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Here’s today’s Soupe Du Jour - the Bottoms Up Doorbell.

Where would you go to see lame teenpop music this summer? At a Simon Mall, of course. Thanks again to the Atlanta Business Chronicle for this totally awesome news on a day filled with bad news…

“2008 Simon dTOUR Live, featuring free live musical performances from today’s popular artists, will hit three malls in metro Atlanta this summer.

The tour launches June 13 in Nashua, N.H., and wraps on Aug. 24 in the Chicago area after visiting 24 Simon malls across the country.

Atlanta dates include:

• July 18 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Town Center at Cobb in Kennesaw, with musical act to be determined.
• July 19 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Discover Mills in Lawrenceville, with musical act Kate Voegele.
• July 20 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Mall of Georgia in Buford, with musical act The All-American Rejects.

A Cursive Memory, Forever The Sickest Kids, Play Radio Play, The Switches, Push Play and Safetysuit also have signed up for the national tour…”

My daughter believes that the music will truly suck.

My daughter is going to the parks in Kirkwood, Sweetwater Creek, the Georgia Aquarium and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center For The Arts in lieu of the malls this Summer.

I just listened to some of the trifle that these bands create - the formula for 2008’s lame music is tried and true.

In October, a new congress of venture capitalists will gather in Atlanta at the CNN Center. That’s good news.

I read this in my daily Atlanta Business Chronicle update e-mail.

“…Metro Atlanta and Georgia start-up companies will be presenting their plans and investment opportunities to venture capitalists and investors from across the country,” said Sam A. Williams, president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. “Metro Atlanta is among the fastest growing high-technology metro areas in the nation, and continues to attract high-tech companies as our strength in this sector grows each year…

The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta CEO Council and the Technology Association of Georgia have teamed up to put together the biggest venture capital event in state history — Venture Atlanta 2008.

Set for Oct. 15-16 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta, the Venture Atlanta is expected to link top-tier venture capitalists, investment bankers, entrepreneurs, service providers and technology executives with Georgia technology companies…”

I might go.

Almost 80 full years on the earth. He is the Architect of Rock and Roll.

I just discovered this video - never seen this footage before - what a showman. So over the top.

Hey Bo Diddley!

The best news is that Cash is always king, regardless of the credit markets.

No bad news can take that away.