That’s why now is a perfect time to look back on a year’s worth of the mayor’s pop-cultural detritus, before it’s all forgotten amidst 2014’s fresh crop of scandals and gaffes. With the next mayoral campaign off to an official start on January 2, the coming year promises to add plenty more Ford memes to the heap. There’s even a guy who actually got a picture of the mayor’s face tattooed on his thigh. He’s been the subject of songs, and of animated videos. Ford’s face has appeared on late-night comedy shows, t-shirts and bobbleheads. He said he’d make this city world class, and, in a way, he did-by turning himself into the global face of political incompetence and showboating intransigence.Īlong with the mayor’s crack-fuelled fame, there came an unprecedented amount of pop-culture tie-ins, artwork and jokes.
For good or ill, the mayor is now a Toronto icon on the scale of the CN Tower. This was the year Rob Ford became more than just a local celebrity.
0 kommentar(er)
