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Well, I didn’t run out on opening week to see it. I waited 10 days. But I went out tonight and saw the long-anticipated movie Serenity.

I won’t say too much about it in case you haven’t seen it. I don’t want to spoil it for you. If you know about it and want to see it, well, what are you waiting for?

In case you aren’t familiar with the movie, here is the background in a nutshell. Continue Reading…

Video

You’ve got to see this. If you aren’t on broadband, it’s worth the wait.

Is it a jungle, or an alien land? Are they plants or animals? Is this not the coolest animation? Somewhere between a sci-fi movie and the Nature Channel (Do they have that?) if all the eyes and tentacles don’t creep you out, you are not watching.

Here’s another

I was reminded earlier when I posted about Mountain Stage of Kaki King. I saw her play this summer and was simply mesmerized by her playing.

There is a video on one of her CDs that I happened to copy to my laptop and I decided to play it. All the impressions of her playing came flooding back. Continue Reading…

There’s been a lot of road work going on round here lately.

They have finally finished and opened – without a hint of hoopla, by the way, it just was open one day – the replacement for the Prospect St. bridge. It now runs from the end of Stevens St. at Prospect over the Erie Canal and lines up with High St. at State St. It’s really quite convenient for me and much better trafic flow than the old bridge at Prospect that teed into State St. right in front of the Diamond Bar.

They started working on it last year and we all watched to see any activity for most of the Summer. The steel finally went up and then they worked on it at a snail’s pace for what seemed like forever.

We also have repaving going on on West Ave. They tore up the pavement on one section about a quarter-mile long. Then paved it with the rough under layer. Then they left it. Left the lanes blocked down to one in each direction. And meanwhile started tearing up the next section to the east. I wonder why they leave lanes closed while nothing is being worked on. But today, they are digging up a piece of the just-fininshed section and pulling out some old railroad tracks. Shouldn’t that have been done first?
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