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starladyOr, how I spent last weekend with my friend K.
# Waffle House! My flight landed, only three hours late, at midnight, and we went straight to this icon of Southern…something. As K said, "This is the perfect time to go, when you hate yourself and the world." My verdict: Holy shit cheap food is cheap! (This was true of all the food of the weekend, actually.) Avoid the toxic not-butter and you're golden.
# Joe's east Atlanta coffee house! Om nom nom Intelligentsia coffee delicious yay.
# Junkman's Daughter, your Atlanta weirdness superstore! And the associated book and music shops around it, including Criminal Records, which are all pretty cool.
# The Center for Puppetry Arts! It currently has an exhibit on Fraggle Rock, which is seriously my childhood, as well as Jim Henson's pioneering technical work on puppetry, and a preview for the Jim Henson Wing that is coming in 2012 and looks to be amazing. The permanent collection, which runs from shadow puppets of south Asia to Dr. Strangepork and Luke Heartthrob of Pigs in Space, is also pretty cool. Also now I have to see Farscape.
# The Atlanta History Center! We were only there for 90 minutes, which is not enough time even to get through the exhibit on the Civil War, to say nothing of the Atlanta Olympics, Abraham Lincoln special exhibition, and the exhibit on the Indian tribes of the Southeast (actually we went to that first and it was quite good). Slightly pricey admission, but completely worth it.
# Barbecue (pulled pork) and chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream! YUM.
# The Stone Mountain laser extravaganza! Which was seriously, um, really something to see, me being a) a damned Yankee and b) not a male chauvinist, given that c) the lasers are projected onto a granite rockface into which equestrian likenesses of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis have been carved. It truly does live up to its billing as "spectacular", at least.
# The Atlanta Botanical Gardens! We were seduced by the ads for the new treetop canopy walk, which was seriously short but still awesome anyway, and the rest of the gardens, particularly the greenhouses but also the edible gardens with large glass sculptures of fruit, were pretty beautiful. The management is clearly very pro-green without being pretentious.
# Spoonful of Stories bookstore and the Brick Store pub in Decatur, GA! Spoonful of Stories brought Neil Gaiman to the area for The Graveyard Book appearance contest, which was a little surprising given the paucity of its stock. The Brick Store's home-brewed beer was pretty amazing, to say nothing of its selection of Belgian, domestic and international beers. And then we listened to Sufjan Stevens' song "Decatur" and the rest of Illinoise! on the way to the airport.
It was great to see K; she is awesome, and I hadn't seen her since I left Japan nearly two years ago. Sadly she is going to grad school on the opposite side of the country from me, which will make further hanging out with her and her two cats, whom we collectively saved from a trash heap outside our friends K & A's house in Kobe when they (the cats) were just-born kittens, somewhat difficult. But I am determined to accomplish it! That is how awesome K is.
Also, it was great to see the cats all grown up (and the boy, Loki's, weird rabbit back legs are even nearly normal now!). I remember when they fit in the palm of my hand and we had to hand-feed them kitten formula and then massage their poo out of them every four hours. Ah, memories.
Note I'm not even talking about the fact that I was delayed both ways (again), but my plan of not taking the last flight out worked, because my flight to Atlanta was not canceled; the one after it was. *shakes fist at thunderstorms that grounded us for three hours, shakes fist at tarmac traffic that delayed us into the thunderstorms*
# Waffle House! My flight landed, only three hours late, at midnight, and we went straight to this icon of Southern…something. As K said, "This is the perfect time to go, when you hate yourself and the world." My verdict: Holy shit cheap food is cheap! (This was true of all the food of the weekend, actually.) Avoid the toxic not-butter and you're golden.
# Joe's east Atlanta coffee house! Om nom nom Intelligentsia coffee delicious yay.
# Junkman's Daughter, your Atlanta weirdness superstore! And the associated book and music shops around it, including Criminal Records, which are all pretty cool.
# The Center for Puppetry Arts! It currently has an exhibit on Fraggle Rock, which is seriously my childhood, as well as Jim Henson's pioneering technical work on puppetry, and a preview for the Jim Henson Wing that is coming in 2012 and looks to be amazing. The permanent collection, which runs from shadow puppets of south Asia to Dr. Strangepork and Luke Heartthrob of Pigs in Space, is also pretty cool. Also now I have to see Farscape.
# The Atlanta History Center! We were only there for 90 minutes, which is not enough time even to get through the exhibit on the Civil War, to say nothing of the Atlanta Olympics, Abraham Lincoln special exhibition, and the exhibit on the Indian tribes of the Southeast (actually we went to that first and it was quite good). Slightly pricey admission, but completely worth it.
# Barbecue (pulled pork) and chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream! YUM.
# The Stone Mountain laser extravaganza! Which was seriously, um, really something to see, me being a) a damned Yankee and b) not a male chauvinist, given that c) the lasers are projected onto a granite rockface into which equestrian likenesses of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis have been carved. It truly does live up to its billing as "spectacular", at least.
# The Atlanta Botanical Gardens! We were seduced by the ads for the new treetop canopy walk, which was seriously short but still awesome anyway, and the rest of the gardens, particularly the greenhouses but also the edible gardens with large glass sculptures of fruit, were pretty beautiful. The management is clearly very pro-green without being pretentious.
# Spoonful of Stories bookstore and the Brick Store pub in Decatur, GA! Spoonful of Stories brought Neil Gaiman to the area for The Graveyard Book appearance contest, which was a little surprising given the paucity of its stock. The Brick Store's home-brewed beer was pretty amazing, to say nothing of its selection of Belgian, domestic and international beers. And then we listened to Sufjan Stevens' song "Decatur" and the rest of Illinoise! on the way to the airport.
It was great to see K; she is awesome, and I hadn't seen her since I left Japan nearly two years ago. Sadly she is going to grad school on the opposite side of the country from me, which will make further hanging out with her and her two cats, whom we collectively saved from a trash heap outside our friends K & A's house in Kobe when they (the cats) were just-born kittens, somewhat difficult. But I am determined to accomplish it! That is how awesome K is.
Also, it was great to see the cats all grown up (and the boy, Loki's, weird rabbit back legs are even nearly normal now!). I remember when they fit in the palm of my hand and we had to hand-feed them kitten formula and then massage their poo out of them every four hours. Ah, memories.
Note I'm not even talking about the fact that I was delayed both ways (again), but my plan of not taking the last flight out worked, because my flight to Atlanta was not canceled; the one after it was. *shakes fist at thunderstorms that grounded us for three hours, shakes fist at tarmac traffic that delayed us into the thunderstorms*
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Date: 2010-05-22 14:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-22 15:10 (UTC)It is pretty impressive, though. Apparently granite from there was used in the steps of the White House (also ironic, considering that Georgia tried to secede from the Union).
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Date: 2010-05-22 16:33 (UTC)Uhm...are you going to have time to veg out and watch TV at WisCon? Because I kinda own the full series. (My free time will be spent seducing my roommate into becoming obsessed with Asian dramas and reading her manga collection.)
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Date: 2010-05-22 16:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-22 16:47 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-22 16:59 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-05-22 23:42 (UTC)