Some Decatur stories have a certain je ne sais quoi and find themselves quickly being reported on much larger stages.

Country Music Television summarized the recent falling out and reconciliation between Decatur CD and Sugarland in a blurb…

Sugarland’s Kristian Bush visited Decatur CD record store in his hometown of Decatur, Ga., on Wednesday (Aug. 12), after a store employee criticized the duo’s exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart for their new CD/DVD, Live on the Inside. Decatur CD employee Warren Hudson complained on the store’s blog that by “shutting the door on independent record stores, you’re in effect shutting the door on your hometown.” Bush posted a reply on the blog entry that he would come to the store when he had a break from his tour. During his visit, he signed autographs for customers who happened to be in the store and purchased three CDs.

If there’s a moral here, it’s that criticizing celebrities is a great way to get free publicity.  With that said, look forward to my critiques of various Decatur celebs attached to random initiatives I support.

For example: “Dear John Mayer, why did you write a song about an Atlanta highway (I-85) thereby promoting the stigma that our city is all highways and subdivisions?  Did you not perform often in Decatur?  Did we not nourish your young mind with progressive thought and a ‘shut up and be quiet’ stage? And this is how you repay us?  It seems you were more than just “tempted to leave the car in drive and leave it all behind.”