--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> 
wrote:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/htcdk (registration required)
> > 
> > selected text below:
> > 
> > 'Inland Empire' -- Just Don't Expect to See the 91 (freeway)
> > . . . 
> > Huh? No mention of the Mission Inn, Palm Springs or California 
> > Speedway?
> 
> Having gone to college in Riverside, I can assure you
> that if David Lynch had known about the Mission Inn
> he definitely would have included it in his movie.
> 
> A finer run-down, seedy, seriously haunted hotel you
> are not likely to find anywhere. Really low-rent ghosts,
> too, kinda retarded and dull and slow -- *perfect* for 
> a David Lynch film.  
> 
> In other words, the reviewer is correct. If the Mission 
> Inn is *not* included in a film about California's 
> "Inland Empire," then the filmmaker has missed the
> perfect metaphor for the overall dullness of the place.  :-)
>

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I go by the Mission Inn once in a while...not seedy anymore after its 
rehab http://www.missioninn.com/ , but seedy is probably the most apt 
word for Riverside and the (ha,ha) "Inland Empire,"  although I like 
the hot dry weather and the smog bouquet, finest in all California.






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