WriterDamon

My neighborhood and Ann's made the NYTIMES.

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:23:30 -0500

My neighborhood and Ann's made the NYTIMES.:

Something I wrote for LC. They've updated the format.

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:26:57 -0500

Something I wrote for LC. They've updated the format.

Sunchip bags were biodegradable-but fatties thought the bags were too loud. Back to Plastic we go.

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:14:53 -0400

Sunchip bags were biodegradable-but fatties thought the bags were too loud. Back to Plastic we go.

WINTER CROP IS IN THE GROUND!

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:00 -0400

Backyard Fall Vegetables.

Kale, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli

WINTER CROP IS IN THE GROUND!

Even Fergie's commerical for her new perfume is run through Autotune.

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:53:30 -0400

There is a blimp currently droning over my house.

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:21:14 -0400

Vene's Blog with a mention of me about halfway down.

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:21:44 -0400

Vene's Blog with a mention of me about halfway down.:

Fig, roasted apple & balsamic vinegar preserves (Thanks mom...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:31:19 -0400

Fig, roasted apple & balsamic vinegar preserves (Thanks mom for the harvest).

My friend Erik and I saw this last night. The film’s...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:28:14 -0400

My friend Erik and I saw this last night. The film’s editor happened to be out front and gave us free tickets.

premiere:

Harry Shearer—of This is Spinal Tap and “The Simpsons” fame—decides to makes a Serious Documentary. The voice of Mr. Burns talks to Premiere’s Michael Gaughn about his new documentary The Big Uneasy, post-Katrina flooding, and his beloved city of New Orleans.

What was the learning curve like making a documentary?

Well, my producer Karen Murphy and I had shot five little documentary pieces two years ago for mydamnchannel.com of five people I know here, mainly musicians, telling their post-Katrina stories. Otherwise, the learning curve was very steep. But I had an experienced documentary cinematographer and my producer had done all of Chris Guest’s faux documentaries and had started out in real documentaries. And I had been making fun of documentary—with Chris, with Spinal Tap, and with Albert Brooks’s first movie, Real Life, which was a faux documentary. So I’d been a student of the form from the other side for a long time.

Of course, you collaborated on the most famous fake documentary of all time.

Yeah, it’s ironic. You know, there is this rule in satire that you end up being what you make fun of.

"At the Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Ga., one of the stores that distributed tickets to a Franzen..."

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:32:04 -0400

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At the Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Ga., one of the stores that distributed tickets to a Franzen speech at the coming Decatur Book Festival, tickets were snapped up in two days.

“We had people calling from South Carolina and Florida” who were willing to make a trip to see Mr. Franzen, said Bob Munson, a bookseller.

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- Congratulations on Eagle Eye making the NYTIMES.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/books/28franzen.html?ref=books

Scoutmob is hiring! Scoutmob Field Notes: We're Hiring Inside and Outside Sales People In ATL, NYC & SF

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:52:10 -0400

Scoutmob is hiring! Scoutmob Field Notes: We're Hiring Inside and Outside Sales People In ATL, NYC & SF:

Scoutmob is expanding and we are looking for passionate, talented, local-loving inside and outside sales folks to help us make it happen in Atlanta, New York City and San Francisco.

An ideal candidate would have 2-5 years of inside or outside sales experience, strong relationships with local…

Yeasayer's very odd new video with-Sarah Marshall.

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:16:13 -0400

Yeasayer's very odd new video with-Sarah Marshall.

Walking For Ribs

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:37:49 -0400

I’ve been walking and riding my bike a whole lot more lately. I know it’s the most ridiculously hot time of year and I hate it too but there’s something about the south, and the oppressive heat that makes me want to walk, hear the bugs, and know that I can step in just about anywhere and be drenched because no one really cares since it’s just how it is down here.

This weekend on one of these walks, I met Chef Derrick Jackson and his lovely daughter while they grilled ribs in the 95 degree heat. They told me that on the weekends they’ve begun to test run their Kentucky influenced ribs, chicken, and wonderful sides in front of a ramshackle cinder block building in downtown Kirkwood which they will soon convert into their very own restaurant.

It’s meeting people like the Jackson’s and eating food like they cook that I’m appreciative for my sometimes irrational decisions to walk in Atlanta…in August.