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i dunno how religious you are, but that's obviously the origin of these holidays -whatever they've come to mean to you. i know that alotta my friends and family are alittle skeptical regarding the more commercial aspects of the season. Me, i think the holidays are what you make of them. There's too much hubbub to ignore completely and you'll go crazy just hating on it. Focus on what you like, cast off what you don't like, and make the best of it.

i love it. Little kids unwrapping presents, holiday parties, and more people making more of an effort to be nice -that's what i get out of it. The social stuff. Then again, you gotta give alittle, right? I'm not talking about whether or not you (literally) buy into the commercialism of it. I'm talking about something alittle more big-picture than just celebrating with family or socializing out at some party. I'm talking about the potential Civic aspects of it.

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Posted by Keeferman at 04:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Atlanta traffic, as everybody knows, is terrible. Atlanta air quality is pretty bad too. There's an HOV lane for cool people though and everybody knows you gotta be driving a lower emission vehicle (like a motorcycle) or you gotta be carpooling with other passengers in order to use it. I'm only human, so I've been tempted many times to solo it, but ultimately i know it's wrong and i expect I'd get caught anyway -so i don't.

Today's the second day in a row I've seen individuals get busted by Georgia State Patrol for illegally commuting down the HOV. Hah! That's what you GET! These HOV incentives (and their enforcement) are there for a reason, people. Even if you're villain enough to disregard a righteous law, it's not worth the ticket just to shave a few minutes off your drive to work. You WILL get busted.

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i hope you'll pardon me because (and perhaps this is 'cause I'm a wee bit Irish) I'm a bit of a potato snob. I've seen some awful things done in the name of potatoes and I've become a bit of a crusader against those blasphemies. Potatoes are awesome. Not just the watered-down over-used word "awesome", but actually AWE-SOME. They fill me with awe. Potatoes are so cool I've bumped them up a food category into Meat. If you think about it, "meat and potatoes" seems alittle redundant to you anyway, doesn't it?

Wait, we were talking about crimes against potatoes...

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Posted by Keeferman at 12:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

In my own weird way, I'm a music fiend (think: JohnCusack-in-HiFidelity wannabe). My friends seem cool and some of them are in bands, but i always MISS stuff. They're always letting me down. I'm always one step behind whatever's going on Right Now. Suddenly I'll hear something (radio, the internet, a party, etc.) and I'll dig deeper thinking I've actually Found something -only to discover it's oldmeme. Not only am i not as cool as i should be, I'm afraid that one day some righteous teenpunk is gonna have the audacity to call me Lame to my face.

Whatever.

Anyway, i found something.

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Posted by Keeferman at 09:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Kids say the darnedest things. Sometimes i get asked why my forearms look like Popeye's or why my calves look like I've stuffed bowlingballs in my socks. That part of my physique is genetic. What's not genetic though is my homegrown New England love of donuts and my media-induced fear of looking like a pink Pillsbury Doughboy.

Downtown, behind a popular restaurant and down some stairs to below streetlevel, is the gym. The Platinum Superhero Gym. Of course there's no signage and it has a pretty exclusive membership, but i assure you it's there. Right there, sitting innocuous-like, in the middle of everything. You'd never guess.

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