January 5, 2007
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The Daily News
1 I don’t know about anyone else around here, but I think the swearing in of Nancy Pelosi as the first woman to be sworn in as Speaker of the House is a remarkable new beginning for America.
2 If nothing else, this is going to be fun.
3 It’s time that the “Culture of Corruption” brought on by the Bushies and by the Skull and Boners finally comes crashing to a halt. Enough is enough. And Nancy is a woman with the chutz to do it.
3 I was born in San Francisco and absolutely love that at long last the idiocy and jingoism that has defined this Administration is going to finally be dragged out and exposed for what it is. The Bush’s, John Kerry, Howard Dean: these guys are all Skull and Bones. That’s just scary that people let that roll.
4 So Nancy, we raise a glass, sistuh! Time for a woman to step up and clean House.
5 Celebrate, America, truly! This woman is the real deal, and I say that about VERY few politicians, Demos or Repubz, they’re all just doing it for the very rich.
6 So yesterday they popped a cork in the National Building Museum with a $1000 a plate dinner and brought in such San Francisco Bay Area luminaries as Tony Bennett, Mickey Hart, Bobby Weir, Bill Kreitzmann, and Carole King, good cause folks all around.Back to back. Chicken Shack. Son-of-a gun, better change your act. We’re all confused. What’s the news? You can call this song The United States Blues…
–The Grateful DeadSo Let the Party Begin…
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7 MOVING ON: The historic California Theatre just up the street from Original Joe’s has been playing old films for free for a while now. Yes, that was FREE, in the beautifullly renovated building that got its start in April of 1927.
Opening Day of the California Fox
Theatre, circa 1927.8 In keeping with my uncanny abilities to receive synchronicity, the very next film that the California is playing is…drum roll…CASABLANCA! It runs tonight at 7 and 9:30, and tomorrow at 4, 7, and 9:30, absolutely FREE!
Bergman and Bogart in Casablanca.9 The other shows coming up are also great. The list includes the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorrow starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. with Dennis James on the Wurlitzer organ on Sunday at 2.
10 that will be followed on Monday Jan. 8-Thursday Jan. 11 with Hitchcock’s North by Northwest starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, all happening at 7 p.m each night.
11 The party continues with the immortal Audrey Hepburn starring in the classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s next Friday at 7 and 9:30 p.m, and next Saturday and Sunday at 4, 7, and 9:30.
12 That’s all happening at The California Theatre, 345 S. First Street (650) 324-3700.
13 So let’s all start celebrating a brand new year, a new dawn, and some great movies. Life’s too short not to.
14 And Nancy, congratulations.
15 So if you miss tonight’s showing of Casablanca, fear not, you can go tomorrow night, and somewhere someone will probably be singing, “Get prepared there’s gonna be a party tonight!”
16 One more Saturday night.
17 Have a grateful weekend.
18 And yes, let us end this with one great word.
19 One more Saturday night.~H~
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Peace.
