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4/12/2009 11:01:53 PM

made it to the saturday night braves/nats game....drank at tin lizzy's

ended up securing my masters passes sunday morning so got to hit up the final round. great day out there. beautiful weather and a great ending

4/13/2009 5:38:09 PM

Dusty's bbq is closing, their last day is 4/25.

damn you economy!

4/22/2009 9:59:47 PM

went to the dogwood festival last weekend - planning on going to the inman park festival on saturday - brother and his fiance are in town

probably going to the crawfish boil at atkins park in smyrna saturday evening

4/24/2009 11:46:33 AM

Inman park parade worth it?

how is parking around there? better to just take MARTA?

4/24/2009 3:16:25 PM

we went to the festival last year - the parade is great and really the only reason to go - i posted pictures in this thread somewhere - unfortunately we'll be leaving the parade early to make our soccer game

i highly recommend taking marta and not driving

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4/24/2009 5:27:12 PM

i went out there today, mainly just to hear the bands. it was fun, but would have been better if i didn't have to go by myself.

edit: people on the marta were freaking out about how inconvenient it is. ha ha ha.

[Edited on April 26, 2009 at 10:07 PM. Reason : .]

4/26/2009 10:06:05 PM

i bought the hotlanta sauce if you saw it - i'm definitely going to be ordering some more as well - it's one of the better sweet hot sauces i've had

4/26/2009 10:38:20 PM

didnt end up going, got drunk as crap for the woman's bday at Hole In the Wall and the Claremont friday, slept most of saturday

4/27/2009 12:29:40 AM

just got a phone call - friend had an extra club level ticket tonight to the braves - woohoo

4/28/2009 4:59:02 PM

went to Fleetwood Mac concert at Philips on Tuesday night....great fucking concert...2 1/2 hours....2 encores...fantastic

4/30/2009 1:02:23 AM

How 'bout them Hawks, Atlanta???? Hope there's no game 7 against the Heat, but if so I'm definitely going. Went to game 2 and had a good time despite the loss.

4/30/2009 12:34:26 PM

i can not think of a worse atmosphere...a NBA game in a city where people don't give a shit about pro sports

yes i know people show up for the playoffs, but that only makes it slightly better than the crowd at a lakers game where people go to just be seen

[Edited on May 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM. Reason : .]

5/1/2009 11:44:06 AM

went to Johnny's Hideaway for the first time Thursday, it was their 30th anniversary party.


holy shit I was stunned. I didnt know places like that really existed.

first off, the place HAS to be mob owned. I felt like I was in Goodfellas, every guy that worked there was Italian, nice suits, slicked back hair, pictures of Sinatra all over the walls, red leather everywhere, looked like a time machine to 1984 New Jersey.

I was the youngest person there by 5 years at least.

Hungry divorced 40+ women everywhere, a fair amount of which were really hot for old women.

Hungry divorced 50+ men everywhere who were all over the women, felt like a middle aged Senor Frogs or something.

They pour their drinks REALLY strong.

Really cool bartender there, Harold, he is worth going for by himself.

I think I met a madame there, Miss Vicky. She was probably late 40s, early 50s, had about 10 younger asian women with her, drinking Dom Perignon, I asked her what she did for a living and she said "whatever I feel like".

One of the more bizarre nights I have had recently, but oddly enough, a lot of fun. Everyone that worked there was really really nice and great service.

[Edited on May 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM. Reason : d]

5/2/2009 2:46:14 PM

is this place off roswell? i think i friend of mine told me about it, said it was a real cougar lair.

5/2/2009 4:00:53 PM

^ yes, and thats the understatement of the decade.

place was PACKED

5/2/2009 11:14:04 PM

^^^^ you're just a hater! i mean, let's be realistic here - the hawks have been terrible for the past decade, tough to get people super excited about 41 regular-season home games when the city is so used to a loser. they averaged over 16,000 fans per home game this season (their first winning season in years), which isn't terrible by any stretch. the only cities where you see a real thriving fan base regardless of a team's performance is in cities where the team has a storied tradition and/or is the only game in town (i.e. portland, utah, boston, detroit, LA, etc). they've already sold more season tickets for next year than they had this season, so as the team is coming around so to is the city.

[Edited on May 4, 2009 at 9:42 AM. Reason : .]

5/4/2009 9:42:34 AM

yeah, i will admit I'm a hater of the Hawks. the few actual hawks fans/season ticket holders I know here spent the last 2 weeks talking more about the celtics losing games to the bulls than the hawks winning games against the heat. I really don't care for the NBA either way, but to listen to them bitch and moan about the celtics was too fucking annoying

oh, and

Quote :

"Harold, he is worth going for by himself"

[no homo?]

5/4/2009 3:56:41 PM

insert "no homo"

5/4/2009 10:42:01 PM

anyone going on this? seems like a good deal:

http://www.atlantaclassicsbartour.com/

$10 gets you:
Atlanta Classic's Bar Tour Mug

Atlanta Classic's Bar Tour t-shirt

Discounted mug refills

1960's special food prices

Raffle prizes like Sweetwater Brewery Party for 20

Atlanta Classic Bar Gift Certificates

Sports Tickets

5/11/2009 7:17:01 PM

is it only valid for the 5 bars listed at the bottom of the website - what is the discount?

i assume the idea is that at 6pm nobody is going home to go to bed so they're going to make a decent amount of money off of this

5/11/2009 7:24:35 PM

I assume its a guided thing... like everyone in the group going from place to place together

5/11/2009 7:48:47 PM

so guaranteed tables for the crew then at each spot? if so i think i can convince the wife to go

5/11/2009 7:58:09 PM

i dont know for certain but that is what I imagine

5/11/2009 7:59:35 PM

Funny that Limerick Junction is considered historical given it was opened in the late 80's.

I'll be on Jekyll Island for a wedding that weekend, but the walk sound like a typical weekend anyway...except for Manuel's which is too far away from everything else and kind of sucky

5/12/2009 1:52:22 AM

^^^ none of these places are very crowded in the afternoon, so seating should only be a problem if there are tons of folks on the bar crawl itself. i like all those bars other than limerick junction, may get some folks from the 'hood to join in

5/12/2009 10:03:55 AM

^^ I was wondering about Limerick... they claim that its the oldest one... not sure how exactly... changed names? location?

I like Manuel's but I dont get to the Highlands too much except for Metalsome

[Edited on May 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM. Reason : d]

5/12/2009 11:21:44 AM

lots of stuff going on in town this weekend. who's doing what?

5/21/2009 8:26:24 PM

i'm flying in town on tomorrow at 7pm and flying out at 6am on saturday

5/21/2009 8:27:21 PM

^^ not too much, been traveling my ass off lately, just want to chill for a few days. Plus, I got an all day volleyball tournament next week thats going to wear my ass out.


might grill out at the pool with the woman and her friends, got tickets for the Braves game Sunday

5/21/2009 11:13:53 PM

I have a wedding to go to on Jekyll Island this weekend. Really appreciate them having it on an expensive ass resort island on Memorial Day weekend. and I'm going solo as the girl I'm seeing is competing in the US Nationals for the Modern Pentathlon next weekend in CA (top 3 make Team USA) and a weekend of partying isn't in her cards

which leads to a funny story...the first night we went out, we had dinner before going to a concert. at dinner I talked about living in london and she mentioned she wanted to go to London in 2012. I said that would be awesome thinking it would be sweet to go back to london and watch the olympics. After the concert she talked about her training and it dawned on my that when she said she wanted to go to london in 2012, she didn't mean to watch them...she meant to compete in them. it was a big "oooohhhhh, that's what she meant" moment

I'm pretty sure that Atkins Park in the highlands is the oldest continually operating tavern in Atlanta (opened in 1922 as a deli licensed as a tavern or something like that)

[Edited on May 22, 2009 at 3:22 AM. Reason : .]

5/22/2009 3:20:06 AM

so far i've managed to sit on the couch. thinking about heading either to the hippie fest in decatur or jazz fest in grant park.

5/23/2009 1:20:45 PM

just got roped into a country show tonight at http://mablehouse.org/ - montgomery gentry

byob and food so should be a cheap friday night

5/29/2009 10:19:10 AM

any of you sluts play poker? might be getting a game together Tuesday night

5/31/2009 11:44:03 PM

might be moved to Thursday night due to a softball game

6/1/2009 12:30:31 PM

anything fun going on next weekend? ill be down there from the 12-14th visiting a friend. she has no problem finding things on her own but it'd be fun to have some suggestions of my own.

6/1/2009 4:06:21 PM

virginia highland summerfest is this coming weekend - should be a good time, and the weather is gonna MUCH better this year (was 100+ degrees last year, looking to be in the low 80's this saturday). anyhow, my neighbor (and fellow state alum) are co-hosting a little block party at our buildings saturday afternoon/evening, near the intersection of n. highland and virginia. if any of y'all are out at the summerfest and want to stop by, just pm me for the details. word up!

[Edited on June 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM. Reason : .]

6/2/2009 2:46:28 PM

was going to go but I am going home to Tennessee for a reunion/volleyball tourny

6/2/2009 10:47:07 PM

i'm pretty much tapped out on street fests for the year. you can only see so much folk art before it all starts to look the same. but i'll probably still walk through just to check out the ladies.

6/3/2009 6:13:44 PM

going to be in athens for a wedding on saturday - any recommendations for after reception bars?

the hotel / church / reception are all walking distance of each other and i've asked some friends and they say that we're in a great spot downtown and close to a ton of bars

here's where we'll be - on washington inbetween lumpkin and thomas
http://tinyurl.com/o3obmo

6/4/2009 10:06:02 AM

a good friend of mine moved to Athens for grad school, shes a great bartender, sweet hook ups to... I can find out which bar she is at if you want me to...

6/4/2009 3:27:52 PM

sure

6/4/2009 3:42:27 PM

shes no longer bar tending, is going to manage a new restaurant there called the Georgian Southeastern Chophouse but its not opening until late June.

6/4/2009 5:35:27 PM

went to andretti racing indoor go karts up in roswell last night. pretty fun, but expensive. $22/8min race. i wouldn't have minded the price if all the cars were somewhat equally fast, but apparently maintenance consists of topping off the fuel and sweeping the floor.

6/7/2009 5:31:52 PM

What up atlanta. Just got in last night. Special shoutout to the bird that shit on me walking out of carvers for lunch. Appreciate that southern hospitality!

6/12/2009 2:00:43 PM

I've always heard that it's good luck to get shit on by a bird. Gonna be a good visit for you! The A welcomes you with open arms, and bird doo...

6/13/2009 11:41:28 AM

Had a great time @ JTC Kitchen despite the monsoon. Great bar/outdoor deck. Great cocktails. Such a diff bar culture from DC, sort of refreshing

6/13/2009 12:24:04 PM

^ hahaha, never been there, as my girlfriend's ex is the head chef. heard they have good chicken, but can't be supportin' that chump as spatula boy...

6/14/2009 11:02:44 PM

oops i meant JCT

we didnt eat dinner, just drank and had a few apps up on the patio

6/15/2009 9:35:56 AM

anyone seen any rain lately??? good gracious, been pouring in the highlands for the past 4 hours. Virginia ave has been impassable, water level above cars' headlights. at least the rain has given me a free car wash though.

7/12/2009 10:24:14 PM