December 2011
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So many fun facts about the Peach Drop! →
The first Peach Drop was in 1989 at Underground Atlanta and has become a world-renowned event as well as a favorite Atlanta tradition!
Weighing in at more than 800 pounds, the peach weighs almost as much as an average adult horse!
In 1997, Mayor Bill Campbell suggested to drop an ACTUAL horse (painted peach, or course) since it weighed about the same, but that was just because he had stolen...
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Paul F. Tompkins: Hubris!: It begins with... →
jakefogelnest:
paulftompkins:
Tumblr, I want to like you. I am determined to do so, in fact. I am already on board with your name, even the missing letter! Shine-on-you-crazy-diamond and so on. But I wanted to add a fancy background to my page and you won’t let me.
Look, I know we’ve only just met, but you need to know this…
Please welcome the wonderful Paul F. Tompkins to Tumblr.
!!!!!...
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“Let me tell ya. You people disappoint me on Tuesday, you don’t do what you are...”
– that’s my governor, Chris Christie, threatening to disappear Iowa voters if they don’t vote for Romney (via aatombomb)
Do they have a decent supply of gabagool in Iowa? If not, they’re safe.
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Naughty By Nature and the bald guy from Live are...
nodicesoldier:
Naughty By Nature and the bald guy from Live are playing a New Year’s Eve show at the Hyatt.
*for $119 to $175 of course
**Your all inclusive party ticket will get you access to all the areas of entertainment on two ballroom floors with a 5 & 1/2 hour premium open bar, an array of the Hyatt’s top notch cuisine featuring heavy hors d’ouvres, carving, Asian & pasta...
vainglorious: fairtradegothic: It’s not hard to... →
fairtradegothic:
It’s not hard to get Emile DeFelice riled up. Just mention Paula Deen, the so-called queen of Southern food, who cooks with canned fruit and Crisco. Or say something like “You don’t look like a Southern pig farmer.” He’ll practically hit the ceiling of his Prius.
Because there are a few things about Southern food that the man just can’t stand: its hayseed image, the...
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Drinking in the Morning After: the dos and don'ts... →
magdalina:
On the next to last day of the year, I do believe I’ve found my vote for Most Excellent Writing of 2011 on the Most Excellent Subject Ever:
Do use a clean glass. No guzzling from the bottle, either. Drinking at breakfast is a rare pleasure with a noble heritage, and you need to show some decorum. If self-respect is beyond you at the moment in question, then settle for showing...
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Surely I can't be the ONLY one
Every time I see something about “Marie Calloway” I get a little hungry because I keep reading it as “Marie Callender,” and then I get a little sad, because I kind of wish I could read her story instead.
93-Year-Old Woman Denied Voter ID by Marie Diamond... →
A 93-year-old Tennessee woman who cleaned the state Capitol for 30 years, including the governor’s office, says she won’t be able to vote for the first time in decades after being told this week that her old state ID failed to meet new voter ID regulations. Thelma Mitchell was even accused of being an undocumented immigrant because she couldn’t produce a birth certificate.
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Atlanta's 2011 Milestones: Culture
andishehnouraee:
2011 is the first year the number of recordings rapper Waka Flocka Flame made exceeded the number of shooting incidents he was involved in.
Well, I think we know what SOMEONE’S New Year’s resolution will be!
Rob Delaney: The Greatest Hotel Review of All Time →
robdelaney:
My wife and I were looking for a hotel to have an overnight date at (that’s right) while her parents watched our baby. Her mom was helping out and found the greatest hotel review I’ve ever read. It’s REAL, but the site it’s on got overwhelmed by people I sent to it from Twitter and it hasn’t been working dependably. IT IS TOO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE NOT TO SEE AND STUDY so I’m...
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Atlantans are so vain, we probably think this... →
And for once, we’re kind of right! I mean, not really, it’s pretty much about Miami, but we’ll take it!
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Zoo staffers at a zoo in Thailand dressed three tiger cubs in holiday outfits and placed them in a pen with piglets and their mom. Official want the cubs to nurse from the pig, they hope it will make them tamer.
Uh, sure?
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"On Sunday, Food Network combines Guy Fieri and... →
jamesurbaniak:
“A funny woman, no matter how conventionally lovely, generally has to accept that she’ll also be perceived as a little bit funny looking. When she gets a laugh, she risks subliminally conveying the message that she’s making up for some hidden deficiency, that she’s sad or irreparably broken.”
-Meghan Daum, Christopher Hitchens Gets the Last Laugh, L.A. Times
Totally,...
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“I think they were hoping that it would be in this territory of Justin...”
– Paul F. Tompkins speaks the hard truth on the Who Charted holiday special. Sorry, folks. He’s got a point.
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Slim Dunkin Reportedly Murdered After Fight Over... →
According to witnesses, Dunkin, born Mario Hamilton, grabbed a piece of candy from another man while inside an Atlanta recording studio, which led to an argument and then a fistfight. The scuffle ended with Slim being shot once in the chest. He was then transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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“Two of the defendants, Jeanette Ogle and Randall Sorrow Jr., both in their 20s...”
– New York Times | In Georgia, Pecan Thieves Find Windfall, at $1.50 a Pound (via rachael-maddux)
“Nut theft has long been a reality here in the nation’s pecan belt. It has become such a way of life that a south Georgia rapper, Hawkdogg, even has a song about it: ‘Crank Dat...
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