This Post Doesn't Really Count

Wow, there's a feeling of real gravitas surrounding "meeting with the bank."

The first meeting with one bank ended well with a bank account and an LLC. This next meeting, however has a great deal more at stake.

I've had a fair amount of practice with the presentation, so I'm not really concerned. But it does feel like "meeting with the bank" will answer the key questions, which will unlock the door to the box of quandaries, the answers to which, will fit together together as the last pieces of the puzzle are carefully set into place while impatient onlookers shout "NO, DO THAT ONE FIRST I BET IT GOES THERE!"

As you may have guessed things are going significantly slower than I want. But it's important to remember - there's seriously a lot of things we're working on here. All at once. If we skip forward without a rock solid plan, I might as well stick to inviting friends over to watch movies on the couch in the living room.

I don't want to slouch on couches. I have bigger plans than my living room.

And so, wish me luck with my, as of yet, unexplained "meeting with the bank."

Okay, So Not THE Next Post...

While I'm still wording my official announcement, I noticed several more international visits to the website of Lansdowne, PA's up and coming Little Big Screen Cinemas.

And I'm running out of software translations to native languages!

We've had visits from:
Brazil
Bremen, Germany
Harjumaa, Estonia
Jihomoravsky Kraj, Czech Republic...

It's really quite exciting. Welcome!

Next time you're in Pennsylvania, come visit Lansdowne. It's the biggest little town outside of Philadelphia. If we had a hotel, I'd say that I knew you'd enjoy staying in Lansdowne... but we actually don't have a hotel.... there might be a bed and breakfast though... I'll have to look into that.... Anyway Welcome international web traffic from Brazil, Germany, Estonia and the Czech Republic!

And Now For Something Not "And Now For Something Completely Different"

Well, we screened "And Now For Something Completely Different" at the Regency Cafe, and we learned a valuable lesson. If you're parrot's dead, and the clerk doesn't want to exchange it, you've got to complain until you're blue in the face.

Thank-you to the Regency Cafe for once again hosting the event!

Cinema 16:9 supplied the Movie Theater, and the Regency supplied the excellent everything else! Coffee, sandwiches, pastries, éclairs... my mouth is watering thinking about it. I ordered a large secret handshake, a tuna melt, and an éclair. It was like a trip through Savoryville to get to Delectabletown - and you can quote me on that.

But wait... as the title to this post suggests - This post is not about "And Now For Something Completely Different."

This post is, in fact, the round up... the post that brings all the clues together in one post. The answers to many questions are coming, and there's only 147 days left on that counter for something to happen.

Okay, so what are the clues?

Clue 1: In our premiere post on this very blog, we discussed Cinema 16:9's premiere Lansdowne screening which we held at the Regency Cafe. The question was raised where was this Cinema 16:9? The answer came in obfuscation after obfuscation after an Abbott and Costello routine.

You forgot to mention "after aggravation."

Clue 2: It was revealed that David Titus, was the self-same gent who screened films in Mt. Airy as "Films at the Sedgwick" and that he had helped to found The Little Theater, a movie theater that exists to this day right next door to the Sedgwick Theater on Germantown Ave.

Clue 3: Cinema 16:9 is "Lansdowne's Little Big Screen Cinemas"

I read the heading of the website... that's not much of a clue.

Clue 4: Though veiled in secrecy, Cinema 16:9 has always been "located" in Lansdowne.

I get it. You're in Lansdowne PA. You don't have an actual permanent location though.

Clue 5: Cinema 16:9's private screenings have included films such as The Fountain, National Treasure: The Book of Secrets, and Xanadu.

Well, there's the problem, you showed Xanadu.

Clue 6: A Cinemamorial was planned and began construction, apparently without the Lansdowne borough council's knowledge.

But that's not true.

But it was funny, I thought. Okay -

Clue 7: A Jumble: Gubernatorial Knickerbocker Flange Pies

Oh! Wow... I got that quicker than I thought I would.

Clue 8 Down: Darkest before the ______.

light. Oh, I've got one:

Clue 9: David Titus claims he had to catch a train the morning after the Monty Python screening at the Regency Cafe. Where was he going?

Um, actually that's true. I was going to MA. And this weekend I have to go back, my brother's graduating from high school. Nothing to read into there, actually.

Actual Clue 9: Cinema 16:9 is now an LLC. An actual, privately owned, business.

Okay. I think I get it... was it the butler with the gun in the study?

Clue 10: If you take every fifth letter of this blog post and use your Cinema 16:9 decoder ring, you'll read the super secret message about what Cinema 16:9 LLC is trying to accomplish in Lansdowne.

Okay, so I get... "T-e-l-l y-o-u-r m-o-m t-o p-i-c-k u-p O-v-a-l-t-i-n-e t-h-i-s w-e-e-k a-n-d r-e-c-e-i-v-e 1-0-% o-f-f." Oh come on. Honestly, hasn't there been enough of this secret stuff?

Yes, you're right. I'm coming clean... in the next post. This post is getting long.

Welcome New Mailing List Members!

With the screening tonight, I've been busy getting ready. But It's too often that the dedicated fan is left out. To those of you who have joined my mailing list of late, Thank-you and welcome. You will learn of our events, and eventually... our secrets. The sort of brotherhood of the mailing list will certainly expand your connections, and no doubt, one day the Cinema 16:9 mailing list will be a sort of status symbol for the masses.

"I'm on the Cinema 16:9 e-mail list!"

"Oh, what splendor! You are on the Cinema 16:9 e-mail list?!"

You've got to be kidding me.

Well, maybe it's not going to be a status symbol. But it will be a means of hearing directly from Cinema 16:9!

Okay. Are you going to sell my info?

No.

Well, I guess I want to hear about movie screenings. Sign me up.

I won't just sign people up... I don't buy info either. If you want to hear updates about what Cinema 16:9 is up to, then click on E-mail List on the right side navigation bar, and a form will appear. Fill in your name and email address, and click the SEND button and you'll opt in to our E-mail List.

You would join our most recent member to the E-mail List:
jpVUnyFkDhJdtDNRPQ oDUNdJTXqyisrtHLgU!

Are you serious?

As a side note, Mr. or Mrs. oDUNdJTXqyisrtHLgU, the email you provided was incomplete I think. ThZEyWWutFRPaLzUEd should have an @ something after it.

Excuse me, but I couldn't help but notice that that's not a name.

Please, let's not assume.

Someone just pounded the keys.

Why would they do that?

I don't know.

Third Base... well, it has come to my attention that if you are Mr. or Mrs. oDUNdJTXqyisrtHLgU you may have fraudulently entered your email address.

No... I meant, they pounded the keys and filled your email list form with gibberish.

Well, that's not very nice.

They probably wanted to see if it worked, or if you said anything about your non-spam e-mail policy.

Oh. You think I need to say that I'm not going to spam people?

Um... yes. I get enough email about knock-off watches, purses, discount prescription drugs and masculine enhancement "products" already.

But I don't sell those things. I show movies.

Yes... and it's just nice to know that you're only going to send us information we want to know.

Huh... well, I guess I should the rest of the people on the mailing list know that they're personal information is never going to be sold, never going to be bought, and I'm not going to spam them, ever.

That would be good, yes.