Pricks

[rejectomorph]

I've spent quite a bit of time recently plucking nettles out of the back yard. When their seed pods dry, they leap onto any passing creature and cling. They are especially fond of hitching rides on cats, so I want to get them out of the yard before the kittens get covered with them. The kittens will still get them if they venture outside the yard, which I'm sure they soon will, but I want to minimize the hazard. I doubt they'd let me comb the nettles out of their fur as Alger used to do. Poor Alger, if he is still alive, won't have anybody to do that for him this summer. Anyway, I've gotten lots of the little stickers in my hands, and they hurt. I should have plucked them when they were smaller.

A few of summer's dry clouds have been drifting over today, but with evening the haze is returning. The only distinct clouds remaining are those piled against the mountains. At least we got a few intermittent minutes of shade out of them this afternoon before they decamped. Any shade is welcome on such a day— nettle shade excepted, of course, but only crawling insects would miss that.

The Palace Theatre in downtown Los Angeles will be 100 years old tomorrow. It was about half that age when I used to go there, but already seemed ancient. There's going to be a special screening of "Sunset Boulevard" (the theater isn't regularly open, but it's still largely intact and usable.) I'd go, but it's several hundred miles away. Lots more pictures and some mostly accurate text here.

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Re: There's More

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

here's the ad, which knocked me out: imported from detroit.

that's very interesting about the influx of mexicans and so on. it surprises me that the central americans aren't as movie-mad. here near DC & Baltimore, we have a diverse latino population, mexican, south and central american. i've talked to salvadorans, mexicans, hondurans, costa ricans, venezuelans, etc. the radio stations have designated time slots for the individual countries, with old-home news and musical styles. i haven't noticed any spanish-language movie places, but nowadays there's cable tv, plus all the little stores that rent movies and such.

i need to learn more about architecture. on trips into DC or Baltimore, i've been oblivious, mostly worried about the crowds. :D

Re: There's More

[rejectomorph]

Speaking of architecture, C. Howard Crane, who designed the Fox Theatre in the commercial, was alsto the architect of the United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles. His office was in Detroit, and a majority of his theaters were in or near Michigan, but he did a number of them in more distant places, including a few in the UK, and quite a few scattered around Canada.

The Detroit Fox still has a fucntioning Wurlitzer theater organ.

Re: There's More

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

wow! what a gorgeous place! and that organ, my stars. it sounded like there was a huge chorus singing with him, but the theater was almost empty.