While walking after breakfast yesterday, I learned something about Fernley at what is currently the All Points Grill, a roadside diner that previously was a taqueria and has been under different names during its history, which apparently goes back for a while.

( Fernley History )

A couple of days ago, after getting the oil changed in the Astro, I stopped by Raley's to get a few things. I was dressed more or less like my user icon in this post, although I was wearing a face mask. The clerk said, "I don't mean to give any offense, but you look like Sheriff Buford T. Justice from Smokey and the Bandit."

I laughed and said that ( Read more... )

Somtow Sucharitkul has posted a clip of the rehersal of the symphony he will be conducting in a few days. That was, he writes, a sight-reading first rehearsal. At that rate, the actual performance should be great, at least to my untrained ear.

I have a particular soft spot for Somtow. I really enjoyed his writing, which I encountered in Asimov's ( Read more... )

Courtesy of debgeisler, an amazing and wonderful ad.

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This is one of the nicest feats of cinematography, not to mention acting, that I've ever seen. Deb's post pointing us to it also includes a reference to the director talking about it. Keep in mind that this turns out to be just about the last chance they had to get it right -- take 40 on the second ( Read more... )

...but I came back five minutes later. That is not a good film to watch if you're taking prescription diuretics for high blood pressure. I consequently saw the second half of the film from a lower-level/close-up seat because I didn't want to climb over the people back in the upper level again to get back to my original seat ( Read more... )

I don't go to movies very often, but last night, Lisa and I went to the Star Cinema, a single-screen, one-showing-per-weekday-evening, not-a-multiplex-at-a-shopping-mall movie theater in Stayton, Oregon, where we watched Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullI'm not going to say this was a great movie. I found it entertaining the same ( Read more... )