sunday feeding

 xtine can set a table ---

big weather redux

nice storms and then a great sunset

p'tree reflection

gidewon's lobby ceiling and the federal reserve ---

semi-big weather

a great gale on the balcony --- but all the rain that rolled across west georgia disappeared when it got to atlanner

botanical news

"Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called "magic mushrooms."

bloomers

 if i could have only one plant, it would be this euphorbia --- it literally never stops blooming except for a week or so when i bring it inside each fall --- the red one isn't nearly so vigorous or non-stop in blooming, but it still blooms from february or so into december

carrie nation nation

this is an unusual page from a family bible -- clearly unsigned, but i think they mostly stayed sober anyway

magic

metropolis pool party

exotica

this wonderful oncydium bloomed last november and is now at it again

gidewon's nightclub

they're working late and gotta be close to getting it open

west palm beach, 1910

great website --- click on the pic for hi res image ---

anything for a buck

i think we're supposed to be impressed and fascinated and what not that the streets are all clogged up and they won't let you use the sidewalks on either side of the street due to filming --- but i'm not, dammit --- especially when i know it's filming "the three stooges"!!! i hope the atlanta history center is making a gob of money prostituting their property this way ---

another benefit of tax cuts for the rich

a deeply depressing article:

Grasping to recoup a $10 million cut in the California Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) budget, off-road lobbyists are urging compensation via a takeover of state park units. The idea, seconded by some state officials, surfaced at an “emergency” March OHV Commission meeting but was not published until posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

a "make-believe budget crisis," indeed

"socialism for the rich"

finally, i understand why all of these new storefronts on peachtree are still vacant after two and even three years ---

And since then the store has sat there, empty. And I wondered how it could be that the property owner could afford to have the store sitting empty for a year instead of collecting some rent. I mean, that’s nearly $200k a year in lost rent, wouldn’t it make sense for the landlord to agree to a lower than “market rate” rent just to keep some income coming in? How can even a well off person just piss away $200k a year? Easy … he gets to write off the “loss” on his taxes.

stooging up p'tree place

the work continues

we hate parkatlanta

this is one of the new (6-9 months) parkatlanta kiosks on euclid avenue at little five points --- the little yellow note taped left of center sez it's "out of order," which probably means there is glue in the credit-card slot

i am ashamed to admit that all of the parkatlanta kiosks in midtown are in near-perfect condition

dog face

robert's study of the dog face

"the philosophy of mean"

i think this guy is on to something:

"But what I am saying is that if, in the end, your grandiosely presented and handsomely argued economic philosophy results in you constantly taking positions that, to repeat myself, make you look like a heartless son of a bitch, and which constantly come down in favor of the wealthy over the poor, or constantly choosing the connected over the unconnected, or the powerful over the powerless, or require you to demand we treat our children worse, or provide for our elders less, then you may, by process of deduction, simply be a heartless son of a bitch, and no amount of powerpoint slides, think-tank studies or prominent churchgoin' will render it otherwise."

hot day for a hot dog

3 stooges construction redux

serious lumber going into this set ---

the hindu side of atlanner

my baptist grandma would have called them idol worshipers but this was always a big deal for cv and angela --- this year, only angela ---

little five points

virtually every square inch of the buildings backing up to the parking lot between seminole and colquitt is now covered with graffiti --- and the neo-hippie peace mural has now been replaced with ultra-urban graffiti art --- times change, places change

tenth street

one of the greatest music videos of all time

and all in a single nearly 10-minute-long shot

buckhead sunset

the view from decatur

humid hazy and hot

hell has started early this year --- forecast highs 94-97 for the next ten days, which is 8 or 10 degrees above the average --- at least lows are still 68-70 ---

waste

set building on p'tree place for a remake of the three stooges --- are you shittin' me? the three stooges? they better not mess up that building

big hair at blake's

memorial day

remembering the glory; remembering the waste

decatur arts festival

the big bronzes by a nigerian, nnamdi okonkwo, were the best ---

34th annual atlanta jazz festival

could not have asked for a better evening on the meadow

fogtown

coke fizz

the storm tore up the screens for the coca-cola light show and they've already stripped the north side --- looks like the show is at a premature end

dog got a hair cut

but he was less than cooperative so the hair cut is not all it might have been

"because it's free"?

this idiot represents the 7th district, which is basically gwinnett, barrow, walton, and a little bit of newton counties ---- the cluelessness and hypocrisy of some republicans is truly awesome to behold

looking up

a culture of dickishness

quote for the day:  "I don’t want to be all shrill but these guys are dicks." from wonkette, commenting on the house speaker holding disaster relief for joplin hostage to more extreme right-wing budget cuts ---

unknown but not forgotten

vivian maier, "the best street photographer you've never heard of" . . . be sure to follow the link in the first line of the article for dozens of her images ---

portrait of an asshole

GOP Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today signed the bill overturning Nashville's non-discrimination ordinance. 

i probably don't need to point out that he's a republican

escorpión

new "tequila bar/cantina" at p'tree and 5th --- the giant scorpion on the corner is purty swell

unraptured

i'm thinking there has been a mis-reading of scripture --- or something

lifestyles of rich white people in the antebellum south

more than you ever wanted to know about this house can be found here

nuttin to say