I couldn’t resist. Got up early on Sunday morning and headed to SunStreet Breads for their last day. Got there a little after 6; there was one fellow already standing outside the door but since I didn’t have a coat on, I stayed in the car listening to my book on CD. When the next two guys joined the little line at 6:10, I got out and joined them.
We had a great time, first talking about bakeries and donuts and rustic breads. Everybody had other bakeries that they sometimes frequent but it was clear that Sunstreet had a place in all our hearts. I can’t remember why somebody in the line behind me highly commended the movie The Hail Mary Project. I mentioned that I wasn’t sure I wanted to see that – another favorite book of mine that I don’t want “sullied” by some movie producer’s vision. This led to a lively bit of talk about science fiction movies. The first guy in line and I convinced to the two younger men between us that they needed to see Forbidden Planet with Leslie Nielsen and Walter Pidgeon. I mentioned John Scalzi, but apparently any science fiction written after 1985 was a non-starter for my new friend in the front of the line. The topic then returned to the bakery with all of us listing what we were planning on purchasing.
At 6:30, opening time, the line was all the way back to the Caribou Coffee – probably 40 folks. There were signs up about no espresso (I’m guessing that’s a time suck you can’t afford when you have lines out the door) and only six pastries per person. All three of my guys did the six pastries bit but since I was just there for the experience, I just got three – a raspberry cream scone, a laugen croissant (kind of a pretzel crust) and a blueberry turnover for YA. Oh and one last tray of outrageously expensive (but yummy) animal cookies.
The line was even longer when I left. I headed on home with my treasures, realizing that I’d had a great time – not so much because I’d gotten pastries on the last day of my favorite bakery but because it had been a blast to talk about donuts, bakeries and science friction in the wee hours of the morning.
Any really good conversations recently?
Trail Baboon 
Did you know that Edgar Rice Burroughs was a real man’s man, soldier, adventurer, and cowboy in the years before he wrote his books? Literate to boot; exquisitely so.
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I didn’t really know much about Edgar Rice Burroughs, but I do know that his books are much better than most people probably believe. For many years, I had several questions about the reality of Tarzan and why this and why that which had never been answered by any movie I had ever seen in my life. Including Greystoke, which gave more backstory than a lot. And then I read Rice’s first Tarzan; most of those questions were answered. I also liked his John Carter Mars series. He touched on a lot of ideas and concepts that I thought were really interesting.
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Forbidden Planet, yes, and also Silent Running with Bruce Dern.
Philip Jose Farmer wrote an entertaining book, Tarzan Alive, written as a straightforward biography and history of the Greystoke lineage, tying Tarzan to Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe and others.
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I should add, I read it 50 years ago, so my perception of it might have changed as so many things do but it must signify something that I still remember it.
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