While walking in Piedmont Park this Sunday, saw a guy picking up a girl in the park. One-armed no less. I was rather impressed.
Tag: Piedmont Park (Atlanta)
Screen on the Green & Getting Some Green Fairy!
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Thursday night was spent with bloggers for the last Screen on the Green. Piedmont Park was packed with people, parents and kids for Willy Wonka.
Amongst those in attendance:
bobafred
Daily Dose of Dave
Duanemoody.com
hakeber
Lady Crumpet
Mingaling
Mostly Muppet
and Mr. P’body.
Also there were non-blogging partners/spouses, bloggers I am forgetting, and Duane’s new girlfriend. Turned out the most entertaining part of the night was not the movie, but Mostly Muppet’s crazy/cute kid and her booty shaking. She was loving Duane and Bobafred. How can one argue against procreation when there are kids that cute? It totally cuts down whatever arguments I try to make when one giggly dance routine destroys my resolve.
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“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker…”
Absinthe. A notorious liquor with an undeserved reputation for causing hallucinations, madness and violence. Long regulated or banned since the turn of the century in America, Africa and European countries, new E.U. laws are allowing for its revival. New Orleans chemist T. A. Breaux reformulated a recipe from a rare and unopened bottle, and has since started creating several different lines of absinthe.
I am working on getting some for myself. Specifically a bottle from T. A. Breaux’s Jade Liqueurs. A friend visiting Germany for the World Cup has graciously said that he would try to find some while there. While not illegal to possess in the States, the real stuff is not sold here, thus the international search.
Interesting video interview with the chemist, showcasing vintage absinthe preparation apparatus.
Wired Magazine Article The Mystery of the Green Menace
The End of Work For Now
After a long week including a 15.5 hour day on Friday, Sunday started a few days without any work scheduled. The freetime meant a walk in the Piedmont Park with my wife. We saw lots of cute dogs, kids using cardboard as slides on the grassy hills and heard one of them taunt another with a “nanny-nanny poo-poo”. Italian sodas were bought at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse. And then home, dinner and some Adult Swim.
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“Beauty rules here. It cured my wounds from the war.”
Art handler Vadim from the series Hermitage-Niks. This 5-part series is on those people who work at The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), and I caught a bit of it on Sundance. Valdin (who like like any art handler I could have met with edgy facial hair and a pierced eyebrow) served as a solder during a conflict with Azerbagan. He saw many war atrocities and now find refuge amongst the museum’s beauty, as do many of the employees there.
Carl Jung once said something to the effect that art exists to heal the human psyche. It made me think there may be less of an appreciation for the arts in part because most of us in the west are happier and healthier then a battle-affected russian solder or a Hermitage curator who talked about how her male family members were all killed during Stalin’s reign. I live in a time and country of unparalleled excess. Just thinking about this.
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More good work news. I’m working on cultivating a relationship with a local architecture firm. A chance conversation with the company’s president may be the beginning of something new. The firm has a had some museum-related projects and proposals.
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Reprinted. Purchased today. Rarely am I one for spontaneous shopping. but Threadless T-Shirts brings that out in me. Hmm, wonder what Valdim would think of this.
Neon Poisoning 