The local second run movie theater charges $1.25 so you can see a movie already avaible on DVD, but most of the time, these are not movies you want to own anyway. So recently, the Dollar Theater has upgraded one of it’s screens to 3D and is charging another $2 for 3D films. This is not too bad a deal, though the theater itself is still way on the run down side and it isn’t stadium seating. But hey, what do you want for $1.25? Anyway. Despicable Me is the story of a Super Villian named Gru trying to keep…
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Cadillac Ranch
About eight miles west of Amarillo, clearly visible from I-40, is a sculpture composed of ten old Cadillacs half buried in the middle of a plowed field. This is art in the loosest possible sense of the word. Uncontrolled graffiti is more like it. I’m a bit too old fashioned for The Cadillac Ranch, I prefer my art to look much as it looked when the artist created it. I have never been a big fan of graffiti-well, except for Banksy. I remember visiting the Bridges of Madison County not long after the movie had been released. The Bridges had…