Just like last year at this time, I took Maddie downtown to watch the Dragon*Con parade Saturday morning. And, as my Twitter followers know, somebody severely pissed me off, so I’m going to ask you, dear reader, if I’m overreacting or in the wrong here.
After driving around downtown for 30 minutes, I found a place [...]
09.29on panhandling
Today, as I was searching online to pay my water bill, I found this website on panhandling, which reminded me of some of my favorite experiences the last few years with Atlanta panhandlers. Below are three instances from when I was in school and spent a good bit of time downtown, going to courtrooms to [...]
09.03criminals on cups!
Some of our neighbors have cameras installed for security around their home, and when these kids were traipsing through one neighbor’s yard, he sent the pictures to the entire ‘hood after saving them on a Kodak website.
What I found amusing was the automatically-generated ad at the bottom to get coffee mugs or stationary depicting the [...]
08.30a rare conglomerate
I’m excited to report the following simultaneous events going on downtown this weekend:
1) Black Gay Pride weekend: a time for men and women of color who enjoy the companionship of their own gender and race to gather, celebrate, and, I hope, carouse.
2) Dragon*Con: a gathering for science fiction nerds allowing them to dress up like [...]
