Comments on: Neighborhood fakery. http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/ Jeff Durland's views on certain matters, not excluding editorial communications, Web usability, writing, food, and wine. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.6 by: Frank http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-316 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:12:58 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-316 <p>Tube socks good, fire bad.</p> Tube socks good, fire bad.

]]> by: slick http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-292 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:12:24 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-292 <p>Hold on a minute here, street fairs are good clean fun for the whole family!</p> <p>I was on a jury recently, and we heard a case where a couple teens had a gunfight in the middle of one.</p> <p>Sincerely, P.T. Barnum</p> Hold on a minute here, street fairs are good clean fun for the whole family!

I was on a jury recently, and we heard a case where a couple teens had a gunfight in the middle of one.

Sincerely, P.T. Barnum

]]> by: Jeff Durland http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-287 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:22:04 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-287 <p>Dave, thanks, I hope that "quotable" was clear to everybody--Yahoo! Answers and street fairs share the qualities of being only out for a buck and having crappy content. Yet people go, because there's no barrier to entry, I guess.</p> <p>Your neighborhood seems to have more going on than mine, and I have a completely unjustified guess as to why: yours is up-and-coming, mine is established. So mine has older people trying to defend something, yours has younger people trying to create something. Whaddaya think?</p> Dave, thanks, I hope that “quotable” was clear to everybody–Yahoo! Answers and street fairs share the qualities of being only out for a buck and having crappy content. Yet people go, because there’s no barrier to entry, I guess.

Your neighborhood seems to have more going on than mine, and I have a completely unjustified guess as to why: yours is up-and-coming, mine is established. So mine has older people trying to defend something, yours has younger people trying to create something. Whaddaya think?

]]> by: Dave C. http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-285 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:13:09 +0000 http://sophistry.org/2006/10/24/neighborhood-fakery/#comment-285 <blockquote>New York street fairs are the Yahoo! Answers of the real world.</blockquote> <p>[this is good]</p> <p>Heh, nicely done. That's my favorite Sophistry.org quotable yet.</p> <p>Atlanta has what I think is a good blend of "the usual suspects style" fairs and community-specific stuff. Where I live, in East Atlanta, the community and business associations work pretty hard to keep up a steady flow of events throughout the year, both to keep new people coming in to the village and for all of us to hang out together. We have the <a href="http://www.eastatlantastrut.org/" rel="nofollow">EAV Strut</a>, the joint <a href="http://www.batlevent.com/" rel="nofollow">Taste of East Atlanta/Battle of Atlanta</a> thing, corndogorama, a beerfest, <a href="http://www.eastatlantavillage.net/events.phtml?hashID=0fdee4122fc8906ba47c341510303137" rel="nofollow">EAV-o-ween</a> next week, pretty much something to do every couple of months, and although some of the vendors are the same (because they're <em>our</em> vendors), the events themselves are pretty significantly different from each other. You should come visit.</p>

New York street fairs are the Yahoo! Answers of the real world.

[this is good]

Heh, nicely done. That’s my favorite Sophistry.org quotable yet.

Atlanta has what I think is a good blend of “the usual suspects style” fairs and community-specific stuff. Where I live, in East Atlanta, the community and business associations work pretty hard to keep up a steady flow of events throughout the year, both to keep new people coming in to the village and for all of us to hang out together. We have the EAV Strut, the joint Taste of East Atlanta/Battle of Atlanta thing, corndogorama, a beerfest, EAV-o-ween next week, pretty much something to do every couple of months, and although some of the vendors are the same (because they’re our vendors), the events themselves are pretty significantly different from each other. You should come visit.

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