688/Metroplex Reunion Show Mix Preview

A special audio goodie just for Mostly Media readers… download a wicked mix of sounds from bands who once played the 688 Club and The Metroplex here. How many bands can you name?
Get those tee shirts, spikes and hairspray, and get ready to go… to Saturday’s 688/Metroplex Reunion Show at The Masquerade Music Park on [...]

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It Might Be Spam If…

…you receive an email like this:
Dear ____________ ,
Recently I viewed your resume online, and I felt you would be an excellent candidate for an opening we are trying to fill based on your Industrial background. A brief job description about the Construction Laborer vacancy is included.
Construction Laborer
Competitive Salary
Applicants should have great communication and organizational skills. [...]

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Johnny Carson – Midnight Joker and Toker?

From a (mercifully short and to-the-point) AM1160 press release. Even moreso once I got a’holt of it. Mercifully short of “credibility” issues too:

Counter-culture comedy icons Cheech & Chong pay a visit to “The Pop Culture King” show at 8 p.m. Friday and again on Sunday at noon on AM 1690 (Atlanta) “The Voice of the [...]

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CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer At The Atlanta Press Club

Bob Schieffer was giddy as a school boy. His kind, interesting and weathered face lit up like a Christmas tree when he spoke at the September 29th Atlanta Press Club’s Newsmaker Luncheon.
In between hosting Face The Nation and moderating Presidential debates, Schieffer swung by the APC to promote his new book, Bob Schieffer’s America. If [...]

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Atlanta Gas Availability Info – Use Twitter

Best place for real-time gas availability updates in the metro Atlanta area remains Twitter. You can subscribe to the #atlgas hash tag for your news reader, and keep a real-time availability update right on your desktop or cell. Couldn’t be easier.
Too bad ATL MSM are too arrogantly ignorant about social media and crowd sourcing apps [...]

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Lack of Social Media Awareness and Tools Has Local TV News Failing Consumers In A Crisis

A complete failure to keep up with technological advances and the needs of the citizenry via social media tools and citizen journalism applications is making Atlanta TV stations look like media dino imbeciles… at a time when they could be serving the community in a real-time way.
Bless their heart, WXIA is trying to let people [...]

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Stop The Classical Madness At WABE!

I can’t take it any more… 6 hours of classical music programming a day at WABE = 6 too many. Apparently I’m not the only one. So I started a Facebook Group called 6 Hours A Day = 6 Too Many! Please join the group if you’re on Facebook. And let’s let WABE know, by [...]

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WordPress IPhone App Test Post

I am posting this entry from my iPhone. Pretty cool, eh? Must now figure out how to add a picture and/or video.

Just figured out how to add a photo from the phone. No video though – the iPhone’s great, uh, hinderance. For a video person at least. Have a perfect creme brulee kinda day! Tap, [...]

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Georgia – Obama’s Phantom Swing State?

Despite news from places such as the douchbags windbags at The Georgia Gang that Obama has “pulled out” of Georgia like he was some kinda dubious date, the Obama campaign has not given up on Georgia. In fact, the reality is anything but.

more about “Georgia – Obama’s Phantom Swing State?“, posted with vodpod

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A Speech On Life By David Foster Wallace

Because here’s something else that’s true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship – [...]

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Facebook & Twitter Have Got Me Now

As I’m morphing to a Facebook/Twitter online existence, today’s blog post is a video on Facebook. Find me and my endless wonders there if you dare. Blogs are unattractive and uncoordinated. Like the 24-hour news cycle… soooo last century.

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Get To Know Sarah Palin’s Parish Life

Shoot, they ain’t got no snake handlin’? What weanies.

more about “Get To Know Sarah Palin’s Church!“, posted with vodpod

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Vomit, Barf, Gag, Hurl, Doo-Doo Coming From AM-1160

How to really waste a perfectly good morning. Not to mention brain cells:
Newstalk 1160 “The Talk of the Town” is proud to announce three great additions to our lineup: Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, and Dennis Miller. Starting Tuesday, listeners can tune in to hear Ingraham 9am-12noon, O’Reilly 3pm-5pm, and Miller 5pm-7pm.
When asked (writing this press [...]

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Back In The Day

Atlanta music & club scene… circa early 80’s. Click photo for slide show.

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688 Club/Metroplex Reunion Show 10-4-08

Steve May, Atlanta’s 688 Club owner and Paul Cornwell, Metroplex Club owner, talk about (click on above video) their upcoming 688/Metroplex reunion show at the Masquerade Music Park on October 4, 2008. Tons of bands that once played the infamous environs of those two punk/new wave clubs (both no longer with us) will be reuniting [...]

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Didn’t We Almost Have It All?

Dear Lordy: Please let us not have to sing that awful swan song come November. InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery has some hard new numbers and anaylsis about Obama’s slip (via the Palin bounce) in the youth-y stats. And he wags a finger right at Caroline Kennedy for (possibly) screwing everything up.
September 12, 2008 — The hidden [...]

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Here’s The Part Where Dems F Everything Up. Unless…

Queen Arianna is dead-on to call for Obama to release his “righteous rage” on America. It’s the campaign’s only hope before it heads into a Kerry-esque gutter. From today’s Huffington Post:
Given Obama’s sense of moral obligation and social responsibility, and his “audacity of hope,” I felt “the man and the moment may be made for [...]

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Latest Polling – Obama “Implodes” in Georgia

Oops. From the latest IA/PP poll:
September 11, 2008 — A new InsiderAdvantage / Poll Position survey of likely registered voters in Georgia indicates a steep decline for the Barack Obama campaign and likely explains why the candidate is moving resources out of Georgia and into other states.
The poll of 506 registered likely voters, weighted for [...]

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I Couldn’t Agree More

 

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Bernie Marcus’ Media Message Just Strange

There’s a not-so-fine line between a compelling media op and crass exploitation of people in misery. And yeah, we mostly call it “local TV news.” But today we can add promoting one’s cause and enterprise to the mix, and call it Just Plain Weirdness In Bernie’s Fish Tank. From a press release from the Sheperd Spinal Center:
Several [...]

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