Just saw the movie “Dead Poets Society” last night. Robin Williams. You’ve probably all seen it already but I never did. What a really well done movie I thought. Robin Williams was great.

I Googled it later and learned something I didn’t know. The movie was written by a Nashvillian named Tom Schulman who graduated from Vanderbilt! And supposedly he wrote it about a Vandy professor named John Lachs.

So I Googled some more and found out that that’s a myth and that he apparently based it on his experiences at the Montgomery Bell Academy, a prep school in Nashville. The real teacher is named Sam Pickering who now teaches in the University of Connecticut.

Just in case you see the movie again…

Dane

One of the things I really love about my job is the people I get a chance to meet every day. We get the most interesting people coming through Hotel Preston. I just watched the movie High Fidelity the other night (great movie) and so I’ll give you a list of my top three guests I met last week.

1.  A woman from Atlanta who is apparently a pretty famous tattoo artist. She was in town to do a class. She had a tattoo on her arm of Route 66 that was incredible.

2.  Twins from Toronto who were both dentists and both married to women named Valerie. How confusing was that?

3.  A cop from Daytona Beach who had the best handlebar mustache I’ve ever seen and let me park his Harley.

And that’s just one week. Beat that.

Dane