the week in photo review

There is six feet of snow in front of the house, my laptop won't turn on, and my grandfather died yesterday while I flew somewhere over Chicago. Blergg. I've been listening to the new Modest Mouse; nothing can beat them for the exact happy-music-godawful-depressing-lyric songs I'm craving right now.

Let's turn up "Dashboard" and review the highlights of Atlanta, shall we?


Sunset. I'm not sure why this photo is tilted, but let's attribute it to the three PBRs Darren and I had pounded minutes earlier.


See, it rains in Atlanta. The difference is, it looks cool, not cold.


Two-story Target in Buckhead. Same stuff; more awesome store. I could live here.


Addonizio accompanying Lux during a reading. This is one of only three panels I attended. Eh. In the meantime, I holed up in the hotel room and worked on revising my thesis (laptop was working at that point).


Georgia Tech campus. The male-female ratio is something like 70-30, so this chick in the lower left corner was a rare sight. (She was attractive, too, which makes her even rarer. And now I sound like a perv, secretly photographing attractive coeds.)


Magnolias, a week before bud. Click for more detail. Can you smell the green? Can anyone smell green? Besides stoners, I mean?


My first foray into sushi was, incredibly, narrated by my brother. These are only tofu and sweet potato, but I also managed to use chopsticks and drink a big glass of sake - two other firsts.


Midtown.


Barbeque, accompanied by the obligatory slice of soft white bread.



In fog, buildings disappear.


This just looked cool.


Four years out of undergrad and I still can beat nearly everyone at flip cup. Liberal art state colleges are the best places to hone the craft - pity on these GT guys.


Much as I love grits, instant ones with 'county bacon' bits scare me.
Goodbye, Georgia, goodbye.