When I stumbled upon the 11 Alive twitter account my first thought was, “I wonder what 11 Alive has to Twitter about?”.  Well quickly I found out nothing interesting.  What they have done is basically taken Twitter and turned it into a RSS feed. They post all their stories to their Twitter account with links to the articles. Yippee. I guess my question to them is why don’t I just go to your homepage to begin with.

 11 Alive Twitter account

I highly recommend that if you have never checked out the monthly humor/art site, theplug.net, then you do.  The plug is a collection of random posts/pranks/thoughts that are humorous, random and many down right sidesplitting. This month my favorite bits are the “Certificate of Awesomeness” and “The Monocle Trio.”

Check out this month’s issue here: theplug.net -April edition

Dubbed as the “World’s Largest Adventure Series, City Chase tries to mimic the TV show, The Amazing Race, but without the foreign countries, cheesy storylines and Jerry Bruckheimer. Instead, City Chase allows local teams to compete against each other through a series of odd and end events around their town. This year the event takes place on May 17th and will have contestants chasing around clues in midtown, downtown and Buckhead. So if you ever dreamed on being on The Amazing Race, grab your twin or you ex that your not sure you like and form a team.

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City Chase Atlanta

An article today on the 11 Alive website claims that Lithonia mayor, Joyce McKibben, is becoming a fast rising YouTube star with some videos that have resulted from her feud with the Lithonia City Council. The videos, including the one below of her trying to take a city computer out of the office and being stopped, have racked up a whopping 400 views when I checked it at 8am this morning. Now I don’t really know how many views it takes to place you into the category of YouTube’s viral sensations but I have a feeling it’s not 400 ( eg. see other video of a cat meowing that has achieved almost 2,000 views). So here’s to you 11 Alive and to your glorification of the news.

Lithonia Mayor Video (400 Views)

Cat’s Meowing (almost 2,000 views)

The 11 Alive Article

I’m not sure these three things would be a recommend paring for a good night.  If this is how Zifty “makes a night out of it”, I’m not sure I want to hang out with Zifty anytime soon.

Found courtesy of the Sunday Paper.

This is pretty far off but the just as a reminder, the East Atlanta Beer Festival will be taking place on May 31st.  Tickets went fast last year, so I wanted to give you plenty of time to pick up tickets if you want to go.  It’s been a fun festival in the past and this year it will be a nice way to spend a Saturday still nursing the hangover from Memorial Day weekend.

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East Atlanta Beer Festival

This was found courtesy of a good Atlanta blog, pecannelog.com. It’s updated often and they dig up some good stuff on Atlanta.

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