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October 15th, 2004Thank you for the birthday cheers (and beers!).
A recent diversion is Johnny America, a wisecracking Web site associated with an upstart print zine. It won over my fickle heart with posts like this:
Rodney Dangerfield: You will be missed.
Jacques Derrida: We’re not so sure about you.
And of course this review of the new album from the man I now simply call “Shat”:
Like a star in the heavens he so gallantly explored, the walking pile of mystique that is William Shatner burns bright despite great age. As someone who never watched Star Trek, save one or two episodes of the Next Generation, I lack personal context for the history of Shatner. Lacking bias, I am so supremely able to appreciate the inane beauty of his genius.
Many of you who have the dubious pleasure of knowing me in “real life” know that I can’t shut up about this album. Buy it! Lick it! Bathe with it!
The new Google Desktop thingie is really cool, although I am shocked by what shows up in my search results now that my AIM log files have been indexed.
I am fascinated by the fact that my neighborhood Borders and Whole Foods Market is located on the spot where Atlanta’s minor league baseball stadium once stood. This [bugmenot] article explains. There’s even a book about the Atlanta Crackers (seriously, that was the team name) by Tim Darnell, but the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library only has one copy of the book, and it’s a non-circulating reference copy at the Central Branch. Fuck that shit! I guess I’m going to have to continue getting my local history from the giant murals inside Whole Foods.
October 15th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Rusty factoid: I wrote an article about Tim Darnell’s Crackers book when I used to work for a newspaper. You can borrow my copy if you want. Frankly, it’s duller reading than I would have liked.
October 15th, 2004 at 11:51 am
Let me know the next time you’re in the city and maybe we can arrange a pickup. It did get bad reviews across the board, but I’m still interested in taking a look at it. Not much else out there on the subject.
October 18th, 2004 at 4:47 pm
There are a lot of local libraries with a copy - I’m sure you could borrow a copy by Interlibrary Loan. If you live in Atlanta-in-Dekalb - the Dekalb public library has it too. There are some good pictures at http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/avcoll/atlphoto.htm (search for crackers)