Sharktopus (Indy, p. 27)
Random notes:
* I went to the Downtown Master Plan meeting at the Holiday Inn a week or two ago. Outside in the parking lot, huge vehicles were everywhere. I think if you look at parking lots in America (or, let’s say, any Salt Lake City subdivision) you get a very immediate and palpable sense of things being terribly fucked up in this country. Anyway, I showed up late and so missed part of the presentation, the parts having to do with Authenticity and Retail Hot Spots. Damn! I wanted to see those parts! Did anyone see that? A lot of people in these public meetings toss around words like Authenticity and Retail but nobody really knows what those words mean. They could mean almost anything. Everyone got excited about Streetcars. People talked a lot about parking. One guy (it wasn’t me) wanted to know how you’re gonna preserve the local businesses; the Crandall Arambula guys (hired out of Portland to draw up the plan) did not answer him. They said they’ll be talking about that. OK. When? I’m not sure anyone has an answer for that question.
* We have the Spring 2008 edition of MO: Writings from the River, which contains new work by Robert Lee, Mark Gibbons, David Thomas, and many others. $9.00. A total bargain. Come get one.
* In this week’s Indy movie reviews, the reviewer went totally off the rails, talking about how many Max von Sydow movies he’d seen in the last few hours, and referring to the movie in question by its French title and yakking it up about some interesting books he’d read. I guess it was just kind of, you know, anything goes! Is it too late to get Susanna Sonnenberg out of retirement? I suppose. Chris La Tray wrote a quote-packed profile of rock guitarist Ace Frehley, so that was nice.
* I am reading a very good book about Nim Chimpsky. More about Nim later.
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