Utah News (condensed edition)
Aug. 7th, 2012 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I like to make some notes on any town I visit on what is the local news.
Like any place, there is plenty of sad news and some bizarre stories. I won't share the sad news, but there's stories of missing hikers and child's deaths. If you like 48 Hours style drama, you could do worse than the trial of Brenda White. Brenda played Poe's "Angry Johnny" over and over again to her ex-husband (Jon, natch) which features lyrics like "I want to kill you. I want to blow you away." Brenda's defense lawyer would like to think that it was only coincidental that later that day, she drove through (literally and drove around) his office building in her SUV trying to run him down.
On a smaller scale, the vandals who shoot marbles are still on the loose.
Even without the benefit of local news, the wildfire up in the Mountains is hard to miss. Not usually being around such things, I find them fascinating and scary.
You may not realize it, but Utah is heavy into the movies. There are couple of place-12s and place-15s and two theaters being built in close proximity. It is true though, and I don't find it nearly as surprising as everyone else. Yes, it is a bit odd that Utahans (and Mormons, specifically) are die-hard science fiction and fantasy fans. In high school, I hung around the few kids who didn't drink, and that was how they filled their time.
Anyway, getting back to the theaters, one is coming in here with D-box motion-enhanced technology. It is just that, seats thatmove in accordance to what is going on in film, whether that is movement or vibration or whatever.
Lastly, I wanted to know what happened to this guy. He had obviously gambled early by plastering "Trump in '12" on the side of his rent-to-own store. Though i could be wrong, it at least seemed like that took considerable time and expense to display. Well, no surprise, it is still up; though he did ditch the last window, and now it merely says "Mitt Romney" at the end.
Like any place, there is plenty of sad news and some bizarre stories. I won't share the sad news, but there's stories of missing hikers and child's deaths. If you like 48 Hours style drama, you could do worse than the trial of Brenda White. Brenda played Poe's "Angry Johnny" over and over again to her ex-husband (Jon, natch) which features lyrics like "I want to kill you. I want to blow you away." Brenda's defense lawyer would like to think that it was only coincidental that later that day, she drove through (literally and drove around) his office building in her SUV trying to run him down.
On a smaller scale, the vandals who shoot marbles are still on the loose.
Even without the benefit of local news, the wildfire up in the Mountains is hard to miss. Not usually being around such things, I find them fascinating and scary.
You may not realize it, but Utah is heavy into the movies. There are couple of place-12s and place-15s and two theaters being built in close proximity. It is true though, and I don't find it nearly as surprising as everyone else. Yes, it is a bit odd that Utahans (and Mormons, specifically) are die-hard science fiction and fantasy fans. In high school, I hung around the few kids who didn't drink, and that was how they filled their time.
Anyway, getting back to the theaters, one is coming in here with D-box motion-enhanced technology. It is just that, seats thatmove in accordance to what is going on in film, whether that is movement or vibration or whatever.
Lastly, I wanted to know what happened to this guy. He had obviously gambled early by plastering "Trump in '12" on the side of his rent-to-own store. Though i could be wrong, it at least seemed like that took considerable time and expense to display. Well, no surprise, it is still up; though he did ditch the last window, and now it merely says "Mitt Romney" at the end.
