As for who to quote on a billboard about educating kids, Hitler was a very bad choice. Herbert Hoover is also someone you don't want to be quoting, but Hitler was well, really not a good choice.
http://gawker.com/church-billboard-quotes-hitler-on-the-importance-of-edu-1585505325?fb_action_ids=10152284315486551&fb_action_types=og.likes
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
PARTIES
Georgia, you are a bore a lot of the time, and a dependable
bore at that. However, you are, for the most part, well mannered. And there,
you have something over snotty Angelenos, I guess. People in L.A. can be jerkamabobs.
Let’s not pretend otherwise.
For example, throwing a party in Atlanta, where I live, and
throwing one in Los Angeles, where I’m from, is an entirely different
experience in almost every conceivable way. I have only been to a handful of
children’s parties in L.A., where I have only thrown adult parties in the
somewhat distant past. Here, in Hotlanta, I have only thrown birthday parties
for my daughter. But I’m pretty sure the differences in party behavior still
apply. If I’m wrong, please correct me.
If you throw a kid’s party here, people will arrive at
either the exact hour of the party or maybe a half hour late. If they plan to
come any later, they will email you ahead of time to make sure that’s OK.
Nobody in Los Angeles would ever do that. Almost everyone that says they are
coming will show up at the appointed hour. One or two might not make it. They will
likely email apologetically and explain that they or their child has the
stomach flu. And they really will have the stomach flu. If say, the party
starts at 3 pm, the party will begin winding down around 4 with people starting
to leave and thanking you profusely for inviting them and by 5 pm, all will
have left. The same amount of people who said they were coming on the Evite
will have shown, off maybe by two at most.
Though, I have done no research, I think this formula may
not just apply to Atlanta or the South, but to most of America, or at least,
all the places where strangers say hi to you when you pass them in the street,
either out of friendliness or nervousness.
Not the case in L.A., though. If you have a party for adults
that starts at say, 8 pm, you shouldn’t expect anyone until 9:25 or so. But
people will really start ringing the doorbell ten or twenty minutes later and pop
in at any old time throughout the night. Someone will show up at 11:45. You can
expect maybe a half or a third of the folks who responded uproariously to the
Evite to not show up at all.
Then there’s the person who shows up and leaves after ten
minutes. You will not witness them skedaddling stealthily out the door. You’ll
just wonder where they are. It could even be a pretty good friend. They will
have gone off to something more fun, no doubt. I’ve done it. There might actually
be something more fun to do in L.A., not so in Atlanta, no way, no how.
Friday, January 31, 2014
JON STEWART LAYS INTO GEORGIA'S SNOWPOCALYPSE
I recommend you watch the first video.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-lays-into-georgias-snowpocalypse-the-weather-channel-is-located-in-atlanta/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-lays-into-georgias-snowpocalypse-the-weather-channel-is-located-in-atlanta/
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