(trying to ditch caps again...) thanks to mike and rox, an excellent weekend at
tanglewood. saw
cassandra wilson (incredible percussion!) and
kenny baron's canta brasil, and drank wine and ate cheese and crackers and grapes from
nejaime's and sandwiches from
loeb's. watched the sunset, saw the stars and mars, played scrabble. saw the
norman rockwell museum (with a special exhibit on the berenstain bears!). lunched at betty's pizza shack, brunched at carol's.
lenox was a bit confusing...navigation was easier after we found a
map. a bit on the chilly side.
sunday, folks came over and i finally watched zoolander, which was everything i was told it would be.
though, were it not for suz's handy contribution of amstel lights, i would have only had mgd to ply people with.... this led to the usual conversation about
blue laws, and i did some googling. i hadn't realized connecticut and
new york and
flordia and
delaware were relaxing their blue laws as a way of increasing revenues. weirdly, liqour store owners are not eager to keep their stores open longer. in 1961, the supreme court said such laws were not a violation of church/state separation.
it's hard to understand how any self-respecting government could preserve some of these asinine and idiosyncratic rules with a straight face.
case in point: "The Wal-Mart in York, S.C., can sell groceries on Sunday morning but can't sell clothing and hundreds of other items until 1:30 p.m. That means barricading part of the store for more than 13 hours every Sunday."
