It’s Friday and you know what that means…FFAF!…which I can only assume is pronounced “phaf”.
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The few times that we’ve tried to go to Avellino’s, the restaurant has been closed. I haven’t been able to find their hours online anywhere, and the last time we went by, they didn’t have their hours posted on the door. Does anyone know (generally) when they are open? Thanks!
I went by a couple of weeks ago at about Noon on a Saturday afternoon and they were closed, same thing, no hours posted on the door. If you’re not going to be open for lunch at Noon on a Saturday there must be a problem.
I do like their pizza the couple of times I have eaten there, but they better get their act together.
Yeah, the lack of a website drives me batty as well. It doesn’t have to be much – just a simple menu & prices is plenty. Otherwise placing a carry-out order becomes a real hassle. Yup, life is hard.
In general, I think I’ve seen them open Tuesday-Saturday for dinner….but I could be totally wrong about that.
Here’s a link to a menu: http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/9/1470117/restaurant/Atlanta/Avellino-s-Pizza-Decatur#reviews. We’ve been using this to do carryout from there since we have pesky children who don’t behave in restaurants
I think they are only open for dinner. I really like the pizza here and hope it succeeds but their marketing and lack of web presence is not a good sign.
I have known one of the owners since he was a teenager. He’s a good guy.
Do bicycles have to abide by one way street signs?
Bicycles are supposed to follow all traffic laws.
We have yard signs!!
If there is anyone who would like to support our campaign for Decatur City Commission for District 1, we should have some very cool yard signs on Monday. As you probably learned from the campaign disclosures yesterday, we are a “lean and mean” campaign financially, and depend solely on our ability to make contact with people in the community.
You can learn more about my by clicking on my name in this post. And please email me with your address if you would like a yard sign: jamesradfordjr AT yahoo DOT com.
Thank you!
CIA reports lunar DNA evidence confirming Al Qaeda’s third in command has been killed in a morning strike.
What sort of strike? Hunger?
Does anyone know if there is a Decatur Moms/Decatur Parents listserv type of thing?
There’s a DecaturMamas Yahoo group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decaturmama/
Yes Paula — there is a Decatur Mama Yahoo Group.
Thank you!
President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hey – that’s great news. Also of note:
I Just filled up at Quik-Trip on Scott Boulevard. They’re giving away a Nobel prize with every full tank of gas.
If you upsize the combo at AMC theaters this weekend, you get a large Coke, large popcorn and a Nobel prize.
I got a flat tire on the way to work – I hit a Nobel prize someone left in the road.
In other Nobel news, at the same press conference Bernie Madoff was awarded an economics prize.
I’ve read some funny things on DM today, but you, George, get the (Nobel) prize for the very best one. Now if BHO could just get an Oscar for his commercial with George Lopez, he can match Al Bore.
I’m an Obama supporter and find your post hilarious and on target.
I won the Nobel prize for literature today, because one day I’m gonna write a rilly good book.
Six words:
Barack Obama – he’s not George Bush!
Good one, Dave!
Hey, what about me? I’m not George Bush either. Never have been, and I don’t think that fact has ever been duly honored.
Soon he will also win a C. Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.
Now that is brilliant. We don’t have enough Simpson references on this blog!
Robbie, just to make you feel better the other way I considered responding to the comment below was “Look out! I’m a motorist!”
I am a Democrat sorta socialist from a family of Democrats so blue we have no hemoglobin (my grandpa always said “I don’t allow two things in my house- Yankees and Republicans”) and even I realize poor old Obama only won as a big FU to GWB. I wonder if Sarah Palin will speak at the ceremony. After all, she’s been keeping Putin from rearing his head… she must understand peace.
NB1197 – Interesting. I was raised in the completely opposite environment. Ours was a family of moderate Republicans, but all were welcome in our house – including Democrats and Yankees.
Not hatin’, just sayin’.
My grandpa was one generation away from the Civil War ( I am not THAT old- my grandpa was very old when I was a kid!), so Yankees and Republicans were not exactly his favorite things. Fortunately, his politics followed the party!
Apparently, people on bicyles think they are like the NYC bike couriers in 1980’s movies – dashing between cars at full speed, ignoring all traffic laws (including one guy who decided to ignore the red light at the Clairmont & Scott intersections. Easily could have been killed!) and either signally wildly in a manner that does not make sense or giving NO indication of their intent (you pick)
The haughty, self righteous looks of disgust and protest you get if you actually drive by them (gasp) on Scott Boulevard rather than riding behind them at 5 MPH all the way to moreland in traffic or when you are waiting to turn onto a street & they clearly speed up to make sure you have to wait while they cross…. those looks are priceless.
Pedestrians… some folks think it is their absolute right to walk 3-4 abreast with friends/neighbors, like they are in a protest march, and then give you that waspy, icy stare-down as you pass….Just this morning, three mothers with baby carriages completely blocked Lamont while they slowly walked, chatted, sipped coffee giggled and laughed, and stopped to ajust their professional-grade sportsgear….I finally got an opening where cars aren’t parked on both sides of the street and accelerated to a whopping 12 miles per hour (well under speed limit posted) and one of them whipped around and yelled something about slowing down. Apparently her invisible radar gun is out of calibration, because I respect posted speed limits and do not speed through neighborhoods because of animals (suicide squirrells and dogs, namely.. I seldom see kids in the streets- they apparently have been taught to stay out of the road. Can’t have been taught by the people I got blocked by.)
Who’s the most self-righteous? The pedestrian, the cyclist or the motorist?
When it comes to pomposity in traveling, it’s a wash to me. No one is any worse than the other, which is no surprise when you think about since they’re all performed by the same damn species: humans.
Where I have trouble giving any deference to the motorist is that their mode of transportation easily kills others….and the transportation system bends over backwards to make your life an absolute peach. Can’t say that for cyclists or walkers.
In terms of your Lamont experience…it sounds like yet another good example of why that neighborhood needs some sidewalks. Too bad the residents in that area blocked that effort.
Amen to that, but they would just glare & yell from their new sidewalk. This isn’t my first time driving in Decatur LOL. But thankfully, because warm weather is as good as over, there won’t be a separate a landscape truck-trailer-and-crew at each home on Lamont at 8:00 AM Monday-Friday and the carriage brigade will be forced indoors for awhile.
Between the constant renovations, over scheduled yet deligent landscaping crews, the pedestrians/ bicyclists and carriage brigade and all the “Elect So and So” signs, it looked more than a little crazy on Lamont this past summer LOL : )
Good point about the sidewalks. All those who voted against the sidewalks should be required to walk along that edge of their lawns that really isn’t their property but belongs to the city instead of inconveniencing drivers.
I’m a self-confessed carriage brigade offender (although not on Lamont). Would love to use sidewalks 100% of the time. But even when they are present, sometimes they are so uneven, cracked, and/or overgrown that your kid’s head bobbles around like a balloon on a string. The smooth streets, by contrast, are (to quote a favorite Seinfeld episode) so luxurious.
I would tend to excuse anyone who tried to use sidewalks and found them either non-existent or inadequate. But in the case of Lamonters, some of those blocking the roadway may have lobbied against sidewalks because they didn’t want to lose their precious 3 feet of lawn that didn’t belong to them anyway. They need to get up on that precious bit of lawn and stay there if it was so important to them that they couldn’t let it go for the general benefit of the neighborhood.
Yes, but do cars and trucks drive on those sidewalks?
How do you get signs updated in Decatur? The school hours are wrong, the sign on College Ave. for the cross walk in front of ASC is missing, what do we have to do?
The flashing overhead school light for Westchester came on during school arrival and dismissal for at least 2 years after the school closed, maybe longer. It’s probably one of those city-county-state jurisdiction disconnects.
Contact the Decatur Public Works Department.
Just posted on the Oakhurst Message Board…
“I was just walking my baby & my dog on Second Ave. — between Oakview & East Lake. There is a black puppy, probably ~3 months old that looked like it wanted to follow us (lab/shepherd mix ? mix). She was on the other side of the street & almost walked in front of a couple of cars. I parked my stroller & walked over to her — I thought I might try to throw my dogs collar on her & hold her in our yard until we could figure out what to do with her.
She was frightened of me, but finally sat still for me to come to her. Twice she tried to nip at my hand when I lifted it above her nose (after sniffing & licking my fingers). My thoughts are that she’s been very abused. She was not wearing a collar. She really seemed to want me to pet her or to do something, but with a 21 month old child, I didn’t really feel like I could take the chance on grabbing her & bringing her home (if she were to bite him).
She seemed really sweet — but just like she’d been hit a bunch. Maybe someone on the list can go check on her…”
By the way, DM, FFAF should be pronounced “ffaph,” not “phaf.”
anyone have a suggestion as to who to contact at DHS band for a possible donation to the band in exchange for 15 minute drumline? I must have the wrong email address for the bandleader b/c I haven’t heard back to an inquiry. thx!
Megan Williams is the band director. [email protected]
The AJC reports a new BBQ place at Clairmont and N Decatur. It’s being opened by one of the person’s who ran the original Sam and Dave’s.
http://blogs.ajc.com/table-talk-blog/2009/10/07/new-cue-in-town/?cxntlid=sldr_hm
One of the main reasons I moved to Decatur when I was a young 20-something was because of the trees and sidewalks. YES REALLY. I envisioned my future kids playing hopscotch and learning how to ride their bikes on the sidewalks. (that was before these laws preventing bike traffic on sidewalks, although i understand decatur rescinded theirs)
I did grow up being taught that you walked on sidewalks, not streets, and that you obeyed traffic laws, no matter what mode of transportation you were using — and that includes bikes and foot travel.
it still amazes me that parents are teaching their children poor safety habits by letting them cross the street outside of crosswalks … i even saw a dad with his child appropriately attired in a helmet attempting to the street in their bikes front of chick fil a ..when the cross walk was less than a half-block up the street. these crosswalks, We are an impatient lot,, and i do know the lights are poorly timed, but come on people, the crosswalks are there for your safety …
Congratulations to the Oakhurst community and to all the folks who put together the Oakhurst Arts and Music Festival. I had a blast!