Love this version of the Bowie classic as performed by Canadian Commander Chris Hadfield as he prepares to make the return journey from the International Space Station back to Earth. Commander Chris has recorded a few songs from their low orbit, but this adaptation seems especially fitting. Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do.
That seems to be the gist of what I’m reading in a letter from Publisher Shanna Cannon. Unless I understand the term “paywall” wrong. The memo doesn’t use the term. But if I read this correctly, after May 14 only subscribers will get access to full content at redding.com. And perhaps more significant, at least to me, only subscribers will have the privilege of commenting online. With any luck, this will moderate the often irrational content somewhat. One can hope.
Click on the image (twice) expand to a more readable size: Announcement from Record Searchlight/redding.com I generally regard this as good news. We’ll see. It makes sense that a newspaper needs a consistent source of income to continue to provide the in-depth reporting our community deserves. So I wish them well with this new model.
Aaron Rader of Rader Excavating is a big guy for a dance partner. Watch him learn the dance moves from Monica Fisher that he’ll need to win the competition at this year’s Dancing With the Stars Shasta County Style benefit for the Shasta Women’s Refuge.
Aaron is my son in law. Last year his wife, my daughter and Broker at The Address Realty, Erin Rader, narrowly missed winning the big dance competition prize. Aaron volunteered this year to bring home the win for the family. Obviously our community is the big winner. Help Aaron raise the money and win with your encouragement. He and Monica are working hard. Now it’s your turn!
We really enjoyed pedaling around the Park Marina area with no cars around today, courtesy of ShastaLivingStreets.org and Rader Traffic Control. The neighborhood presents an entirely different perspective by bike.
Getting a cheeseburger at Fallis Around Town in ReddingAs amazing as it was out there, it’s truly bittersweet. Both Erin and I spent our morning ride describing to one another how lovely it would be if Park Marina instead was lined with shops and restaurants facing the river. And if it incorporated bikes and walking, all the time. All these people would be out every day enjoying our short urban waterfront. Our hidden jewel. Maybe riding bikes from bistro to sports bar for a pint. So beautiful. So pleasant. Just nice.
I’ve written about this subject before, here. There is a Park Marina vision. I didn’t make this up.
For now, I’m just sorry about it. Just moping about a vision unrealized, on the one day a year you can almost taste it. Just for a day.
We now return you to your previously scheduled automotive purgatory.
Its a picture perfect afternoon and evening for racing at Redding Dragstrip! Check out how much has changed over 50 years with these two videos. This one was recorded last night, Friday April 19. Click and switch to HD.
And this one below courtesy of Redding’s Larry Sparman, was recorded in 1963. Filmed in Sparmascope!
Come on out to the Redding Dragstrip for more racing action tonight. It’s Really Redding.
For more than 50 years, Redding has raced at our dragstrip. This year, after taking in the cruisers at Kool April Nights, come out to the strip for April Hot Drags!
There’s been talk (again) of splitting California in two, north and south. What if a better idea is to grow California into a larger nation/state instead? Would the trade-offs inherent in becoming a larger western state be offset by the value of losing the irrelevant influences of Washington DC and New York? According to this article in FastCompany, natural borders can be plotted by tracking the mobility of money.
The article below uses complex computational models to plot the borders.
Here’s a Redding sign waver and his entry for a video contest. Turn it up.
Great exercise, I imagine. A fun job, if approached with enthusiasm. Does it bring in the business? I guess they wouldn’t be out there if it didn’t.
Can’t stop, chili pepper. It’s Really Redding.
