http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/30/smug-almost-anthropological-condescension/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/30/smug-almost-anthropological-condescension/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:40:15 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/30/smug-almost-anthropological-condescension/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/30/smug-almost-anthropological-condescension/feed/ 4 That’s how one commenter on Manhattan gossip blog Gawker.com responded to a New York Times‘ want ad seeking a researcher for its Atlanta bureau. The fuss arose after the Times elicited five pitches from would-be applicants on JournalismJobs.com — and gave rather explicit instructions on what not to pitch: “Please do not submit ideas concerning dog [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/26/john-fitzgerald-page-ive-hung-out-with-the-likes-of-luke-perry/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/26/john-fitzgerald-page-ive-hung-out-with-the-likes-of-luke-perry/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:32:11 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/26/john-fitzgerald-page-ive-hung-out-with-the-likes-of-luke-perry/ Before you ask, yes, he’s kidding. Hats off to John. The video is very funny. I suspect, however, the people who make sport of [...]]]> http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/26/john-fitzgerald-page-ive-hung-out-with-the-likes-of-luke-perry/feed/ 3 Atlanta fifth Least Influential Person and notorious online dater John Fitzgerald Page is back. (photo by Joeff Davis) Yesterday he posted a video guide to online dating on MySpace. Before you ask, yes, he’s kidding. Hats off to John. The video is very funny. I suspect, however, the people who make sport of [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/john-fitzgerald-page-on-cbs/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/john-fitzgerald-page-on-cbs/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:41:57 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/john-fitzgerald-page-on-cbs/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/20/john-fitzgerald-page-on-cbs/feed/ 1 Recent Creative Loafing cover star John Fitzgerald Page appeared on CBS this morning. Atlanta’s 5th Least Influential Person got to tell his story to “The Early Show’s” Julie Chen, but only after a voice-over actor read painful excerpts of his infamous Match.com letters on-air. “Any regrets about the e-mail?” Chen asked. “No, I don’t have any regrets. I [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/08/revealed-atlantas-11-least-influential-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/08/revealed-atlantas-11-least-influential-people/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:01:21 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/08/revealed-atlantas-11-least-influential-people/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/08/revealed-atlantas-11-least-influential-people/feed/ 0 The countdown is over. CL’s complete list of Atlanta’s 11 Least Influential People is now available online. Enjoy. Or don’t. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/15/word-worst-person-in-the-world/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/15/word-worst-person-in-the-world/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:22 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/15/word-worst-person-in-the-world/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/15/word-worst-person-in-the-world/feed/ 0 Gawker.com yesterday declared Buckhead resident John Fitzgerald Page the “Worst Person in the World” and “a colossal, mindbogglingly douchey douchebag.” The 36-year-old actor/model/Ivy League grad/financial consultant earned the monikers after Gawker saw an angry, self-aggrandizing missive he sent to a woman who rejected him after a brief online flirtation on Match.com. Gawker also ridiculed Page’s personal [...]