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Barrage of Books
2008-04-29 22:50:00
Let's get this up to date:#12 -- "The Sun Never Sets" by Simon WinchesterPleasant travelogue as Winchester (more here) visits the remnants of the British colonial empire in the 1980s. Some entertaining adventures as a lot of these places are/were harder than hell to get to, and some moments where it becomes great (he was in the Falklands at the outbreak of war). Frequently funny, also sad -- the photos of people proudly displaying British artifacts far from home seem sort of desperately sad. Interesting look at a world that's mostly gone now.#13 -- "Ironweed" by William KennedyOh holy crap, this is about the most depressing book, oh, ever. Picked up some years back because Hunter S. Thompson (once, long ago, I was an eager would-be disciple) raved about it, I finally crashed through it, and it's a) brilliant and b) left me sitting there, staring straight ahead, wanting to call my Mom afterwards. It's part of a loosely-connected series set in Albany, NY in the first half of the 2...
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Advances in Video Game Development
2008-04-26 14:00:00
Dream the other night: I was playing a video game much like space invaders, except that instead of aliens, you had rows of storks advancing on you. Occasionally one of the storks would break away from the lines and fly down diagonally, Galaga-style -- at that point your task was to grab the stork by the legs, and WHACK it against the edge of the screen. This reveals something troubling about my feelings for storks, yes, but I also think it's a surefire winner.* * *Just because everyone else does: I now have a Flickr page, here. It's all ghost signs and old neon signs at this point, so if you've often thought I don't put enough of that stuff up -- you're in luck!
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Taking the Replacements Too Literally
2008-04-23 18:22:00
It's too bad I used the riff on "Beer for Breakfast" the other day. I woke up this morning with a horribly dry mouth, rolled over, got the half-filled glass of water from my nightstand, and took a big swig only to find out that it wasn't last night's water but the remnants of last night's beer. Ggggggggacccccck. I love beer but the last thing I wanted at 7:30 a.m. was stale Longhammer IPA. It took considerable work to get that taste out of my mouth.The Avalanche are on to round two against the official team of evil, so it's time for another jersey. The Ales Pisa jersey brought good luck to the world once, so it goes back up, as does my newest acquisition:There's only two jerseys in my collection that aren't from Czech or Slovak players -- the previously-mentioned Polish Olympic jersey and this one. I try to limit it to the Czechs and Slovaks to keep the hobby at a low level of insanity, but I've never seen a Ukrainian league jersey come available, and so when I saw this one ...
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Cool Signs of Atlanta, vol. 236?
2008-04-22 16:06:00
Went for another downtown stroll the other day, and at some point I found myself thinking "hmm, I don't know where the hell I am." Then I came across a street I knew, mostly for its reputation as one of the seediest/most dangerous streets in Atlanta . So I headed vaguely eastward, eventually found myself back on the more familiar Marietta Street, and saw this beauty.I've driven past it before, but it's always been at times when I didn't have a camera on me. This time I did, but also came to a sad conclusion: there's no public spot to get a good angle on this one.Some actual history here: it looks like this sign probably dates to the late 1960s or early 1970s. The building is now lofts, natch. As far as I can tell, Pioneer Neon isn't in business any more.
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All I Wanna Do is Have Wings For Breakfast
2008-04-18 14:57:00
A little side trip from yesterday's journey. The "Pipe Corner of the South" sign is a downtown landmark, in part because its survival is so unlikely: it belonged to Royal Cigar, which was a downtown fixture for decades. It moved up to Buckhead in 1991 (later moving over by Emory, then going out of business in 2005), and somehow the sign was left behind (not sure why -- the one 1991 AJC article I found indicated that it would be removed). And no one's seen fit to remove it in the intervening years, which is very un-Atlanta behavior.Some web research indicates that those holes aren't bullet holes -- there were neon bulbs depicting smoke rising from the pipe.A little wings/Chinese food/burgers restaurant now occupies the space, at Forsyth and Walton. Judging by the sign in the window, they and I have the same idea of what constitutes a proper breakfast.#11 -- "The Greatest Slump of All Time" by David CarkeetA baseball novel that I don't often see mentioned in lists, and seems to ha...
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Walking Down Main Street
2008-04-17 15:23:00
This post has languished for about three weeks now -- I meant to do it right after I went on the walk it details, but something or other kept getting in the way. And now, here it is, much later and not quite as fresh.A few things coming at about the same time spurred me to walk down Decatur Street -- fruitless hunting for the site of the old city jail (well, not totally fruitless, it was on one of the corners of Decatur and Piedmont, but not sure which one and in any case I don't think there's any traces); coming across the webpage for the book "The First Eight," which describes Decatur Street as a hub of old Atlanta African-American life; and the Atlanta Time Machine posting this 1950 map, which I actually printed out and used as a reference. Then, doing some hunting through the (metaphorical) stacks, I found a 1991 article by AJC writer Colin Campbell, taking a break from the NHL, describing a similar walk down Decatur.Decatur Street passes all through Atlanta and beyond; you ge...
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Odds and Ends
2008-04-12 16:21:00
The always-nifty BLDGBLOG (or BLDG BLOG - I'm never really sure) had a great post yesterday that kind of obviously hit home for me. Hard to describe, but basically if you enjoy the posts about trying to figure out what used to be where in Atlanta you'll probably enjoy this, while if those make you wish I'd get back to hockey jerseys, you probably won't. There's bits of Atlantan history wiped away (more or less than other cities, I can't say, though I suspect more) in various ways -- highway projects, fires, the renaming mania, the development craze. Some streets are just stubs of what they once were (Ralph McGill, written about before, starts and stops a couple times before plunging downtown; Fort and Cain are one-block stretches of streets that used to cross half the city), others remain mysteries to me (Belgrade and Kanuga, both of which seem like they should be longer, but I haven't found any evidence that was ever the case).One desire the BB post sparks: I've got a lot o...
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Playoff Hockey
2008-04-09 15:17:00
I don't know what time of year it is where you live, but down here in Atlanta, it's NHL playoff time, when the city nearly grinds to a halt (not because of the playoffs, but because the roads suck). While I imagine Nanuk is rooting for some Communist team like the Canadiens or Senators or Sagueneens or something, in Casa PPA, you need only see me wearing my (2001) Cup champions t-shirt as I putter around the house, drinking coffee from my (1996) Cup champions coffee mug, eating a bagel off my commemorative china plate, etc. to realize that this is Avalanche Country, which if it hasn't been a stupid Colorado hockey marketing slogan yet, should be. If you're thinking "Good job, Greg, thinking that somehow the clothes you're wearing will impact a hockey game played by professionals 1,100 miles away. You unbelievable nerd." To which I tip my Avalanche baseball cap and say "cheerio!"Those of you who have been reading this blog for a long time, and have really good memories for point...
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Cool Signs of Atlanta, vol. 18,365
2008-04-06 21:41:00
When I first moved to Atlanta , I went barbecue-crazy -- I lived near a place called Dusty's and ate there at least once a week, often more. I toyed with the idea of writing a book about a BBQ roadtrip, from the Eastern seaboard to the Midwest, but ultimately rejected it because I don't get really worked up about whether you spell it "barbecue" or "barbeque," and couldn't remember which style was Carolina and which was Georgia and which was Texas and so on. Plus, I realized after a year or so that eating so much of it was making me a fatass, so I largely gave it up.Thus, when I moved downtown and started driving by Daddy D'z a lot, I never went in. After having barbecue (que?) 67,000 times in the first two or so years here, I've probably had it less than 20 times in the subsequent six or seven years.But eventually, any place that's got signs as cool as Daddy D'z is going to woo me in, so on Friday, the Ski Bum, Coco and I went for lunch. It was, as expected, fantastic, and lef...
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Regress No Way
2008-04-04 20:48:00
So while I've never really had the urge to start buying comics again -- $2.50 for 23 pages of uncertain quality is a bit much -- every once in a while I do pick up a trade paperback collection, just to get a bit of the old fun back.This past week, I was suddenly hit by a burning desire to read some old Avengers comics. This is weird in a few ways: a) I was a real DC Comics slut as a kid, and never had much time for most Marvel stuff, b) I don't think I'd read ten issues of Avengers in my life before this past week, and c) I'd definitely never read any of the stuff that came out in the '60s. But, hey, the urge was there, and some years back Marvel reissued the early stuff in cheap b&w bound editions, so it was cheap. And, guess what: they're really damn fun. I really disliked the whole "Mighty Marvel" thing when I was a kid -- "Smilin' Stan" and "Rascally Roy" and so on made me puke -- but now it seems kind of charming. I've always sort of known that Marvel comics in the '60...

The Cursed Plaza
2008-04-04 03:47:00
Ok, that's a little strong, but the Plaza Shopping Center at Highland and Ponce here in Atlanta has gone through a dizzying parade of businesses in recent years. It's too bad that it's (largely) so unstable -- the building is really cool (it's an art deco partner to the building housing the Majestic, next door) and has been here a really long time.But businesses in this building (maybe in the Majestic building too -- I really don't know what's there, other than the 4 a.m. dining haven) don't survive long. I don't know why. High rents? Outside the Virginia-Highland walking area? Haunted?That there's the west end of the building. The real estate office there has been there for a long time -- "Zac" is something of an Atlanta fixture, though you don't see his ads (with his cheery countenance) around so much as you used to. I really dig those colorful little fluorishes on each end. The theater is pretty much the anchor to the building these days, though it almost vanished -- it...

Sittin' Here in a Hired Tuxedo
2008-04-01 20:42:00
Has it really been a year already since the first BaconFest at Dad's Garage? (Answer: yes) Unlike last year's, we weren't blessed with sunny skies, and DJ Prey has left town, but the Wall was there, the Elk stopped by, and there was bacon. And beer.You know that you eat too much bacon when you're looking at it with a critic's eye, but the bacon this year seemed better. Not only better than last year's, but perhaps better than any I've ever had. It was supplied by the Vortex, which I don't go to a lot. I may have to see what sort of bacon-related products they have on offer, as this was really good bacon. Not too crispy, not too chewy. The torrential rain drove us inside for a bit, and we got a free show of the improv comedy that Dad's Garage does more regularly than bacon-festing. Improv really isn't my thing but it was pretty hilarious, though I'll admit that I'd had a few beers by this point.Later in the day, starting to feel logy from all the b&b, I won a DVD (three E...

Slight Delays, Take Another Route
2008-03-31 21:14:00
Obviously, when I said "increased blogging pace" I meant "not increased blogging pace," and when I said "post coming tomorrow" I meant "in three or four days." I slept nine or ten hours last night (rare) and have had four cups of coffee today (not so rare) and still feel like I could curl up under my desk and nap. I'm wolfing down leftover Easter candy that someone left at work, in hopes that will provide some rush.Is there anything I'm missing that will provide energy? Is it time to take up cocaine?Some of the promised posts to appear tomorrow, unless I'm lazy again.
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Book #9
2008-03-30 01:44:00
Two posts in one day! Barely -- I'm stuffed full of food and booze after BaconFest 2008 (about which more tomorrow). It's rainy, I'm logy, and I read another book:#9 -- "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" by Laura Silber and Alan LittleAnother Balkan book? Well, yes. I see this described a lot as the one book you need to read on the conflict of the 1990s, and having done so, I can add my voice to the chorus. It's a surprisingly fast read -- it's exhaustively researched and really leaves nothing out, but it also doesn't pad with a lot of extraneous detail.Its main value as opposed to other books is the analysis of the political maneuverings leading up to the war. The basic thrust of it is that everyone tried to manipulate everyone else, and then ended up surprised when the puppets started acting independently. No one (save perhaps Richard Holbrooke and a number of lower-level Balkan officials) comes out looking too pretty. It's conflict as farce, a war that most parties entered in...
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There Will Be Quiet After the Storm
2008-03-29 13:33:00
We're all of a sudden into the Atlanta period where it's gorgeous when you wake up, gorgeous when you eat lunch, gorgeous when you sit out on a restaurant patio drinking a bottle of wine alone and contemplating all of life's missed opportunities, gorgeous when you go to bed. So I'm a bit more energized than usual, and that means one of the PPA epochs where I vow to get on a heavier posting schedule. It'll last a week or so, before it starts getting hot and I just lay in bed all day with three air-conditioners going.But in the meantime, pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. There's one long-ass post coming, but it requires some research and photo-sorting, so it won't be 'til Sunday or Monday.On the same long walk that will eventually produce the aforementioned long-ass post, I finally shot a few pictures of some of the tornado damage. I refrained up 'til now because immediately afterwards, city officials were asking people to please stay the hell away, and a friend who lives ...
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Award Winner
2008-03-26 19:53:00
A long time since a jersey post. Too long.If you remember, back in January, I wore a HC Velvana Kladno jersey to the All-Star Game, and some guys doing a radio show pronounced it the coolest jersey they'd seen all day. By my reading, that makes the Velvana Kladno jersey a blue-ribbon jersey, and I've already placed it on my résumé. (I won a hockey card game for having the coolest jersey, but I've yet to play it. Suggesting such a thing to most of my friends would invite mockery, and saying "wanna play a hockey card game?" to strangers is a good way to get lots of space at the bar.)This is one of three Kladno jerseys in my collection. Kladno's most famous player is Jaromir Jagr -- his involvement in the club's management (and I think his Dad is still the president or something) probably explains why they have a penguin as the logo. Since the rather messy Jagr-penguin divorce, they've dropped the penguin, but not gone on to Capital- and Ranger-themed jerseys. Instead, they have ...
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Two Streets
2008-03-24 16:06:00
Driving into work each day, I pass over a little stump of a street called "Fort." It's basically, at that point, just an interstate entrance and exit ramp that (unusually) has a name. Obviously an old street that got wiped out by the interstates; I've always made mental notes to do a little research.Over the weekend, it came out that at least one person did indeed die in the tornado earlier this month -- they were found in the rubble in a partially-collapsed building on Hilliard Street. That struck me just because Hilliard (in the article) was described as something of a well-trafficked street -- but I'd never heard of it.So, a little researching, and it turns out that my two little mystery streets are connected in one of the lesser-publicized but more important tales in Atlanta history.On May 21, 1917, a fire broke out in a warehouse at the intersection of Fort and Decatur Streets , in the Fourth Ward neighborhood. Fueled by wooden shanties, it raged north, finally getting contai...

Happy Easter
2008-03-23 21:03:00
The PPA family isn't too big on the whole religion thing, so my most enduring memory is Easter Sunday in Tucson, 1996. Driving around, some guy in a pickup cut me off. I honked, gave him the finger, and he held a pistol out the window and waggled it in a gesture I took to be threatening. That did a lot to make my then-frequent road rage ebb.#8 -- "Soccer Against the Enemy" by Simon KuperAnother sports book?? Yes, and there may be a baseball book coming soon too. Dunno why. Perhaps it's just an effort to distract myself from the Avalanche's crapfest.When I read (and was disappointed by) Franklin Foer's soccer book a few years back, I had no idea that the book I was anticipating already existed: a comprehensive, well-written, insightful look at how soccer and society collide. Kuper's book is just that, though. He spent a year traveling about, immersing himself in soccer culture the world over (Scotland, Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, the U.S., etc). The subtitle ("How the...
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In Praise of Takeout
2008-03-21 04:11:00
I've been by the little bunker-style building on MLK many times, and always been kind of intrigued -- more for photography purposes than food purposes, since it's got some cool signs and I could never really tell if it was open or not. But lately, I've been berating myself for eating out in bars too much and ethnic food joints not enough, and berating Atlanta for a dearth of good quick takeout places, so today I gave Nick's a try.It seems to have a pretty loyal following, and wow, I can see why -- if the food I had today (souvlaki gyro, Greek salad) is any indication, this'll be one of my favorite restaurants in town. The place is just a little concrete block painted Greek colors, and inside it smells amazing. Today was lasagna day, and I'll have to try that sometime -- it smelled great. Put in my order, lingered for 5-10 minutes admiring the Greek tourist photos and reading the clippings (one of which was headlined "I Go Greek Once a Week" -- um, I always thought "going Greek...
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Old New York
2008-03-19 14:13:00
#7 -- "Up In the Old Hotel" by Joseph MitchellI need to start marking down where I initially hear about writers, because I'd like to give a thankful shout-out to whoever it was that hinted I should read this. Mitchell was a venerable New York er writer from the 1930s to the 1960s, and this collects profiles and features from that time span.Mitchell chronicled lifestyles and personalities that were -- even if not explicitly stated -- in danger of extinction. Bowery bums, bohemians, rivermen, denizens of the fish market. And he does it really well, with sympathy but also a sense of humor. The most appealing pieces for me are kind of obvious to anyone who knows my interests -- the opening piece on McSorley's Ale House (still open, 70 years after Mitchell's piece), and the titular story, in which a restaurateur takes Mitchell into the long-abandoned upper stories of his building, trying to find some clues about what the building's previous incarnations were like. And there's also th...
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Excitement
2008-03-15 06:07:00
So if you've been near a newscast this evening, you've likely heard that tornadoes tore through downtown Atlanta. This isn't really a common event, and it's less so when I'm at a bar, watching the tornado go down the other side of the street. We were at Fidel's going-away party when torrents of rain started pounding down -- then they stopped, the sky turned a sickly green, and hey, there's a fence post (or something) flying lazily through the air over there. The power went out, we all (counterintuitively) ran inside, only to realize that we were in a confined area next to giant windows and shelves of liquor bottles (I told you it was counterintuitive). The storm passed pretty quickly, we eased outside and called people to check on whether they were ok, then people started screaming and storming out of the restaurant next door -- either there was a fire, or someone accidentally pulled a fire alarm, depending on who you ask. We retreated to a bar with power, I had nachos and to...
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You Can Come Down Off the Rooftops Now
2008-03-14 16:29:00
Czechvar is no longer available at Manuel's.Seriously, God, what did I do wrong?

Venceremos
2008-03-13 04:16:00
The PPA inner circle takes a major hit this weekend, as long-time friend/confidant Fidel moves up to DC to become ambassador to Kosovo or something like that. It's almost inconceivable to contemplate the city without him around; in the six or so years we've known each other, I'd estimate we've gone out drinking one billion times and consumed 3.2 gigaliters of beer. One of the funniest and smartest people I've ever known, and the one with the most (in his own way) integrity, he's really made this city much more bearable.I think most of the stories I could tell wouldn't translate well (or I'm forbidden to tell them) -- lots of drink involved -- but it's been a good six years of debating politics and commiserating over the shortcomings of life in Atlanta. I've said it several times recently -- life without Fidel will be much more productive but much less fun, and I'd take fun over productive any day.Good luck, man. We still have a world to win.

Spam Stays Current
2008-03-12 00:39:00
I'm impressed. Just 24 hours after the Spitzer scandal broke, I got an e-mail with this subject line:"Janice is Eliot Spitzer whore"Spam mers are obviously going all-out to stay up-to-date.Another book:#6 -- "About Three Bricks Shy of a Load" by Roy BlountAn old football book I've wanted to read for a while. I'm a sucker for these inside-the-team books ("Ball Four," "The Game of Our Lives," "Thin Ice," etc) which seem to have died out (in terms of quality) by the early '80s, when players started being a little less open and more image-conscious. The '70s were especially fun for them, when you've got players talking about ... well, very '70s things.In "Bricks," Blount tags along with the Pittsburgh Steelers in a season just before they started their run of Super Bowls. It's good fun, not great but good. There's some pretty great parts -- he's evocative in describing Pittsburgh's working-class identity, and there's a section on fans' and coaches' competing desires for bea...
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Mysteries of Atlanta
2008-03-11 15:32:00
The alleyway behind my condo is a fascinating place -- with a variety of businesses (including one bar) backing on to it, you overhear a lot of slices of life. Flirting, fights, vomiting, car hood sex. All there. One of the buildings there is the old Hilan Theatre, a mid-20th-century movie (I think) house more recently converted to a Starbucks and Ben and Jerry's. The Starbucks, with a fantastic rooftop patio, was about the only Starbucks I ever felt fond of, so naturally it left not long ago.There's been working going on for a while on the theater part (the part that backs against the alley), but to what purpose I'm not sure. There's been rumors that an improv theater will open there (which would be cool) or that a nightclub will (which would not), but aside from the very occasional workshop, there's nothing actually going on, other than vague construction. They do have an ear-splitting alarm which goes off if anyone dares to walk within ten feet of the heavily-secured doors, ...
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Newly Abandoned
2008-03-08 17:00:00
Here's a case study in why people in Atlanta get sick, over and over: the last two days it's been sunny, highs in the 70s. Today? I woke up to snow, and it's not supposed to get above 40. This is also (I think) the fourth or fifth time it's snowed this year, which must be some sort of record (at least while I've been living here, and that's all that matters, isn't it?). Not unusual to see abandoned buildings around town; it is kind of unusual, though, when I used to hang out at the place a lot. This was the Prince of Wales pub, my regular stomping grounds from about late 2003-mid 2005. It was part of a chain of faux-Brit pubs around town, with dim lighting, heavy food, and Guinness. Not sure what happened but apparently it was something tax/legal related. Two of the chain closed really suddenly right around Christmas -- the one right across the street from me (Hand in Hand) seems to still be going strong.The POW already looks like it's been abandoned for years, gutted and st...
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The PPA's Top Holiday
2008-03-07 17:28:00
Happy birthday, Tomá? Klou?ek! The PPA hero is 28 today, and about to be team-less again -- Vak Fan has informed me that he'll leave Zlin and look elsewhere for employment next year. I guess it's too much to hope that he'd stay in one place for two seasons so that I could ease up on buying jerseys.How best to celebrate Klou?ek's birthday? In my case, I went to the eye doctor, and later will drink beer. However, it's one of those holidays where each person celebrates best in his or her own way.(All this, just a day after L'ubomir Vaic's birthday.)
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When in Rome (Do the Jerk)
2008-03-02 17:21:00
I admit, I've been waiting to use that post title for a couple years now. I've never known much about Rome (Georgia) -- it got its name because of a topographical similarity to Rome #1, and that's about it. I knew a girl who went to college there, but she seemed markedly unenthusiastic about it. Between that and a really psychotic right-wing web page celebrating the city's virtues, I didn't expect much of it. Oh, there is a minor league baseball team up there, which has always sounded like a nice way to spend an evening, but since they're called the Braves, I figure the fans do the tomahawk chop, which always makes me sad to be alive.Still, I wanted to go up there, really for one reason only: the city has a statue given as a gift by Benito Mussolini.Yeah, that Benito Mussolini.It's still there: Romulus and Remus, donated by Il Duce. In fairness, it was given to the city well before World War II, and he gave it out of a spirit of Roman brotherhood, rather than ideological symp...
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Make the Collector Nerd Sweat (Part 2)
2008-03-01 04:49:00
Ok, so it was two days instead of one. Sorry. Hope no one's day was ruined.So as we were slowly selling off the Groundwork/Suspended Animation splits, we were readying release number two, the Soulfish 7". I vaguely recall that at one point we were discussing a Soulfish LP -- though whether that was intended to be the second release, or instead a release after the 7", I don't remember. We may have actually advertised that it was "coming soon" -- this is one of the first times I've ever wished I kept my back issues of MRR, so that I could check the ads.Soulfish was Daron's band -- he sang, with Luke on guitar, Steve on bass, and Dave (Groundwork's guitarist) on drums. They'd been around in some form or another since before I moved to Tucson and knew any of the guys, but name- and lineup-changes kept them from ever really getting into a groove until Dave joined (as a fill-in, I think, but he became permanent). They were in something of an odd place, I think. Through friendships, ...
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Make the Collector Nerd Sweat (Part 1)
2008-02-28 16:18:00
Whenever it becomes time to update the old resume, there are a few things I leave off. Hospital graveyard shift worker -- doesn't make it. World's crappiest busboy -- no. Uninspired freelance PR flak (for a few soulless weeks in college), definitely not. Master of the electric bull -- well, possibly.Also left off: record label magnate. But indeed, for a couple years in the early '90s, I was joint proprietor of Tucson, Arizona's Ghost Town Records.Ghost Town was started by my high school friend Daron, to put out records by his band (Soulfish) and other friends' bands. Not sure how I was recruited -- maybe because I had an aura of responsibility, maybe just because I was around all the time. We had visions of starting another Dischord, with all that entails -- legendary releases through the years, the Tucson hardcore scene growing into one spoken of with reverence, etc. It sounds foolish now, but we were 18, isolated, and had idealism to spare.Our first record was a split 7" betw...
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