I’m not sure if this story became a nationwide item last week, but they arrested a “madame” and one of her business associates for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of their million dollar mansion.  She was a former Penthouse Pet who ran a high class escort service.  For those of you who don’t know, Sugarloaf Country Club is a very nice gated community that is host to the BellSouth Classic (now the AT&T Classic), which is the tournament held the week before the Masters in Augusta.  The houses are all gigantic and lots of Atlanta& ...

While I’d venture that most Atlanta Thrashers fans are northern transplants like me, every once in a while I’m reminded that I’m still in the south.

Today’s entry actually comes from an ex-coworker who had enough of the company he was working at and finally gave his notice.  Sometimes the English language can be constructed in a poetically beautiful and descriptive way.  His short, yet fascinating, description of what put him over the edge put a smile to my face and reminded me of when I had written a fantasy “goodbye letter” to be used at any place where you couldn’t wait to leave.  Anyway, here is what he wrote to me.  Enjoy.

While I am a huge movie buff and watch most of what comes out, it hit me within the first 20 minutes of HBO’s “Tsunami: The Aftermath” that I now have a movie genre that I cannot watch.  There are no spoilers here but one of the sub-plots deals with a family with a 5-year old daughter who are in Indonesia when last year's tsunami hit that part of the world.  The mom is on a scuba boat when the tsunami occurs and the father and daughter are on land.  When the surge of water hits them, he winds up losing grip of her.  When he regains consciousness, he can’t find her.  As he’s ...

Maybe in the future there will be things that seem farfetched now but might be reality a few decades from now.  For instance, I would gladly pays tens of thousands of dollars for a crème (or outpatient operation) that would stop all facial and neck hair, thus eliminating the need to ever shave again.

Add a few dreamlike items such as a high alcohol beer that actually burns calories like celery does.  Maybe an actual transp ...

Something occurred to me on Friday night as I was taking my nightly walk that should have been obvious years ago.  You hear about how runners get a “runner’s high” after a certain amount of time where their body kicks the adrenaline into overdrive and a huge sense of accomplishment is supposedly surging through one’s brain.

After an above-average-temperature autumn, it finally started to get (relatively) cool down here.  Friday ...

I’ve given up on trying keeping track of arena/stadium names since it seems as though they change names with more frequency than a mob informant.  Some names are easy to say – Pac Bell Park (which is no longer its name), Wrigley Field, Citi Field (the new Mets stadium) while others are a mouthful (Network Associates Coliseum).  Sometimes the names get a nickname.  When it was n ...

It’s that time of year again – the Holiday Movie season.  I’ve written before about how I’m a sucker for Christmas movies, but I should clarify that I’m not a fan of every Christmas movie.  Some years have produced classic holiday films – A Christmas Story, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, etc – while others have produced stinkers like Jingle All The Way (notwithstanding Phil Hartman’s outstanding role) and Christmas With The Kranks.

Now that I’m back to working in a 32-story building, I am reminded daily of the wind tunnels that occur outside and between tall buildings.  As soon as you get near the main entrance, the wind picks up briskly.  Thankfully I don’t wear kilts often to work; otherwise people would see my “naughtywear” as I approach the front door.  When you exit the building, you’re greeted by a wall of wind that extends to maybe 50 feet outside the building and if you’re a small child or midget, there’s a good chance you could become airborne.  Once you’re outside of that buffer zone, all of a sudden you’re returned to normal wind conditions.