Joe KillianThe Carolinian1/31/06
For decades my grandmother ran a bar in Greenport, Long Island – a small, blue-collar fishing town. It was nothing fancy – just a place where fishermen and locals drank beer and whiskey and had the occasional burger. It was the sort of place where, like the song says, [...]
Entries from January 2006
January 31, 2006
OUT OF MY HEAD: Graffiti Ads LLC caves to percieved prejudice
January 30, 2006
Newspaper tongue
My friends sometimes pick on me for speaking in newspaper jargon when we’re having a normal conversation (“Graph” instead of “Paragraph,” “Above the Fold,” etc).
I’ve always thought most of this was self explanatory – but then, I’ve been hanging out in newsrooms with news geeks since just after my voice changed.
Here’s a list, via Backwards [...]
January 30, 2006
Carolina Peacemaker apparently decides there isn’t enough ACTUAL racism in the community…
The Carolina Peacemaker apparently published an above-the-fold story about the fact that the UNCG cafeteria served fried chicken, water melon and Kook Aid on MLK day.
This is the most ridiculous tripe imaginable – as the story all but acknowledges halfway down. The UNCG Cafeteria is set up buffet style. I ate there almost every day [...]
January 30, 2006
"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho…we’ve got to come up with something new, fellas…"
From Beth at Greensboring:
Greensboro: 604 S. Elm St.The Scene on South Elm
Bring the Noise, Drown Out Bush’s Lies! Music, speakers, video, and more. 7:30pm – Pre-SOU Speeches & Rally 8:00pm – We will then march during the speech, with some observers left to observe the speech to count specific times he uses specific words [...]
January 29, 2006
SIPS: Gin Martinis at Much
Joe KillianGo Triad12/29/06
Much Restaurant & Martini Bar
Address: 113 South Elm Street, Greensboro NC
Telephone: (336) 370-1311
Drink Specials: Nightly
Hours: Bar Wednesday – Friday, 4 p.m. – 2 p.m., Restaurant 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Website: www.muchrestaurant.com
Drink: Gin Martini
Rating: Four swizzle sticks
The Skinny: All Martinis are not created equal. In fact, [...]
January 29, 2006
The Bald and The Beautiful
Today my piece on being bald ran in the News & Record. If you get the paper at home or pick it up today it’s the centerpiece of the Life section. The dominant image is a close up of my bald head – from my eyes up. It is, literally, larger than my actual head. [...]
January 28, 2006
What is with all the area reality TV stars?
From the News & Record:
If you want to be in movies, go to Hollywood. But for reality TV, try the Triad.
Over the past five years, at least five Triad natives or residents — plus one from nearby Raleigh — have made it big on major reality television shows such as Fox’s “American Idol” and CBS’ [...]
January 28, 2006
No Expectations
Don’t listen to The Rolling Stones’ “No Expectations” from the album “Beggar’s Banquet” while you’re drunk.
It has the same strange ability to crush your heart to fine dust as the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” – which is an album on which even the songs about happiness are sad.
There are people who don’t appreciate the Stones [...]
January 28, 2006
Fuck. Fuck. FUCK. That is all. Now liquor. …
Fuck.
Fuck.
FUCK.
That is all.
Now liquor.
And sleep.
January 28, 2006
A thought on commerce and "controversy" trumping principle
A real-life example that occurred to me tonight, as I was chewing over the trouble at Graffitti Ads, LLC – a Winston Salem company that says it isn’t homophobic but considers an ad for a gay youth group “too controversial” because, as an employee explains, people who are homophobic wouldn’t like it.
When my grandmother ran [...]
January 27, 2006
Graffitti Ads LLC employee says his company isn’t homophobic…just cowardly.
Ed Cone points to a post from Sue at Southern Rants who has an e-mail from an employee of Graffitti Ads, LLC.
The employee, Daniel Zimmer, is a gay man and explains that his company isn’t homophobic – they’re just worried about upsetting people who are.
I can understand where Zimmer’s coming from – but his [...]
January 27, 2006
Gay business owner decides against advertising with company that called gay youth group ad "too controversial"
From Matt Hill’s blog:
A gay business owner in Greensboro has responded to the bias shown in business dealings by Graffiti Ads, a marketing/avertising group based in Winston-Salem, NC (See prior post, Triad company refuses to work with LGBT group; refuses ad for community resources and movie festival).
John Johnson, owner of the Biltmore Greensboro Hotel in [...]
January 26, 2006
"Framed" this week
Go check out Framed – the monthly comic/feature story hybrid by my buddy Chris Lowrance. It’s in the latest issue of Yes! Weekly – on stands all over Greensboro right now.
This week’s, about geek Mecca Cosmic Castle, is fucking hilarious.
You can also get Framed at Webcomics Nation. If you go there, click on his Google [...]
January 25, 2006
Tell your buddies at Skybar you think gay youth groups are too controversial…jackasses.
Check out Matt Hill’s blog entry about a local LBGT group (via Alternative Resources of the Triad) being turned down by a a Triad advertiser (Graffitti Ads, LLC).
The company said they thought the ad – for a gay youth group – was “too controversial.”
Their homepage is alive with racy (if sort of shitty) ads from [...]
January 25, 2006
Images from the art exhibit "MORE ART MORE SELFISH", Elliot University Center, UNCG
January 25, 2006
What now?
The UNCG College Republicans and College Libertarians sent a letter to Chancellor Patricia Sullivan, letting her know they’ll no longer be complying with the University’s anti-discrimination policy – or at least the bit of it that requires them to admit members regardless of their political views.
Good for them. I can only wonder why the College [...]
January 25, 2006
UNCG Free Speech Zones video
If you’re at all interested in the UNCG Free Speech Zones controversy (or even if you’re not) you’ve got to take a look at the video of the protest that essentially kicked the whole thing off. Not badly filmed – even if the “Hey, Hey, Ho Ho” beginning has to make anyone with a sense [...]
January 24, 2006
OUT OF MY HEAD: Davis speech represented the historical, not idealized, MLK
When it was announced that Angela Davis would be the keynote speaker at this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration there was, I thought, surprisingly little controversy. A few days before the event UNCG’s Conservative Union sent a formal letter of protest to the University and drew up a press release that got them a [...]
January 22, 2006
SCIENCE vs. HOYLE
So those wacky kids at MIT are apparently at it again…this time taking pictues of bullets going through business and playing cards with a EG&G Model 531 microflash and Nikon D100 digital camera.
The results are uncanny.
January 18, 2006
My Angela Davis post
Angela Davis spoke at UNCG last night.
There was some opposition from conservatives on campus – and in the end she gave them exactly what they thought she would.
Melissa Westmoreland’s column from this week’s Carolinian is something I actually wrote myself – in a different tone, with a slightly different conclusion, with a lot of other [...]
