks. Maybe we can get him into our announcer's chair or on stage!

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

Bah. The number for the robocalls is still in my phone as "Tom Champion."

TOM CHAMPION LIVES

[djdreilinger.livejournal.com]

Will the new Tom Champion please stand up, please stand up....

After interviewing the new city spokesguy about bicycles, I have mentally nicknamed him "Legs of Steel" Meehan (http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2010/05/by_danielle_dreilinger_globe_c_39.html).

[tom-champion.livejournal.com]

It's like I said: Mayor Joe really needed somebody younger and fitter to keep up with him -- and Somerville is home to a strong and growing community of cycling enthusiasts. Sounds like Michael will fit right in.

Michael is no Tom Champion!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

No matter what ties he wears!

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Does that make him Steely Meehan?

[tom-champion.livejournal.com]

I think you mean the "Meehan of Steel" as in:

Faster than a speeding terrier
More powerful than a Vespa
Able to leap tall curbs at a single bound
Look! There in the bike lane
It's a blur! It's fast-frame!
No, it's Sooooper-Meehan.

Yes, it's Super-Meehan - strange visitor from Brookline who came to Somerville with powers and abilities far beyond those of prior flacks.

Super-Meehan - who can change the course of mighty controversies, spin stories with his bare hands, and who, disguised as Director of Communications for one of the nation's most dynamic mayors, fights the never ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way.

. . . And against childhood obesity.

[somermeehan.livejournal.com]

Tom, I had no idea you were a cat. I am totally messing up the city's diversity numbers in terms of feline hiring.

[zmook.livejournal.com]

Props on the avatar (http://www.kaiju.com/bios/cub_03.htm), Mr Meehan. Glad to see Somerville is still on top of the arts.