Category: Misc
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Hot air balloon ride
I have a bad habit of keeping a bucket list in my head… a bucket list that grows longer and longer by the day. But there’s one thing I’ve always kept near the top of that bucket list: riding in a hot air balloon. Well here’s the thing: thanks to Santa Fe Balloons I was…
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
While in downtown Santa Fe, I visited the small yet well put together Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Georgia O’Keeffe is often described as the “mother of American Modernism” as she was an important 20th century American artist. Best remembered for her abstract oil paintings of flowers and animal skulls, her works encompassed far more: charcoal drawings,…
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Review: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return (No Spoilers)
If you read my previous posts about Omega Mart, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that I had to travel to Santa Fe to check out Meow Wolf’s original permanent installation: The House of Eternal Return. As you may have heard, this installation was built in a defunct bowling alley building and was sponsored initially…
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There is nothing permanent except change
You may have noticed things are looking a little different around here now. To refresh your memory, here’s what this website looked like just yesterday: In the 14 years since I’ve started this blog, I think it would be fair to say that a new theme had been overdue for some time. It never worked…
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Las Vegas wrap up and stray observations
With the pandemic slowly on the wane I decided to make a trip to see Omega Mart. It’s fair to say I planned the Las Vegas parts around it. While there’s a lot to like about Las Vegas, to be honest there’s a lot more to dislike. All things considered I think I made the…
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Spoilers: What is Omega Mart, really?
In my previous post about Omega Mart I talked about it in general without any spoilers. Well now it’s time to dig in and discuss everything down to the last detail about Omega Mart with spoilers. So if you want to avoid spoilers, STOP READING NOW. Yes, the above photo is of an actual sign…
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Downtown Las Vegas street art: Fremont Street and the Arts District
Street art may not come to mind when you think of Las Vegas. That’s fair, I thought the same thing. Are there even opportunities for street art in Las Vegas? The brief answer is yes: Las Vegas has top notch street art. Better yet it’s all within walking distance if you’re staying downtown. Downtown Las…
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Review: Omega Mart (no spoilers)
By now you’ve probably seen ads for something called “Omega Mart,” beckoning you to a specific address in Las Vegas. If you’ve read this far, I bet you’ve already visited the Omega Mart website and learned it’s part of something called Dramcorp. After visiting Omega Mart three times last week I thought I’d provide…
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Wink World at Area 15
After checking into Wink World and putting on a pair of (optional) 3D glasses, I was told to make my way past a series of psychedelic 3D framed paintings to the end of the hallway. From there, a series of small rooms with funhouse mirrors and wacky objects illuminated by blacklights and other whimsical…
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The Neon Museum, aka the Boneyard
For a city with as much history as Las Vegas, you hardly ever see it. Almost nothing on the strip is older than about 30 years. Even downtown the older buildings have had their facades replaced so many times you often can’t tell the difference between a 10 year old building and a 90 year…
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