ATLANTA SNOWPACALYPSE!!
Yesterday afternoon, the dj on Georgia Tech’s radio station (WREK 91.3 FM) warned the greater ATL against driving. After all, it was Atlanta’s own SNOWPOCALYPSE out there!!
Well, not really. In fact, it was a rather quaint “storm,” more pretty than dramatic. Even the radar image was pretty, with various shades of blue, green, pink, yellow & orange…
That radar image is kinda gay-looking, if you ask The IP. OMG!! The IP used the word “gay!” Does he mean that as a pejorative, as a homophobic slight against gays? Maybe he means it in the neutral, like he’s just saying the colors are “gay” and care-free, like the older definition. Maybe it’s because those colors and the bar at the bottom are like a gay-pride flag.
These kinds of questions stalk The IP when he hears (as he did yesterday) Public Service Announcements on college radio stations that give instructions on how to confront people who call things “gay” or “totally gay.” The ironic thing is that most young males in this country would actually say that a PSA that gives instructions on how to deal with people who call things “totally gay” would itself be totally gay. Gee whiz. Some people call The IP a “total douchebag” and he doesn’t freak out.
Sticks and stones? Or broken bones? Hurt feelings? Whatever.
It definitely was a “queer” storm, in the traditional sense of the word. It’s unusual to have a decent snowfall this far south, and while it was not like the big storms of the NE, The IP will take all the snow he can get, quaint, queer, or otherwise.
All this sensitivity about words reached its apex this past week in Atlanta. MARTA had recently color coded its rail lines and named the one that went to Doraville “YELLOW.” That’s right. Like the color. But because of a few outspoken “Asians” (that’s a pretty dumb descriptor as well), a big hub-bub dropped and soon MARTA’s racist transit line became national news; they quickly changed the color of the line to “GOLD.” That was a classic WTF? chain of events and questionable capitulation. Don’t you pithecanthropes think so? Aren’t there already a bunch of YELLOW transit lines in the world?
Well, yesterday’s snow was very WHITE, and, by popular demand, below are a few dumb snow pics from The Quaint Storm of 2010 (please note that The IP is taking care of Beatrix The Wooly Bear again):
February 14, 2010 at 1:14 am
I love your snow pictures, and Beatrix looks like a fun gal.
Are you going to do any posts about…you know…what happened here in Huntsville?
February 16, 2010 at 1:08 am
It’s “teh ghey” and kids playing outside in slippery snow is dangerous, you should have called their parents or the police. They could have been injured. They should be inside safe from the dangerous weather conditions.
February 16, 2010 at 1:09 am
Beatrix looks huggable.
Does Beatrix play well, or is she boring?
February 16, 2010 at 1:48 pm
She’s not big on traditional dog play. She’s good at sleeping, however. And eating “snacks” that are not her regular dog food (cheese bits, chicken bits, etc.). She hates little kids and other dogs, so walks are challenging.