goodbye masquerade?!?!

ok, last summer i blogged (here) about gentrifuckation driving my favorite car repair shop out of the neighborhood.

now, masquerade has gone the way of unprotected anal penetration with bloodninja's mom the dodo bird.

according to this atlanta bizjournal article, a real estate developer (poncey highlands llc) has purchased one of the coolest clubs and is going to turn it into a place for long island kids to live after graduating from emory loft-style condos.

i'll say it again,

1. i appreciate that the law of supply and demand means that market forces will push up the price of increasingly scarce land--that's how wealth is created and neighborhoods gentrified...
2. ...and that i'm exhibit A, living in my inman park loft

but shit, we are losing a landmark, not an old sausage factory. i saw helmet play in heaven about eight years ago and it blew my ears out. fricking awesome.

this is also the perfect set-up for a movie about how a rag-tag bunch of crazy misfits throw a kick butt fundraiser concert and save the club from being razed.