Appearing in the Georgia Organics Resource Directory , going to the printers tomorrow: Boánn’s Banks – A Natural Farm Sustainable living on the Broad River. Vegetables, herbs and eggs. The Wagoners, www.boannsbanks.com There’s a temporary website up. A better one will follow shortly.

Falling, falling Gonna drop like a stone Falling through the atmosphere On a warm afternoon…

I discussed film aspect ratios with my mom last night. She’s seen The Lord of the Rings at several theaters now, and has noticed that some screens were showing the movie “wider” than others – that details were being dropped on the left and right on those screens not as wide. I hadn’t heard of the movie being released with differing prints, so I suggested she was the victim of an incompetent projectionist. I still don’t know, but Roger Ebert wrote an excellect article on the problem last fall.

David Chess has made me aware of Alexandra Kosteniuk’s official site. As David says, Kosteniuk is to chess what Kournikova is to tennis, except that Kosteniuk wins a lot more often.

The Himalayas are big, even from space.

An article about the stressed relationship between drivers and bikers in Boston, passed on to me by a woman who says she feels less safe on the roads in Athens than she ever did in Boston. I’ve never ridden in Boston, but I have been hit by several inattentive drivers here. None of the incidents involved fist fights or injury, I’m happy to say.

Prostitutes and Leisure Suits -- the campus paper promotes The Hot l Baltimore.

The Hot l Baltimore gets a mention in the Flagpole, our weekly alternative newspaper.

Attention Wallace and Gromit fans: Nick Park is producing twelve new one-minute films, to be released later this year on his web site.

It rained all day Saturday, so the barn-building was postponed. The first weekend of the play went without a hitch. The actors are fantastic. The first two nights were sold out, and Sunday’s crowd was larger than average. More than the usual number of patrons told me it was the best thing they’d seen here. I’m mighty pleased.