Mayoral video embarks on roadshow tour

Do you have plenty of time on your hands and no life to speak of? Then you’ll want to turn out for a special night of “Mayoral Video and Popcorn,” where you can watch four hours(!) of candidate forums while you drink yourself into a stupor.

You may recall that the enterprising folks with the Campaign for Atlanta, an ad hoc activist group dedicated to helping voters make an informed choice for mayor, shot hours worth of forum footage featuring the four leading candidates over two weekends in July and August. Well, they edited the video down and posted it to their website, but now it seems they’ve decided they could reach more people if they held screenings in neighborhood venues across town.

The first such event is tonight at the Vino Libro wine bar in the Glenwood Park subdivision of Grant Park off I-20. The show runs from 6-10 p.m. — that’s four hours, people! Gone With the Wind wasn’t that long and you got to see the burning of Atlanta.

While the Campaign’s ambitious spirit of community service must be applauded, I question whether many people have either the interest or the gluteal fortitude to make it though four solid hours of watching candidate interviews — unless, that is, they are well lubricated with another kind of spirit.

I guess that’s why they picked a wine bar. Drive safely, folks.