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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
In Court: Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols hears pre-trials for much of the day.
The Palm Coast City Council workshop previously scheduled for today is cancelled. The council is not meeting again until Nov. 12.
Palm Coast’s Residential Drainage Citizens Advisory Committee meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.
Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE., 6:30 p.m on Tuesdays, 10 a.m. on Fridays. Join master gardeners from the UF/IFAS Agricultural Extension Office for these workshops that cover a variety of horticultural topics. $10 a workshop.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
| In Coming Days: Oct. 30-31: The Halloween Hall of Terror is back at Palm Coast Fire Station 21, 9 Corporate Drive in Palm Coast. Monday, Oct. 30 and Tuesday, Oct.31 from 7 to 10 p.m. This year’s event promises to be better than ever with a ‘Greatest Slashers’ theme, incorporating some of the horror genres biggest icons of the past 50 years. And new for 2024, visitors can indulge in a variety of delicious offerings from food trucks as they await their turn to tour the spine-chilling haunted house. Parking is available in the lot adjacent to the firehouse on corporate drive, with overflow parking available in the Kohl’s parking lot. This year, the City of Palm Coast is offering a limited number of ‘RIP’ fast pass tickets again, giving winners front-of-the-line access. To enter, follow the City of Palm Coast’s Facebook page during the week of October 21-25 and answer daily horror film trivia questions. Winners will be announced each day, so don’t miss your chance to skip the line and dive straight into the horror. Last year’s Hall of Terror set a new attendance record with nearly 5,000 visitors over the two-day span, and this year is expected to draw an even larger crowd. As always, the event is free and open to all ages, though adult supervision is recommended for attendees under 13. Please note that the event features strobe lights, fog, and other special effects. Those with epilepsy or sensory sensitivities are invited to join us for a special sensory-friendly walkthrough of the Hall of Terror from 6-7pm on both nights of the event. |
Notably: I had a misconception about country music when I first arrived in the United States in 1978. I thought it synonymous with the soundtracks of westerns we grew up on in Beirut, watching them at the Embassy or the Concorde cinemas. That was itself anachronistic. The soundtracks were generally written by Italians–Ennio Morricone, Nico Fidenco (also big for the softcore porn of Emanuelle movies), Frencesco De Masi–who invented the sound of westerns no less than Aaron Copeland invented the sound of the west from his Brooklyn studio. With that misconception in mind, and feeling nostalgic for those sounds–another irony: I was nostalgic for the western sounds I heard in Beirut, now that I was in America–I asked my second father what record he might recommend. He suggested Willie Nelson’s “Red Headed Stranger.” I bought it. This must’ve been 1979 or 1980, five years after the album appeared. It was Willies breakthrough. I did not hear the sounds of the Embassy. I heard better. My love affair with country, and with Willie especially, began. I had no idea what the songs were about, though I’d eventually catch on many years later that the concept album traced the story of a fugitive who murdered his wife and lover. I couldn’t stop listening. “Just As I Am,” “Can I Sleep In Your Arms,” and of course “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” a song that to this day discombobulates my cosmology and yo-yos me up and down the abyss of nostalgia by way of existential shutters. For all the thousand and one songs Willie’s written, this one is not one of his. Fred Rose wrote it, Hank Williams sang it, Gene Autry sang it, Conway Twitty sang it. But no one had ever sung it like Willie, or given it that place in the Red Headed Stranger cycle that, in Willie’s words, “expressed the overall theme and tied all the loose ends together.”
—P.T.
Now this: We need a break, even if this is a repeat. It never gets old. Neither does he.
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October 2024
Wednesday, Oct 16
Tourist Development Council Meeting
Government Services Building
Tuesday, Oct 22
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
African American Cultural Society
Tuesday, Oct 22
Fall Horticultural Workshops
Palm Coast Community Center
Tuesday, Oct 22
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Cinematique of Daytona Beach
Wednesday, Oct 23
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
Airline Room, Daytona Beach International Airport
Wednesday, Oct 23
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Wednesday, Oct 23
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Wednesday, Oct 23
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Public Library
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I didn’t fault the other trippers who used acid to blow their minds in their search for a deeper truth -or just ’cause they wanted to try a new high. For my part, though, experimenting with LSD convinced me that I had already found the high that worked for me. My love affair with pot became a long-term marriage. It was, by far, the smoothest of all my marriages. Pot and I got along beautifully. Pot never brought me down, never busted my balls. Pot got me up and took me where I needed to go. Pot chased my blues away. When it came to calming my energy and exciting my imagination, pot did the \trick damn near every time I toked.
–From Willie Nelson’s It’s A Long Story: My Life (2015).
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