Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Here’s hoping all your beer is green and all your rocks are sham.
• The writer who gave us “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat” will be the man o’ the hour this weekend when Grant Elementary School presents “Seussical: The Musical.” Showtimes are at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday. The musical is at the school’s Watson Auditorium at Swazey and Placer. Tickets at $5 for adults and $3 for students.
• Ireland has come up a lot on Facebook this week as people participate in a quiz called “Where are you meant to live?” The answers tend to be romantic places like Ireland and Italy and Paris. No one takes the quiz to find out his personality is suited to Amarillo or Detroit. This reminds me of the claptrap about “past lives.” Believers always say they were Roman centurions or heroic revolutionaries or famous artists in previous incarnations. You never hear of people who discover that in a previous lives they were stablehands or beggars or dentists. Maybe they just keep quiet about it.
• Tonight will see the beginning of “rock slope protection” work along eastbound Highway 44 on the Dana-to-Downtown Project. The state Department of Transportation says residents will notice an increase in work and noise. Monday through April 4, the project will require complete closures of Highway 44 in one direction or another each weeknight from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
• DVD I Watched on the Treadmill: “Man on the Train,” a very interesting 2002 French film about a weathered gangster (Johnny Hallyday) who stays with a Mittyesque retired teacher (Jean Rochefort) while planning a bank robbery. Each gradually realizes he might’ve been better suited to the other’s life. Beautifully filmed by Patrice Leconte.
• Headlines of the Day:
From the briefs of the local paper:
Man hurt after jumping from auto
and
Driver injured after crashing into home
Apparently, someone hurt both of these guys after their accidents. It’s not bad enough that they’re in a wreck? Who is this villain who goes around hurting accident victims?
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