Johnny Depp as Tonto in the Lone Ranger

I know I am "johnny come lately" -- pun intended to my look at the 2013 version of the Lone Ranger, but it was playing in my $2 neighborhood theater and I finally got a chance to see it.  And truthfully, I would be hardpressed to miss anything Johnny Depp does. I do think he's fantastic and I do have a schoolgirl crush on him.  So this is not meant to be profound, just meant to move me along in my goal to blog more consistently.

I loved the movie -- I loved Arnie Hammer as the Lone Ranger and I loved Johnny Depp as Tonto. We all know what tonto means in Spanish, and although Wikipedia has a long drawn out tale of how the name was chosen, it's not what I will get into here.  Suffice to say that what worked in the 50s is not PC any longer, so you would never use that name.  But when the William Tell overture began playing int h background and Hammer raced onto his white horse, well, it was a return to the Saturday morning (were they Saturday morning?) shows I watched as a girl. I laughed out loud in absolute delight. Thank you for entertaining me!

A little bit about a recent California visit

This is really a little bit. 

I am trying hard to blog more. 

I am failing. 

But I did write this little blurb a few days after I arrived for a two-week visit, late August/earlySeptember. 

My friends had told me things had changed in SF since I lived here two years ago.

They say the new young techies and dot.com success stories have once again made

San Francisco (economically) more challenging for “the common people.”  Perhaps true.  The ultra sleek and modern Google buses that bring their employees to and from Silicon Valley contrast with the regular every-day Muni buses.  Once downtrodden Valencia Street is now packed with startup, trendy restaurants to go with the startup, trendy techies.  On the beautiful San Francisco waterfront, longtime residents are stirred up about a plan to allow high-rise condominiums to be built and forever change the city skyline.  Down the road away, near the Marina, the Americas Cup is ongoing.  The Bay Bridge reopens this weekend with its new span and living artwork a light display put together in such a way that folks on the ground can see it as they look up, but drivers crossing the bridge cannot – in other words no distractions for drivers.

And food trucks have taken over … with every type of food imaginable. 

I got off the trolley at the Castro and 17^th last stop in San Francisco.  What was waiting for me there was a crème brulee food truck.  Only in San Francisco!

Al Jazeera America launch

I did this article about the launch of Al Jazeera America for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Al Jazeera America launches with praise and a lawsuit