It’s 26 degrees. On March 26. I’m just sayin’.
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I’d been to Minneapolis once before, but never in cold weather. It struck me that if you’d never been here in cold weather, you hadn’t really seen the place as it truly was.
So things couldn’t have looked or felt more perfect as I sailed up Hiawatha Avenue on the way from the airport on my way to the Holiday Inn Express where I was to stay for a month. Hiawatha, I thought, perfect. I even crossed Minnehaha Parkway.
I was surrounded by tall empty trees, snow and half-frozen lakes. It felt perfect.
My Mary Tyler Moore reverie was only interrupted when I realized that I couldn’t find my exit to Interstate 35W northbound. Actually I saw what was clearly the exit for it, but it was blocked off and the sign obscured. After a couple of further attempts, a lightbulb went off.
After successfully negotiating the detour, I finally found my way to the hotel.
“I’m just guessing that it was the 35W bridge that fell into the river last year, right?”
A moose-like nod indicated I was indeed correct.
“You know, ” I said, dripping the charm for which I am internationally unknown, “that would be a great thing to mention to out-of-state guests when they call to make a reservation, considering the bridge is right between the airport and your hotel.”
One more thing. As I approached the hotel, I realized it couldn’t have more perfectly blended in with the surroundings. In other words, it looks like a grain elevator.
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Now, I’m no fan of bank robbers or people who attempt to bomb police cars. But former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olsen pled guilty to her crimes and has been serving her sentence in Chowchilla, California as a model prisoner.
Last week she was released on parole, six years into her twelve year sentence.
However, LAPD re-arrested her five days later, dragged her back to prison, where it was explained that a “miscalculation on her release date” had occurred.
Really? This couldn’t possibly be about pressure from the LAPD, could it?
And, even if it was a case of bad math (hard as it is to believe that an employee of the California Corrections System wouldn’t be a whiz at accounting), shouldn’t the benefit of the doubt go to the parolee who’s already been out of prison for five days?
Someone needs to get this chick a better lawyer, because this reeks to high heaven of cruel and unusual punishment. The state shouldn’t be able to give someone her liberty for five days, make her feel her ordeal is over, then yank her back into the clink for a year. I cry dirty pool!
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Just in case anyone needs reminding, the very worst actor in the world, yea the actor who makes Christopher Lloyd look subtle and honest in the throes of this thespianic efforts, is was and I assume always will be Anthony Heald.
If you mercifully can’t remember this excruciating actor off the top of your head, perhaps you’ll remember him as the vice principal on “Boston Public.” Or as the vicious Judge Wallace Cooper on “The Practice.”
No?
Well, surely you’ll recall his most famous role as the doomed psychiatrist Dr. Fredererick Chilton in “The Silence of the Lambs.” It was the good doctor, you may recall, which was to provide Hannibal Lector’s final meal in the film. Ahh, if only.
I don’t know why he gets hired. But then I don’t know why John Leguizamo gets hired, either.
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