The Indignant Pedestrian...someone take that number down, please.

97% percent off??

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:42:14 GMT

Wow, that's quite the, um, bargain.

Helpful Hint of the Day

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:08:10 GMT

If the upper arm in your dishwasher isn't spinning, perhaps the food grinder is clogged and decreasing the water pressure. Upon inspection, you might find glassware shards, oyster shell fragments, a corn cob holder, a plastic snap ring, bat confetti, two plastic parts of indeterminate origin and countless lemon seeds. And sixteen years' worth of mold.

So what the hell happens if the gov't doesn't approve??

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:34 GMT

I guess you're fucked.

long time, no post.

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:06:17 GMT

I cannot recommend this enough.

I am no longer a Clermont virgin.

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:37:11 GMT

Yes, I finally made it to the Clermont Lounge! You don't just go to the Clermont, you end up there, predictably, after much alcohol. You then consume more alcohol to absolve yourself of the fact that you willfully subjected your eyes to a a dancer that is old enough to be your mother. Or maybe even your grandmother. Or...okay, I'll stop there. Unfortunately, beer-can crushing Blondie was not performing last night. Dang.

In that same conversation I learned about the Clermont, nearly a year-and-a-half ago, I learned about this band as well.

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:10:14 GMT

This is quite possibly the most LAME quizzy thing I've ever taken. I stole it from alayna:

your..brown..yaa not much else to say but...sweet

deal??

which mac eyeshadow are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

1. Brown is the most difficult color for me to wear, given my coloring. Hi, bright, rich colors, please.
2. professorbooty, don't even. I was there well ahead of you.
3. They don't even use actual MAC color names. 'fraid of being sued? Pussies.

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:33:07 GMT

"Watching a line of goth chicks waiting for the bathroom is like reading binary."

-My friend Mike on the figure extremes of thee gothique wimmens.

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:07:29 GMT

My decision to move to Atlanta has been validated once again, but not by my semi car-free existence, my staggering-distance bars or even by the buff men jogging up Piedmont, but rather by the closure of the NoVA office Chris was working in (layoffs inclusive).

On the bright side, I have a ristra of massive proportions.

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:33:36 GMT

Most expensive cardboard box EVER.

Vive la Stelvin!

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:02:20 GMT

I opened my first utterly-nasty, but probably just spoilt bottle of wine since the history of my wine journaling (Yes, I have one. I thought they were silly, too, but it turned out to be one of the most useful Christmas gifts I've ever received). Did I mention it came from Costco, whom I am hating now, anyway? In case you're not up-to-date on the current hate rankings:

1. AirTran
2. Adobe
3. Costco
4. Visiting In-laws
5. West Elm

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:46:00 GMT

So...for the 9th Annual Tree-Trimming Extravaganza, I've decided to include one of these for the lackadaisical individuals who won't put an ornament on the tree. Can I trust a drunken group with a whole pound of candy, massive amounts of gingerbread, and a bag of royal icing? Is it too late to order custom slipcovers? Plastic ones, even?

fishie, fishie, fishie, fish!

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:04:30 GMT

We have whale sharks!

For some silly reason...

Sun, 22 May 2005 05:21:17 GMT

...we're watching bull riding.

The first time I encountered this was Superbowl Sunday two years ago at Judy's in the not-watching-football room.

There is a bull called "Just Push Play." Clearly, this bull has not met his match.

:D

Oy. And also, vey.

Thu, 19 May 2005 03:09:28 GMT

I did not know about this!

Holy shit!

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:45:11 GMT

And this is just the apartment-sized model!

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:42:54 GMT

I bet she doesn't slip in the turkey grease!

whoa.

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:54:20 GMT

Went to the Dekalb Farmer's Market on Sunday, which is kind of a misleading name, being that it is just one vendor and not a variety of farmers. 140,000 square feet of food makes it the largest indoor farmer's market in the US. There are huge counters of fresh seafood, meats and cheeses, aisles and aisles of gourmet foods, and every vegetable and fruit in existence (fresh black currants!!). All that plus a bakery, restaurant, coffee roaster, liquor store, florist and so much else, I can't remember because it was truly overwhelming. The market also supplies restaurants in the area and its employees are from all over the globe (their languages are listed on their name tags).

They also have a cool little recycling operation in the parking lot where you can bring all sorts of stuff.

I'm going back soon, but this time, with a list.

Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:34:54 GMT

What kind of food do they have there? A lot of southern food?

As far as I know, there are three "Southern" restaurants (not counting BBQ takeouts, etc.). One has been around forever and is the kind of place your grandparents went to after church on Sunday; another appears to be the "Medieval Times" of the South. The third is nouveau Southern. Atlanta is a restaurant town--there's everything you can imagine here...right down to soul food vegetarian (Atlanta is one of the top vegetarian cities). I will say, however, there is an inordinate amount of Cuban influence here. We have a East Cuban sandwich shop around the corner, a Cuban restaurant three blocks away, and the best Cuban sandwich in the town is a good walk up the street.

You probably bought a house for next to nothing!

No, you can't exactly live in Atlanta on the change you find under your couch cushions, at least not Intown, and certainly not in Midtown. We paid more for our house here than the one in NoVA three years ago. However, we live in an area comparable to Bethesda with the location (and somewhat the demographic) of Dupont. Chris takes the metro to work, or he can walk downtown if he's ambitious. Traffic inside the perimeter (beltway) is pretty tame. Outside it is much like the suburban hell that is NoVA. The city sprawls much in the same way NoVA does. Apparently, the metro area is something like 115 miles across.

It's sooo hot and humid in Georgia.

And it's not up there right on the water? The high temps here are no more than a degree or two than the Mid-Atlantic. After you hit 95 degrees, it's all suck, anyway. It is a few percent more humid on the high end (as far as weather statistics I've researched show), but not devastatingly much. Being near the Appalachians, Atlanta weather is more pleasant that that of a lot of Georgia. In the evening, it can cool down and be really nice. And the winter is mild. March is supposedly gorgeous. You can supposedly eat outdoors 10 months out of the year here.

Are you gonna get an accent?

That's dialect, you uneducated clod. Most people close intown aren't from Atlanta. It's a still growing-like-crazy city with a lot of transplants. I've found people from all over the US and beyond.

Things I've found I love so far:
1. Doggies. People here own far more dogs, and businesses are more pet-friendly. Apartments allow dogs. People are always out with their beasties.
2. I can buy liquor until midnight in a store. And godDAMN, the liquor stores are nice. Soy vodka, anyone?
3. It stays daylight longer. At nine o'clock in the evening, I have enough light to still read.
4. Gay men with Southern dialects. It's soooo cute.

Things that kind of suck:
1. You can't buy alcohol in a store on Sunday. You *can* buy alcohol on Sunday in a restaurant or bar, however.
Granted, I'm used to not being able to buy hard liquor on Sunday after moving to VA, and I keep a pretty well-stocked cabinet for parties, as well as some wine, but beer tends to get bought for immediate consumption. I did have one disappointing Sunday where I wanted to get a beer to make a shandy and nurse a hangover and not have to leave the house.
2. I keep expecting to go downtown and find a body of water, but it's not there! There are fountains aplenty in Centennial Olympic Park, however.

Things I thought sucked, but really don't:
1. Happy hours are illegal in Georgia. All day or night drink specials are not. All the better that I don't have to worry about getting to the bar by 7 for a $5 martini.
2. You cannot buy alcohol in a restaurant before noon on Sundays in this county, "buy" being the operative word. This doesn't stop some restaurants from *giving away* your first mimosa or bloody mary during brunch. Aha!

Other cool shit:
1. I will never, ever get tired of looking at the houses in this neighborhood.
2. Cartoon Network is up the street!
3. Piedmont Park. Five blocks north and always something going on. There's a farmer's market every Saturday and movies on Thursdays. There were easily 2000 people in the meadow for Psycho the other week.

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:14:57 GMT

If I can't bid on it, at the very least I can hunt it down.

And 106 boxes later...

Thu, 27 May 2004 02:09:04 GMT

For roughly ten days, we'll be homeless.

Now would be the best time ever to commit a misdemeanor. I may never again have the chance to be listed in the police blotter at "no fixed address."

Still can't wait until this weekend, when we go to Port Tobacco and be LIVING IN A VAN (sort of) DOWN BY THE RIVER!

Sat, 01 May 2004 22:40:41 GMT

Thank you, DC City Paper for validating my feelings:

"No one in my group at the Capitol Lounge, freely cracking trailer jokes, was even close to owning a home. They weren’t even able to take care of themselves. The Yankee socioeconomics expert ended the night puking on the floor. A self-proclaimed Southern belle kept talking about how frustrated she was because the guy she’d been hooking up with for two months still hadn’t taken her out to dinner. I went out to get cigarettes with a lobbyist for a fiscally conservative nonprofit; he put Marlboro Lights on his Visa."

As I said recently, "If I meet one more person who looks down his nose at me because of where I live, I'm gonna rip that fucking nose off and shove it up his ass sideways. These people couldn't make my mortgage payment, much less pay off their fucking credit cards. Fucking hypocrites."

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:18:56 GMT

The wrongest thing that ever wronged:

A chili pepper toilet seat for your child's bathroom.

Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:31:11 GMT

holy fucking shit.

I know someone wants to hear about this!

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:11:35 GMT

In the garage of this house we looked at today was a older refrigerator with a tap coming out of it and a drip tray below it. They had drilled a hole thru the door, sealed it with a flange and nut inside and ran the tube to a keg. Viola! Instant Kegerator that doesn't cost $700.

You can buy a conversion kit!

Remember Homer in Chocolateland?

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:27:57 GMT

I was dancing around that way this afternoon when our realtor took us to a liquor store. No more buying liquor before nine from a store with a crummy selection! Every flavor (10?) of Van Gogh's was represented, as was Hangar. And stuff I've never even heard of. Oddly enough, this place gives you a discount if you pay cash, probably to avoid the credit card merchant charges.

And what's up with Maker's Mark doing blue/yellow seals for some of their bottles now?