Thinking about trying Parker’s on Ponce?  Well you might want to head over to Restaurant.com first and pick up a gift certificate or two and pay less than half price!  (Excludes alcohol)

Saba, Natalie’s and Amaryn’s Thai Bowl also have similar deals currently.

And if you see Carl while you’re out there enjoying dinner at a discount, say “Thank You!” since he was the one that point this out.

UPDATE: In my haste I forgot this additional tidbit from Carl: “Use discount code “online” (without the quotes) for 70% off.”

Whit’s End is currently offering 20% off Tom’s Shoes to help the company reach its goal of giving 30,000 kids in Ethiopia free shoes this holiday season.

For each pair bought, Tom’s will give a pair of shoes to a child that needs them.

According to the Tom’s Shoes’ website, they’re  less than 10,000 away!

Is anyone else a fan of the photoblog Shorpy.com?  Its an incredible resource of photographs taken between 1850 and 1950.

A search of “Atlanta” turns up a collection of truly amazing pics during Sherman’s occupation in 1864, along with a few others from the turn of the century.

Wheatley pushes me to another one of his glibly hilarious posts that makes me chuckle and furrow my brow at the same time.  (Trust me, its not a pretty sight!)  Hahaha…hmmm…you get the idea….

In its latest poorly researched ranking of cities, Forbes Magazine named “Candler-McAfee” as the 2nd fastest dying CITY in the county, behind Bensenville, Ill.  What the heck is “Candler-McAfee?”  Well, the map shows it as South DeKalb…but there ain’t nothing down there with that name except for a MARTA line (as pointed out by DriftGrift over on FL).

So the silly county government model confuses another outside organization looking for cities to rank, resulting in the mag using a MARTA line to designate this “city”.

At least they didn’t call it “Decatur”.

So what about this made me furrow my brow?  How about this quote? “In 2000, 13.6% of residents [of Candler-McAfee] were living below the poverty line, about the national average. By 2007 the poverty rate had exploded to 27.5%, one of the highest rates in the country.

Regardless of what name we give this area (South DeKalb/Candler-McAfee/Decatur zip code), that’s a enormous poverty rate directly to our south.

UPDATE: OK, its not just a MARTA line.  Its a Census-Designated Place.  If I had read the Fresh Loaf post a little closer, perhaps I would have realized this.    See the good folks that showed me the light in the comments section.

What did the G.R.A.S.P. ghost-hunters find when they recently spent a night investigating the Old DeKalb County Courthouse?

Click here for all the spoooky details.