Charlotte's Got a Lot. Of What?

Of everything.

Oh, the Uptown crowd. God love ’em. So witty and inventive. Just ask them.

Charlotte’s Got a Lot is the new official marketing slogan for the city. The one we’ve been working on for over a year now. The one that somehow manages to echo both an old Pepsi ad — You’ve Got a Lot to Live. Pepsi’s Got a Lot to Give and a Depends catch-phrase — Because you’ve got a lot of living to do.

Must be the caffeine. Anyway. What do we have a lot of?

Well, crime. Dropouts. Traffic congestion. Hot women. Bankers. Hot women bankers. Churches. Golfers. Welfare for billionaires. Sweet tea. Steak houses. Fish camps. Creeks. Denial. Yankees. Big box retail. Conspicuous consumption. Direct flights. Boosters. Detractors. Developers. Re-developers. Money. New money. Old habits. Bad taste. Good fishin’. Red mud. Blue blood. White guilt. Wishers. Dreamers. Planners. Schemers. Friends. Foes. Foils. Fans. Pimento Cheese. Liquor-by-the-drink. Fast cars. Uptown bars. Trains. Growing pains. Sincerity. Humidity. Possibilities. But mostly insecurity.

Perfect.

Bonus Observation: Insanely better than Atlanta’s Every day is an opening day. What is that? Some half-hearted Braves’ riff? Yep, that’s why I’d want to go to Atlanta — because the Braves won a slew of division titles.