Atlanta
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Cool post on Coming Anarchy
Specifically about the Milton County secession movement. Eric and I have been commenting on the post.
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Atlanta cop update
See Report: Lies involved in no-knock warrant and Town hall meeting to discuss “no-knock” warrants. The systems seems to be working, albeit quite slowly. I’d assumed that since this feel out of the news for a month that it was being covered up, it’s nice to see that I might be wrong about that.
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Not surprising
Cop wounded in drug raid that killed woman to retire
Curiously, the name of the APD spokesman is James Polite, which is just kind of eerie. If that’s your name, are you destined for some kind of PR occupation?
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As seen on Buford Highway
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Surreal
It’s four in the morning, I’ve spent all day fighting with asp.net configuration problems and all night been fighting with a cpu that seems to be DOA. I still don’t have my new lens.
Then I smell smoke. The neighborhood behind me is filled with smoke and there is a large fire burning behind them.
The photo is apropos of nothing. The fire is out now. There were two fire trucks and several police cars.
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Just got back from voting
It wasn’t crowded at all. One thing that surprised me was the Kelo inspired eminent domain constitutional amendment, I hadn’t heard anything about that.
The statue above was outside the polling place.
Cynical quotes about democracy
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H.L. MenckenBetter a third-rate fireman than a first rate arsonist.
Thomas SowellAh, elections, our biannual parade of tired whores.
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Overstreet at the Overlook
The fiddle series continues. On this particular occasion I got the lighting on most of the shots wrong, but some of them turned out well nice. Check out Overstreet at the Overlook, featuring the lovely and talented Michelle.
I came across an interesting Sin City effect with levels in, as seen below.
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More on the Beltline scam
From today’s AJC
Mason owns 5 miles of the proposed Beltline in northeast Atlanta. He had offered about half of his land to Atlanta for the Beltline network of transit, trails and parks. Atlanta planners rejected his offer and instead offered him a deal in which he would have donated his land to Atlanta in exchange for the right to develop about 2,000 residences anywhere in the city.
What is amazing is that this is going on in public. He sells the land in exchange for permits? How is that not every definition of graft?
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Mike and I go along with the Black Rider
Last night was the first Tom Wait show in Atlanta since 1978, and it was quite interesting. The AJC has a nice review of it, along with photos.
I was quiet impressed by the band, two discreet percussionists and a discreet bass player make for a very smooth sounds where the instance of the sound doesn’t vary much from the concept of the sound. It was surprisingly true to the albums. Tom Waits in person sounds exactly as raspy and rough as all of his records.
He did most of the songs with a band, doing only one acoustic (with the band) and about three on the piano. It had much more in common with a play than the average rock show (which it wasn’t). The lighting and shadowing was well done and gave me many ideas for photography.
On the whole a good time. The only downsides were the oppressive heat inside the Tabernacle and the long (anti-scalper supposedly) lines. We spent a little over an hour outside in line, and about that inside waiting for him to start, which meant that we spent more time waiting for the show to begin than the show itself.
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Give your tickets to the dog faced boy
Mike and I are going to the Tom Waits show this evening. I’ll have a scouting report soon.