Friday, April 18, 2008

Stream of Consciousness for your Entertainment

Being a hotel bellman, I read with great interest an article on elevators this week in The New Yorker. I timed my waits at elevators tonight. Grand total for my nine hour shift: 18 minutes.

I don't spend as much time walking our city's Greenways as I should, but I really can't wait for the opening of the bridge that connects the Shelby Bottoms Greenway to Two Rivers Park. Josh Hunter took a fantastic shot of it here.

My car's broken and I'm broke. Thankfully, many coworkers live near me and work the same shift. I feel like I'm back in high school and bumming rides to school so that I don't have to take the bus. (Oh how I wish I lived on a bus line that kept a late night schedule for a Hermitage-dwelling 2nd shifter like me.) This sure beats paying for gas these days.

For a few days next week, Finland will be minus one beautiful person and Nashville will be plus one beautiful person. (And I would have written this even if she didn't read this blog.)

KCRW plays the coolest music.

Steve Martin's The Underpants is coming to James K Polk Theater in May. I read the play a few years ago and it's quite funny. Picasso at the Lapin Agile is still my favorite of his plays.

Portishead's Third is reviewed by Sasha Frere-Jones here.

2 comments:

ceeelcee said...

The bridge has been open for almost a month now. The politicos haven't made it down to cut any ceremonial ribbons yet, but pedestrians and bikers are using the heck out of it.

Come on down!

Leesa said...

Oh wow.. I love that bridge.. you better go take some photos :)