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LOST & FOUNDRY
Kissing babies and smiling
CONGRATULATIONS This newsweekly is printed every Tuesday by the great Greater Georgia Printers and distributed every Tuesday evening;
when we write the paper we have no way of knowing who won Tuesday’s elections. So heres a generic congratulations to those who won
and a fervid thanks to everybody who ran. Running for office is harder than cutting pulpwood, because you sweat just as much, but you
have to smile, too. Thanks for putting yourselves out theie.
ADDENDUM This column mentioned last week that Randall Bramblett and Kevn Kinney have songs included on Oxford American Magazine's
new Southern Sampler 2000 CD compilation of Southern music. Let it here be added that the Randall Bramblett song was co-written with
Jason Slatton, who writes songs, sings and plays guitar with old favorite The Randall Bramblett Band as well as with new favorite The Lures.
Jason is one of those Athens guys who just wants to make music, and by gosh he's doing it. A swell guy, that Jason.
WATER, WATER Remember when you forgot to pay the water bill and they cut you off on a Friday and you had to make it through the
weekend crouching in the shower and bathing with a gallon of your Y2K emergency water? Got pretty clean, didn't you? Sort of like
camping. How much water did you use in the shower this morning? Do you leave it running while you brush your teeth? Me too. While you
rinse out your tea cup? Me too. That stuff is more precious than premium gasoline, and we're all behaving as if we were SUVs.
WELCOME D.J. Hammond just started selling ads for Flagpole. He has hung around here before as an intern, so we all know him, and we're
delighted to have him with us full-time. If you're lucky enough to be his customer, you'll enjoy D.J.. Farewell to Amy Majestic, who has left
us to go back to school.
Pete McCommons (editor@flagpole.com)
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