J.J. Redick – you missed 15 shots? Holy smokes. Better luck next year – when you”re a marginal NBA draft pick. Geaux Tigers! Yes, I was there – thanks TCL!
Archive for the ‘Atlanta’ Category
PSA for my Atlanta friends
March 11th, 2006
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If you have any sense whatsoever, you will catch Boss Martians at The Earl on March 27. And for my friends in Louisiana, if there”s any way you”d be in New Orleans on Monday the 20th, there is probably nothing cooler in the world than seeing the Martians at Circle Bar, which may in fact [...]
Just another buyout
March 5th, 2006
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Could the buyout of BellSouth by AT&T be more convoluted? Consider: – AT&T is really SBC, which used to be Southwestern Bell. BellSouth used to be Southern Bell, and Southern Bell, Southwestern Bell and a bunch of other local telcos SBC owns were originally part of AT&T, back when AT&T was actually a company. – [...]
The state of bigotry
February 17th, 2006
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Judging from my conversation with a good-ole-boy exterminator today, Georgia rednecks have mostly adjusted to using the word “blacks” – rather than their former chosen derogatory term – when talking about “all the blacks around here” with a complete stranger. However, they still don”t seem to have a problem using Asian slurs – such as [...]
If chicken is all you have, you protect your chicken
February 13th, 2006
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The AJC (sorry, no link to places that require you to give them a fake email address in order to read stories) has a feature this morning on upgrades happening in company cafeterias across Atlanta. The lead is amusing, but not in the way the AJC intended: There is at least one inviolate rule at [...]
See if you can pick out the AJC headline
February 3rd, 2006
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OK, newshounds, see if you can figure out which of these headlines (all from the exact same AP story on today”s job figures) came from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution”s “Business” section: – Unemployment Rate Declines in January – Payrolls grow, unemployment drops – US Jobless Rate Dips To 4.7% – Payrolls Grow By 193,000, Unemployment Rate [...]
Greedy old bitch
January 11th, 2006
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The AJC is running the story (presented in full below because the AJC requires readers to register with a fake email address before they”ll display their content) today of an old woman in Buckhead who was swindled out of $773,081. Basically, she ran into a couple who said they had an assload of cash they”d [...]
Peachy
January 1st, 2006
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I suppose I owe a roundup from the Peach Bowl, lest anyone think I”m shying away from talking about a 40-3 win over the No. 9 team in the country because I”ve been a fervent non-fan of one Leslie Miles. The way I see it, the game turned on two factors: 1. Matt Flynn. I”m [...]
How sad is this?
December 30th, 2005
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The wife IMs me a bit ago and says “hey, my boss has two Peach Bowl tickets for you if you”re interested.” I”ve been an LSU fan going on 30 years now. I was at the Sugar Bowl two years ago. I was at Sugar Bowls in the 1980s when we got the shit kicked [...]
Lucky? or dumb?
December 20th, 2005
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A couple of weeks ago, a For Sale sign went up next door to The Wisdom household. The house, like ours, was built in 2001 and is quite a nice place. Unlike our house, it”s owned by a man who has a lot of money and who”s made it a showplace. It was already a [...]
