Trish brought home two Fosters last night. I'm used to Hefeweizen, and I thought I'd garnish with with something like a lemon. We didn't have any lemon, so for the first one I had a wedge of orange in it.

Tonight I'm having a strawberry in it.

Trish thought it was the silliest thing. I should definitely take a picture and blog it. Slow news day? Not actually. I did visit a friend in the county jail today.  Friday was his birthday.  He's in until the end of June for his second DUI. It all ties together.

Well, half a dozen guys packing everything from a 6" barrel .357 mag to a little .380 autoloader had a nice little dinner at Apollo's.  I couldn't find my camera, but this was such a non event to barely justify mentioning. 

Lots of visible guns, no visible nerves from patrons or staff.  

First time I ever ate there, not sure I would go back just because I didn't see anything to set them apart from any other dining establishment.  I take that back, the spaghetti looked good, I want to go back and try that.

Pretty much your normal get together of people who share a common passion.

What would you say if you saw half a dozen people visibly packing heat in your favorite resteraunt?  Just curious...

12 mini-reviews for the short attention span, taken from dark corners of stevenl's video vault:

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead / directed by Gary Fleder (1995, VHS). Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, Fairuza Balk, Gabrielle Anwar, Christopher Walken, Don Cheadle. "Give it a name." Made right on the heels of Pulp Fiction, it is difficult not to draw comparisons. One wonders how much influence Tarantino had on Fleder. This dark tale had many elements that should've combined to create a great motion picture. Strong cast, vibrant visuals, lots of action, terrific soundtrack. Standout performances by Treat "I am Godzilla! You are Japan!" Williams and Steve Buscemi-- and the others weren't too shabby either. But the great motion picture didn't happen. Instead we got sort of a hokey and less imaginative version of a Tarantino movie. The hoke arrived in a trio of fatal scripting mistakes. First, the normally wonderful character actor Jack Warden was assigned the task of being the narrator, filling the story holes for the audience as he sits in a diner. The story doesn't tell us the story, instead he tells us the story. No. No. It doesn't work. Second, the characters are speaking in a slang that does not exist in real life. It is special to them. And it is really corny. It has a clumsy and artificial sound to it. Clockwork Orange this isn't. And finally, the characters are all cartoony, and I strongly suspect they are not meant to be. How bad is this film? Not real terrible but it is awful enough that I can watch it only in short increments.

The rest aren't local, so to see more go to this website www.quarterlife.com/jahone

So I just got some old film developed, it was stuff that I shot with my Holga and Diana Cameras. I found this one in the mix and thought I would post it here. You can check out some of the other shots here www.quarterlife.com/jahone

I love it when spring arrives. I miss the sudden greening of the environment that happens in the Southwest. We don't get that here in the northwest because we are evergreen, but I notice the harbingers of spring here - the blooming of forsythia (aka spring herald) and the flowering plum and cherry trees. The daffodils are lovely and luckily, cold tolerant.

Here are some pics from Friday, March 28th:

Here's something I missed writing about the last couple of weeks, there are new truck routes downtown. The conversation over on the downtown noise thread specifically mentioned trucks, so I thought this would be interesting.

Since 1997, when it was realized that the 4th Ave Bridge was a crumbling mess, there has been a move by the council to juggle truck routes across the two bridges. Here's a timeline from the council's staff report: