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Name that Nutter: 2010 edition
Name that Nutter: 2010 edition
Well, it's time again to identify the inspiring, intimidating, and just plain mystifying depictions of His Honor, Philadelphia's own Mayor Michael Nutter.
The front page of phila.gov almost always features a picture of Nutter — but every now and then, that picture is updated. And with each time, with each pic, we get a chance to remark on it.
Before I weigh in on the current picture (above), some history is in order.
This little game began in 2008, when phila.gov featured the following picture, so ambiguous that it demanded public scrutiny:
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| 2008: We're-in-trouble Nutter |
I thought, at the time, that Nutter looked "frightened and defensive" — and it was posted, after all, in the thick of the city's budget collapsing. Doron Taussig, my former editor, called it "perplexed and slightly angry."
Then came 2009, with a decidedly more cheerful-looking Nutter:
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| 2009: Confident Nutter |
Last year, I called it "decidedly more confident — if less interesting."
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| 2010: Captain Nutter |
This year's most recent picture (above) takes us back into ambiguous territory: Nutter looks earnest, even concerned — a throwback, methinks, to 2008. Yet rather than reacting to something, as he appears to be in Nutter '08, Nutter '10 seems to be demanding our own reaction.
Maybe it's the Philadelphia flag waving in the background. Maybe it's the podium, which resembles the helm of a great ship. Or maybe it's the right hand, lifted in action — about to crash down with an angry slam or gently point us in the right direction, we don't know. Regardless, I call this depiction Captain Nutter: Eying the storm, while grabbing the wheel.
But the most important question is: What do you think?
I see it as more of a "What part of 'No More Money' do you not understand?" Mayor Nutter.
Haha, I think you hit it on the head, Doron. Maybe this is Slightly-Impatient-Yet-Not-Un-Paternal Nutter?
Hmm. I see this differently. I think the Mayor looks exasperated. He looks like he could be saying, "As I've explained several times now..."
REPORTING GOVT. CORRUPTION - (Click on link below) http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=497&letter_id=5027836306 I advised Mayor Nutter personally on 11/16/2009 but have not heard back from him?
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