Stateside, more than 1,000 people headed to Bradenton to humor an old man named Mike Flynn who rambled on about a second great awakening in the United States. Something tells us the Olympics would have been better off coming to Florida after all. For the third time since the pandemic began, the country has declared a third state of emergency in the Tokyo area. Japan is apparently as bad at containing the coronavirus as they’ve been at making TV’s for the past decade. We’re happy for the years he was there, and we’re happy he’s about to enjoy his retirement.
On a more serious note, FSU’s weekend was bittersweet - President John Thrasher presided over the last law school commencement before hanging up his hat. It was a veritable creatine convention, with Tim Tebow, Gardner Minshew, Tom Brady and Myles Jack in attendance.Įven if you had a bad weekend, here’s an opportunity to pretend it was great: If you’re one of the 530K or so Floridians who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, federal officials lifted the pause, which we’re taking as a confirmation that it is indeed not styptic powder in liquid form. The city was hosting what News4Jax called “its biggest night of combat sports since 1996, and perhaps ever.” It’s a record we didn’t know existed and one that we didn’t know needed breaking, but many a celebrity was on hand to watch it happen. You know what they say: “If people care how you look eating pizza, you’ve arrived.” And by “they,” we mean “nobody.”Ībout 300 miles up I-95, Jacksonville was having a weekend befitting of The Bold City. Well, not really, but it did give him a chance to do some X-TREME pizza eating. The Delray Beach Market even boosted buzz on the Governor’s presidential aspirations. Ron DeSantis stopped in for the ribbon cutting on a 150,000-square-foot food hall. There were some good weekends on terra firma, too. A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Four astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station, in one of the first flights using a reused rocket. We’re not sure whether we’d rather be on the maiden voyage or fly in a proven pod, but at least the space junk bill is starting to make sense. The four-person SpaceX crew that docked with the International Space Station on Saturday were strapped into a … let’s say “lightly used” … Dragon. Not only is it celebrating another successful blast off from the Sunshine State, but it also wasn’t the capsule’s first rodeo. As Session comes to a close, here are some thoughts on who had a nice weekend - and who didn’t.