Pictures from the East Atlanta Strut are over here.

I walked there. I walked around. I took some pictures. I pushed someone around in a wheelchair. I walked around some more. I ate a corndog. I walked home.

My calves still hurt.

Now Slate hates Atlanta, too. As if dealing with overwhelmingly negative press from the New York Times weren't enough, we're having to deal with an inside the Beltway webzine?

From what would otherwise be an amusing, if fluffy, article on China's Olympic mascots:Izzy also represented perhaps the worst Olympics since Munich. The Atlanta games ( Read more... )

I've posted a couple dozen pictures of Cabbagetown and today's hail over over in this set on Flickr.

( behind the cut are a couple of examples )

Some pictures from Oakland Cemetery on Sunday. The last six in this collection (plus one more that's hidden for a week during voting on the "Flora" challenge).

With apologies to lepapillonvert and her costume (pics over here), the highlight of the Sunday in the Park over at Oakland Cemetery was a bluegrass band. They were background noise until I was buying one of those overly expensive frozen lemonade cup things on my way out. Then I started recognizing the lyrics. And that's when I recognized the song. Complete with ( Read more... )

Anybody going to the Sunday in the Park thing at Oakland tomorrow?

Just for the record:

It's November 10, and I've spent the day outside wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

This should answer the question why Displaced Yankees don't go back home.

Can somebody tell me why some people insist on calling people from Atlanta "Atlantians"?

It's wrong. Very wrong.

I'm not from the lost city of Atlantis*. I'm from Atlanta.

Just stick an n at the end. It isn't hard.
America - American
Iowa - Iowan
Atlanta - Atlantan

Christ on a cracker.

*Besides, those people are called "Atlanteans," with an e.

all the (post-worthy) photos from the GTG Saturday night are posted over here, bottom two rows. I'm saving the first one I posted yesterday (of the girls) for the free study.

Last night (Saturday) I went to another get together (GTG) with some other folks from DPChallenge. It was a similar tour to the one back in the winter, only this time it was late summer instead of the dead of winter and there were nearly 20 of us instead of just three or four ( Read more... )