Atlanta, Atlanta, That's My Hometown!

Click HERE to hear a silly little jingle about my hometown, Atlanta, made by WPLO...in the fifties or early sixties i guess. Still sneezing my brains out here. *sigh*

Mom, what did WPLO stand for? Anything? I mean, i remember WSB was supposed to stand for Welcome, Southern Brother... did WPLO mean anything in that parlance?

The Girl Who Refused to Dance with Hitler

Ah the Clermont Lounge. Still operating in a new century. Thanks for this Ted.

Party Like It's 1991

Scenes from 153 Nassau Street. Bloody Marys. Cigarettes everywhere. And look at all the hair i had. Even at 26 you can tell it didn't have long for this world.

153 Nassau

Wow, Barb and i lived here a mere 17 years ago. Every bit of news i see about Friday nite's tornados in downtown Atlanta shows this picture. We lived right there on the second floor. Sheesh Barb, remember scraping all that paint of the metal cabinets and painting the Pepe Le Pew floors? All that's been gone forever (it was turned into a venue for the '96 Olympics), but i never imagined the building would just disappear someday. What was the groovy rastaman's name on the third floor? Remember intimate desires? And the artist and sorority girl girlfriend that preceded it?

Just In Time to Be of No Use to Me

I sincerely hope this happens for those of you in the ATL. And I hope that light rail beltline in the planning works really happens too. I can't believe Atlanta is finally getting serious about public transport, just in time for my departure! I do, however, have to point out that Atlanta HAD a fine streetcar system that was incredibly more complex than just a line running up Peachtree, a mere 60 years ago. But big oil, big automakers, and big tire makers systematically bought and scraped that system in Atlanta, and dozens of American cities. The beauty of "privatization." If Atlanta still had its old trolley system, what a better place the city would be in now. There are so many places where the tracks are even still visible, in the middle of roads. Along McClendon in Candler Park, the Olmstead Parks along Ponce de Leon, even in many downtown locations (amazing that 60 years of asphalt have not covered these over).

I'm dying to know what the redo of the Decatur Square Marta Station is looking like. Has anyone seen it? Do any of you have pictures?

News from the Homeland

Gee i'm so proud that Cobb County had finally woken up and decided that Evolution is nothing to stop teaching in science class! BC, could you imagine if you'd been the science curriculum coordinator there in the past few years? Sheesh. Click here to link to a fellow blogger's story about this. I love his quip: "Next battle: There's no such thing as "gravity." What happens is intelligent falling."

So Wrong

Here's a great example of why i'm glad to not live in Georgia anymore. Wrong on soooo many levels.