My newish band, Bad Magic Number, are playing not one, but two, shows this weekend. Tonight at the Drunken Unicorn with Dropsonic and Tetonic, and tomorrow at the Five Spot in L5P with State Radio. Yo, come check it!

Christopher Hitchens couldn’t even make it through 5 minutes of the Daily Show without diverting a discussion about the meritlessness of religion into real life religion n’ drinkin’ stories. Although it seems like everyone has a God Bashing book out right now, and I think that is fabulous, as it’s rare that someone dares to [...]

Yo, check it. Atlanta Film Festival starts today.

Why you should check your email frequently.
“A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows.”
I don’t know if the university was to blame, but the first email came out 2 hrs after the first shooting. Of course, I don’t think they knew they had a rampage at [...]

Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and Valentino Achak Deng, Sudanese refugee and subject of Egger’s new quasi-fictional biography What is the What?, spoke tonight at the Margaret Mitchell house. It was one of those typical writerly events, free cheese with $10 admission, annoying introductions (what for?), no drum solos, [...]

There is a lot of talk in Atlanta, about what can be done to save Underground, the perpetually soulless downtown tourist complex containing, “unique shopping, dining, history and entertainment.” They’ve tried lots of government sponsored and taxpayer funded measures to no avail. Not even an extended 4am last call could help. Now the Zoo is [...]

Had a party this past weekend, first one I’ve hosted in a long time, and the first one at this house I bought a couple of years ago in Peoplestown. It ran smooth and very late night, with only one car break-in, a few burns from handling a bonfire whilst inebriated, random bruises from [...]

Atlanta’s geekiest convention has come and gone once again. Here’s a few shots, more on Flickr.

This weekend, Aug 26-27. Food, Art Markets, Croquet, and best of all, FREE. How can you go wrong with that? Magnapop will be playing at 7:30pm, Saturday.
Saturday, August 26 - Acoustic Stage
12:00 Stil True
1:00 [...]

That very special event know as Corndogorama is upon us. If you haven’t been, it may be time to tattoo that “L” on your forehead. It’s about the coolest, raunchiest, drunkenest, smelliest, rockinest event this side of the Chattahoochee with all the best in ATL underground sounds. It’s like Burning Man, only the robots are [...]