http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/18/shepard-fairey-stephen-colbert-my-bewilderment/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/18/shepard-fairey-stephen-colbert-my-bewilderment/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:11:52 +0000 Jeremy Abernathy http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14920 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/18/shepard-fairey-stephen-colbert-my-bewilderment/feed/ 7 Is it punk rock to sue for artistic license? http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/30/barack-obama-walks-into-a-bar/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/30/barack-obama-walks-into-a-bar/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:45:42 +0000 Debbie Michaud http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=13811 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/01/30/barack-obama-walks-into-a-bar/feed/ 5 Humorists and late-night TV hosts try to find punchlines for the new prez. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/25/clickable-advent-calendar-peace-on-earth-good-will-toward-men-and-bears/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/25/clickable-advent-calendar-peace-on-earth-good-will-toward-men-and-bears/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:32:51 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11616 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/25/clickable-advent-calendar-peace-on-earth-good-will-toward-men-and-bears/feed/ 0 For my final Christmas post, a clip that’s been stuck in my head practically non-stop since I first saw it. Forgive the lines of superfluous code at the top — consider it the gift wrap. Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/colbert-delivers-the-greatest-gift-of-all/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/colbert-delivers-the-greatest-gift-of-all/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:05:20 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9644 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/21/colbert-delivers-the-greatest-gift-of-all/feed/ 0 Fake right-wing pundit Stephen Colbert repackages himself as a singing, dancing, all-purpose fatuous celebrity on A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, which debuts on Comedy Central on Sunday night, Nov. 23. In a flawless parody of 1970s-style variety shows, A Colbert Christmas finds Colbert trapped in his mountain cabin by his greatest nemesis [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/morning-headlines-106/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/morning-headlines-106/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:52:28 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/morning-headlines-106/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/morning-headlines-106/feed/ 0 MARS DROUGHT DOWNGRADED: Scientists find and sample water from the Martian surface, and will spend the next several weeks studying whether it could support life. TED STEVENS: Not giving up without a slow, creaky fight. COLBERT: Offers a “rare apology” to Canton, Ga., for calling the town “crappy,” adding that he meant to call Canton, Kan., crappy: [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/atlanta-blogs-today-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/atlanta-blogs-today-20/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:43:35 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/atlanta-blogs-today-20/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/atlanta-blogs-today-20/feed/ 2 — The Georgia blogosphere is still trying to sort through the ramifications that blogger Andre Walker’s failure to disclose that he was working for state Rep. David Scott, even as he posted on Scott’s campaign. There’s been a lively discussion here on Fresh Loaf. And besides posting comments here, Driftgrift is spitting tacks here and [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/morning-headlines-100/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/morning-headlines-100/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:53:27 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/morning-headlines-100/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/24/morning-headlines-100/feed/ 0 ABRIDGE OVER STUBBLED WATER: Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin is instituting Razor-Free Fridays, asking male ag employees to conserve water by skipping shaving. BAT SIGNALS: A graduate student’s research uncovers an unknown population of about 900 Rafinesque’s big-eared bats living in South Georgia bottomland forests; scientists had previously spotted just 17 of the bats in all [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/mccain-remixed/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/mccain-remixed/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:47:17 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/mccain-remixed/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/mccain-remixed/feed/ 1 Last month, John McCain gave a speech in Louisiana so dull that Comedy Central’s faux-right-wing pundit Stephen Colbert invited viewers to place the Republican presidential candidate in more exciting surroundings. The entries are in and they range from mildly diverting to solidly amusing. We haven’t watched them all, so there might be one that’s pee-your-pants funny. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/bob-barr-on-colbert/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/bob-barr-on-colbert/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:07:21 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/bob-barr-on-colbert/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/bob-barr-on-colbert/feed/ 1 Libertarian candidate for president was on “The Colbert Report” last night. Here it is, courtesy of Comedy Central: The money quote, from Colbert’s introduction of Barr: “Bob Barr has a long, Libertarian voting record. In Congress, he supported such privacy-friendly, small-government initiatives as the Defense of Marriage Act, which made the government small enough to fit [...]