Archive | February, 2009

Free Arby’s!

27 Feb

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According to the illustrious Atlanta Business Chronicle Arby’s is giving out free sammies on March 8th. Apparently, they are trying out a new sandwich called the Roastburger, and if you go in on the 8th and tell the register employee, “I’m here to change my burger” then you get the option of a free All-American Roastburger, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Roastburger, or Bacon and Cheddar Roastburger.

The only Arby’s I can think of is the one at Philip’s Arena, and if you go to that one you can also run next door and get the GIANT beer from Gorin’s before heading back to work or class after lunch hour is over.

Atlanta welcomes Joaquin Phoenix!

27 Feb

Pecanne Log’s trusted source sites have confirmed that tonight Joaquin Phoenix in all of his post-break down glory will be at Lenny’s tonight. This is no sham. A Myspace bulletin from Lenny’s Bar revealed that the secret guest performer for this evenings Fuggin Awesome One Year Anniversary Party is indeed none other than post-breakdown Phoenix.

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Straight from the horse’s mouth (well, Lenny’s bulletin):

“PLEASE NO PHOTOGRAPHY DURING Joaquin Phoenixx SET!
THIS IS NOT A JOKE! WE COULD NOT TELL PEOPLE TILL TODAY! ( YOU CAN REPOST IF YOU LIKE!!)
Joaquin Phoenixx will be bring his REAL RAP GAME!
GET READY ATL!!!!!!!!!!”

If he can live up to the rap performance he has been promising since leaving the film stage, this night is going to be one you tell the grandkids about. I find it hard to believe that anyone has better plans than this.

UPDATE: The party poopers at Paste say it’s a hoax. Whatever, people, keep the dream alive!

Four more

20 Feb

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I am a giant hypocrite

19 Feb

Remember when I made fun of AJC’s t-shirts of their front page when Obama was elected, and Mark Davis was like, “Shut up, my mom loved hers,” and I thought secretly, “No one will ever know that during the first half of the nineties I wore the shit out of my t-shirt of the AJC front page after the Braves did something exciting”? No?

Well, my cousin dug up this photo last night and I just want to be honest with you guys and take back everything I said about the AJC Obama t-shirts.

In exchange for my humiliation, I would like one of our readers to please submit a photo of himself/herself with a Tomahawk Buzzcut. You know you had one.

Yes, those are stonewashed jean shorts with an elastic waistband. That noise you hear is the sound of the Asian Cajuns’ fashion blog empire crumbling before my feet.

Previously: What is wrong with the AJC?

Office of Culture Affairs Economic Impact Study Results

18 Feb

Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs released a report this week on the Economic Impact that is being felt throughout Atlanta’s nonprofit arts organizations. Not surprisingly the survey shows that the nonprofit arts and culture are a significant industry in the City of Atlanta and generates over $274 million in local economic activity. Here are a few of the figures:

  • $274.8 million- Local economic activity resulted from nonprofit arts and culture
  • $113.94 million- Spending by nonprofit arts and culture
  • $160.87 million- Event-related spending by audiences
  • $167.17 million- Household income to local residents
  • $27.07 million- Local and state government revenue

This is certainly a sign that the arts are indeed something worth investing in. As if we needed proof.

We wouldn’t be a ladyblog if we didn’t help out our fellow ladies once in a while

18 Feb

I know not everyone has a totally useless MySpace account for your blog so you might be missing out on all the awesome local single Men hanging out there instead of on Twitter, or whatever it is the kids are doing these days. If shop4guys is lying and these are dudes are not really available SO HELP ME GOD I will have to just search for “meatball57″ and “69heaven69″ with my two bare hands and a map of Clarkdale, Georgia.

OMG, “hornierbyt” is ONLINE! right now! Get on it, y’all!

Previously: Tucker’s sugar daddies are waiting for your call

A conflict I would like to have seen escalate further

17 Feb

Two guys shouting outside of Five Points MARTA station, each accusing the other of not really being able to speak in tongues while threatening to start speaking in tongues right then and there to find out who’s really the liar.

Previously: Made for prepaid

Welcome, Top Chef!

17 Feb

colicchioTop Chef is finally coming to Atlanta! I would like to thank Kevin Rathbun for beating Bobby Flay on Iron Chef so that they believe us when we tell them that Atlanta really does have good food. I’m sure Richard has been gabbing on the phone with Tom Colicchio every night about how he has to come too, especially after the two were so chummy last season.

The casting call will be at Craft (Tom’s restaurant) February 22nd from 10-2 p.m.

Let’s all make sure to think positive thoughts for sweet, expressive eyebrowed Carla tomorrow night as she heads for victory!

AJC’s biased coverage of Atlanta’s Indian restaurants

17 Feb
Anil Kapoor stands up for Panahar.

Anil Kapoor stands up for Panahar.

I have previously written about my love for Buford’s Highway’s Indian darling, Panahar, so my outrage at the AJC‘s article this morning about Atlanta’s Indian cuisine may come as little surprise. In their on-going attempts to be the cutest paper in Atlanta, the AJC has formulated a list of the best Indian restaurants in Atlanta according to what Oscar category they should win. Sure “Best Short Film” award to Udipi Cafe is acceptable, but not when Panahar has been left off the list. I now understand how Bruce Springsteen and Clint Eastwood must have felt when their much deserved and expected nominations didn’t  arrive. I can just see Mirza, owner of Panahar, in the back of the restaurant crying into his delicious Tikka Masala. They at least deserve a Best Director awards for his customer service.

Clint Eastwood unsure about the AJC's picks for Indian in Atlanta.

Clint Eastwood unsure about the AJC's picks for Indian in Atlanta.

I hate to think that they have encouraged anyone who has seen Slumdog Millionaire to go to one of their suggestions without knowing that better exists. There is no way that Danny Boyle would have let Aja do the catering for his set over Panahar. No way. The AJC needs to do some soul searching and a little research before putting out lists like that. They should be ashamed of themselves.

My suggestions for Indian in Atlanta, in order of superiority-without doling out Oscar-related awards-would have been as follows: Panahar, Vatica, Upidi Cafe, Rose of India, and Bhojanic.

I will be a corporate whore for MARTA

17 Feb

You know, I don’t take Transit TV lightly. If you don’t use MARTA then you have no idea how irritating it is to see the same ads for 20ColegioEnPJs.com and a pyramid scheme run by the sheriff from Murder, She Wrote that involves selling $60 novelty sail boat lamps, over and over in a screen right in front of your face when all you want to do is just get to work without eye contact from the Jesus Greaser.

But I endure Transit TV because I understand MARTA’s got to pay the bills and no one in our sleazy state legislature is going to do that for them, and I also understand that those temper tantrums I was throwing in my car by the time I got to mile two of my three mile commute every morning was no way to live my life. And if the All-American Rejects’ record company is going to keep my trains running every ten minutes by playing the video for their new single on an endless loop with the sound off for a week straight, then whatever.

Then I saw a bit in a NY Times article about rising public transit ridership and declining state and local budgets to meet this need. Emphasis mine:

Beverly A. Scott, general manger of Marta, the Atlanta system, said as the sales tax revenue continued to drop, she was weighing everything from fare increases to service cuts to even selling the naming rights to stations — but she still hopes for more state support.

I hadn’t heard of this possible move yet in any of the other coverage of MARTA’s financial desperation. I had heard that MARTA might totally cut my bus route sometime this summer though, the thought of which immediately fills me with all the anxiety of three months’ worth of sweaty road rage. You know what, I will be happy to take a bus with a wraparound ad for Attorney Ken “One Call, That’s All” Nugent on the “DeVry University at Cobb Galleria” bus route pumping Snuggies commericals in Spanish on Transit TV, and get off at the “Fruitopia Strawberry Passion Awareness Station” every day to not have to rake my car over Midtown’s perpetually corrugated roads. I am not going to be like some outraged 30 Rock fan crying about McFlurry product placement when MARTA totally sells out.

Actually, I hope this naming rights scheme does happen, and I hope Tyler Perry, in a fit of the grandest egomania yet, buys the rights to all the stations so he can be honored at 37 Tyler Perry’s MARTA Stations by Tyler Perry. Each one could be named after a movie he made in 2008.

Previously: I demand MARTA fashion

Stone Soup is famous

16 Feb


Delicious and cheap Stone Soup in Cabbagetown was profiled on NPR as part of David Green’s “100 Days on the Road in Troubled Times” series – you can listen to the radio segments from Green’s time in Atlanta and read the articles in two parts here:

(photo from npr100days on Flickr)

The best “My Style” ever

16 Feb


Eula Adams is truly a grand fashion inspiration in this installment of AJC’s series “My Style”! Her signature style is leather skirts, her favorite store is Stein Mart, she splurges on hats, and she wore her wedding gown to a recent event. See the slideshow here! I had to go through the photos twice, first to look at her clothes and next to admire the gilded decor in her gracious home. Is that a punchbowl full of strawberries on her bathroom counter?

Sam Lettre‘s style is also pretty cool. He is four years old.

Fuzzy Business

15 Feb

Have you never seen a Bearplane flying over Piedmont Park? Then immediately watch “Fuzzy Business“, Bark Bark‘s animated entry into the 48 Hour International Shootout Competition. Here’s the gist: “Happy and Strickly are poor garbage collectors when they find a suitcase full of money. They invest it wisely in the lucrative Anthropomorphic Travel Industry.” It’s adorable, and distinctly from the same mind as the creator of Mr. Children-for-Hands.

(via Midnight Mailman)

Another romantic Valentine’s Day idea

12 Feb

Did you know that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy? I know that Valentine’s Day is on Saturday, but the Fernbank Observatory is open to the public every Thursday and Friday from 9 – 10:30 PM. They are also having a special romantic program on Saturday (but at 11 AM!) in the planetarium. This might be your only option since it’s supposed to rain most of the weekend.

There are a number of other observatories and giant telescopes in Atlanta to try out. I don’t think Emory’s is ever open to the public, but Georgia Tech‘s department of astronomy hosts public night once a month (the next one is March 5). The Bradley Observatory at Agnes Scott has planned a special vernal equinox concert and open house on March 20.

If you need to get away from the city’s light pollution, Georgia State University’s Hard Labor Creek Observatory in Rutledge also has a monthly open house. The next one is March 14 but if you’re going to drive an hour out of the city I think you should wait until April 4, which coincides with the 100 Hours of Astronomy (why can’t astronomy celebrate itself in increments like days or months like everyone else?).

The Atlanta Astronomy Club keeps these dates and other events related to the stars, including the exciting Peach State Star Gaze in the fall. If all of this isn’t enough, I recommend the Deerlick Astronomy Village.

(photo from GT Astronomy Club)

A V.D. you won’t soon forget

11 Feb

Do you ever see a 20-year high school reunion falling out of the Fur Bus and wonder how exactly the Fur Bus intends to clean all the alcohol-charged secretions and spills out of the fur and other porous surfaces? Mile High Atlanta has all your hygiene bases covered because you actually get to keep your sheet as a souvenir. Yes, Mile High Atlanta is exactly what you think it is. (via Nice Slacks)

If your special someone is acrophobic but you’re totally into planes, there’s still the 57th Fighter Group Restaurant overlooking the Peachtree-DeKalb Executive Airport. The patio will be perfect if it’s not raining and there’s a little cat that hangs out there and around the landing field. Plus Saturday night is “open dancing” in the bar so if you’re lucky you’ll also get to line dance with your honey to “Dancing Queen”!

UPDATE: The 57th Fighter Group Restaurant has been closed for two years now. Thanks to Eric for updating me. My ignorance betrays the last time I made it to eat there (2-1/2 years ago?).
Follow Chris G‘s advice and go to Downwind.

The gayest directions in Atlanta

10 Feb

These are directions dictated from one our most dedicated Pecanne Log readers while I was trying to find a good place to buy powdered wigs (or powdered-looking wigs) and things embellished with garish-colored ostrich feathers. They were directions to the store Queens and Divas:

“It’s on Cheshire Bridge, before Onyx and Heretic. There is a bay window and it’s on the left, in the same strip as Hair Cuttery. If you get to Atlanta Leather you’ve gone too far. But if you go too far, Poster Hut is also wonderful. It says ‘P-Hut’ screened on the awning. There are a lot of treasures there.”

Whatever, Queens and Divas! This is only the dress I want to be MARRIED IN! Except in virginal ivory!

(photos via Queens and Divas of Atlanta)

Your Rascal, your safety, and you

7 Feb

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in Atlanta that involves busy four-lane roads, Rascals or wheelchairs, and people on these Rascals or wheelchairs with COMPLETE DISREGARD for basic traffic laws and, most troubling, their own bodily safety. Everyone in the city was out today, so the roads and sidewalks were jammed with citizens enjoying the fine weather that could only happen in the dead of winter in Georgia. Everyone including personal mobility device owners.

First today, I saw one wheelchair-bound guy meandering across Ponce de Leon at noon, crossing from City Hall East to the Whole Foods center (50 yards from the actual crosswalk) while fifteen cars slammed on their brakes. This reminded me of the time I was at the Local well after dark and spotted a woman in an electric wheelchair puttering west on Ponce in the right lane (not sidewalk) while completely absorbed in composing a text message.

So à la Highlights for Children, here’s a lesson for Atlanta Rascal owners:


Goofus creeps his Rascal across a confusing intersection between DeKalb Avenue and Moreland where the sidewalks are not handicap accessible and people drive like rage-filled maniacs.


Gallant takes his special lady friend and their his ‘n’ hers Rascals to the park where they may safely cruise on sidewalks and enjoy the scenery.

Yard Sale Addict’s most terrifying purchase

6 Feb

I just love reading Yard Sale Addict because he brings the yard sales to me. I don’t have to go rooting through boxes of junk in someone’s driveway to come to the conclusion that there’s nothing good to buy here. He also likes to highlight the creepy things for sale, because it’s always good to know about the weird things inside your neighbors’ homes. Below is a video from over 20 years ago of one of his creepiest, most troublesome second-hand finds that was actually possessed by a demon that peeled all the wallpaper off his walls and made his socks disappear!

Now I understand why he concludes so many of his posts with the report that he bought nothing – his advice in the video is, “Do not go to yard sales and buy demons, for sure!” I’m curious to know how he ultimately got rid of the demon object.

I demand MARTA fashion

4 Feb

I get a lot (= 3) of fan mail from fellow MARTA patrons who know what’s up. And I’ve been jealously watching from afar all the support that cycling gets from the design community WHICH IS FINE, because bikes are cool, but I think it’s high time for a pro-MARTA t-shirt, not unlike the ones Epidemik Coalition did for the Atlanta Bicycle Campaign or Sopo Bikes.

I’m not saying the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority would sanction such a tee, I’m just saying I would buy one and wear it if they existed.

Look at these Breeze Card Air Force Ones!

Previously: Trauma: Life on MARTA

Anything and everything a chap can unload

3 Feb


It’s February, and everyone is already tired of all their winter clothes, every last thing! Good news – Eyedrum is hosting a thrift store all day Saturday while they renovate the gallery. It’s really more of a bazaar, because you can bring your own stuff to sell. Full info here. I imagine it will be something like this…

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