ILLUMINATED NIPPLES
Bean and I went to see The World's Fastest Indian at the Grand Cinema in Downtown Tacoma awhile back. I love, love, love quaint independent movie houses. How I'd yet to pay a visit to the Grand is beyond me. (Best theatre goes to the Harvard Exit off of Broadway & Roy in Seattle with it's creaking staircases between floors, musty curtains, old piano and gorgeous tree-lined sidewalk easily viewable from the large foyer windows.) The Grand has an aqua blue velveteen-covered scrapbook in the lobby. It contains all the articles written about them over the years. They're missing at least one though. Bean did an article on them back in school and now plans to send them a copy to add to the book. Neato! Did I mention that the Grand serves REAL butter for their popcorn? So, cut to us sitting in the theatre awhile later, chatting about this and that. My gaze falls to the light fixtures. Installed are a series of round lights along the perimeter of the room every few feet, or so, near the ceiling. Definitely looked like glowing boobs. A brass knob jutting out from the middle of each orb-like fixture serves as the nipple. After commenting on them, Bean said Matt, her boyfriend, had also noticed them on a previous occasion. Conversation between us continued, and then off to the left, an older couple was sitting quietly eating their popcorn, when the man loudly proclaims, "Why, I see there be illuminated nipples for our viewing pleasure!" in his gravel-tinged voice. Ha. *Smile* I love old men, they've had time to develop character and therefore have great entertainment value. Bean's wonderment was whether they'd be showing the new Betty Page flick. Her coy suggestion was that they hang tassles from each light's knob in homage to Ms. Page. I was out and about tonight. Was driving through a neighborhood, rounded a corner, and lo & behold, there stood a group of teenagers wearing black top hats and dancing with canes in cabaret style smack in the middle of the road, apparently rehearsing for a performance. They were gooood, too. Crisp in their movements, in sync, smiles on their faces. Life is too good, it's true that you never know what's right around the corner ...