My brother Mike, who so rarely makes a cameo, was on the evening news – Fox – in the Bay Area. Apparently he read up on dam removals before he attended the public meeting in Palo Alto about the Searsville Dam, and its possible removal. The dam holds back water that trickles into the San Francisquito Creek behind the house we grew up in.
Pay him extra! The glasses add 10 grand!
As a journalist, it’s fun for me to think about why he might have been chosen. We did grow up fishing broken transistor radios and hobos out of the creek. But there’s no evidence Lloyd LaCuesta knew that. He doesn’t look like a dirty hippie. He doesn’t sound like a pottery-throwing soft-spoken vegetable-shoed eco-nut. So I’m guessing the smart-guy glasses.
I’ve got a nascent hypothesis about how glasses are to TV reporters what hats are to Alex Chadwick. Which is to say: when in doubt on the vox, pick someone with that particular vein of sartorial taste. They say good stuff.
