Tag Archives: Atlanta

A Thing of Beauty

Is there anything more beautiful in all America than the sight of Dale Earnhardt, JR leading the field at Atlanta? Lots of racin’ left, but I’m savoring the moment.
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After Further Review

In the previous post, I linked to this, which points out that an arrest has been made in the case. An arrest. For “planting” LED caricatures of a cartoon character. From the article:
Peter Berdvosky was arrested in Arlington Wednesday night and charged under a recently enacted statute making it a crime to [...]

Taser Roundup

Finally, something a taser is effective in fighting: eight-foot-long albino Burmese pythons. A 47 year old Uniontown PA man was feeding a rat to the reptile, which belongs to his daughter, when it bit his hand and wrapped itself tightly around his left arm. The snake, according to Uniontown police officer Ray Miller, was [...]

Unaccented

It’s been a good week, or a bad one, depending on your view, for InterWeb Quizzes:

What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The West

Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you’re a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be [...]

The Acidman Interview

A month or two before his death, Rob “Acidman” Smith was interviewed by Atlanta TV station WAGA. Blog d’Elisson has posted the interview on his site. The interview link is here. Rob was a soft-spoken person; this fact may not have been obvious from reading his blog; at least, it wasn’t to me. [...]

Racin’ Window

Marginal weather at Atlanta this weekend for the running of the Golden Corral 500. There’s supposedly a 2-3 hour no rain window behind the front currently passing through the Speedway area. NASCAR has the knack of getting the race run, even with iffy weather conditions.
If all else fails, NCAA hoops is an indoor sport, [...]