The Archives
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atlanta, eggs, mlk, obama, oppression
The yolk of oppression
01.20.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsThis adds a completely new dimension to the Civil Rights era: Speaking at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. launched the civil rights movement, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday called for unity to overcome America’s “moral deficit.” In a visit steeped in symbolism — coming a day before the King holiday — […]
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atlanta, parking meters
Free parking in Atlanta
12.21.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFree because there aren’t any parking meters left. Because they’ve all been stolen. City officials say crooks sawed off 546 parking meters this year —39 percent of all the meters in the city, at a total loss of $273,000. Because it happens so often, the city does not report meter muggers to police, said Tenee […]
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atlanta, dalai-lama, emory, kenny, south park
Is the Dalai Lama really Kenny?
So I was at a ground blessing1 this morning with the Dalai Lama at Emory. Goofy guy, it turns out. After a bit of going on about religion and politics and history, he pauses to say, “But of course the most important thing is that I will become an Emory professor tomorrow…a hopeless professor.” The […]
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atlanta, kirkwood
Don’t kill my abandoned rail yard!
08.02.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Don’t kill my abandoned rail yard!Looks like they’re going to put in a power station in my favorite plot of un(der) developed land in Atlanta. But the neighborhood is working to keep the beautifully busted up buildings intact and is asking for real planning before the whole area is super-developed.
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atlanta, flight, peanut-allergy, phoenix, wichita
Don’t eat the peanuts!
06.20.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Don’t eat the peanuts!Flying from Atlanta to Phoenix this morning, we had to make an emergency stop in Wichita. Turns out someone allergic to peanuts ate some peanuts in the “snack pack.” A doctor and a nurse were on board to help, so she’ll be fine, they said. Some folks in the row behind me knew her, and […]
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atlanta, creek, meditation, oklahoma-city, prayer
I found my creek
I grew up on a creek. The addition we lived in had been a Boy Scout camp before Oklahoma City sprawled out and turned it into subdivisions. The subdivision next door still had some of the sidewalks and outbuildings, and I’d occasionally go for a dip in the old Boy Scout pool. Northwest Oklahoma City […]
