Running a small business is no small thing. I’ve never thought to take on such a venture but I know others who have. Sadly the failure rate is HIGH. And another one bites the dust. My son and I really enjoyed Rusty Quarters Retro Arcade. I was able to share a slice of my childhood with him and he’s always been Nintendo-obsessed. Last Wednesday was the arcade’s last night open to the public so we were there. I played Centipede while he played Donkey Kong. And we played some two player Mario Bros and Ms. Pac Man. I know of another arcade like it, in Portland, called Ground Kontrol. But we can’t exactly pop by after school. Sad.
Five interesting things:
- Some theaters in Sweden are now rating films for gender bias, using the Bechdel test.
- Really bummed I missed out on Thomas Dolby and his film, The Invisible Lighthouse, at The Cedar last week. But my high school buddy Ben Zvan took photos and his wife Steph did this write-up.
- I was disappointed when Julianna Barwick canceled her Minneapolis show in the 7th Street Entry recently. But understood, since she did so because she was invited to tour with Sigur Ros. Hopefully she’ll headline here again. In the mean time I’ve been enjoying her latest dreamy release, which was recorded in Iceland (and makes me want to go back there).
- Random and incredible colorized historical photos.
- Interesting factoids re: fresh versus frozen fruits and vegetables and a little something about curing our allergy epidemic.
Some say cars are coffins / cars = death. That may be true to a certain degree. But it can be more generally agreed that cars = stress. Big boxes of wtf? When things go wrong. And they often do. Over the weekend the boyfriend’s usually reliable and not very old Honda was acting up. It wouldn’t shift into 2nd or 4th gears. You kinda need those gears. So he took it into the dealership yesterday. The initial diagnostics showed something wrong with the synchros. Upon closer inspection the mechanic found a GIANT WALNUT stuck in the shifting linkage. Maybe it’s a global squirrel conspiracy. The squirrels are organizing, trying to get their biggest threats off the road.
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