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Film: Mullholland Drive

BOYOTE gets a lot of movie suggestions from friends and acquaintances.
This film came out a while back and I finally got around to it; though
I believe I have seen parts of it here and there. It's D. Lynch, right?

Weird. Good filmmaking though. The editing is bang-on and the cinematography
top-shelf. But the subject is strange enough to warrant a Huh?

People change names. Or faces. I'm not sure which. There's a main character
and her lesbian side-kick. Okay maybe not lesbian. But they are lovers alright.

Fortunately, it's a movie within a movie (like Argo!) wherein, they're casting
the lead of another movie here. I like that. A lot. Is she acting, or what?

Maybe if you act enough, you become yourself. And that's the Q we're left here.
What's real? One-of-my-favorite-Q's. Love is real. Strange, strange film.

Mullholland Drive. *** who's Rita?

Sunset rocketride

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It is a whitesky spring here in N.England.
The sunsets slowly here in April. Dusk to eve to the gloaming...

I am the Trailwriter. I wride the trail!

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Spring Sprung Sprong

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Consider the possibilities!

Men with beards in a Chartreuse Caboose

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I get the feeling/intuition that the entire album was inspired by women. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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Early morn and late afternoon, early evening

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Sometimes, the Trailwriter will pedal
out especially early in the morn
while it is still cool enough to ride hard.

Sometimes, it's cool enough after the day.
Even rarer: It's both!!

Can we talk for a moment about the weather?
From Mark Twain to John Wayne: a good day
is a good day. And these are good days here.

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onward and upward

The humidity is just right for chain-suck. Huh?
I work two bikes and both had chain-suck this week in N.England.
Humidity? Probably. Chain-links are susceptible to temperature
change and especially: moisture! Am I right?

I spied a hawk. Two hawks, actually. Both hunting I presume.
One had cargo.

I alerted the elder gent I passed on the descent that there
was a hawk. He: non-plussed.

In the parking lot, a family unloads their lacrosse sticks for the trail.

Book: "Granny D's American Century" by Doris Haddock and Dennis Michael Burke

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The so-called 20th Century was a good one for America.
You've seen it before in B&W: the aeroplane the motorcar. Electricity.

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Trailwriter: MOCCA Society of Illustrators Comics Fest NYC: 26th and Lexington Av

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The Trailwriter found himself maloggling to get to the front of the crowd this Saturday.
He was in hometown NYC specifically: The Armory for MOCCA and the Society of Illustrator's
Comics Conclave. The place was jam-packed with enthusiastic comic-zealots. Like myself.

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Free wine and cheese. Food folks and Fun!!

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Whey (ASOG) are showing paintings
and sculpture this Friday evening, April 5th, 2013 6-8pm

at the GEC: The Garden Education Center of Greenwich. There's a big room with paintings
on four walls. There's Student work and the work of the membership, Interpretations
of Spring. Lots of verdant colors. That's a fancy way of saying green paintings.

So put down your chainsaw for a moment and take some time to take it in. This Friday eve up on Bible Street in Greenwich, CT.

If the case is that you cannot get to this opening, N.England is full of great artshows to view
if you have a car or a train tickey to Beantown here

Trailwriter en espanol for you

¡Esto era un día grande para mí! El día inicial de montar el Rastro en parque Mianus River. Una apertura fría desde luego pero una apertura sin embargo. Había unas personas que pasean perros. ¡Siento que el Rastro sostiene las semillas para la Primavera entera! Ningunos ciervos, ningunas ardillas listadas, ningunas serpientes: Sólo(Justo) yo y la moto. Y el Rastro.

Event: Little Joe's Book Swap

Little Joe's Books in Katonah is one of a dwindling independent booksellers
in upper-Westchester county(!) They stock relevant new titles and a slew of
children's books. This Trailwriter attended the First bookswap there.

I had bundled about 24 soft and hardcovers into two boxloads and trucked them
up there. (It's about a half-hour north from home). Was I amazed by the selection.

The other people brought up some serious titles. I avoided the Fiction (that's
just me) and headed for Bio and non-. I was not let down. Here's a partial list:

The Stories So Far (of Deborah Eisenberg)
Yiddish for Dogs
King Dork (F. Portman)
Remarkable Creatures (T.Chevalier)
The Happiness Project
The Art of the Moving Picture
The Turk - (T. Standage)
Packing for Mars (M.Roach)
the Global Village
The War of the Worlds (h.G. Wells)
Wittgenstein's Poker
Three Cups of Tea
Consumed (B. Barber)
Dinner with Persephone
Made by Hand (Mark Frauenfelder)

If I left your book off the list: The Trailwriter will try to get to it provided:
It's not somebody's made-up tale; and the cover is revealing enough to suggest what's
inside!

Also: Men Working and that tale of the NYTimes Food critic where she disguises herself
to keep her sanity and identity intact. Huh? I just started that one; but I will get to it!!

I like to read; heck, I kinda get paid to read books so I devour them when it's not too busy.
I have to say that my favorite books make me wonder how true they are WITHOUT explicitly
saying so. That is, I have to examine the spine or where I got the book to reveal its origins.

All in all, A Successful BOOK-SWAP at Little Joe's Books in Katonah; community building, heck:
They served up wine for us winos to wonder whey why they, if soto ojkfkjdsnm fnmd sfklnjsdfnm f

Tonight: It's the Drive-by Truckers at Capitol Theater; Port Chester, NY

Meteor in Russia

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Meteorite is the word used for meteors that strike the planet.
So...Meteor is the word we're looking for in this case I believe;
as: it didnot really strike Earth; or did it?

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It Shnowed!

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N England got dumped on. Snow!

As you may have read (in-this-hear-blag) there was no snow to speak of last year,
okay: two dumpings. Jan 21st and Halloween of 2011.

What is a good squirrel to do?

It's an Ocean of snow as I gaze across the mesa in front of me.
14"? 16"? Don't know for certain yet; but I can tell you now: It does not get much deeper than that.

Our local schools have closed down, well: It's Saturday as the first N Englanders awaken.
I understand that it wasnot a tropical storm so there's no official namers involved.
We'll have to settle for: Charlotte/Nemo for now. Nice storm.

I've got to hand it to the weathermen on this one: Exact details were satisfied by the
storm's 'behavior. It was like it was orchestrated. Hmmm. A storm conspiracy?

If you're thinking of strapping on skis in all of this: Consider local skiing
And by that: I mean. Mohawk, Thunder Ridge in lower CT. Or XC. It's all good.
Before
After

Need some snow-vocabulary? Drift, deep, bullet-proof, frost, ice, melt, powder, champagne
The quality of the snow here was light and fine with a tendency to drift easily.
Fortunately, there was not much wind here in CT. Not good snowball-snow. Good for boothitching tho

Where I am now located in Greenwich, CT, things are pretty snowed-in and I wouldnot expect
any important papers from the people here until Monday. I understand that there's a travel-ban in CT as designated by Gov. Dannel Malloy. ($1000 fine?)

Don't say I didnot warn you! Not sure if that's for cars or skateboards or bikes,
for that matter: But I donot have to be anywhere. Actually: I have to be here now.

I've read on the WWW that there are over 30,000 customers without power in Fairfield, CT.
"All wind and sails," you're saying. Perhaps. But maybe the Superbowl is a metaphor for
electricity in 2013. Dunno yet, as it's ownly February. Trailwrider: over and out
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/0208/Blizzard-2013-Live-blog-Numbers-so-far-show-records-broken-across-the-region-video

Phototalk

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Blues, Views and BBQ concert pic and more...

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artshow: Steve

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wherein I laboriously describe the details of a show's hanging

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Event: George Bellows at the Met(ropolitan) MMA

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Something to behold and ponder...

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Film: My Dog Tulip

Want to learn more about Vaseline and doggy-style mating?

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Film: Waitress

Imagine a flick-for-chicks that plays like an episode of My Name is Earl.

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Second storm 'not-so-bad'

windy weather blows out to sea

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