http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/09/atlanta-blogs-today-rascals-beer-racism-oh-my/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/09/atlanta-blogs-today-rascals-beer-racism-oh-my/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:55:47 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14430 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/09/atlanta-blogs-today-rascals-beer-racism-oh-my/feed/ 0 Some of the day's — and weekend's — most interesting posts from local bloggers. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/atlmalcontent-on-a-roll/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/atlmalcontent-on-a-roll/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:54:25 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9319 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/18/atlmalcontent-on-a-roll/feed/ 0 Blogger ATLMalcontent is on a roll. In recent days, he’s written a great and pointy post on the Human Rights Campaign’s irrelevance, he’s thoughtfully jabbed at the President-elect Obama’s apparent courting of Sen. Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State, and continued to jab at endlessly awful Sarah Palin. To top it all off, he’s just [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/the-blogosphere-says-what-returns/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/the-blogosphere-says-what-returns/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:51:06 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/the-blogosphere-says-what-returns/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/the-blogosphere-says-what-returns/feed/ 4 Blogger ATLMalcontent’s “amazingly amazing” parody series, the blogosphere says what, returned this month from a short hibernation. For those of you unfamiliar with it, the series began as a parody of another local blogger known for expressing his enthusiasm, indignation, and ennui — often within a single sentence. Since its inception, however, the blogosphere says what’s parody [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/15/atlanta-blogs-today-dixie-media-criticism-franklins-legacy-and-vernon-does-lagrange/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/15/atlanta-blogs-today-dixie-media-criticism-franklins-legacy-and-vernon-does-lagrange/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:43:09 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/15/atlanta-blogs-today-dixie-media-criticism-franklins-legacy-and-vernon-does-lagrange/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/15/atlanta-blogs-today-dixie-media-criticism-franklins-legacy-and-vernon-does-lagrange/feed/ 6 Fire the editor! Fire the publisher! Fire somebody! Hell, call a fucking exorcist over to Marietta Street at this point. There really should be an award given to this story for the hideous, patronizing writing “style.” From the AJC — apparently now hiring only the most ridiculous writers on the planet. — Spacey at Mostly Media [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/19/atlanta-blogs-today-bad-design-cowardly-donkeys-noble-causes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/19/atlanta-blogs-today-bad-design-cowardly-donkeys-noble-causes/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:15:04 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/19/atlanta-blogs-today-bad-design-cowardly-donkeys-noble-causes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/02/19/atlanta-blogs-today-bad-design-cowardly-donkeys-noble-causes/feed/ 0 Yet the [Buckhead] library is a likely casualty of the ongoing movement to transform Buckhead into Alpharetta. Seems you can’t have enough mixed-use developments. – ATLMalcontent has an excellent piece about Atlanta’s stagnant architecture scene posted at his wicked den of diatribes. He, like several others, bemoans the possible loss of the Buckhead Library. I just don’t [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/04/atlanta-blogs-today-peaches-n-corn/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/04/atlanta-blogs-today-peaches-n-corn/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:29:17 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/04/atlanta-blogs-today-peaches-n-corn/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/04/atlanta-blogs-today-peaches-n-corn/feed/ 3 The Drake Diner stops breakfast at 11. A diner! Further proof Iowa sucks. — Shebinator, one of two local bloggers I know of who was actually in Iowa last night. If there were others, please educate me. Shelby’s feelings about Iowa might be colored by the fact that his favorite Democrat, Sen. Joseph Biden, dropped out of [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/29/atlanta-blogs-today-whats-the-buzz/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/29/atlanta-blogs-today-whats-the-buzz/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:27:43 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/29/atlanta-blogs-today-whats-the-buzz/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/29/atlanta-blogs-today-whats-the-buzz/feed/ 1 So I get off work tonight at about 11:50 pm (I’ll explain later) and there’s all these text messages, phone message and email congratulating me. – Buzz Brockway on the reaction to inclusion of one of his questions in last night’s CNN/YouTube debate. The question is linked on Buzz’s site. —– As was the case during the last [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/29/atlanta-blogs-today-harpies/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/29/atlanta-blogs-today-harpies/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:43:45 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/29/atlanta-blogs-today-harpies/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/29/atlanta-blogs-today-harpies/feed/ 0 When the Genarlow Wilson decision came down, on that clear day of justice and rectitude, certain leaders in the Republican Party and their personal harpies in the media chose not quiet restraint but instead opted for fakery and obfuscation. — GriftDrift gives Sen. Eric Johnson, and others like him, a piece of his mind. —– I am now [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/atlanta-blogs-today-i-care-too-much/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/atlanta-blogs-today-i-care-too-much/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:48:50 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/atlanta-blogs-today-i-care-too-much/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/atlanta-blogs-today-i-care-too-much/feed/ 0 But I like my long, water wasting hot showers – Erick at Peach Pundit on a proposal by Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Decatur) to require water-saving plumbing fixtures in homes I feel his pain. Listening to my favorite radio program in the shower is one my favorite ways to relax. Damn you, drought! Damn you, local leaders who [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:15:07 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/19/atlanta-blogs-today-city-lights-southern-nights/feed/ 2 Instead, how about “The City Too Busy to Cut a Deadweight Marketing Initiative from its Budget”? — Rusty the Radical Georgia Moderate on “City lights, Southern nights,” the slogan reportedly replacing “Every day is an opening day” as Atlanta’s new municipal marketing theme —– Atlanta abandons slogan, resurrects Glen Campbell’s career — When ATLMalcontent heard the slogan, he [...]