Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity
Yes and Washington, IA and Mt. Pleasant. Both about 30 minutes away. Not so bad now that Rt 34 is a freeway, both going east and going west. So travel to both Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa are easier, mainly freeway. Washington to the north requires using a 2 lane road at 55 mph and potential to get stuck behind farm machinery, drivers who stay within speed limit, etc. Ottumwa has a 8 theater complex. Unfortunately also faces south. As did the Co-Ed. Adding just to ruffle some feather here (-: Iowa City/Coralville are an hour away. Cedar Rapids is 1 1/2 hours. Would have to be a dang good movie to drive 3 hours for. Like Kumare! From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartax...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, for those interested in neuroplasticity --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Feste is actually in semi-permanent hiding at an undisclosed location (although it's possible he could be tempted out by the prospect of meeting the divine Ann). Just to add to your picture of Fairfield, we just lost our movie theater here. Closed. Gone forever. We are now a small midwestern town without a movie theater. Perhaps some bright spark will organize some movie nights at the Sondheim, but I can't see anyone coming along to buy the old Co-Ed. Pity. Wow, I used to go to movies there. I went to Batman (the first film with Michael Keaton) with a date and she walked out because of the 'negative' vibes of the film she created in her mind. I have not been to Fairfield in a long long time now. No movie theatre in the town I live in now either. A dying breed. Too expensive to install digital projection equipment without a big organisation or other financial backing, a theatre cannot make enough on the pitiful portion of the entrance fee they get to keep and on the popcorn etc, to buy this stuff, and are too small to provide the variety people now expect. Used to be we got two movies, a serial, news, and a cartoon - that's the late 1940s and the 1950s for me. Does that leave Ottumwa, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids? I never went to a movie in Ottumwa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity
Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Yes and Washington, IA and Mt. Pleasant. Both about 30 minutes away. Not so bad now that Rt 34 is a freeway, both going east and going west. So travel to both Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa are easier, mainly freeway. Washington to the north requires using a 2 lane road at 55 mph and potential to get stuck behind farm machinery, drivers who stay within speed limit, etc.  Ottumwa has a 8 theater complex. Unfortunately also faces south. As did the Co-Ed. Adding just to ruffle some feather here (-: Iowa City/Coralville are an hour away. Cedar Rapids is 1 1/2 hours. Would have to be a dang good movie to drive 3 hours for. Like Kumare! From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, for those interested in neuroplasticity  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Feste is actually in semi-permanent hiding at an undisclosed location (although it's possible he could be tempted out by the prospect of meeting the divine Ann). Just to add to your picture of Fairfield, we just lost our movie theater here. Closed. Gone forever. We are now a small midwestern town without a movie theater. Perhaps some bright spark will organize some movie nights at the Sondheim, but I can't see anyone coming along to buy the old Co-Ed. Pity. Wow, I used to go to movies there. I went to Batman (the first film with Michael Keaton) with a date and she walked out because of the 'negative' vibes of the film she created in her mind. I have not been to Fairfield in a long long time now. No movie theatre in the town I live in now either. A dying breed. Too expensive to install digital projection equipment without a big organisation or other financial backing, a theatre cannot make enough on the pitiful portion of the entrance fee they get to keep and on the popcorn etc, to buy this stuff, and are too small to provide the variety people now expect. Used to be we got two movies, a serial, news, and a cartoon - that's the late 1940s and the 1950s for me. Does that leave Ottumwa, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids? I never went to a movie in Ottumwa.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity
In that case, she was an idiot if she let you get away. I simply walked in backwards at the Co-Ed From: feste37 fest...@yahoo.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:55 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@... wrote: Yes and Washington, IA and Mt. Pleasant. Both about 30 minutes away. Not so bad now that Rt 34 is a freeway, both going east and going west. So travel to both Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa are easier, mainly freeway. Washington to the north requires using a 2 lane road at 55 mph and potential to get stuck behind farm machinery, drivers who stay within speed limit, etc.  Ottumwa has a 8 theater complex. Unfortunately also faces south. As did the Co-Ed. Adding just to ruffle some feather here (-: Iowa City/Coralville are an hour away. Cedar Rapids is 1 1/2 hours. Would have to be a dang good movie to drive 3 hours for. Like Kumare! From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@... To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, for those interested in neuroplasticity  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Feste is actually in semi-permanent hiding at an undisclosed location (although it's possible he could be tempted out by the prospect of meeting the divine Ann). Just to add to your picture of Fairfield, we just lost our movie theater here. Closed. Gone forever. We are now a small midwestern town without a movie theater. Perhaps some bright spark will organize some movie nights at the Sondheim, but I can't see anyone coming along to buy the old Co-Ed. Pity. Wow, I used to go to movies there. I went to Batman (the first film with Michael Keaton) with a date and she walked out because of the 'negative' vibes of the film she created in her mind. I have not been to Fairfield in a long long time now. No movie theatre in the town I live in now either. A dying breed. Too expensive to install digital projection equipment without a big organisation or other financial backing, a theatre cannot make enough on the pitiful portion of the entrance fee they get to keep and on the popcorn etc, to buy this stuff, and are too small to provide the variety people now expect. Used to be we got two movies, a serial, news, and a cartoon - that's the late 1940s and the 1950s for me. Does that leave Ottumwa, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids? I never went to a movie in Ottumwa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her. OK, what is it with south entrances? You mean I should have been only entering those facing east, west and north? God, somebody fill me in before I do something fatal like enter a building through a south entrance. I await, with trepidation, the answer to this as I now refuse to move from my seat until further notice. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long sharelong60@ wrote: Yes and Washington, IA and Mt. Pleasant. Both about 30 minutes away. Not so bad now that Rt 34 is a freeway, both going east and going west. So travel to both Mt. Pleasant and Ottumwa are easier, mainly freeway. Washington to the north requires using a 2 lane road at 55 mph and potential to get stuck behind farm machinery, drivers who stay within speed limit, etc.  Ottumwa has a 8 theater complex. Unfortunately also faces south. As did the Co-Ed. Adding just to ruffle some feather here (-: Iowa City/Coralville are an hour away. Cedar Rapids is 1 1/2 hours. Would have to be a dang good movie to drive 3 hours for. Like Kumare! From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius anartaxius@ To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:36 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, for those interested in neuroplasticity  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote: Feste is actually in semi-permanent hiding at an undisclosed location (although it's possible he could be tempted out by the prospect of meeting the divine Ann). Just to add to your picture of Fairfield, we just lost our movie theater here. Closed. Gone forever. We are now a small midwestern town without a movie theater. Perhaps some bright spark will organize some movie nights at the Sondheim, but I can't see anyone coming along to buy the old Co-Ed. Pity. Wow, I used to go to movies there. I went to Batman (the first film with Michael Keaton) with a date and she walked out because of the 'negative' vibes of the film she created in her mind. I have not been to Fairfield in a long long time now. No movie theatre in the town I live in now either. A dying breed. Too expensive to install digital projection equipment without a big organisation or other financial backing, a theatre cannot make enough on the pitiful portion of the entrance fee they get to keep and on the popcorn etc, to buy this stuff, and are too small to provide the variety people now expect. Used to be we got two movies, a serial, news, and a cartoon - that's the late 1940s and the 1950s for me. Does that leave Ottumwa, Iowa City, and Cedar Rapids? I never went to a movie in Ottumwa.
[FairfieldLife] Re: free, The Compassionate Brain, to Xeno interested in neuroplasticity
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@... wrote: Talking of the south entrance at the Co-Ed, I once had a girlfriend who refused to enter the Co-Ed for that very reason, so on one particular day we had to go all the way to Iowa City to see a movie that was playing right here in Fairfield! Why did I agree to do it? Alas, I was in love with her. Ah, love, that compromise between losing oneself in a universal feeling and still desiring something on that individual level. Learning to ride that compromise is one of the greatest of all journeys. I do not think I ever thought about the south entrance of the Co-Ed theatre. I remember I was once on the MIU campus, in one of the buildings that faced south. They had not chained off the doors yet, but I recall having to go in a back basement entrance and crawl up stairs amid junk stored there. On exiting I forgot I 'was not supposed to use a south entrance'. I went out the south entrance through opening both the sides of the double door. It was a beautiful crisp Autumn day, it was blindingly beautiful, and one of the best experiences I ever had on that campus. South entrance is a flat Earth mentality. If you are in the northern hemisphere, and exit an east entrance, and walk in the most economical straight line (great circle route on a sphere, the way aeroplanes fly long distances), and keep walking (or swimming as the case may be), you will end up in the southern hemisphere. Such is the nature of any east direction in the northern hemisphere except dead on the Equator. At the North Pole, the only direction is south. So, unless you are on the Equator, or in the Southern Hemisphere, when you face east, you are always partially facing south, and the southern component increases as your latitude is further north.
