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Go see my friend Shonali play at the EARL. She’s billed as Tigers and Monkeys.

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Inspired by several that I have noticed around the web, being cheap as I am, being a UNIX nerd, and having just drooled over the new 20” iMac, I have decided to start a switcher fund. However, this is a different repetition of the motif.
I’m not begging for donations from the general public, as [...]

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Jef Holt. Gentleman. Musical instrument instructor.
He smokes the largest known cigars.

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We all know the horrors of modern American Agro-Industrial farming. We also know that all of the top chefs and best cooks use locally-produced, organic, usually small-scale-produced products. This little Matrix spoof is both educational and entertaining. Check it out and then follow the “shopping” link to find out more about how [...]

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The October photo page is up. Check it out.

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So I guess it’s Secret Santa time again. I won’t be signing up this year, and I don’t recommend you do so either. I know that I’m supposed to just be thrilled about the act of giving, but after two consecutive years of getting punked, I’m over it.
Do yourself and the world a [...]

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We’re at the pinnacle or just beyond it. A steady progression and career path is no longer yours for the taking and most certainly not your reward for sticking it out. Already the “vast sucking sound” of jobs fleeing to India has made you perk up and notice. You got a little [...]

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Looks like the shorty who draws “Foxtrot” doesn’t read Zeldman. His markup is a nightmare. If that little kids supposed to be such a nerd, he’d now about the validator.
Apologies to my tens of readers who aren’t nerds. You won’t get the joke—not the original and not my dripping-in-sarcasm analysis
Props for the [...]

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Me and a few gallivants stumbled through East Atlanta on Friday with the purpose of seeing Adam Franklin at Janet’s Echo Lounge. For those who don’t know, Adam Franklin was the singer, guitar-player and songwriter for one of the greatest rock bands of all time: Swervedriver.
For those who are still scratching their heads, let [...]

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I live in Atlanta and am very used to getting meager customer service at best. Although I have seen some increase in customer service across the board now that the economy sucks and people actually have to care a little bit about their jobs, today I had what may have been one of the [...]

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This page on CNN.com is almost too difficult to believe, but obviously a product of what happens when the news outlets and the record companies are all owned by the same giant corporation. It reminds me of those magazines one gets as an elementary school student in which all the articles are moral tales [...]

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Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re trying to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays [...]

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I really don’t enjoy the benefit enrollment process that big companies put their employees through every year. I realize that in order to have efficiency and to allow for cost savings, plan changes, etc. etc. that change is inevitable. However, how am I supposed to do my job and simultanously decipher nuggets like the [...]

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I don’t know what you did yesterday, but I watched the sun set from my back deck while eating muscadines and scuppernongs that I had bought in the mountains near Cleveland, Georgia the previous day. The sky was perfectly clear, and the temperature felt as though there were no temperature at all: perfect. Earlier, [...]

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