Wow…I’m surprised no one called me out on this one sooner.  I checked on this a few weeks back but the site wasn’t up yet.

As Steve notes in a previous post, tickets for the 2008 Decatur Wine Festival on Saturday, Nov. 1st are now on sale.  Tickets are 30 bucks each.

Assuming you can sober up from the Beer Festival by then, get your tickets here!

The last time I left town for a few days, I came back and there was no gas.

This time when I left, there was still no gas so I thought…phew! at least I won’t have that surprise waiting for me! But now I log on to find out that the Dow has plummeted, my bank has been bought by Citigroup, and Creative Loafing has filed for Chapter 11!

What the hell? Why are world markets and alt-weeklies so opposed to my relaxation?

But seriously, I hope CL can survive…those guys are top-notch in my book and have given me a lot of moral support over the past year.  Perhaps its because of their “alt-nature”, but CL gets local blogs.  Many of their writers come from or maintain their own sites, not to mention must-read Fresh Loaf.

On the other hand, the AJC just takes from local blogs, while supporting a tired list of their own contraptions, which are really just op-ed pages moved online, sections of the paper that have gotten severely cutback (ATLarts..cough cough) or ridiculous attempts to provoke unmoderated conversation amongst its often insane commenters.

Give me Creative Loafing any day of the week.  Or once a week, in a plastic green bin outside Whit’s End…that works too.