Final Friday January

The first real Final Friday since last October, considering the holidays stepped on the last two with all the demands for time. This past Friday everyone was getting back into the swing of things, crowds everywhere on what was if not a warm night, not a bitter cold one either.
Do you want a wicked date night on the cheap? Mark your calendar for Feb 25th and get down to OTR.
The Forgotten Cincinnati Exhibition, too big to be contained by one location, it spread out over OTR in two locations.

Gordon Bombay and his child-like fascination with old amusement parks. We geeked out for awhile talking about Idora, Idlewild and other obscure small town parks.

Sherman grabbing a moment of rest amidst all the chaos of Joseph William's Home 3rd anniversary and the Forgotten Exhibit.





The Creative Gallery, the owners are moving to NY, everything must go, they have fire sale prices so don't wait.
I'm really going to miss this place when its gone, it pains me to say this but their art will find more appreciation in New York I'm sure, the midwest still resists art this challenging. I'm going back and snagging a few pieces.


If creative doesn't float your boat, theres tons more to see along Main St.



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12th & Vine

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Sid Saturday

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Parker Flats Friday

Delicatessen
A post-apocalitic apartment building in France, they never talk about what happened but it was bad. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor.
I had seen this movie years ago and loved it, so when the Al & Al show show wrapped up Watch This and decided to carry it on somehow Ms. 5chw4r7z volunteered to host the first installment of the new incarnation and to do a foriegn film, so here we are.
I was channeling Shebar and Watch This when we discovered the DVD would not work. ThePirateBay to the rescue, they're the original appstore BTW and all that was left was to demolish the computer room and drag the tower out to the TV.

Who's bright idea was it too have subs for dinner? It seemed funny at the time, sometimes the theme thing works....




Yes, keep this in mind later when Clapet the butcher is handing small hunks of the mother-in-law over the counter wrapper in white kraft paper.



Theres a number of plot lines running throughout, none more important than the butchers daughter falling for the new maintenance man. #1 relationship rule should probably be don't date your dinner. All the plot lines somehow all get tied up and climax at the end.
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Bromwell's

Am I the only bummed because Cinder and Heidi don't hang out in the front window anymore?

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Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, after the Eiffel Tower of course. Standing at the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle. The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.
One of the landmarks I really wanted to see while in France, after we fought the worst crowds of our trip I really could have skipped it. Of course if we had, I wouldn't have gotten all these cool pictures would I?
One of the most recognizable views in the world?

The thebetter_half had just returned from Paris when we ran into a week or so ago and he told us how he and winemedineme stayed at a hotel near La tour Maine-Montparnasse and it is reputed to be one of the ugliest building in the world. I hadn't heard of it before but I figured I had a picture of it somewhere. The black monalith to the left is La tour Maine-Montparnasse, not horrible in this view. thebetter_half said the top of La tour has the best view in Paris because you can't see La tour from there.


mere hours later, we'd be sitting on that hill under the Sacré-Coeur watching the sunset on Paris and drinking and smoking with 100,000 new Parisian friends.

La Defense, the business district. that name goes round and round my tongue. La Defense, La Defense




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Twitter and Facebook don't connect people – they isolate them

So says the book Alone Together and cited in this Guardian story. I can understand the scepticism, people don't understand, it leads to fear and we don't know where or what its leading to. I think some of these academics are high in their ivory towers looking down wondering what the hell is going on. Remember when you were shushed for talking in the library?
Twitter is the new talking in the library. Are there unacceptable places to check your smart phone? Not if you're in a group of social media savvy friends.

Twitter doesn't connect people.
Hmmmm, professor Sherry Turkle definitely wasn't at Taquiera Mercado Saturday night when a group of people, some only knowing each other through twitter got together. Talking and laughing like old friends.
No, I don't think twitter seperates people at all, it brings people closer together.

Metromixx even got involved, new media dragging in the old. Or or they hanging on for dear life?

David looked a little green when they handed him this, thanks for grabbing the check big guy

when the party got too big to be contained by TM any longer we headed for OTR




Laura basking in the glow of a party well planned

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