I won't be posting much today here. Remember that script I finished last week in Las Vegas? The one I wrote in-between eating at a White Castle and watching a Dean Martin impersonator who wouldn't fool you into thinking he was Dean Martin even if you were as drunk as Dean Martin? Well, it looks like I only thought I was finished. Today, I hope to be finished with it. But before I dive back into it, a few quick topics…
In this post, I said that the Crystal Geyser Water folks bottle their water for Southern California (and probably some outlying areas) at a bottling plant on Mt. Shasta in Olancha, CA. Well, reader-of-this-site John Schrantz informs me that "Mount Shasta is a good 500 miles away from Olancha, way up in Northern California. Olancha is a small desert town in the Owens Valley of Eastern California. The water bottled there comes from the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains."
Darryl Musick wrote to tell me much the same thing and I guess I got confused. Crystal Geyser has two plants in California. One is at Olancha Peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the city of Alancha. The other is on Mt. Shasta in the city of Weed, California. I regret the error.
I also regret eating at the White Castle that's part of the Casino Royale on the Las Vegas Strip. I liked White Castle burgers when I had them back east…but the last time was more than ten years ago, more like fifteen. They were pretty awful in Vegas. So this leaves us with three possibilities…
- White Castle has changed the recipe.
- They haven't but the place in Vegas doesn't make them very well or…
- My tastes have changed over the years.
I'm going with "c" here. Since my sweet tooth went away around 2008, I don't like a lot of foods I liked before then. In-and-Out Burgers got very untasty to me in the same way.
I wish I'd seen this yesterday: Dana Milbank lists the uncanny similarities between Martin Luther King and Donald John Trump. He left out the fact that these days, each man is saying about the same number of wise things. See you tomorrow or maybe later today after the script is done…again.