I was walking out to go to The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) When I got to the end of my street, I saw a man walking in East Henrietta Rd. I thought nothing of it — after all, the sidewalks are covered in snow and ice, so depending on his physical condition and footwear, it’s understandable that he would walk in the perfectly clear road. (I’m fortunate enough to have boots, balance, and strength, so I just get a tremendous workout in my gluteus maximus.) As I arrived at the intersection, I noticed the light was in my favor (even if the inconveniently-placed crosswalk doesn’t reflect that) so I was making my way across, parallel to the light traffic. As the light started changing and the last vehicle passed, I heard a thud, as if the pick-up truck had run over a log in the road.
I knew it was trouble before I turned around, and as I had expected, the man was lying in the road.
I was calling 911 (although I almost called 9111 in my panic) before the driver even got out of the truck. I think my initial assumption was incorrect — the man wasn’t run over, but run into. Thankfully the driver was going relatively slowly, but he didn’t see the man and didn’t react, so the truck hit with full force. A firetruck, ambulance, and two police cars arrived within a couple minutes. They got the man on a backboard and into the ambulance — he didn’t appear to have a broken back or other severe injury, so I hope the worst he could suffer would be a broken bone or two.
I always wonder how most people think this is okay — as if it’s just a fact of life that these kinds of car accidents happen. It was certainly preventable. Why aren’t cars equipped with brakes that engage automatically when they detect something? For that matter, why aren’t the sidewalks cleared to the same standard as the street? I could blame the driver, but humans are wholly unequipped to drive the same route without incident and be expected to handle a random, unusual circumstance, proven again and again by psychology and anthropology.
It’s really too bad we can’t use science to guide our collective decision-making.
Tonight at The Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St.) starting at 8 p.m. is Caged Alpha Monkey Racing which involves "local personalities from the beer world dressed in full monkey suits completing challenges while racing twice around the perimeter of the building."
[source:
Tap and Mallet website]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Gunfighter starting at 8 p.m. Jack Garner will introduce this film in which Gregory Peck "delivers some of his best work as a famed gunfighter on the run. Every town has some punk who wants to challenge him. He can't put his gunfighting past behind him."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar][all ages]
Apparently The Critical Mass Bike Ride
is tonight starting at 6 p.m. at The Liberty Pole (1 Liberty Pole Way) and heading through the city from there.
[source:
the proverbial grapevine]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing The Interrupters starting at 8 p.m. and again on Sunday at 5 p.m. It's a documentary about "three Chicago individuals whose own criminal pasts have led them to an innovative anti-violence program" which uses "contagious disease as a model," and "these self-described 'violence interrupters' attempt to halt 'infection' at its source by intervening directly in escalating personal conflicts."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar][all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Hadewijch starting at 8 p.m. followed by a discussion with Motion Picture Curator Dr. Paolo Cherchi Usai. According to the Eastman House calendar, "once upon a time, in the 13th century, there was a poet — Hadewijch of Antwerp — who expressed her views on the ecstasy of spiritual love in poems of flamboyant beauty. Fast forward to the 21st century: Céline, a 20-year-old French girl, is seeking God along the same path, but even the nuns of the monastery think she's crazy."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar][all ages]
Updated:
Today from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m. in The Kate Gleason Auditorium at The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) is another Tuesday Topics where Dr. Kevin S. McFarland will present a discussion titled Have We Discovered Warp Speed, Scotty?[source:
Friends of the Public Library e-mail][all ages]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing La Vie de Bohème(The Bohemian Life) starting at 8 p.m. Another film from dry humorist Aki Kaurismäki — in this, "aspiring poet Marcel Marx (André Wilms) finds camaraderie with an Albanian composer and an Irish painter (both played by Finnish actors!) after getting evicted from his apartment, the three struggling to survive despite their meager incomes and questionable talents."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar][all ages]
Tonight at The Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave.) is really great sounding acoustic trio The Baby Shark, Cu-Cu, Gin and Bonnets, and good indie-acoustic rock from Kirk Stevens starting around 9 p.m.
[source:
Bug Jar calendar]
The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) will be showing Five Easy Pieces starting at 8 p.m. in which Jack Nicholson plays a "classically trained pianist from a highly cultured family in the Pacific Northwest, but you wouldn't know it: he spends all his time in oil fields and bowling alleys, wavering about his proudly redneck girlfriend (Karen Black). When he journeys back home to see his family for the first time in years, he only affirms his own alienation in this contemplative work of American art cinema."
[source:
Dryden Theater calendar][all ages]
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(219 Monroe Ave.) When I got to the end of my street, I saw a man walking in East Henrietta Rd. I thought nothing of it — after all, the sidewalks are covered in snow and ice, so depending on his physical condition and footwear, it’s understandable that he would walk in the perfectly clear road. (I’m fortunate enough to have boots, balance, and strength, so I just get a tremendous workout in my gluteus maximus.) As I arrived at the intersection, I noticed the light was in my favor (even if the inconveniently-placed crosswalk doesn’t reflect that) so I was making my way across, parallel to the light traffic. As the light started changing and the last vehicle passed, I heard a thud, as if the pick-up truck had run over a log in the road.
Tonight at 
The Dryden Theater at 
links to a band's page on GarageBand.com which offers reviews and information about bands.
links to a band's page on MySpace.com which is a friend-networking site that is popular with bands.
is a day when you should fly the flag according to the Veterans of Foreign Wars calendar.