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August 8, 1998
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Today's original plan was for Nancy to come up here and we'd do something in Boston tonight, then both go to Tom's reading tomorrow morning, and both go to pick up Joan-west. Nancy's ankle has been bothering her a lot and she's got some kind of bug too, so I said I'd drive down to Providence and we'd do something there, then I'd drive back up so I could still go to Tom's reading tomorrow. We settled on seeing Smoke Signals at the Avon. Neither of us had read anything by Sherman Alexie, but the movie has gotten good reviews. See this movie! I literally both laughed and cried. We both have a thing for funeral road movies I guess. Either that or we simply relate every movie we see to Cold Fever. Smoke Signals definitely fits the funeral road movie genre. The basic plot is two young men traveling from their reservation in Idaho to Phoenix to get the ashes of the father of one of them. There's a lot of flashbacks, lots of symbolism, lots of improbable events, and lots of little bits of Native American reservation culture. Frybread, the rez, driving backward, basketball... enit? As we were leaving the Avon after the movie, folks were handing out coupons for $2.00 off any book at College Hill Bookstore. We each eagerly grabbed one and immediately went to College Hill (it's right next door) for a browse with intent to spend our coupons. What a great marketing strategy! They'd cleverly placed the works of Sherman Alexie where you couldn't miss them. Fresh from the movie, of course you're gonna browse Alexie's books. With a coupon you're almost guaranteed to buy them. We did. Nancy bought The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and I bought Reservation Blues. We had to start reading our new acquisitions over lunch at Cafe Paragon. Avocado Roma Salad seems to go perfectly with Sherman Alexie's writing style. We read each other passages from our respective choices. Finally we decided we'd better take advantage of the remaining daylight to be outdoors a little, even though with Nancy's ankle we couldn't go for a walk. We went to the cove and watched the egrets come to roost . The tide was coming in and the birds were widely dispersed. We also saw a rabbit sitting near the bushes . It stayed there motionless for a long time. The list:
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