movies at the st. george again!....kinda

I see there's a few actual films being shown again (1-time only) at the st. george.

(aww, gee I was just getting used to all those "great" stage shows they run there!)

Anyways, there's this thing called the "downtown Si film festival" and they are having some films at the theater, as well as a few in the muni parking lot across the street....they are setting up a "drive-in" It's got an inflatable screen, and you tune into your car radios to hear the audio. (for $23.50 a car!!) I am not sure how good this is gonna be, (I mean, Drive-Ins gotta have that speaker that clips on your window!) But they are showing Grease, Pink Floyd:The Wall, ET, and One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest outdoors. Playing at the St. George is: Casablanca, The Wild One, Spy Kids 3-d, and a couple of other "classics"...The only one that caught my interest was "Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein". (at 5Pm on a monday!)

I think good idea to actually show MOVIES in what was for most of it's life a great MOVIE theater, hope this becomes a habit...and not just once a year.

tgi fridays and chain-restaurants

sheeple, sheeple, pleeeeze!...do not frequent these places. They are all weak. If you have no regard for yourselves or your colons, think of all the struggling local small island restaurants that cannot afford the co-op ad buys and radio tie-ins and color sunday newspaper circulars and billboards and tv comercials that all cost bookoo thousands. Weather you realize it or not, like good Stepford Islanders, that's the reason you go. AD dollar$ = asses in seats. Period.

Listen...there are documented cases nationwide where small restaurants have been forced to close when the "chain-restaurants" come to town...You're helping that happen here by simply patronizing these establishments! I wouldn't be surprised to learn that over 1000 new restaurant seats apppeared on SI in the last year alone. Think-many of the local places have been here years for a reason. The food is better-the prices are roughly the same-and you don't have to wait a half hour to be seated, & most of the time the owner is your neighbor! where to eat here? see my april threads...(& Bridget's Burgers are quite good!)

"little Mexico II"

"SWAT" team on the roof of a PR building on the ave. last week told me they are looking into drug sales and gang activity.

Gang leaders are actually charging some day laborers to stand on the corner & seek work. It's "their turf"...

Look, I've met MANY good, god-fearing, business-owning, hard-working mexes. The difference between them and the majority of others is- they can read and write. Most "corner" immigrants cannot even read spanish-nor even write/spell their own names....and are content with it.
Fact.

Just in case, one may think I am insensitive to the beaner plight, I DO think they are way better for port richmond than what it was like 20 years ago.

The absolute bottom line, which sums everything up in a nutshell is this:

I (and most people) have no problem walking through a group of 15 mexicans standing on the corner.
I (and most people) used to cross the street, instead of walking through a group of blacks on the same corner.

Fact.