Ahh, the ol’ “pros and cons about Atlanta” list. We’ve all been there! Somehow the negatives always outweigh the positives (like in this case: the good “Babyland General Hospital” vs. the bad “Missing and Murdered Children Cases”) but we always stick around because we would be too embarrassed to leave and then have to come back after running out of money trying to find a job in Portland.
My Convention Task Force list would be, off the top of my head:
POSITIVE STORIES
Legynds LARPers
Thomas Wheatley
Furries v. Klingons
Dragon*Con
City of Decatur (incorporated areas only)
NEGATIVE STORIES
Honky tubes
AJC.com commenters
The demise of Fruitopia
Recycling
Blue jean bandits
City of Buckhead
I’m sure I left off something.
(From the July 1988 issue of Harper’s. Click to enlarge.)
I can’t believe that the Leo Frank lynching was still a big topic in 1988. And AIDS Research at CDC was a bad thing? Ahh, but some things never change – political corruption, highway congestion, drug-smuggling hub, homeless people… but hey, we’ve still got the Cyclorama, right?
Yeah, I’m a bit confused by “Profiles of Civil Rights Activists” – is that a really round-about way of saying racism?
All that work, in an effort to spin during a Convention… and along comes Rob Lowe with a video camera and a teen and foils all the planning!
Let’s not forget Judd Nelson’s role!
you know you can still get Fruitopia at McDonald’s, right? yet to be confirmed, but research has commenced.