[SkateDC] Screen on the Green (7/12/10) Goldfinger [Off Topic]

[George Marinkovich]

After successful weather negotiations on Sunday, I find myself in a greatly diminished bargaining position today.  We've stopped arguing about whether it's going to rain tonight and moved on to the topics of when and how much.  

As near as I can tell the chance of precipitation by 10 pm is 100%.  The weather radar map looks like the aftermath of a middle school cafeteria food fight on lime jello day.   The traffic cams paint a pretty dismal picture as well.  Even my tiki rain god figurine looks like he's scowling at me tonight.

Unpromising indeed!

While they will proceed with the film in the event of rain, they will stop the film if there is the threat of lightning.  The forecast calls for thunderstorms tonight and I would not be surprised if that included lightning as thunderstorms are wont to do.  And wouldn't it be pretty terrible if say James Bond were captured by Goldfinger and he were tied to a table underneath an industrial laser which slowly began to slice the table in half..... and then.... the projector stops, the lights come on, and they announce that due to the presence of lightning the film is canceled.

So I will not be there tonight.  

Hope to see everyone next Monday night for "Goodbye Girl,"  which is actually a fairly entertaining movie.

Regrets,
George

--- On Mon, 7/12/10, Daniel Smith <dan at macrodan.com> wrote:

From: Daniel Smith <dan at macrodan.com>
Subject: Re: [SkateDC] Screen on the Green (7/12/10) Goldfinger [Off Topic]
To: "skatewash at yahoo.com" <skatewash at yahoo.com>, "skatedc at skatedc.org" <skatedc at skatedc.org>
Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 5:00 PM


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Looks like rain ... a few drops in SW 
DC in the last hour.
 
Still seeing a few 
drops.
 
Looks "Un-promising."
 
Dan




Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All 
you have to do is live long enough.
  - Groucho Marx

From : George Marinkovich - skatewash at yahoo.com
Sent : 7/9/2010 6:13:35 
AM
Subject : [SkateDC] Screen on the Green (7/12/10) Goldfinger [Off 
Topic]

Monday, July 12 - GOLDFINGER. Sean 
Connery stars as 007 in #003 of the James 
Bond series.
Considered one of 
the best of all Bonds, it was loosely adapted from Ian
Fleming's
1959 
novel. (1964) 111 Min. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/)

Once 
again I will be staking out space with blue and gray tarps as close to front and 
center (with respect to the screen) as possible when I arrive sometime before 7 
pm.  I will try to set up here:  http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3867485 
center of the screen as close to the gravel sidewalk in front of the screen as 
possible.  I will be wearing blaze orange.  I will NOT have my mobile 
with me (at least for the first film) because it is completely 
non-functioning.  The film should start sometime after sunset (8:34 
pm).

The weather should be warm and humid, typical for SotG, but there's 
almost no chance of rain.

Screen on the Green info:  http://dc.about.com/od/specialevents/a/Screengreen.htm

Let 
me know if you're coming (and how many you are) so I can reserve the proper 
amount of space.

The location is the National Mall west of 4th Street, 
between Madison and Jefferson Drives.

Closest Metro stations are 
Archives/Navy Memorial, Smithsonian and 
L'Enfant 
Plaza.

Parking:  I'm recommending parking at L'Enfant Promenade 
where free on-street parking opens up at 6:30 pm.  You can probably get 
closer (it's at least a 6 block walk) but there should be spaces available there 
and I hate driving around looking for 
parking.

Cheers,
George

P.S.  This event is also on 
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109266732458319#!/event.php?eid=109266732458319




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