Thursday, September 25, 2003
“I thought somebody was moving under my bed”, “I couldn’t understand how my leg was rolling around in my sleep like that”, “I thought I was imagining it but then wondered why my bathroom door started swinging open”, and “I thought there must have been a very large cat on the roof” were some of the comments heard around the bar on Friday in reaction to the earthquake that stretched its vibratory tentacles as far as Boca Chica from the epicenter 250 kilometers away to the north near Puerto Plata at approximately 1 am on September 22nd. Before that nature’s calling card threatened in a different way last week as we watched the internet satellite photography reveal the path of a certain very powerful hurricane by the name of Isabel. It passed, for us, the right side of Puerto Rico and never came close enough to our shores to cause any troubles…but not such good luck for North Carolina as you know! We note though that coincidently it was precisely 5 years ago on the very same 22/9 that hurricane George thumped his calling card down squarely on our little town, and others on route, as he wreaked his own special hurricane havoc on his way through the Caribbean. Roll on October!
Posted by Playa Vista @ 06:23 PM CST
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
We have just reached out to space at Playa Vista…. We have stretched the budget further than ever before to bring in TV channels, and lots of them, from an outer worldly satellite, emanating from our dear terrestrial neighbors in America first of course. If you should be in town desperately seeking a specific favorite show, movie or sporting event there is a good chance we might be able to help alleviate your desperation and make a search through the 600 or so channels that we now have on offer for you. This has even allowed us to pipe any of the numerous stereo music channels to the bar’s speakers too for further enhanced entertainment. On Sunday afternoons we have even begun what we hope to be a regular football pool - 30 pesos (very approximately one US dollar) buys a square and the chance of a 100 times return on your investment, if you have the matching half time or full time score, or alternatively enough to buy everybody a drink in the bar as our gallant first winner did first time around during the Virginia Tech versus Central Florida game. Cheers!
Posted by Playa Vista @ 04:05 PM CST
Tuesday, September 9, 2003
We get a lot of visitors at Playa Vista of all types in wide-ranging shapes and colors with all sorts of behavior patterns. Two of the most regular and enjoyable to observe are easily recognizable in that they always wear green and bear red headdresses. However their behavior pattern does differ quite a bit from the usual bar visitor… or does it? They are a pair of green woodpeckers who could be pioneers in their species due to their persistent curiosity mixed with not a little narcissism. They visit daily the one-way glass window we have in our kitchen and seemingly have a real good time admiring themselves in the reflection. The one-way nature of the glass makes them unaware of anyone standing on the other side. However, once you tap on the window or the wall curiosity takes over from the narcissism and they start scrabbling around in a variety of fascinating ways including mating rituals – just like the regular visitors to the bar, eh? - as they preen and pose and endeavor to find out what the noise is all about. Neither is this a passing fad; they have been entertaining themselves in this way for many months. Our own observations indicate that the female of the pair was more interested in the self admiration but the male seems to be just as hooked on the curiosity angle as she ever was on admiration. On an extreme day they spend hours in front of the glass and the day before yesterday they were their at sun up and still their at sun down sitting motionlessly as if they were waiting for the next showing, or a “significant” message from the “other side”- just like the regular visitors to the bar, or what?
Posted by Playa Vista @ 11:59 AM CST
