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This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say hello and mention that last night I watched documentary about the Blockbuster Video that is still open in Bend, Oreg
by waltbosz 4y ago
This is off-topic, but I just wanted to say hello and mention that last night I watched documentary about the Blockbuster Video that is still open in Bend, Oregon.
On-topic:
I used to subscribe to the newsletter from landio.com, which sells semi-remote land. It's fun to read about their different offerings. They do a pretty good job of listing whats in the area (towns, hospitals, grocery, building supply, hunting) and what resources (water, power, phone/Internet).
- davidw 4y agoI live a few blocks from that place. It gets a disproportionate amount of attention.
- waltbosz 4y agoIn the days of streaming, it is a curiosity to be sure, but in the end, it is just a video rental store. In the documentary, they really up the romanticism of video rental stores. This is just my experience, but I was a kid when Blockbuster was a thing. Plus, I grew up in a college town where the neighbors we a bit dynamic. So I never experienced any of the sort of community feeling that the documentary portrays. My most memorable Blockbuster Video experience is sort of a dark and morbid one. Not appropriate in this context. Think dark in a humorous Cohen brother's way, not dark in a life scaring way.