January 2006

Meatball sub, Village Pizza, Cabbagetown, GA

I don’t mean to brag or nuffin’, but my meatsaballa sub here was really damn good. I know, I know, I just got the vacuum food sealer, and I’m supposed to be experimenting and cooking at home. But sometimes a girl’s got to restructure the hierarchy of archived article content for three papers overnight, and on [...]

January 26th, 2006

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Atlanta + Food

New Blog Category: Vacuum Food Sealing!

It gives me great pleasure to announce the birth of a new blog category: Vacuum Food Sealing! Readers who know my obession with cooking and technology, my semi-frequent traveling, and who are familiar with my general scatterbrained-professor approach to housekeeping will understand why I was so entranced with the possibilities of this informercial appliance. It seems so [...]

January 26th, 2006

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Vacuum Food Sealing!

Steamer Combo, Firehouse Subs, Atlanta

It might be a chain, but honestly, the subs at Firehouse Subs are kinda darn good. Meat and cheese and salt and fat — just what every office worker needs come lunchtime. Firehouse Subs 9745 Highway 92 Atlanta, GA 30303 (770) 928-5636 [map]

January 24th, 2006

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Atlanta + Food

New Home for Creative Loafing Atlanta

Creative Loafing left its home of 20+ years this weekend, moving to its new offices, just west of downtown in the Northyards district. The new offices are purty snazzy! Come check us out at: Creative Loafing Atlanta 384 Northyards Blvd., Suite 600 Atlanta, GA 30318 [map] Want more [...]

January 23rd, 2006

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Atlanta

Pickle in a Pouch

Pretty gross, huh? The grocery store Publix sells pickles in a pouch of fluid. Amniotic pickle fluid.

January 20th, 2006

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Things I Find

New Yorker Makes Family Guy Unfunny

They clearly have no anuses over there at the New Yorker. Yes, the mag wrote a piece on Family Guy, and yes, that in itself is cool. But just peep this sentence, in the terribly overblown lead: ” This is not at all a criticism of boys or what they turn into; it just [...]

January 17th, 2006

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Quoted

Understanding at 38 degrees Fahrenheit

When I was younger, I used to come home from school, pour myself a large glass of milk and read the Phoenix Gazette over a healthy snack, like half a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. (It was, you see, back before they were Cooler.) And so every year I would read the dutiful daily story of [...]

January 14th, 2006

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About Me + Atlanta

Breakfast Tacos

San Antonio has this invention called the breakfast taco. All cities should have the breakfast taco.

January 13th, 2006

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Food

I have a view

Since April, my box springs stood in front of my living room window. The staircase was too narrow, you see, for it to go up to the bedroom; and the living room too small for me to stare at it, so outside it went. Wrapped securely in moving plastic, it was safe from the elements. I [...]

January 10th, 2006

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Images

citJ concept “NowPublic.com” seems pretty cool

Via Flickr, I’ve been tipped to the presence of a citJ project that’s interesting; NowPublic.com Looking over the site quickly, here are some interesting features: I can add the RSS feed of my blog, and have the option to turn my posts into articles for community contribution. A javascript bookmarklet allows me to contribute any page I [...]

January 10th, 2006

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Interweb + Journalism & the Media