// Things We Like
Things We Like: Magic Elbows and (Tiny) People WatchingThe next time you’re at Walmart, practicing your half-assed martial arts on an inch-high devil in a cheap costume, remember: It’s possible you’re being filmed.
// Lies and Entertainment
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Life is full of disappointments. Some are the result of personal failures (bad relationships, not being good at sports) others are self-evident (drug addiction, “Ernest Goes to Jail”). Here are a few of mine.
// Seattle
Goodnight, Vampire Bat
Woodland Park Zoo’s Night House is a marvelous place, full of prehensile-tailed porcupines and fruit bats. At the end of the month it goes dark permanently … and not in a way we’d like.
// Stories and Appreciations
EPCOT, When It Sizzled
Wanted Disney didn’t want a world’s fair-type theme park hinting at a possible future; he wanted to make the actual future, and to move people into it. But the world’s fair idea worked — at least for a while.
