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they filmed a bunch of leatherheads in my hometown. there is a very funny but kind of pathetic nytimes article about the extras trying to be important.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/movies/19leat.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Wow, that article has all kinds of crazy in it.

“We had a re-enactment of the cemetery scene last year,” said Tom Whitehead, a retired journalism professor in Natchitoches, La., speaking of his town’s enduring attachment to the movie “Steel Magnolias,” which was shot there two decades ago.

TWO DECADES AGO!!!

Also the fact that they are re-enacting a scene from a movie... it just seems a lot weirder, than, I don't know, historical re-enactments or whatever.

my favorite was "At least seven limousines will shuttle guests from the parking lot so they can arrive at the Camelot Cinemas in style."

SEVEN WHOLE LIMOUSINES OMG

lol, it is a FLEET of limousines!!!

Or I guess it is if your town is small enough.

(I should talk! But it seems like a lot of people rented limos for prom in Hastings - surely more than seven... and Hastings is many things, but a big city is is not)

yeah w/ all the sprawl it's actually not THAT small, which is why the sentence is so silly, making it sound like 'woah hueg 7 limos!'

I have never had the chance to be an extra, but I'm starting to think this is probably good because apparently it could distort my sense of reality. (Which, let's face it, is askew anyway.)

I'm also puzzling over them using S.C. to stand in for Duluth, MN, but I've never been to S.C. so maybe it makes all kinds of sense and I just don't know it. (?!)

Beautiful Costa Mesa, California, to stand in for Des Moines.

the football fields all probably look similar? i dunno about what the town of duluth looks like, though. i'm gonna have to see this movie now to watch for familiar spots.

so is article saying that ppl are gonna drive to the theater and then a limo will pick them up by their car and take them to the theater entrance? that would explain why only 7 and the word 'shuttle' duh...

way to be green, greenville!!

...maybe all football fields look the same? (Although ND had the distinctive "Touchdown Jesus" mosaic that used to be visible through the goalposts, so maybe not).

xpost Your interpretation of what is going on in Greenville w/the limos may very well be the case. (Are your parents there? Can they investigate?)

I have just printed out a pile of 10,000 pieces of paper for nursing school and I still have a ton left. SO NOT GREEN

it was actually on the 4th oops! and they are in florida atm. i will check local news websites! ON THE CASE!

THE MYSTERY MUST BE SOLVED

ok this was not a very long investigation!

http://www.wyff4.com/video_legacy/15800129/index.html

tons of gems on that page, also a whole video about places featured in the film so maybe you can tell me if they look like duluth?

lol this is reminding me how they like to think they are 'metropolitan'

i can laugh bc i know i'll never live there again.

Oh gosh you're fast. I will take a look!

Okay, it did not look a lot like Duluth to me, but when I think of Duluth I usually think of Lake Superior and the views of that... maybe the downtown/buildings look similar to Greenville.

I was in Duluth in 2004 when my husband ran his first marathon, and I have to admit that I was not looking carefully at the buildings.

that was not actually greenville... it was the old downtown of one of the suburbs, which is generally totally dead, though they've tried to go for the 'historic restoration' crap in the past few years. when i was a kid, it was like ghost town. where i'm from, there is 'downtown greenville' which is pretty small but more of a 'city', and then lots of suburbs whose old downtowns are kind of dead but are surrounded by tons of sprawl and subdivisions and grocery store shopping plazas. i think total area population is about 300,000.

Oh - it sounds like it is bigger than I thought at first.

You should have gone home for that movie opening. THE EXCITEMENT ;)

My husband, who grew up with no television and has consequently not been exposed to many music videos of the 80's, is catching up on them right now and marveling over Jon Bon Jovi and David Lee Roth's hair.

Saturday night excitement here for sure!

i am also rly exciting tonight with my friday night lights and sc-stalking. wooooo!

Whoo!

i just got a bunch of photos back from my tahoe trip

OH NON NON NNONNNONONNOOOOOOOO

hey guys i am very stupid drunk and am going to lie down but first hey and hello

John apparently really does not like Tahoe. ;_;

Just kidding, Scurvy. Go lie down and rest until your liver has processed everything, okay?

my car had its 150000th birthday on the way up

Wow! Happy birthday to your car's mileage... Did you get to Seattle okay then?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/150000mi.jpg

nah ... i am not in seattle yet: i will be going to sacramento tomorrow, then to portland for a night ... arriving @ seattle on tuesday afternoon.

It sounds like kind of a fun trip, actually. Stay safe!

thanks sara, i am excited. i might post from the road?

yes, safe trip, remy! i'm kind of jealous!

I am TOTALLY jealous!

remy - we will look forward to your reports (whenever you can make them)

Okay, I've been sitting here practicing calculating IV flow rates; I'm going to go to bed and see if I still remember how to do it in the morning...

Good night, all. Sleep well!

good night sara, have a great trip remy, hi john and tehresa

hi estela! night sara!

3 hours! where are you all??

home from work bump

Watching the bigt fluffy goose-down type snow that just fell in London, cue Prince joke here.

how beautiful, i love snow.

I have had six beers, watched half a harry potter movie, and ripped 2709 songs, and ate some thai food, and some pizza, and a banana.

it's just drizzling here.

it's raining. it's late/early

you americans are up very late, even for a saturday. it's raining here, too.

i had some kind of weird anxiety attack when i got to the restaurant tonight and could barely talk to anyone. very strange. still feeling a bit odd.