Sarasota Florida's got an Elf! An Elf? That's right! An honest to goodness, straight from Santa's North Pole, authentic Elf!  This is great.  Finally amidist all the horrible happenings lately like senseless murders, hostage takings, and robberies, there's something purely good to write a crappy humor blog about....

I found the Sarasota Elf on Facebook a few days back, shamelessly promoting the Sarasota area.  After further investigating Santa's little helper, I'm pretty sure he's linked to a website called 'This Week In Sarasota'  http://www.thisweekinsarasota.com/index.cfm .  One can not only find the Elf, but many a bargin, restaurant, event, ect.  there.  But what really got my attention was the Sarasota Elf, or his videos to be exact.  His videos are works in progress, the first 2 tell of how he came to Sarasota and his deciding to stay, and more videos of the Sarasota Elf's adventures in our area are yet to come.  I gotta say, I loved video 2, with the Elf relaxing with a cold brew, smoking a stoogie.  But hey, that's what vacations are for!  I hope the Elf will wander into one of my favorite watering holes.  I'd love to sit with the little guy and throw back a few!  But I doubt he'll show up in the dives I frequent.  With good reason too. I wouldn't want any large bar slugger I know drunkenly questioning our Elf about a Red Rider BB Gun he never got! Our Elf could probably take care of himself, but I'd get beat-up!  So, I'll have to follow TWIS or Facebook to see where our Elf might be. A  reasonable place perhaps to sit and drink with my new merry friend.

If you don't get out much yourself, you can catch the Sarasota Elf on our favorite local news source, ABC 7, every Thursday on the noon news.   I wish our new local Elf all the best.  I really don't know of the video's of him yet to come, but with the expierence I've seen with Elves in other Holiday shows,  I know that they can face adversity, like the Elf in Rudolph (although he did finally become a dentist).  I just hope our cheerful Sarasota Elf don't run into the likes of something like The Manasota Grinch!                          11/20/09