Morning Metro: Atlanta Home Prices Aren’t Great, a Former Winnona Park Tutor Passes, and the Porter is Expanding
Decatur Metro | December 28, 2011 | 8:13 am- Atlanta home prices now below 2000 levels [AJC]
- Doug Richards reflects on getting beat to the N. DeKalb mistletoe shooting story [LAF]
- Brain disorder caregiver, mathematician, Winnona Park tutor, sidewalk advocate dies at 82 [AJC]
- Top 10 international dishes in Atlanta for 2011 [AJC]
- One of the weirdest descriptions of Decatur I’ve ever read! [Coastal Vacations Blog]
- Vote for Decatur in Southern Living’s “Tastiest Town” contest! [SL]
- The Porter Beer Bar in L5P plans to double its bar space next year [Twitter]
The Decatur blurb is hilarious. Apparently written in a language other than English and translated by Google. Priceless.
That travel article on Decatur is mind blowing! If you click the link to this Jeff Mills character you come to a bio type page with a short video pitching his marketing services – which is a video comprised from a handful of still images of him on a white sweep in a photo studio doing karate style kicks and other weird poses – evidently making you believe he is a real aggressive go getter seize the day type. Says he went from the outhouse to the penthouse in 4 years! Oh yeah, before that he was a youth pastor – but of course! He is like some slimy character you would see in a weeknight crime drama as a child molester or con man or both!
Whew, weirdness abounds. Click on the about page and see good ole Jeff using his 5 year old daughter as a prop for his shady business. Click on over to ‘full disclosure’ and he calls her a hottie. Reality is stranger than fiction.
The Decatur Luxury and 5 star accomodations sound very amenable for me. I have much interest in making trip there. Thank you please for the informative information.
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I don’t know…that “excessive-speed Internet access” sounds a bit scary to me.
I want whatever internet provider gives that!
The Decatur piece is like a blog equivalent of an Indian call center.
I’m going to take a guess that Jeff Mills is following the “4 hr work week” book by Timothy Ferris. He’s started various blogs to attract advertisers and out sourced his blog writing to folks from other country, paying them a very minimal fee for the service. The whole youth pastor turned marketing guru brings to mind a snake oil salesman.
Who the hell calls him or herself “manuser”?
I acquire great pleasure from the attaining of CNN and HBO
Sheesh! Words fail me in re: that Decatur piece. Literally.
But Rummy, there are so many words IN it!
I couldn’t find any perverts calling a kid hot or karate chopping super sales videos
My wife is a hottie and loves me unconditionally.
My daughter is super cool and a hottie too… she’ll never get married to any slackers out there.
http://jeffmills.com/disclosures
Here is the link – you would see it by scrolling to the bottom of the page about Decatur – it is a hyperlink underlining his name – Jeff Mills. Click the link and then you will see the page with the video I described.
Or just copy paste the web address below:
http://jeffmills.com/
The funniest part about that Decatur blog post is that it was written by “James Patterson.”
Even Stephen King can’t stand that guy.
http://www.disinfo.com/2009/02/stephen-king-disses-stephanie-meyer-james-patterson/
The funniest part about that Decatur Coastal Vacations blog post is that it was written by “James Patterson.”
Even Stephen King can’t stand that guy, says he’s a “terrible writer.”
http://www.disinfo.com/2009/02/stephen-king-disses-stephanie-meyer-james-patterson/
Thanks for the link to Jim’s write up. He was just a friendly happy neighbor on the street. Didn’t know his background till reading the AJC article.
Finest Inn and Suites is certainly one of Decatur’s luxurious hotels. This luxurious lodge in Decatur is located at 4095 Covington Highway, Decatur, Georgia. You’ll be able to attain them at 1-404-286-2500. This resort presents free parking, which is perfect when you’ve got your personal vehicle. It additionally has no smoking rooms and facilities. Apart from the fundamental facilities, alarm clocks and hair dryers are available in all rooms. Guests also can get pleasure from watching CNN, HBO, or ESPN in the 25-inch TV obtainable in each room. Greatest Inn and Suites has a pool the place guests can calm down after a tiring day. This luxury hotel is near Atlanta’s attractions.
ROTFL
Can you imagine some unsuspecting foreign tourist showing up in their “personal vehicle” at the Finest Inn and Suites on Covington Highway, expecting to find a luxurious lodge? LOL
I wonder if the blog owner(s)/writer(s) have any liability in all this? If a family spent a lot of money to travel to Belvedere Park based on the misunderstanding that they were going to a luxury resort in the City of Decatur, could they claim fraud? If their “luxury accomodations” turned out to full of drug dealing and prostitution and they were mugged or physically harmed, would the blog have criminal liability?
This certainly is as good an example of any of the limitations of unreviewed information on the web. Maybe a good example for students who don’t see why they cannot just google the information for their projects.
Criminal liability? What is the crime? I don’t think so. What if you came to Decatur based on all the recent good press and real estate advertisements to visit a local eatery on the Square and you get shot right in front of City Hall. Any liability there?
Just wondering. What about violation of “truth in advertising” laws? Except that the untruths are posted by a third party, not the lodging being advertised. Just wondering if there’s any legal check at all on this kind of disinformation dissemination. Certainly demonstrates that one must verify information obtained from the Web before making decisions using it!
Anyone who accepts the opinion of a blogger as fact does so at his own peril. Perhaps he thinks it is “one of Decatur’s luxurious hotels” and he can certainly state his opinion. Plus, everything is relative. To many people, a place with a roof and 4 walls is a luxury, not to mention running water, indoor plumbing, electricity and a TV. And don’t forget about the swimming pool!
You’ve got a point. Those alarm clocks and hair dryers alone sound worth a journey from the other side of the world!