As we collectively honor/ogle Michael Jackson, it’s worth noting the pervasiveness of MJ’s influence as a performer was not always a good thing. For every Filipino prison “Thriller” or “Dance Raja Dance”, there’s probably dozens of these:
For the impatient, the explosion of MJ-ness arrives at the two-minute mark.
(Thank you @Kltpzyxm. By which I mean, no thank you.)
Dear everyone-
Quit writing “Tags Applied For” on a piece of paper and taping it in your car window. Everyone knows you’re either too busy/lazy/broke to go to your county’s tax office and pay for them.
Pedantically,
Andy
Have a look at this inspired ad parody on a utility pole at North and Highland snapped by Twitterererer @grabmol.
The dollar signs on the animals are, um, priceless.
It reminds of this.
Apparently I own General Motors now.
Does this mean when I scoff at Hummers I’m really just projecting self-hatred onto others?
And more importantly, am I allowed to take one of these when they’re ready?
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
This year’s National Black Power Conference is at the Crowne Plaza in Marietta.
The main office of local commercial builder Gay Construction Company is on Smyrna’s Log Cabin Drive.
What do you give a dog for her 10th birthday?
Extra food?
Belly rubs?
Distemper vaccine?
A gimp squirrel she can actually catch?
Driving down Roswell Road this afternoon, I noticed for the first time the bold and puzzling boast on the Pep Boys sign.
Parts. Of course. That’s why I was there. For car parts.
Service. Okay. They have a shop where you can can your car fixed if you want.
What more do I want from a Pep Boys? A better question: what more can a Pep Boys store conceivably offer?
Companionship?
Foot rubs?
Organic lettuce? (more…)
The hillbilly Starbucks will carry an exclusive version of Dolly Parton’s latest CD, Backwoods Barbie, featuring three unreleased tracks. From the press release:
The three new songs on this disc, “Rose of My Heart,” “Hallelujah Holiday,” and “Berry Pie” were selected by Dolly herself from her extensive catalog. “I wanted the songs I chose specifically for this release to reflect how I feel about Cracker Barrel and all the good things you can find there,” said Dolly. “I think it’s important for there to be an authentic connection to the heritage that Cracker Barrel and I share.”
A heritage of rock candy, rocking chairs, and that triangle peg-jumping game. Album drops at Cracker Barrels Mon., March 23.
Matchstic, a marketing firm based near Ormewood Park, and a few other partners are offering about $80,000 in services to the winning nonprofit that applies. The deadline is March 23, and surprisingly, the application isn’t filled with questions that most fledgling nonprofits won’t be able to answer. The “prize” includes a new logo, Web site design and development, promotional print materials (and the copy writing and actual printing services) and some help with strategy and brand positioning.
It’s true the “On the House” campaign will probably benefit the providers, too, but there’s no harm in supporting a community organization in the process, right? Last year’s winner was City Church Eastside.
In The Bad Girl’s Guide to the Open Road, Cameron Tuttle suggests the following technique for getting out of a DUI: If you get pulled over, immediately step out of the car with a bottle of your favorite liquor and chug a couple shots’ worth. The officer now has no way of proving you were drinking before you got out of the car. Interesting thought, but is this actually true? Perhaps the most the officer could do would be to cite you for public intoxication/open container in public?
— Hazle Weatherfield, via the Straight Dope Message Board
Yes, Hazle, that’s an interesting thought. But can you imagine this ridiculous gambit actually working here in reality land? I didn’t think so. Tuttle concedes as much, prefacing her advice with the comment that “if you’ve been drinking and have an open bottle of hard liquor in your car, you’re already in deep shit. So what do you really have to lose?”
Let’s back up a bit. Prior to Breathalyzer-type technology, which measures blood alcohol concentration, or BAC, drunk driving was a tough charge to make stick – prosecutors needed witnesses to testify about the defendant’s slurred speech, unstable gait, and so on. Things got only slightly easier after BAC testing devices became available in the 1930s. Although a high BAC was telling evidence, you still needed corroborating testimony about drunken behavior, plus you had to have an expert witness explain what BAC meant. Eventually states wised up and passed “per se” laws, which defined drunk driving quite simply: operating a vehicle with a certain minimum BAC. Today it’s .08 percent. Read more.
(Illustration by Slug Signorino)
LEAD STORY: “Genetic modification” sounds like frighteningly complicated lab work, but amateurs are routinely doing it in garages and dining rooms across the country, according to a December Associated Press report. Hobbyists (some terming themselves “biohackers”) are busy creating new life forms and someday, observers say, may turn up a cure for cancer or an accidental environmental catastrophe. The community lab DIYbio in Cambridge, Mass., has patrons who typically work on vaccines and biofuels, but might also whimsically create tattoos that glow. One amateur bought jellyfish DNA containing a green fluorescent protein (for about $100), and built a DNA analyzer (less than $25) so she could alter yogurt bacteria to glow green when it detects melamine (the substance recently discovered in deadly Chinese baby formula and pet food).
From the “Activity Partners” page on Craigslist:
Reply to: comm-945764695@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-12-05, 4:36AM ESTHello, thank you for reading.
I have chosen to live a more bizarre and exciting life, and all exciting lives include an arch nemesis, to keep you on your toes day to day.
Not the kind of nemesis that blows up buildings or kidnaps people that I’ll need to save, more like the kind that we can exchange prankish sort of things, like hide in the bushes outside my house and spray me with a fire extinguisher on my way to work, to which I retaliate days later with something equally silly.
There are some requirements:
- must have a handlebar mustache
- must be able to speak with an east European accent
- must wear a top hat or bowler
- must own a cape
- must have some basic knowledge of bizarre sciences
- must have title starting with “Dr.” “Prof.” or “Mister”
- must have scar on face
- must have an “evil” pet or pets, like tigers or alligators or robots or homeless minions
- must laugh with fists clenched
If you fit these requirements, lets set up an audition, and hopefully you we can start our epic nemecy.
It sounds like the happiest place on Earth.
The students of Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy keep true democracy in mind with their remix of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like.” It gets a little hard to figure out the “arguments” toward the end, but I’d want to be in this class. CNN captured the video.
Thanks to the efficient and helpful staff employed by the Mexican airline Aeroméxico, I had an 18 hour layover in Mexico City over the weekend. (more…)
Short on cash? Can’t get a loan? Want to sell that stereo, television, or peg leg? There’s always the pawn shop. Stop by Jerry’s Pawn Shop on the corner of Prior and Decatur. Dave Adelman owns Jerry’s Pawn Shop at the corner of Prior and Decatur streets downtown.
Where are you from originally and how did you get into the pawn shop business?
Originally from New Haven, Conn. I moved here in the 1970’s. How I got into the Pawn business was I got married in 1975 to my present wife, and her father was in the pawn business. But I never thought about getting into the pawn business — I had never been in a pawn shop before. I was in between jobs, and we were offered jobs in other cities but we wanted to stay here. So he had an employee in the hospital, and he needed somebody in the store just to help him out. So he asked me to come down and help him in between my job search and the rest is history. I kinda just fell in love with it. That was 30 years ago. It will be thirty years in ’09. (more…)
How many words is this worth? More than a thousand, but, really, it’s unquantifiable genius.
AccessNorthGa.com’s best news graphics don’t just illustrate or elaborate a story — they become the story. Using a complex graphical algorithm that attracts, confuses, amuses, delights and then intrigues readers, these bizarre Photoshop Frankensteins can add surprising appeal to a small-town news story. They’re the only reason I followed this summer’s rabies outbreaks in Hall County or knew about various North Georgia manhunts and car crashes.
And I keep coming back to AccessNorthGa.com for more. The creative flow has slowed considerably the last couple months, although the site does still occasionally reuse some classics. But since this is Best of Atlanta week, let’s review ANG’s hits of 2008. The top 15 are after the jump, in very little particular order.
For those of you who are early-to-rise, or just late-to-sleep, I’ll be on 92.9 Dave FM’s Zakk Tyler Morning Show Wednesday morning during the six o’clock hour.
I’ll be talking about our Best Of Atlanta 2008 issue, which hits the streets and the Web tomorrow.
Before it publishes tomorrow, anyway! Make sure to check out the special pullout section in tomorrow’s paper, or go to creativeloafingbestof.com to see who won in this year’s Raging Election!
Speaking of that theme, here’s this week’s question … And don’t forget to leave your e-mail in the comments section for a free Best of Atlanta 2008 T-shirt.
Loading …LEAD STORY: Italian and U.K. legal authorities have recently discarded rule interpretations based on embarrassingly anachronistic stereotypes of women. In July, Italy’s Court of Cassation reversed a 1999 ruling creating a legal presumption that a woman wearing tight jeans could not be the victim of rape because such jeans would be impossible to remove without her assistance. Coincidentally, at about the same time, the British government formally removed the special, ameliorating defense of “provocation” for husbands charged with murdering their wives, thus putting domestic homicide on the same footing as other homicides. (Some husbands had received lesser penalties by claiming that their wives’ affairs had provoked them to murder.)
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