Fall City Bistro

Okay. The Other Place is long gone. The Fall City Diner is dead. The Fall City Grill has faded away. In comes the Fall City Bistro! I have such great hopes for this place! They say they'll be baking their own bread and using locally grown food. I just hope they don't price themselves out of this market!

I did have a look at their menu online and now I'm a little concerned about the viability of the Fall City Bistro. Indeed, the menu is great and the pricing is good. I hope I'm wrong about this but it just seems too upscale...for Fall City. We'll see. Oh...aside from a few spelling errors in the menu...I do recall that they intend to serve locally grown food. It seems that genuine Kobe beef is not available in this country, although there are suppliers who do market their product as Kobe beef.

The Pressing Force of Gravity

Update...

While I hold to my theory of the "pressing force of gravity", I should add a bit of slightly unrelated observances:

If one could have an outsider's view of our universe...step back and see...nearly countless galaxies of stars with planets, black holes and all sorts of other bursts of energy, space-borne comets and meteors, etc., etc...

Step back. from our universe of "all that stuff". Step WAY back. Step back about 50 billion light years away (I suppose our universe is about 50 billion years old). Light and all other energy, traveling at its normal, maximum speed...when one reaches 50 billion light years away from our universe...and then, takes another step away...what then? There is nothing to be seen and our universe disappears. It is completely invisible because the light generated from the "big bang" has not traveled that far. Turn around and face away. Keep traveling many more light years...isn't there a glimmer  of light so far away? Aren't there thousands (billion) of glimmers of light so far away? I'm supposing there are uncountable other universes, never to be seen by humans. Of course, I offer no ultimate solution. I only say what we think of as "the universe" is narrow-minded. There may well be bazillions of other universes.

Perhaps the "dark matter" in our universe doesn't intermingle with the dark matter in other universes. Perhaps the universes will never intermingle. Perhaps they will. "Forever" is a big place!


I've posted numerous comments about this...(The pressing force of gravity). However, recently I learned that Cern had probably confirmed the existence of Bosons. In no way does this repudiate my own theory. In fact, it lends some support. If (according to Quantum theory) Fermions are the elementary forms of matter and Bosons make up the background of the universe and simply transmit forces, I'm satisfied to call the Dark Matter, the Ether, the Dark Energy (whatever) the Higgs Field. The basic idea remains the same...it is the stuff of the universe that holds things together, both on the sub-atomic level and at the grander, inter-stellar scale. It is the stuff of the universe that creates gravity. In previous posts, I elaborated on this simplistic view of things and explained how I came about this theory. Look it up, eh? Prove me wrong, eh? Just don't give me the bull about gravitons traveling from a star to a planet and coercing the smaller object (with fewer gravitons) to "come this way". Don't say the sun rests on the fabric of space and things just roll downhill unless they have sufficient speed to continue in orbit. I can offer some evidence to support my theory of gravity as a pressing force but have yet to see anything to indicate otherwise. Also, I find it a bit interesting that in 1964, two groups of theorists proposed that the universe is pervaded by a molasses-like field which they called the Higgs Field. I've used the analogy of a sealed jar of honey that has been entered (somehow...perhaps from another universe). The honey is sealed (as is our universe) and has nowhere to go. Hence, there is perpetual pressure applied to the invasive matter (in this case, Fermions). Just read some of my previous posts, eh?

I can't stand Ron Fairly...and Dave Sims

I can't stand it! Ron Fairly is just too boring and I'd appreciate it if the Mariners kept him off the air.

Uh...I apologize for the headline...I have nothing against Ron Fairly, personally. In fact, he's probably a wonderful man. It's just that his radio broadcasts are far below par...even for the Seattle area! (I also have to add that I do appreciate hearing many of his stories of olde...as long as he has nothing to say about any game in progress.)

Oh! Did I mention that I think Mike Blowers has an excessively nasally voice? It's not pleasant listening to him.

I might as well add Dave Sims to the list of sports announcers I'd rather never hear again. His choppy, incomplete sentences are often difficult to understand.

Fall City Diner

Okay...the first name I knew this place as was The Other Place. Then, it became the Fall City Grill. Then, it became the Fall City Diner. Now...it's being set up again with new decor and will be called the Fall City Bistro. They're trying to open in the beginning of July and we'll just have to wait and see if it's worth trying more than once. Oh! I just remembered...when I stopped in the parking lot to see what sign they were putting up so I could find out what the new name would be...they told me they would be serving a Farm-to Table menu and they would be using local suppliers for the food! Now, that's a definite plus!

Tosca, Mariners, Fall City Diner, gravity

I have a great curiosity about something...

Why are there so many hits on this blog from Russia, Germany and France? Whether I comment on a local performance of Tosca, the Fall City Diner or the Seattle Mariners, there is always more interest out of the US than in. I find it odd. Also, why has there been so little interest in my other posts, such as those about gravity or thieving politicians, etc.?

Someone?

Tosca

I did not attend the Moore Theater production. However, the Auburn production was spectacular. I spoke with Cecilia Angell and she seemed pleased to have received a "standing O" at the Moore. Gino Lucchetti is supremely gifted and Grace Eun is a gift to us all. Lyric Opera Northwest has consistently exceeded all expectations in staging, preparation, execution and shear musical beauty! It's a shame they haven't been producing an opera-a-month!

Oh...the orchestra was superb!

The reason I did not attend the Moore event was because I did not receive my ticket as indicated (I think) on the web-site. In response to the comment that on-line ticket purchases are available at "will-call"...I know better. I was not included at "will-call" in Auburn and probably was not at the Moore either even though my debit card had been charged almost two weeks prior. This is a small, management glitch that can easily be remedied in the future.

All that aside, two things...

In the Northwest, one can expect Lyric Opera Northwest performances to be just this side of Seattle Opera and...

I have no clue how this "meet-up" thing is supposed to work. I was tempted to tap everyone on the shoulder and ask, "Are you with the 'meet-up'? Are you one of 'us' ? Instead, I sat next to the photographer and savored the entire performance with no idea who else may be wandering and wondering how this 'meet-up' functions. Indeed! I know some performers...and performances...but I brought my appreciation, my experiences and my opinions home, unexpressed.

Mariners (Mets)

Listening to the Mariners game on the radio yesterday…two throwing errors on the same play…and having a look at the horrendous batting averages of these Seattle goofballs, I can’t help but compare them to the early New York Mets. I remember the “Amazins” with Marvelous Marv Throneberry, Ed Cranepool and the rest of that hapless team. It was a total joke. The 2012 Mariners are nearly clones of those Mets! And! They actually pay them for this crap! Millions! At this very minute, they're playing a game against Cleveland and the Mariners have two (!!!) professional (???) athletes hitting under 140 in the starting lineup! This is disgraceful! 

(By the way, Ken Levine is a great radio announcer and I've finally learned to appreciate Rick RZZs. Together, they're really great! ...just PLEASE keep Ron Fairly off the air...PLEASE!)

Oh...as a follow-up, the batless Mariners (Batless in Seattle) managed to find a way to blow away a 4-run lead and take it up the butt from Cleveland...again. The Mariners really do suck!

Also, I've had it up to here (!) with the local sports media buffoons being so critical of Ichiro. Aside from (maybe) that Mariner pitcher (what's-his-name), Ichiro is the only real professional athlete on the team.