by doris | July 19, 2007
I should never leave the safety of my home!
I went to Fire Island with some friends and we went swimming in the ocean (twice) and it was, admittedly chilly but incredibly refreshing. But after we got out the second time, we saw a crowd gathering around *Something* a little ways down the beach. It was a shark that had washed up on shore! (picture Jaws)
Okay, okay, it wasn't a Great White, it was sluggish sand shark, and only about 2 feet long, but STILL! It had a shark face, a shark nose, and a shark body and I wanted to touch it, but this guy in cheetah print speedos, still clasping the book he was reading under his beach umbrella, purposefully walked up to it, grabbed its tail, and flung it back into the waves.
Prior to the Jaws siting, there was another commotion brought on by a young deer who had wandered onto the beach and was politely begging at each beachgoer's station for food. There are a lot of deer on Fire Island (with lots of nasty deer ticks hanging off of them) so it's not unusual for them to come out, but a deer on the beach is still a Huh? kind of spectacle.
And then last night I was witness to a hit and run accident! (see? i should never leave my house!) A guy sped through a red light, hit an oncoming car, crashed into a parked van and immediately turned his car around, hit another parked car, and sped away, leaving only his bumper as a trace. It happened so quickly that no one could really see him or get his license plate number. Some people ran down the street and said he had just hit two people before speeding away from that accident and hitting the car that I saw. I felt bad for him and for everyone involved--he must have been really drunk or high or just completely panicked.
Sigh.
by ty | July 6, 2007
That is, thanks to everyone who came out to Eddie's for our first Atlanta hometown show! Nate pointed out last night that we sort of have 2 hometowns now, because Doris still lives in New York, and I thought that made us sort of like bigamists and suggested that we should be on that show "Big Love." The joke fell flat. Hey, it made sense in my head!
Other than that, it was a super night and I couldn't believe how many people were there, just having a good old time with us. It was great to hear our old friend Adrianne and our new friend Sonia Tetlow singing their hearts out before we went on. It made me love Atlanta even more than I already do. I can sense a strong music community in that space, a deep history of real music, real people writing songs and connecting with each other. It's thrilling and I'm excited to be a part of that, now that I live here.
People keep asking how it is to go from living in NYC for ten years to being in Atlanta, and I have to say I'm amazed by how different two cities can be. Things are more humid here, in every sense. There are more squirrels, more trees, more cars, bigger and louder thunderstorms with flash floods that overwhelm everything then disappear. It's so intense, y'all!
Although Doris and I determined last night that one thing our cities have in common are gross gigantic bugs. You know the ones. In NY they're called water bugs--they're like oversized roaches that fly. What could be worse? But down here they're called Palmetto bugs, which makes them seem like normal people, almost like you could have them over for biscuits and sweet tea.
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by Toller, January 25, 2007
Aw Nate, i hope you are ok!