Movie Night with the SCCLA and smOdyssey 4/25 San Jose

Movie Night with the SCCLA and smOdyssey- "Brokeback Mountain"

WHAT: casual social featuring the acclaimed new film, "Brokeback Mountain"

WHERE: Edges* (RSVP for exact location/address)

WHEN: Tues April 25, 2006 8pm-10pm (doors open at 7:30pm)

COST: suggested donation $5 (No one turned away for lack of funds!)

RSVP/More Info: info@sccleather.org or visit www.smodyssey.com

Film Synopsis:

Brokeback Mountain is a Romantic Drama based on short story by Annie Proulx.

  In Wyoming in the summer of 1963, two young men -- Ennis, a ranch hand,
and Jack, an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together
herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain. What had otherwise been
anticipated as a rather uneventful venture soon turns into an affair of
love, lust and complications that span 19 years of their lives. Through
marriage, children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines,
Ennis and Jack come to grips with society's (and their own)
expectations of what it is to be a man.

*You don't have to be a member of Edges to attend this event.

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Passport Saturday 4/15

I went wine tasting in the Santa Cruz mountains with Wyatt and another friend. It was a good day... it didn't rain and we evaded all the mini landslides frosting the hills. Plus, we tasted plenty of good wines, as well as a scattering of less-good ones.

First off we headed towards Clos Tita... a rare day they were tasting at their winery. Or, that was the original plan. In reality, we had trouble locating them, called... and got the message they'd relocated to Santa Cruz. Oh well. On to Roudon-Smith, McHenry (tiny place; the bathroom was in grandma's OLD house, which was a wee bit traumatic for me)- we all liked their wines, and then we detoured into Santa Cruz itself to visit Pelican Winery; one of our number favored whites, and they have lots... though they were actually tasting about six wines of all sorts. Still, Wyatt managed to snag a taste of a vintage they were almost out of ... and actually bought their last bottle (as well as a couple piece by an art nature photographer, which were lovely). So that was fun. The tiny store was crowded.

On a whim we stopped at tinier yet Alexander Winery, which not only had several tasty wines, and two entertaining women behind the counter (one was particularly free-spirited and curvy), but they made GIN! Sarticious label. They had a tiny bottle run set up. So of course we tasted the gin. It had a very flowery start (more than I tend to prefer in truth), but a really nice juniper berry finish, and it really stayed in the mouth. Be a fine gin for many light cocktails. It was a blast to find a local gin maker. The gin wasn't available in the wine shop, but is available around this area.

We concluded with the long-sought-but-usually-closed-too-soon Zayante.

It was a very good way to spend a day; good company, good booze, good scenery... Even including Burger King for lunch!