Fresh Loaf

A Georgia Department of Natural Resources meeting

1. Atlanta city infrastructure best in country? (The list-generating business consultants at Mercer say Atlanta has the best city infrastructure in the United States. Um, what?)

2. Blog: Rep. Bearden, R-Glock, paid by Carrollton — but for what? (Carrollton city manager told CL that the lawmaker often leads programs and initiatives and assists with some matters “you can’t talk about.” Well, that settles it.)

3. TEAM COVERAGE: Piedmont Park pool poo spill lead story on AJC.com (Atlanta’s daily newspaper: No. 1 for No. 2 news!)

4. Parking scofflaws, your free ride will soon be over (Illegally parked cars with unpaid parking tickets will soon be booted. Oh crap.)

5. Coyle makes Atlanta City Council bid official (Neighborhood activist who fought to preserve the integrity of the Beltline makes a go at politics.)

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AJC: #1 for #2 news!

For some horrible, unknowable reason, the lead story on AJC.com at this very moment is the temporary closure of Piedmont Park pool today due to fecal contamination.

That’s not a joke. It really is the lead story. With a picture and everything.

The story doesn’t have a byline, so I have no idea if it was reported by the paper’s Senior Swimming Pool Correspondent, the Assistant Editor of Potty Training, or a Miscellaneous Spills reporter.

THIS JUST IN: The QuikTrip at North Druid Hills and Briarcliff roads reports a taquito has been dropped on the floor by a clumsy. I repeat: taquito down!

(A tug at the elastic thigh-band of my Huggies Pull-Ups® to @loriming for alerting me to this, and to Thomas Wheatley, for his Poo-litzer Prize-winning report on the spill earlier this afternoon.)

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No worries, it’ll reopen tomorrow at 11 a.m. But ya see! This is why you people can’t have nice things!

From an email blast sent out to Piedmont Park Conservancy mailing list members:

After the jump, the obligatory Caddyshack clip, plus some copycats. (more…)

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