It's already Thursday, which means I'm WAY behind on writing this post. Beehiver Blake on Monday attached a nice comment to my unrelated tidbit about Joan Rivers winning "Celebrity Apprentice." (Yep, definitely the most culturally sophisticated thing I wrote all week.) Blake wrote:

I sure thought that article on the Texas town in Sunday's Spotlight section was super cool. (sorry, off-subject, but folks should really dig it out, if they still have yesterday's paper around.)

Thanks, Blake. That would be my Sunday Spotlight column on the peculiar little town of Marfa, Texas, population 2,000, which I visited on my recent vacation. It's a vibrant, bustling arts community that reminded me that you don't have to live in a big city to find an artsy feel.

Anyway, I wanted to share my photo in color of the art installation "Prada, Marfa," above, which ran in a black and white version in the print edition of the paper, plus a few other shots of mine that I took in Marfa. You can find those additional photos after the break.

From Friday:

"you suck as a witer no one cares what you think about a movie what you think is worth a dingal berry write facts not crap. BITCH"

"fast and furious $72.5m something you ll never see . get a new job or get fired you Adventureland lover."

Chris, you're so very right that as a "witer" I will never see $72.5 million, unless the United States falls into a Weimar Republic-style economic calamity with 30,000% inflation. But you're wrong about something else: I didn't write the "Adventureland" review. Since you seem to be adamantly opposed to the movie, I'll make it a point to get out and see it.

As far as the box-office total goes: Yes, $72.5 million is a whopper. It means that a LOT of folks went out and saw "Fast & Furious" this weekend. We've already seen mdub420 salivate over that amount. (Were you an investor, mdub?) I'm curious what other Beehive readers thought of the movie. Did you love it? Hate it? Favorite race sequence? Favorite Vin Diesel-Paul Walker bonding moment? Favorite girl-girl kiss scene awash in psychosexual meaning as bored women realize they'd have a better chance at scoring with these drivers if they were 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlos?

Ashley Taylor, part of the cast of the new production of "Little Women" opening Thursday at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater, reminds me that "Footloose" isn't the only chance to burn calories on stage. She writes:

I just read your Sunday Spotlight column on the "Footloose Diet," and I have to say, I was so jealous of the workout that cast got... but "Little Women," as it turns out, is nothing to shake a hoop at.