In today’s society one has to search long and hard for a true original, a person who posses authentic uniqueness. Inspired by seeing a couple of instances such as the AJC my style segment on Eula Adams
I have decided to upload pictures of my favorite truly unique friend and tarot reader who specializes in astrology Sherri Cash!
Here Sherri Cash shows off her fifty dollar pasta salad. I asked her for the recipe and she said you take fifty dollars to the supermarket and listen to the universe, but be sure to buy pasta as well.
THE $50 PAST SALAD CASH-ROLL BALLAD
by Sherri Cash
Once she had money
now she don’t.
What most folks don’t know
is give up, she won’t.
Once rich
now poor.
One thing she’s not
is a drag or a bore.
Once she got spunky
and created something funky,
Just like “The Jerk”
she didn’t have to work.
Just kept makin’ pasta salad
to create this little ballad,
next thing you know
she had a “BIG CASH-ROLL” When pressed for a recipe she offered up this version:
SHERRI CASH’S $50.00 PASTA SALAD CASH-ROLL
3 color pasta
shell pasta
bow-tie pasta
6 hard boiled eggs
hellman’s mayonaise
grey poupon mustard
horseradish
creamy cucumber dressing
peppercorn ranch dressing
vinegar
olive juice
pickle juice
tobasco
green olives chopped
black olives chopped
jalapeno chopped
feta cheese
cheddar cheese with peppers
monteray jack cheese
parmesian cheese
tomatoes diced
carrots shaved
cucumbers diced
broccoli floretts
artichokes diced
avocado
bacon bits
pepper
lemon pepper
crushed pepper
fresh dill weed
fresh cilantro
Its that time of year again when comic book characters and movie science fiction heroes jump from the screen and page for a vacation at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. That’s right Guys and Gals its DRAGONCON! ( WEBSITE ) Here are some Pictures from check in!
CARMEN SANDIEGO FOUND! and she likes Dr. Pepper cause it matches her outfit.
Writer and former flight attendant Hollis Gillespie is a syndicated columnist and top-selling author. Her column “Moodswing” appears in the alternative weekly Creative Loafing ( WEBSITE ). She is the travel columnist at Paste Magazine and writes a humorous financial column for BeE WOMAN magazine.
Hollis has appeared on the cover of numerous publications including Atlanta magazine, Creative Loafing and Tampa’s Weekly Planet. She has been profiled in Marie Claire, Bust, Writer’s Digest and Entertainment Weekly.
Her television appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, TBS Storyline, Monica Kaufman’s Closeups, Good Day Atlanta, and an upcoming appearance on TV Land. Her radio commentaries appear regularly on National Public Radio (NPR) and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
In 2004, Writer’s Digest named Hollis Gillespie a “Breakout Author of the Year.” Other accolades include “Best Columnist” (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007) and “Best Local Author” (2004, 2005, 2006) honors in the Creative Loafing Best of Atlanta Readers Survey. Atlanta magazine awarded her “Best ‘Tell-All’” in 2006.
The film rights to her first book, Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood, are currently under option with a major Hollywood studio.
HERE WE GO…….
Clint: Good Morning Hollis, thanks for doing our little interview how are you today?
Hollis: Today I have a bad case of hammertoe.
Clint: So your third book “Trailer Trashed” is coming out can you give us a little insight on the details? Is it a collection of stories like your last 2 books, do the stories focus around any certain theme?
Hollis: Yes, the theme is my dubious attempts at upward mobility. There are some setabacks, some set-forwards, people fall in and out of love, I think I save the world, and in the end we land a film deal. Plus there is a monkey and a missile scientist. And that’s not even mentioning the ax killer.
Clint: So there is a big book launching shin dig at Paris on Ponce, wanna tell us about that, and also if we can’t make it there where we can find you signing books around town?
Hollis: The launch party, on August 5 at Paris on Ponce from 7–10, is going to be a major throw down. KingSized ( WEBSITE ) is playing, plus Daniel ( WEBSITE ), Grant ( ARTICLE ) ( WEBSITE ) and Lary are threatening to make an appearance, and you know that can only mean trouble, especially if there is free alcohol involved, not to mention pig feet. For more info on the launch party and other signings, you can go to MY CALENDAR
Clint: Deep down in your Heart of Hearts ( def ), does it still sting a little bit when Grant calls you a Bitch? Is that why his artwork is not the cover of your third book like it was on the first two?
Hollis: HELL no. “Bitch” is a compliment. I call him “He-Bitch.” He could have done the artwork on the third book if he wanted, but Sister Louisa is about to launch her own book. We can’t have competing covers.
Clint: You and Grant do a course called Hollis Gillespie’s Shocking Real-Life Writing Academy, will you tell us about that and how to enroll. Honestly in my head its just hours of watching you two bicker with Grant in the background heckling, but there seem to be lots of success stories on your website so what should we expect if we sign up?
Hollis: I host the “Shocking Real-Life Memoir Publishing Seminar,” which is devoted to helping people publish their memoirs. It’s a ton of fun, and I promise there is a lot of inappropriate conversation, but make no mistake that this is a serious course that gets serious results. The point is to land book deals, not to sit around and bloviate about how hard it is to get published. If you’re serious about getting published, go to My WEBSITE
Clint: What’s next for Hollis? Are you already on your forth book? Can you give us an update on the fabulous LA projects that we hear hints about here and there in your writings? Do you believe in the Secret and if so what is up on your dream wall? What are you putting out in the universe and claiming?
Hollis: Now that the writer’s strike is resolved, the TV project is back on track. I can’t wait for the day Grant goes in to audition to play himself and he gets TURNED DOWN FOR THE PART. Hahaha.
Clint: I am sure there is something you would like to say that i didn’t ask, If we had been in a recorded interview you would probably be asking me the questions by now, so shoot!
Hollis: Contrary to popular rumor, I was never a teenage prostitute to the stars.
Pecan Pie Couture’s ( WEBSITE ) Spring 2009 line LEGENDARY is inspired by the lengends and folklore of the deep south. Here is the LEGEND of Lorenzo Dow’s Curse on the town of Jacksonborough.
When I was a child I remember touring the Dell-Goodall House and hearing the LEGEND of how it remained standing after Lorenzo Dow’s Curse. Once a Year the DAR puts on a festival at the house in which a tour is offered and people dress in period garments. The story here is taken from a couple of different websites that recount the tale. The Moonlit Road ( WEBSITE ) & This ( WEBSITE )
The story of the “curse” of Lorenzo Dow on the citizens of Jacksonboro, Georgia is one of the state’s most enduring legends. Odds are that the town was destroyed by earthly causes, and not the curse of a traveling preacher. But this story is not the only wild legend that has grown from the life of Lorenzo Dow.
Around 1820, an evangelist named Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) came to Jacksonborough, and his overnight visit there has grown into one of Georgia’s most enduring legends. Born in Coventry, Connecticut, he felt the call to preach at the age of 18. Dow was an eccentric character in look and chosen method of evangalism. The tall, slightly humpbacked, preacher had long hair and a beard. Early in his ministry, he walked from town to town passing out handbills in the day and preaching that night, usually staying no more than a night or two in a single town. He referred to himself as “Crazy Dow,” and records in his own writings that he was often an object of scorn and abuse in the towns he traveled to. By the early 1800’s however, Dow gained a reputation as one of the country’s leading evangelists. He preached to the Georgia General Assembly in the then capital of Louisville and to a gathering of five thousand elsewhere in Georgia. In Jacksonborough, the town’s reception was not so inviting.
At that time, Jacksonborough was a rough place known for the hard drinking and fighting of many of its residents. The oft repeated saying from George White’s 1849 book Statistics of the State of Georgia was, “The place had formerly a very bad character. It was reported, that in the mornings after drunken frolics and fights, you could see children picking up eyeballs in tea saucers.”
Dow’s fire and brimstone sermon at the Methodist Church that night was interrupted by a group that had gathered to harass the evangelist. The service was broken up by the group of “rowdies.” Undaunted, Dow followed the group that harassed him as they went into a whiskey store. He was covered with the stink of rotten eggs, but unbowed. Tradition has it that the fiery preacher snatched up an iron tool and broke open a barrel of whiskey, dumping its contents across the floor. The crowd would have seriously injured or killed Dow if fellow Methodist and Mason Seaborn Goodall had not rescued him, taking Dow home for the night.
The crowd was not appeased and a mob gathered at the Goodall home the following day with a supply of eggs and tomatoes. Dow walked out of town under a barrage of fruit and eggs, stopping at the Beaver Dam Creek Bridge. Dow quite literally shook the dust of Jacksonborough off his feet as the disciples of Jesus were instructed to do in the New Testament. As he did so he cursed all of Jacksonborough save the Goodall home.
The good people of the town relocated the town and renamed the town Sylvania (which is my home town) it is said that they crossed two bodies of water to resettle as evil can not cross water and they wanted to make sure to leave the evil ways of Jacksonborough behind them.
Thirty years later, all that was left of Jacksonborough was the Goodall’s home and the story of the curse. The Goodall home had fallen into disrepair by the mid-1960s when the Brier Creek Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution took possession of the house. The group raised $40,000 and renovated the house. Today the old Goodall home still stands in good repair along an otherwise abandoned dirt road while all other signs of the once bustling town are long gone.
Sister Louisa was a nun in a convent near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She left in disgrace: having fallen in love with “Lucious†Lamar Thibideau, the convent’s janitor, in June, 1978.
“Lucious†liberates various items of trash for Sister Louisa to transform into art.
Sister Louisa wants you to know that even though she has fallen from “the church proper†down into her studio out side her Airstream trailer, she is no less connected to God – maybe even more.
Sister Louisa says “God bless you†to all who see her art and feel the power of God’s true love.
Clint: How are you feeling today Sister, thanks for letting us do this little interview?
Sister Louisa:
Life is good.
I continue to be The Happiest Man Alive!
My kid is balanced,
I have all my material needs met,
I have great friends and family.
Lucious Lamar continues to please me.
What more could a Sister ask for?
SINCE I GAVE UP HOPE,
I FEEL MUCH BETTER.
Clint: Tell about a day in the life of Sister Louisa
Sister Louisa:
I enjoy my alone time,
going through menopause
and all is tough!
Seriously,
I live in the moment,
in order to feel
the current of the wind.
I like living
as a cork on the ocean.
I KNOW THERE IS A BALANCE,
I SEE IT WHEN I SWING PAST.
Clint: What currently inspires you to do your artwork?
Sister Louisa:
The comedy and tragedy of life
is my inspiration.
I am moved equally by both ends of the spectrum,
and don’t take either of them too seriously.
Life is a balance,
and I’m thankful that mine
has been revealed to me.
Having grown up in the Church
and now the Sister of my own Church:
Sister Louisa’s Art Gallery
in the Church of the Living Room
and Ping Pong Emporium
…Come On In, Precious!”
I have seen it all!
I love to play with the symbols
that we humans take
as representation of one’s faith…
…love delving deeply into
the humanity of Christ,
the Divinity of humans.
NOTHING HARDER THAN A PREACHER’S DICK.
Clint:
How do you like Atlanta compared to Louisiana? And where are your haunt’s around town, I’m mean where might we run into you?
Sister Louisa:
Atlanta is my home here in America.
Isla Mujeres, Mexico is my home in Mexico.
I go to
Danneman’s Coffee ( WEBSITE ) in the Old 4th Ward
in the morning,
lunch alone at Whole Foods,
or lunch with friends at Eats,
Thumbs Up ( WEBSITE ) , Fontaines ( WEBSITE ),
somewhere…
Mostly I’m on my knees
in The Church of the Living Room (schedule a visit).
GOD BLESS MY CRACKHOUSE PLEASE!
Clint:
Are you for Obama or McCain?
Sister Louisa:
Clint, that’s a stupid question!
The Soul of America
is in need of healing in order
to continue to be a positive part
of our goal towards World Peace.
Did anybody answer McCain?
JESUS LOVES GAYS, AND ATHEISTS, AND CRACKWHORES!
Clint:
How do you feel about your growing fame? Does this get in the way of your spiritual enlightenment?
Sister Louisa:
I am committed to staying whole
and I do that by
walking into the light
no matter what bent journey
that takes me on,
and….
no matter
what the Bitch ( THE BITCH ) says
about me!!!
FUCK FEAR!
Clint:
Thanks for doing this short little interview; is there anything you need to tell the masses? Anything you need to get off your chest? Confess maybe?
Sister Louisa:
Sin ISN’T cussing,
or sucking cock,
or having fun with your faith.
Sin IS not telling the truth at all cost.
Blasphemy ISN’T
saying “goddamnit”
or playing with
the stuff of God.
Blasphemy IS
seeing the light
and to not walking,
running,
or dancing
towards it
with haste!
God’s Love for Us,
and Acceptance for Us,
is Greater than
anything we can say
or do
to fuck it up!
Six movies with southern roots headed to a television
near you
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An Atlanta television executive reads an e-mail from a curious viewer who wants to know whatever happened to some of his favorite movies from years past. The executive becomes curious himself, as his company should own the rights to the flicks, but he’s never heard of them. And the mystery begins. Though the premise would likely have been rejected by even “Murder, She Wrote,†scribes, that’s exactly how Turner Classic Movies Senior Programming Manager Dennis Millay began his quest to reclaim six long forgotten RKO Pictures movies from the 1930s and 1940s.
The pictures, which are all feature-length and were distributed in wide-release, have been quietly locked away in film vaults around the world since the 1950s. The titles are “Double Harness†(1933), “One Man’s Journey†(1933), “Rafter Romance†(1933), “Stingaree†(1934), “Living on Love†(1937), and include four movies produced prior to the once powerful Hays Code, which mandated strict social and religious standards over motion picture content. Though still tame by today’s standards, taboo subjects like the word“virgin†and topics like pre-marital sex — which would be virtually unheard of in movies made during the Hays era — are found in the four earlier pictures.
Moviegoers will recognize some very famous names from the cast lists; Ginger Rogers, William Powell, Irene Dunne, and Lionel Barrymore, and Ethel Barrymore play characters. By Millay’s research, the last time one of the movies was broadcast was in 1959 by a local television station in New York. “It was like a little treasure hunt,” Millay told The Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah. “When I found them, I was so excited I was bugging everyone to tell them about it.” The Byzantine process Millay went through to uncover prints of the movies and the rights for Turner Classic to air them compels the story. He received a message from savvy viewer who was curious why the titles were never shown on TCM, whose founder, Ted Turner, acquired the RKO library of movies in 1986.
The six movies, which were produced by legendary movie impresario Merian C. Cooper, who brought the 1933 version of “King Kong†to the screen, had been sold to Cooper out of the RKO library as part of a separation package Cooper negotiated when he quit work at the studio in the 50s.
With the dawn of television before him, savvy Cooper had an eye for showing the movies over broadcast airwaves, but eventually lost the rights to the pictures after a series of business deals went sour. Former Cooper business associate and one-time RKO accountant Ernest Scanlon wound up with the rights to the movies, which probated to his unwitting family when he died.
Millay unearthed the rights to movies, which he purchased from the Scanlon family, but finding actual copies of the pictures was more difficult. Millay located copies of most of the pictures at the Brigham Young University film library in Provo, Utah. One movie, “A Man to Remember,†had to be tracked to a film society library in the Netherlands. Once the titles and prints were secured, Millay began the painstaking process of restoring the movies for broadcast.
First, the movies will enjoy a more auspicious reintroduction to film audiences via New York’s Film Forum week in February. The six movies are set to begin airing on TCM in April.
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