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So I know these eateries started opening about 11 years ago, but I finally had dinner with a couple friends at The Rooftop Restaurant at RH (Palo Alto). Apologies for the lousy steak frites photo, but I'm not sure people really come here for the food. First time also having the 2022 Migration Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir, which was nice waiting for our table, though any traditional restaurant glass to outside bottle price ratio went out the window. Anyway, out of all the I'm-old-enough-to-have-seen experiences, Restoration Hardware's path of quirky & interesting, original store and concept in Eureka, CA (see photography thread for related news), where I saved a confused bird and Melissa offered to "get them on the internet", to rebranding to RH, to multiple celebrity CEOs, to these weird restaurants, to chartering jets and yachts is a very, very strange one. Kind of progress. 🤷‍♀️

The Remains of a Handmade Utopia In the wooded enclaves of Northern California, Michael Schmelling documents what’s left of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement. https://aperture.org/editorial/the-remains-of-a-handmade-utopia/

Hope it's a very merry McBirthday.

A few roadside graffiti snaps from two mostly grey days on a recent trip to Monument Valley and Route 66, that aren’t at Monument Valley or on Route 66. Colors are from the SL2 (CV 50mm f/1 Nokton) and monochrome the M9M (LLL 28 f/2.8 9E). Final two are with the Sigma BF (24mm f/2 Contemporary). I need more road trips in my life.

The Computer History Museum's Apple@50 live session from a few days ago. A lot of good info if you can deal with Pogue. And by deal with Pogue I mean...

John Tavener's Not Staying Alive Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin

Ella van der Woude‘s How to Shoot a Ghost (OST) ex.

How about Space Academy?

Returning to missed shows from the exotic 70s, when every channel needed their own Han Solo/Buck Rogers, they kinda needed a Wonder Woman too - The Secrets of Isis. Starting with episode two, though one is further down. Personal space seemed different back then.

Man, they had the worst ships.

Playing catch up on a show I missed the first time around - Jason of Star Command.

Let me connect the fax.

Thank you for this. As I’ve posted I’m an annual watcher of the film and adjustments for the adaptation I’m big thumbs up on. My one comment to her breakdown is the subversion extends to the fact that the film ending is not done (as much as possible) for a next scene (or utility for a people/nation). It’s in private. It’s potentially redefining the hero’s journey internal and that’s why I’ve compared to [side glance] Taxi Driver. Course I know practically nothing about Arthurian legends and British foundations so what do I know about Chivalry/Knighthood? I like movies.

Not sure if this is widely known, but I only found out about it today on The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show. Seems the first three Space: 1999 episodes were stitched together and released theatrically in Italy. And they got Ennio Morricone to do the soundtrack! It's very different than Barry Gray's. Import CD purchased, below is a sample, and the whole thing is streaming on some Hungarian site. Fun! Ex. (put on your seat belts)