Earthquake Spaghetti

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As the curtain was going down on last night's ACT performance of 'The Rainmaker,' The Calaveras Fault came a-shaking and a-rumbling. The Great Plotnik was sitting in his seat, having just put away his press kit, turned off his cell phone, located his Crystal Geyser water bottle under his seat and made sure his M&Ms weren't rattling. He can report to his concerned readers that the 5.6 earthquake (5.6? Hah! We speet on your 5.6!) didn't even penetrate his consciousness, until during the first intermission when the ladies sitting next to him were looking over someone in the next row's shoulder who was receiving info on his cell phone about the quake. Only then did it dawn on Plotnik that an earthquake had even happened.

The Geary Theater was built right after the '06 quake and renovated within the last ten years, so it's probably a fine place to be during a large one. The Great Ducknik was in the Ladies Room (not in 1906, last night) and she said it shook like crazy in there.

The Great Plotnik thought: No matter what Hemingway said in For Whom The Bell Tolls, you don't want to have your pants down during an Earthquake.

'The Rainmaker' is pretty good, beautiful to look at and it has Rene Augesen so it can't be bad. It might not be a jump-up-and-shout-Hallelujah though.



Meanwhile, the clock strikes Halloween tonight and The Meatball Kitchen has prepared a double batch of Halloween Spaghetti and Meatballs. Observe the nice, smoky Oaxaca chile in the middle of the sauce, yum.



Actually, the Spaghetti and Meatballs comes first, to give the stomach a base on which to add Snickers, Almond Joys, Baby Ruths, Butterfingers, M&Ms, Hersheys, Skittles and a little Ice Nine to wash it all down. All Plotnikkies who are in the area are welcome to come taste, but make sure you specify Meatballs or Snickers.