Hey, is something happening today? Here are your (entirely nonpolitical) morning reads!
- Atlanta the TV show is a good way to explain Atlanta the city to non-Atlantans.
- Here’s why incompetent people think they are awesome even though they are, in fact, incompetent.
- Many Fold Farm in Chattahoochee Hills is closing. Farming is hard – really, really hard.
- When pumpkins attack.
- On Wednesday, the Board of Regents will vote on Georgia State’s $48 Turner Field deal.
- Fort Pulaski is open again! It’s been closed since Hurricane Matthew. Yay Polish freedom fighters!
- Albany’s getting a microbrewery! Yay Albany!
- Thanks to the Georgia DNR, 200 professionals are now a whole lot more “Climate Ready” than they were a week ago.
- I feel like first names aren’t normally included in headlines; this header for an article about Michigan’s tight end is a worthy exception.
- Here’s a transfixing video of what happens when you put a camera on an RC car and guide it into a pride of lionesses.
- We must prepare for our Bigmouth Billy overlords.
- The America’s Test Kitchen kerfuffle of ’16 is a balm to my soul and has been both a delight and a distraction during the past week leading up to today’s… to whatever it is that’s happening today. The Washington Post has an overview of what all’s gone down, but the piece de resistance is this website. Whether it was by ATK, or their genius attorneys, or a stone-cold Jack Bishop in the dead of night crossing his fingers and saying to himself, “Please let this URL be available… please let it be available…” I do not know. But it is beautiful, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.
- Related, somewhat: Martha & Snoop, a history.
- Added at 12:59 PM: Knitflix and chill, y’all.
- Friends, all we have to do now is wait for it.