Tampa Taxi Shots

New Taxi Place

The new place is www.tampataxishots.info  and www.tropicoftampa.blogspot.com I need to switch my urls over from Godaddy but they have now expired (just one more that I owe money too). I want keep this Tim Fasano's Blog or something. Sorry about all the changes ut Blogger offers so much more. And its free!

A New Tampa Bay Blog

I am proud to announce my new web blog about Tampa Bay called Tropic Of Tampa. It will have many post about sports and events happening in Tampa. There will be many links for people to like, including hot babes and such.

It is a work in progress and I am finding my way. This should give me more lattitude in subject mattter instead of just posting about drunks that throw up or just misehave. Who cares.

People want to know what is going on in Tampa expecially since the Republican Convention will be here in 2012. 

Tampa has a reputation for being a very fun town. I do not want the tourist being dissapointed in any way. They can contact me and I will show them how they can have a good time. That is whatever they want. Tampa is the place to be.

Do you love golf? you have come to the right place. Do you love beachers? Of course. Tampa has everything you could want.

Tampa Blogs

People often ask the taxi drivers questions. They want to know what time you started your shift, how long you have been driving a taxi and what is the most interesting thing that has ever happened while driving a taxi. I do not know if they think it is a romantic adventure, but they sure seem to romanticize cab driving. 

People always enjoyed my stories, and they were not hard to think of. Just about every day something happens that probably does not happen to the average Joe. Where else can you go from taking a physicist downtown to a Relativity conference and five minutes later picking up an urban drug dealer? Stimulation occurs all day long.

Cab drivers also like stories. When we would sit on stands waiting for the next call, we would tell the other drivers what happened on the last call, or the one yesterday that everyone had heard about. You would think this was just about taking people from point A to point B, but it is not. It is much more than that. 

Often, people would suggest that I write a book about all that. Most people seem to have seen the HBO show Taxi Cab Confessions and think that is what happens to cab drivers. Yes. That is what happens to most cab drivers. 

I had thought about doing a book, but never really knew how to approach the task. In the last twenty years, I had written nothing more complex then a grocery list. Then I heard about something that seemed exciting. 

In 2005 a new phenomena was taking off on the internet called web logs - commonly called blogs. At that time, these online journals were growing exponentially in just a few short months. In addition, cool software was available to the average person, so anyone could start a blog. 

I never thought what I did was very important but starting a blog would allow me to communicate even the most trivial of things instantly to anyone on the web. I came up with a name called Tampa Taxi Shots.

Originality is important to me and I did not want to copy what someone else was doing. The concept of taxi driving experiences was now going to hit the web and I was hoping people would visit my blog. I was correct on that.

There was a growing online community of local Tampa Bloggers. They were growing in numbers and putting out great content. They were reporting on local matters ignored by local newspapers. The St. Pete Times began to notice. 

They did an article in TBT about the local blogging scene. In fact, that article inspired me to get into this. It validated that anyone with a keyboard could get started. In fact, I still have that TBT. 

Unfortunately, many of the blogs profiled in that article are not published anymore. Sticks Of Fire was the biggest casualty. I guess life moves on and people move on.

Blogs are now a source of information that we can access anywhere, even on mobile devices. There is no telling how many there are now. 

I know that I miss some of the early ones. I kind of wish they would come back.

 

Staying With Typepad For My Blog Service

I am finished playing around and have decided to stay with the server I've had for the last six years. My new banner proclaims "Since 2005." I remember when I started, back in the glory days of the Tampa Blogging scene. Blogs were new and they began to pop up everywhere. The beauty of blogging is that anyone can blog about anything. The top blog back then was "Sticks Of Fire" run by Tommy Dunken. He has stopped his blog after he got tired of it I guess. I think I must be one the survivors. Oh well, what else is there to do when I get home. 

I Finally Got A URL For Tampa Taxi Shots

I finally got a URL tamapataxishots.com from Godaddy.  I am using it on my "shadow blog" on Blogger.  The reason is after two days of not being able to figure out how to link it to Typepad, it took two minutes to link it to Blogger.  Sorry, but some times you have to be practical. Plus, Blogger is free. I have been paying Typepad money for five years. Can't really afford it. Check out my 'shadow blog.'

What Ever Happened To Tommy Duncan and Sticks of Fire Blog?

I ran into Tommy Duncan Friday at Sweetbay supermarket in the pasta section.  I was very glad to meet him again since I have not seen him since the blogger meeting at Wings Gone Wild on Bay To Bay about three years ago.  

In case you did not know, the Sticks Of Fire blog is down.  It was once the biggest blog in Tampa and two years in a row voted by Creative Loafing magazine as the best blog in the Bay.  Tommy was the owner of that blog.  I asked him what happened. Many things got in the way. 

The economy has not only affected cab drivers, it has affected normal people, as well.  Tommy, and his associates, went into survival mode when the economy went south, and Sticks Of Fire suffered as well (I would leave a link, but Norton says it is infected with Malware).  Sticks of Fire is no more.  That is a total mind freak to me. 

Tommy is now working on a new project.  He is the regional editor of a sports blog called SBnationtampabay.com.  He goes by the name of Gregg Burrage.  The site is awsome, and I hope he does well. 

It is always a reality check when you hit in the face of how life moves on for everyone. The irony is weather you are ready or not - it will. 

Tommy still has his rock band the Johnny G Lyon Band featuring Tommy Duncan, and they seem to be still putting out hot music. 

 

Nudism Goes High Tech

 Pasco County Florida is the nudist capital of the United States. Nudist from all over the world come to Southwest Florida for the sunshine and nice weather. In recent years many have been using the internet to promote their camps. Now the task has become easier. There is a Facebook for nudist called Skinbook not as x-rated as you think. They allow no pornographic images, only upper torso photos, and no rude comments are allowed. In fact, only 10% of applicants are excepted because they can't follow these simple rules. The site is located in the UK which has a centuries long tradition of nudism, reports Time.

Skinbook seems to be attracting a younger crowd then normally found at nudist establishments (30 years instead of the traditional 60). Young people may be more into social networking and are more computer savvy, which may account for the difference. They are also more into hanging out an drinking beer. Most people may be put off by the fact that nudist merely look like average people. Few have magazine cover bodies. The spirit of nudism is not voyeurism, it is relaxing and enjoying life. Single men are traditionally denied access to keep the creep factor at a minimum. I took some people to a nudist resort a few years ago. It was no big deal. They did ask me to keep my clothes on, however. Strange 

Happy Mothers Day, A New Blog, And The 'Gable Film'

Happy Mothers Day to everyone.  My mother is no longer with us only in my heart.  I have started a new blog that is more in line with my interest.  It is called Intriguing Phenomena and it is about unsolved mysteries from the begining of mankind- Atalntis, bigfoot, Jack The Ripper, Loch Ness Monster, UFO, Zombies and so forth.  Just a diversion.  Why not.  The cab business is not so hot right now.  Check out the blog!

I was linked by Tampa's very own Nolan Canova of the most popular pop culture blog going.  He did an update on the Gable Film and noted where he got the info.  Thanks Noland!

From the Crazed Fan Boy site of Nolan:

The Gable Film
Last summer, I was told about this unusual home movie from Tampa taxi driver and popular paranormal blogger Tim Fasano. A Super-8 home movie, supposedly bought at an estate sale, showed a wintery family outing for several minutes before concluding with a shot of an unusual animal---seen in silhouette against the snow---that looked like an odd combination of dog, gorilla and bear. After several seconds, the animal charges the photographer, the camera falls to the ground and the film runs out.

Facebook Photos: The New Porn

If I were to give anyone advice about the internet, it would be you are not alone.  Your friends aren't the only ones oohing and aahing over the bikini-clad beach photos you posted on Facebook: the most common activity on the site is men looking at pictures of women. Call it G-rated porn, writes Amanda Marcotte for the Daily Beast, who talked to men who say they aren't looking for smut—they just like to ogle photos of partying females. "You can stare as long as you want to," explains one guy, somewhat creepily. "I can print out, bookmark and/or download the images I see on Facebook to look at again and again and again.”

And in some cases, Facebook is becoming a replacement for other, dirtier sites. "Porn seems impersonal and gross," said a 29-year-old, who says eying photos of women on Facebook feels "semi-enlightened, in a way." And while "it’s hard not to feel optimistic if so many men are having fantasies about 'real' women," writes Marcotte, "there’s an undeniable ick factor to the idea of men getting off to pictures you posted for your friends to platonically peruse." So consider the "again and again and again" guy before posting anything provocative.

WINTER IS GONE

Say goodbye to winter. Things are getting nice right now.  This post was an experiment in moble posting from the field.  I am not at my computer; I am in the field using a cell phone.  Pay your cab bill or I will come to your house.  You do not want that.  This image was from my camping trip last month when it was -1 degrees!

THE GABLE FILM V THE FASANO FILM

A recently discovered 1959 8mm film shows a primate caught on film by my Grandfather, Orlando Fasano, near a swamp area that would soon become Disney World.  It is very simular to the Michagin Dogman Gable Film in that it shows a family outside with their dog and then they are attacked by a bear/dog creature.  Nobody has been able to debunk the Michagin Dogman film taken in the 1970's.  It has been on the internet for the last five years.

Taxi Shots Has New Design

This is a view of dowtown Tampa from inside the frontdoor window at Plant Hall. Dig this. I have been working a new design for this blog. I am so bored with the old one and the direction it was going. I have decided to head in a new direction. The weblog should feature the photos more than the content. That is the meaning of the blog anyway. I am taking a lot of good images and I need to showcase them. They should load on sidebar as 280 and post on mainpage as 415 weather vert or horizontal.

This image is of lake Mirror in Lakeland florida. A very pretty lake. The city has gone a long way to beautify there city.

Now we will see if this code will really work. The vert I now upload should show on the main page and the Lake Mirror should show only when you click the link. I think.

New Photo Blog Of Tampa Bay

Blog friends of mine have been encouraging me to start a separate "Photo Blog."

I have!

This blog will be more in the "Journalistic", "Street Candids", "lifestyle" type of shots.

Check it out at: Urban Landscapes.

Bombast "Blog Lassiter" Non Traditional Blog

I recently added Blog Lassiter to my blog List. It's an excellent Blog from an amazing talent Bob Lassiter.

Many in the local Blog sphere will not recognize his name. Bob Lassiter was a pioneer in the early days of  talk radio. He came to Tampa in the mid-eighties and worked for WFLA. His amazing wit and gifted oratory made him one of the most listened to talk radio shows in the nation!

His talent was noticed and he soon moved on to Chicago where his fame got him on national TV shows such as CNN's crossfire. He subsequently moved back to Tampa and worked for WSUN and WFLA again before his "retirement."

Warning: If Bob ever comes back to radio DO NOT CALL HIS SHOW UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE TRAUMATICALLY HUMILIATED AND EXPOSED AS AN IDIOT.  The mans IQ is immeasurable. The very reason I never called his show. Oh Bob, if you read this, whatever happened to DESMOND?

Glad to know you're still around and playing poker. I would imagine you are a formidable opponent for anyone.

Strangely Bloglassiter does not allow comments. Strange. Bob was never afraid of comments. I guess he has his reasons as he says will become apparent as time goes on.l