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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, May 26, 2003 :::
M-Day Weekend
I took a trip to Charlotte last weekend. My Sunday afternoon was remarkably similiar to Dutch's. Except I watched parts of To Hell and Back and Objective Burma!. As part of the E! True Hollywood Story child actor extravaganza, I saw "The Curse of the Little Rascals."
Saturday was helping the Pennsylvania Jew paint her dining room and I enjoyed grilled chicken salad that night. We also watched The Others and King of New York. King of New York was a perfect "movie night movie" and I personally blame Sammy the Movie Guy for the fact that I haven't seen it. He's exposed me to other fine Abel Ferrara films such as Ms. 45 and Bad Lieutenant. Sunday was dinner and board games with the Lady I Can't Think of a Nickname For and her Mom.
N.C. Back Roads Redux: or, In Praise Of Wadesboro, N.C.
I took a different route to Charlotte this time, U.S. 1 to Rockingham and then 74 into Charlotte via the hellhole that is Monroe along Independence Blvd. Downtown Monroe is nice, but good god, that stretch of Independence is the epitome of everything that is wrong with this country.
I hustled on the way in, but took my time going home via the same route. I got to go through bigger 'burgs like Rockingham and Wadesboro, plus small towns like Hoffman and Vass. I always liked Wadesboro, they have two, count 'em two, nice Confederate Monuments, they were particularly ornery during the Civil War, and have a nice little local history room in their town library. So, wanting to drop some money while in town, I stopped and had two eggs over easy, country ham, and hash browns at the Omelet Shoppe. It was a neat little restaurant. I was the only male in there without a hat advertising farm machinery. One wall had a bizarre mural of Disney and Warner Brothers' cartoon frolicking in the woods, and Loretta Lynn was blaring on the jukebox. It was great, if there was a non-smoking section, I couldn't find it.
It was right next door to a stop-and-rob convenience store called "The Markette."
::: posted by tom at 9:15 PM
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