Sorry. I’m not all that good at gallows humor.
Anyhow, the local news is all about local news in the form of the AJC cutting staff and WXIA’s news director stepping down.
Me? I get all my information from the internets and the watercooler (an actual watercooler who bears a resemblance to Wall-E).
I rarely watch the TV version (save for the weather, how Atlantan of me) and I occassionally link/blog the paper version, though I prefer CL’s reportage and their blogs.
Another fake doctor was exposed recently here in Atlanta — Eric Perteet. Maybe you’ve heard about him?
“He was a busy man, with a pager and cellphone always sounding. Parishioners at the church where he worshipped didn’t look twice when he came to services in his scrubs.
Nor did his wife, who’d slide over in the pew and smile when he joined her. Dr. Eric Perteet was saving lives, and adding a new dimension to hers, too.
That’s changed with the snap of handcuffs and the clang of a steel jail door.
Perteet is in the Fulton County Jail, charged with impersonating a physician. Officials at Piedmont Hospital, where police arrested him, deny that he ever worked in their emergency room or dealt with patients.
And his wife, Tammi Perteet?
She has a stack of documents that lay out a life built on lies. She has a scrub shirt from the hospital where she dropped her husband off for two months.
She has questions. [link]”
Honestly, I don’t think she should have too many questions. It just sounds like a case of her falling in love and not seeing the signs. How do you marry a doctor and not see his degree? See his office? We’d call that a “high-post brotha” ’round my way. She should’ve done like Teyana Taylor and Google him, baby!
Like I alluded to earlier, this isn’t the first fake doctor exposed here in the A — a few years back, you might remember Tiy-E Muhammad from TBS’ “The Real Gilligan’s Island” got exposed as being a fake doctor even though he was an associate professor at Clark-Atlanta University and running around dubbing himself a psychologist-relationship expert.
So what do you think of these Ph.Don’ts?
well it appears that oft-discussed, oft-put off meger between atlanta’s own delta airlines and minneapolis-based northwest may actually be happening as the two airlines agreed to merger terms (ajc here.) while we can debate whether this is a good thing for the airline industry (this author thinks yes), one thing is very clear to me at least.
if the terms of delta’s memo to it’s employees are correct, namely, “the company is named Delta, headquartered in Atlanta;” then this merger is probably a good thing for atlanta and in particular atlanta based flyers.
a few reasons i see -
1) access to northwest’s asia routes. delta is a great carrier to europe but it’s asian routes blow. northwest has a booming hub at tokyo’s narita airport, and a whole slew of asia routes direct from the states out of it’s detroit and msp hubs. this merger will make getting from atlanta to asia a ton easier.
2) access to two more midwestern hubs and their associated regional jet routes. this will open up more destinations in the northern midwest along with more flights.
3) maybe northwest’s service culture will leave a mark on delta’s? just hoping on this one…
anyway, that’s how this (somewhat) frequent flyer sees it. you?
Keeping Midtown dimly lit (if at all) since this morning.
[Via Amber on Twitter]
Anyone else thinking of that commercial where the squirrel causes the traffic accident or, perhaps, the farting squirrel ad?
I need to get out more often.
Just doing my part to make sure folks know about some of the new & interesting blogs in the Atlanta local.
Happy Surfing!
i figured that the attempted ban on saggy pants had died an appropriate death, but apparently it has not.
from this morning’s ajc comes this:
Councilman C.T. Martin introduced a bill in August banning clothes that expose underwear. The City Council created a citizens’ task force to study the idea and make recommendations. The council will decide whether to accept the recommendations.
apparently the task force is preparing to make it’s recommendations in a meeting tonight at 6 pm at city hall. i am honestly a tad bit bummed i am busy tonight, because i can only imagine just how much fun this hearing would have to be.
and seriously, when the mayor is looking under couches for quarters because of a budget deficit, how much money was spent on this task force?
just curious.
continuing with all things tornado;
doing some reading this morning i cam across this excellent map of the track of the downtown tornado.
(i was going to embed the map here, but we are still working through getting embedding to work, so i really encourage you to click the link. if we get it fixed, i will go back and embed it)
looking at it, i realized just how lucky i came. the tornado crossed over i-20 less than 1/4 of a mile from my house. instead of having no roof today, i am only missing some shingles, some siding and some flashing.
i am in toronto for a couple of day, but i am interested in how the cleanup is coming?
A customer at Parkgrounds said that there were signs going up in Cabbagetown. These signs read things like What’re You Looking At? and Thanks for Gawking. None of these signs appeared in any news reports I saw, despite all the coverage of the Cabbagetown damages.
Saturday morning, the Ides of March, the day after the tornado, the streets were dotted with people with cameras. Little amateur cameras, big digital SLRs, cameras with long lenses, cameras aimed out car windows, cameras in cell phones. Some folks drove around, popped open their car doors, snapped a shot, and moved on. Some walked from East Atlanta Village, where trees were laid across a handful of streets and an empty lot had become a graveyard for worn-out trunks, to Cabbagetown, where houses had become timbers and cars had been crumpled. They captured the honesty, the hurt, the shock, the confusion, the startling vulnerability of our homes and lives, the brutal unpredictability of the world’s impact on our illusory invulnerability.
It’s my feeling that un-doctored photography is, on some level, honest. It captures and reproduces; it doesn’t translate or imitate. It doesn’t render. It’s not a shameful thing to take a picture of someone else’s woe. It’s not crass to capture suffering on camera, because suffering is genuine and real and thus fair game for an honest medium. It happens, and so it can be recorded.
Saturday morning, I thought maybe I’ve been wrong. Maybe it’s more than awkward or un-neighborly to photographed a smashed home. Maybe it’s worse than rude. I’m still undecided.
What do you think?
(Photo by Elemess)
well, as i write this it appears that another strong storm is bearing down on douglasville and moving due east. okay, THIS STORM IS HEADED TO DOWNTOWN IN TWELVE MINUTES. LARGE HAIL AND ROTATION.
it is official. the national weather service confirmed that vine city, downtown and cabbagetown were hit by an f2 tornado with max winds of 120 mph. i certainly wasn’t exaggerating in the post i wrote from my blackberry last night. all the areas i thought were hit were.
andisheh at clfreshloaf must have had access to power and his camera with him, because his post is much more extensive than mine. check it out, he also has links to several pages of flickr photos.
one thing i will say having driven down dekalb avenue a few times today is that the city and it’s citizens seem to have their act together. the king marta station is getting picked up (several of the big floor to ceiling windows blew out) and the trains were running. it looked like work was going on at the cotton mill loft. the post office near lenny’s was already being worked on, and the southeast auto warehouse, whcih imploded, was being picked up.
i am going to write about my personal experience over on my personal blog when i can get around to it, but right now it looks like i may need to go hide again.
how did the rest of you survive the storm?
