My wife and I lived in Atlanta for 21 months. We didn't like it very much.

This started out on the "A Work in Progress" page. The central metaphor, the snake, represents the concrete beltways of Atlanta, which are supposed to facilitate traffic flow, but, suprisingly, don't; the "damned spot" is a nod towards the deep and heavy contamination (mostly, we're told, run-off from the highways, oil and gas residue) of the soil in downtown Atlanta. Every time they want to build something new down there, the EPA makes 'em haul off all the contaminated dirt on the site, which, sometimes, is nearly all the dirt on the site. Some people like Atlanta, and there are alot of people I know and love and respect who choose to live there. But to me it will always be a big, flat, ugly, hot traffic jam, with little to commend it but the cheap hooch in the package stores and (decreasingly) CNN.