We are roughly 5 months away from football season and the questions are starting: Who will the Falcons pick in the draft? Who the hell are these guys? Most importantly, who the hell are we going to play?  Now I believe that for the Falcons to do anything this year they will have to have the easiest schedule in the league, unfortunately, they gave that to the team that went 16-0 last year, the New England Patriots.  Ohhh……well, I guess we always have the cheerleaders but if you are interest you can click here for the schedule anyway.

NFL Schedules

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Screen on the Green is going to be a lot different this year than in years past. First off, it won’t be held in Piedmont Park. Yes, thanks to the damn drought, another favorite outdoor park event has been relocated to Centennial Park. Next up, and this one is a biggie, there will be no alcohol allowed at the event. So now not only do I have to sit in Centennial Park but I also can’t be drunk. Wow, this isn’t looking like to much fun yet. Lastly, the movies. There isn’t actually that has changed from years past as the lineup includes: Jaws, Big Momma House, E.T. and Chicago. One twist though is that there will be a fifth movie that they are allowing the people to decide whether they want to see Back to the Future, Footloose and Rocky. You can vote on the Peachtree TV website. I’m sure the event still be a lot of fun but if I’m not allowed to drink with my picnic, then I’m not sure I want to picnic. I’ll leave it up to you decide.

Screen of the Green

An ode to what screen on the green used to be:

April 20th, four-twenty, four to da twenty, the national pot smoking day, whatever you want to call it is upon us again.  With April 20th we get the annual Sweetwater 420 festival. Named after their flagship beer, the 420 festival is drunken spring event with good beer, live music, large amounts of people and last year, people peeing all over the trees (girls and guys).  Either way, this should be a fun time, but if it was anything like last year then you might want to bring your own beer.  BYOB was acceptable last year and it’s a good idea because the lines to get a nice cold 420 is long and the beer isn’t as cheap as if you brought your own 420.  Now they might crackdown on this a bit but it’s an open park and the event is free, so I’m not sure how they will stop you.  Enjoy the party.

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Sweetwater 420 Festival 

Local emerging psychedelic-grunge rockers, Dead Confederate, will be playing a free show this Thursday at the Star Bar part of a reoccurring event named, “Big Trouble in little 5.” Dead Confederate has been around since 2006 and has a growing following due to solid buzz through the music press and online. They are awesome live, so if you dig the music you hear below then I would definitely go check them out. Plus, remember this show is free, so now you just need cash to cover your booze.

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No one likes huge advertisements that fly, spin, expand and so forth when they arrive at a website,. But I understand and accept why these ads are put on websites, because I’m getting the content for free. Now most sites I browse limit their hype-annoying ads to the homepage, where most of their traffic is located and therefore where they can get the largest amount of money. But the local newspaper, AJC.com, isn’t so nice and had decided to place large expanding ads on almost every lead section of their site. I go to the homepage, I get a massive expanding ad for tires. I go to sports, I get another massive expanding ad for flowers. I go back to the business section, I get another damn expanding ad for an airline. Urrggg…..it’s retarded. I just wish the AJC could find to make money on their website other than building an ad on every section that feels like an expanding blob is trying to over take my computer. Personally, I don’t like expanding blobs. Actually, I really don’t like expanding blobs. And I especially disliking the ones on the AJC.

The Braves arrive back in town on Friday for a seven day homestand where they will play the Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Nationals. The Dodgers are around this weekend for games on Saturday at 3:55pm and Sunday at 1:30pm.. Below is a complete schedule for your reference.

Friday through Sunday - Los Angeles Dodgers

Monday and Tuesday - Washington Nationals

Wednesday and Thursday - Florida Marlins

Full Schedule with times

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If you like Regina Spektor and Lily Allen, then you probably will like Kate Nash. Other information that might intrigue you: she’s British, she plays the piano, her music is pretty awesome and she’s easy on the eyes. Basically she’s the girl you always wanted to date but never had the chance. Don’t feel bad though…I didn’t have a chance either.

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Please don’t ask how I got to this site, it’s not relevant and actually kind of embarrassing. Either way, I just wanted to let you know that Tongue and Groove has decided that v1.0 was not good enough and has decided to do a system upgrade to version 2.0. Thank godness, because I thought that version 1.0 was kind of buggy and crappy myself. Now you might ask what will be included in v2.0, first off a crappy website with twinkly letters will definitively be included that hints at the possibility of some random blue light show. But if you want more info they have provided the address so you can go peek in the windows at the forthcoming v2.0. If do you show up, please watch your step because I will be camping out waiting for my invite to the beta launch party.

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