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The Bay Lights, version 3
It seems like just yesterday that The Bay Lights first illuminated San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. But it wasn’t yesterday; it was thirteen years ago. Crazy, right? Since the original temporary installation was first switched on, it was removed and replaced with a more permanent version that lasted about a decade. As of Friday evening the…
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When RoboCop parodied San Francisco’s most infamous assassination
In 1978 former San Francisco supervisor Dan White assassinated mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. There’s a movie starring Sean Penn about it. What some may not know is the hyper violent comedy movie RoboCop from 1987 contains a sequence parodying this event. The movie technically takes place in Detroit, renamed Delta City (“The…
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In The Know with Clifford Banes: The Onion’s best show
Now that The Onion has been acquired by Global Tetrahedron I’d love to see them bring back their best content. For those who don’t remember here’s the quick summary: the glory days of The Onion were before it was acquired by Univision, merged with the decrypt remains of Gawker after that Hulk Hogan/Peter Thiel mess,…
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Six most outrageous moments in the 2024 On Cinema Oscar Special, aka “AmatoCon”
Once again I’m here to provide my takes on the latest On Cinema Oscar Special. Except this year it’s called AmatoCon and it’s a business conference with a special presentation about The Power of Mercy from G. Amato. He believes in the power of mercy… or so he says. Spoilers follow! Describing the events that…
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Is “We Built This City” the worst rock song ever made?
I recently read that Starship’s “We Built This City” is considered to be one of the worst rock songs ever made, mostly because of the disconnect of its anti-corporate message and the undeniable fact that it sounds like a cheesy advertising jingle. Let’s dig deeper. Perhaps its worst offense is that they named the entire…
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Spoilers: Meow Wolf’s The Real Unreal
I’ve reviewed The Real Unreal in a previous post. While I hinted at the story and space in that review I did my best not to spoil anything. This post is all spoilers, so stop reading now if you want to go in fresh. Entry After going through the security checkpoint there’s a gift shop…
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Review: Meow Wolf’s The Real Unreal (No Spoilers)
Just outside of Dallas in the city of Grapevine there’s an absurdly large mall known as Grapevine Mills. They say everything is bigger in Texas, but nothing quite prepared me for a mall that’s so big it somehow has three separate Auntie Anne’s Pretzels locations within. Okay so I know the title says “no spoilers”…
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Spoilers: Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return
Previously I reviewed Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return without any spoilers. Well now it’s time for the deep dive with plenty of spoilers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Entry Once you’ve entered and received a wrist band, you can head to the bathrooms in the back, an art room mostly aimed at kids,…
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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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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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