http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/07/atlanta-blog-this-week-duane-moodys-epic-countdown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/07/atlanta-blog-this-week-duane-moodys-epic-countdown/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:30:37 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/07/atlanta-blog-this-week-duane-moodys-epic-countdown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/07/atlanta-blog-this-week-duane-moodys-epic-countdown/feed/ 0 Nothing in the Atlanta blogosphere has been more enjoyable this week than Duane Moody’s 31 Best of 2007, his daily December countdown of his favorite albums of 2007. Some highlights. 31. Some Mad Hope by Matt Nathanson: I downloaded it before a trip, and was determined to give it a go while I was traveling. Unfortunate choice or [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/atlanta-blogs-today-earl-paulk-fathers-his-nephew/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/atlanta-blogs-today-earl-paulk-fathers-his-nephew/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:19:28 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/atlanta-blogs-today-earl-paulk-fathers-his-nephew/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/atlanta-blogs-today-earl-paulk-fathers-his-nephew/feed/ 0 Once again, the name of Christ is tarnished by pastoral malfeasance. This type of behavior screams for condemnation, but is predictably (as you’ll read in the article) met with rationalization and blame-shifting. – Mile High Rev of Littleton, Colo., on the latest sex scandal to emanate from Bishop Earl Paulk at DeKalb’s Cathedral of the [...] 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/2007/09/26/atlanta-blogs-today-omg-like-whats-a-burma/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/26/atlanta-blogs-today-omg-like-whats-a-burma/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:51:39 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/26/atlanta-blogs-today-omg-like-whats-a-burma/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/26/atlanta-blogs-today-omg-like-whats-a-burma/feed/ 10 Delta says it has purchased two new 777s for the trip from ATL to Shanghai. No word on if they’ll be painted with lead paint or employ Christian slave labor from Chinese work camps. — Erick at Peach Pundit abdicates his Crown Room Club privileges with this comment about the just-announced nonstop Delta flight from Atlanta [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/10/atlanta-blogs-today-the-sound-of-music/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/10/atlanta-blogs-today-the-sound-of-music/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:55:54 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/10/atlanta-blogs-today-the-sound-of-music/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/09/10/atlanta-blogs-today-the-sound-of-music/feed/ 2 Hey, I have an idea: why doesn’t Dave G-damn Matthews think of ways to give concerts more truck- and bus- and generator-free! For three days leading up to the concert, my street and the Piedmont Park Meadow were covered with trucks, buses, generator-powered streetlights, and all manner of workmen moving fences, stage construction materials, port-a-potties, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/24/atlanta-blogs-today-hollywood-values/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/24/atlanta-blogs-today-hollywood-values/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:42:08 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/24/atlanta-blogs-today-hollywood-values/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/24/atlanta-blogs-today-hollywood-values/feed/ 4 My weekend is set… Friday: - Work (8am to 4pm) - Ronald Reagan marathon - Cut grass - Ronald Reagan marathon - Sleep — Jason Pye on TCM’s Ronald Reagan movie marathon. Knute Rockne All American is on at 11:45 tonight. Set your TiVo. —– I would hope that people like Sean Kingston, being a teenager himself, would realize that gay and lesbian [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/07/atlanta-blogs-today-love-dating-and-balls/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/07/atlanta-blogs-today-love-dating-and-balls/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:05:44 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/07/atlanta-blogs-today-love-dating-and-balls/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/07/atlanta-blogs-today-love-dating-and-balls/feed/ 0 If there are black girls out there dating white guys, I say more power to them. I honestly think there is some legitimacy to the theory that black folks are “sick of each other. — Andre at Georgia Politics Unfiltered, on a CNN.com story about black women dating white men —– While I am capable of seducing women [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/18/atlanta-blogs-today-crow-eaten/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/18/atlanta-blogs-today-crow-eaten/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:31:29 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/18/atlanta-blogs-today-crow-eaten/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/18/atlanta-blogs-today-crow-eaten/feed/ 1 Congratulations to Paul Broun. I’m eating crow for breakfast this morning, as I (like most others) predicted a Whitehead cakewalk. — Jeff Emanuel at Peach Pundit, on Paul Broun’s surprising victory over Jim Whitehead in yesterday’s 10th congressional district special election. Perhaps Broun can now use his power as a congressman to launch a federal investigation to [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/07/atlanta-blogs-today-bright-light-in-the-reality-tvosphere/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/07/atlanta-blogs-today-bright-light-in-the-reality-tvosphere/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:31:21 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/07/atlanta-blogs-today-bright-light-in-the-reality-tvosphere/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/07/atlanta-blogs-today-bright-light-in-the-reality-tvosphere/feed/ 3 Gay voters shouldn’t trust Hillary, even though they do. Blame the petty queer establishment, which has sold its soul to the senator from New York. — ATLMalcontent on how Sen. Hillary Clinton tries to spin her husband’s enactment of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy on gay personnel into something positive for gays and lesbians. The [...]