Archive | October, 2009

Your one stop Halloween costume idea stop

29 Oct

Oh, look, it’s October 29 and you still haven’t thought about your Halloween costume! And Halloween is on a Saturday night this year, so that’s a lot of pressure! You’ve probably spent the last month telling everyone that you are going as [insanely conceptual and timely costume joke idea] to get a rise out of your friends without actually having to exert the effort of putting a memorable costume together. It’s okay, though! We got creative for you, and all these costumes will please the locals!

- Paul and Annabelle from TBS’s old school “Dinner and a Movie“: This is a cop-out costume since all you have to do is dress like it’s the year 1999 and wear oven mitts or something, but everyone will appreciate it. Bonus points if you worked for TBS back then and got one of these Dinner and a Movie aprons.

- Hologram preacher: Yeah, you thought when you watched Will.i.am on CNN’s election night coverage that this was the first time hologram technology had been used like that in real life? But you were wrong! This has been going on for years at a megachurch in Buckhead and Alpharetta!
Episode_3_Bail_Organa_Hologram

(more…)

Unfair use

26 Oct

We don’t know if we feel more like Shepard Fairey or AP photographer Mannie Garcia, but we definitely feel like our iconic political design was ripped off! Look at what the Farokhi campaign is up to:Picture 1

We came up with the idea to make a jack-o-lantern-embellished Blingee of Amir Farokhi’s headshot! It was us!

Previously: Bad call, Mr. Wheatley!

Watch your back, Pixar!

16 Oct

I haven’t even looked at gubernatorial candidate John Oxendine’s new cutting-edge animated commercial, but because some blogger helpfully posted screenshots so I get the general idea: it’s like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but set at metro Atlanta’s most popular tourist spots.

The-rat-at-Stone-Mountain

Obviously, this is my new desktop background! A rat with human hands and gold jewelry at the laser show!

Bad call, Mr. Wheatley!

15 Oct

510402709_423891Well, the dust has settled on Creative Loafing‘s endorsements, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still hurt by one in particular, and all the keying in the world of Thomas Wheatley’s previously-owned 2008 Honda Accord hasn’t made that hurt go away. Who does Thomas Wheatley think he is, anyway?! He doesn’t even live in Atlanta; did you know that? Yeah, he’s a suburbanite, yet he’s allowed to go on writing for Creative Loafing Atlanta! And then has the audacity to tell us who to vote for! WHY DON’T YOU GO  WRITE FOR DECATUR METRO INSTEAD SINCE YOU LOVE IT SO MUCH, THOMAS WHEATLEY!!

And why does everyone call him “young Mr. Wheatley”? Thomas Wheatley was born in 1962, people! That’s not young at all!

Previously: Amore for Amir

Wetlanta even in my inbox

15 Oct

Picture 17I got this new theme for my Gmail because I was like, “A tree in a sunny field! That’s cute and uplifting!” But now I see it changes with the weather, and I’m depressed.

Picture 18

The bird whisperer of Atlanta

8 Oct

Picture 4

I WANT TO KNOW which one of you assholes got all sentimental and bid out from under me this awesome photo of Mrs. E. J. Karst operating on a little tweet at her homemade bird hospital in Atlanta. Who was it, hmmmm?

The last paragraph of the caption on the back apparently (I’ll never know for sure) says:

What a fine thing it is that some humans take such interest in helping dumb creatures. Why shouldn’t they when the Master once said that not even a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father knowing it.

Nowadays, bird hospitals are a dime a dozen, but back in the ’30s, practicing amateur avian veterinary in your basement made you a media darling.

The only further information I can find on Mrs. E. J. Karst’s venture is this little article from the February 1937 Popular Science in a section of the magazine that seems to highlight freakish and amazing things to happen in these United States:

Picture 1


Pumpkins and beer!

8 Oct

1149891_f322c6fa-a338-4736-a206-b184bf987799-kevin-gillespie

The Atlanta Botanical Gardens is going to be combining my two favorite pasttimes on October 29th: beer and beards. Well, one beard in particular. The gardens will be hosting a pumpkin carving competition by some of Atlanta’s top chef’s during the annual Fest of Ale. Assuming no one gets drunk with the pumpkin carving tools this might even be an event Mamalikey and the wee one could come to!

The line-up of carvers includes Kevin Gillespie, Woodfire Grill and this season’s Top Chef (OMG!11! Love him and his big fluffy beard); Joey Bridgers, Babette’s Café;  Victor Dagatan, The Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead; Andrew Miller, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Atlanta; and Alison Lueker, Sun in my Belly. They are totally going to get all Quick Fire Challenge on those pumpkins! Everyone will have 25 minutes to carve their masterpieces out of giant pumpkins. I hope Kevin carves the face of that guido, Mike Isabella, and then stabs it in the eye.

Admission for the event is $15 adults, $12 seniors and children 3-17, free to children under three and Garden members. Really though, this is a great bang for you buck. Not only do you get to potentially have Kevin let you touch his beard (no promises), but there is a beer school led by Hop City, beer tasting (most important), and scarecrows everywhere.

The Fest of Ale is from 5-10 pm, and the Pumpkin carving is 7-8 pm.

Someone, bring me beef!

7 Oct

bigstockphoto_Rare_Steak_1471404

I have to admit, I have spent the last forty five minutes thinking about what lengths I would go to to score some beef. My desperation is growing, and now the specific demands for either a steak or potroast have waned and I am looking for anything with cow.  If there is one thing that is not helping my cause it is the number of food blogs and websites in this city that are advertising the meat I cannot have. But, as I am tied to my chair for another hour and 13 minutes, meat pornography is the best I can get.

bruger

Grindhouse Burgers, why must you torment me so?! An unnamed source in my gchat queue even agrees: “I wasn’t even craving beef and I read that and was like BRING ME A HAMBURGER, SQUIRE!”

Kevin Rathbun is a goner if he comes anywhere within five hundred feet of my chompers. I can only imagine that the smell of steak and truffle butter eminates from him as he walks along Krog Street.

ent5

Med Grill (at 10th and Monroe) has a delicious dinner platter with steak and tasty sauce that I would rip into so fast right now. I am sharpening my teeth in preparation.

At this point, I will even settle for picking up some meat on the way home. I can’t promise it will make it as far as my front door and being cooked, though.

Beef, come find me! I need you!

If anyone knows of a good place to get meat before 5 o’clock and below Ponce, comment now.

An artful rendering of a body cavity

6 Oct

Another thing I discovered when I was looking up W.H. Reed (the company that packaged those useless Golden Pheasant condoms from the last post) was the Atlanta Journal-record of Medicine from April 1909. There’s nothing to note in the text beyond the typical weird obsolete medical words used a hundred years ago, but the subject of the cover illustration was a little peculiar even for this sort of document:

Picture 15

All your Christmas shopping in one fell swoop

5 Oct

Since I have to save up all my money for my Halloween costume this month, I guess I’ll go ahead and share with you the fantastic treasures I have uncovered that maybe someone else can take advantage of. I am going to immediately regret this, I just know it, but if you don’t buy them who will?!?!!?!?

steve061MediumUgh, I would totally love to get this as a gift for someone who’s moved away to greener pastures, but the fact that I can see skin through the shirt kind of grosses me out (sorry, Alternative). Someone else buy this please and if I ever see you wearing it out I will buy you a drink. Or maybe you should buy me a drink. I can’t remember. (more…)

Amore for Amir

5 Oct

Which men’s hair grooming product do you think Amir Farokhi uses?
170-9326Is that the sheen of Brylcreem or does he perhaps use a hair tonic? Whatever it is, it’s helped him achieve perfect Kennedy hair, something this country needs right now more than ever. (more…)

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 71 other followers