My vote for salesmen of the new century goes to Doc Rivers and the management of the Orlando Magic. They seem to have created an aura around the most charmless city in America and made it into the new glamour destination for professional athletes. Grant Hill is going there, and Tracy McGrady is going there, and now center John Amaechi has turned down a whole bunch of money from the world champion Los Angeles Lakers to stay there. I, myself, don't get it. This is a place without ocean, mountains or history.
All culture is contained under a set of mouse ears.
The oldest building, I believe, was built in about 1968. The insects are about the size of World War I fighter planes. The humidity can be as brutal as the traffic on International Drive, which is as brutal as anywhere in the world. There is no big-time baseball or football. There is no big-time college.