Remember her Clean House here at Venture Theatre back in March? This one is newer, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, with a little more non-linear magic realism. A nice article in the New Yorker helps to figure her out.

The Coast Starlight departs Seattle for many points south, including Kamath Falls, about 60 miles from Ashland OR, home of Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

I mean, of course, the suggestion that high-speed rail, as in Europe, mentioned by our President when he was in Europe I thought because his teleprompter told him to say something nice about Europe that they had and we didn’t, is the way to go for improving the infrastructure of our transportation system. I heard this rumor again via the radio this morning.

Well, maybe I won’t go so far as being an Obamaniac. How about being as fair to him as our friends and enemies on the left were fair to George Bush? Yes, that sounds fair. I think I’ve talked about this before. Forgive me for repeating myself. The only problem that I can see with the above map is that huge space with few railroad lines running east and west and none running north and south. I did say something about this here and also here

The map above was lifted from this article in the Washington Post, which should know what it is talking about. Who knows our President may be able to get the trains running on time once again. Oh wait a minute I think those kudos have already been handed out to someone earlier in the 20th century.

I saw this in the Gazette this morning. Almost snorted my juice through my nose. Sometimes it’s hard to believe there are actually people out there who think along the same line you do.

The only problem, of course, is that yawning cavern of emptiness in the Rocky Mountain West. If anybody needs a little infrastructure we can sure use it. I think I already explained in a cursory fashion my idea of a Y-shaped incision rail line with one arm starting in Williston and the other ending in Whitefish or Kalispell, going through Glendive, Miles City, Billings naturally, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Missoula; and the stalk of the Y heading south out of Billings toward Sheridan, Casper and eventually to Denver.

I don’t think you need Maglev speed, just 100-120mph would be fine I’m sure and a couple different departure times every day. Just twice as fast as you can reasonably drive would be good enough for now. That’s HopenChange you can Believe in. I might just be a closet Obamaniac, maybe even a born-again member of the Obama Nation. Uhh, maybe not the last. Just think how this would relieve pressure on the roads and airports. Heck, you could probably delay fixing the roads long enough for the US automobile industry to recover. If they ever do.

Maybe we should do this as a state, like they did in New Mexico recently (see above highlighted post for a nice picture of a RailRunner) possibly with some help from North Dakota, Wyoming and maybe others too if we modify the route a little more. How about it? Senators Tester and Baucus? Representative Rehberg? Where are you when we need you?

I mean what would be the point of sending however many billions to Montana to pay for more state employees and more state-delivered services for a couple of years, then we would be on the hook forever after that. Oops, I think I just figured out how Obama could make that outrageous claim that 95% of us were going to see our taxes decline. Of course, he meant federal taxes. Duh! But even now I still can’t see how it could be done even with a compliant media to explain things to us commoners. Probably just invincible ignorance on my part.

I just love playing the role of Don Quijote or better yet Sancho Panza or maybe just good old Rocinante. What windmills? Why, there are whole brigades of them out there!