I JUST WATCHED the latest Bond movie. A mess really, but one that I could see be a very different movie and one that would never get made. Take the same story, shoot the film in black and white, limit the dialogue to the absolute minimum (Hemingwayesque), stop the theatrical echoes (a manhunt […]
I SAW REFERENCE to some new Cornership on the Super Furry Animals list I am on. I know Cornershop from their first album and the hit single “Brimful of Asha”. I have a hard time resisting a song that includes the lyric “everybody needs a bosom for a pillow”.
The converstaion also […]
WE FINISHED UP our them park fun with one final trip on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneylan. After logging nearly a day of time in the Disney theme parks, it was nice way to close things out. The Captain Jack Sparrow updates work well. Now back to Palm […]
FIRST RIDE we enjoyed at Disneyland was the Matterhorn. It is a bit uncomfortable now that I am a middle age man. I don’t see real bobsled runs in my future either.
PALM SPRINGS, or Agua Caliente as it was referred to in the 1800s, started out as an Native American settlement before getting overrun by the white man in the mid 1800s. A Spanish explorer also called it la Palma de la Mano de dios or “The Palm of God’s hand”. Disease decimated the […]
THE BRIGHT SUNLIGHT OF a Palm Springs awaits me outside my hotel room. Oh, and I am sipping a rum (Captain Morgan) and coke. Finally. After a slight detour from Salt Lake City to airline suppported sleepover in Los Angeles to then on to Palm Springs this morning we have finally arrived […]
