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bunnyhugger's annual tradition on her Livejournal/Dreamwidth, where she and I try to guess what's on her advent calendar, is eleven days underway but you've still got a couple weeks of enjoying the game with us.
In the meantime, no fresh blogging today as I spent the day at work and the evening hanging around bunnyhugger's women's pinball tournament, where she won her second Venom launch party. Between the two of us we've won three Venom launch parties and that seems like rather a lot considering we don't particularly care much about Venom as a property. The game seems neat enough and it's got some clever aspects but we're not talking Foo Fighters here. Anyway, here's a double dose of Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk pictures:
Dinner. We got vegetarian burgers at whichever place this was, one of the last boardwalk places still open. We got out just as they were pulling the doors closed.
Here's what the Boardwalk looks like as it's being put to sleep.
And looking down the other way, where the lights around Giant Dipper are turned off.
And the Looff Carousel's gone to bed too!
They even roped off the stairs and ramp to the spot where you pick up the sky ride or the Undertow roller coaster.
The Colonnade 1907, with shops that never heard of that carousel music CD.
But the arcade in it was still open and ``Deadeye'' bunnyhugger was happy to put a dollar in.
So many things to spin around a little bit or hop up a second!
The arcade also had a fortune-telling machine, in this case, a pirate. Note the treasure chest in front of him.
And here's the Roll-A-Bingo arcade, the first installation of a modernized remake of Fascination. As it is a modern thing it's got color LEDs for all sort of fun effects.
More of the Roll-A-Bingo parlor, one of those few places where you can sit on a cube of color.
I forget whether it was already wound down for the night and we were watching the staff closing up or whether we played the last rounds of the night.
Trivia: Holly Golightly, a musical adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's, adapted the movie to Broadway without using the film's hit song ``Moon River''. It closed in previews after opening the 12th of December, 1966, at the Majestic. Source: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years Of Broadway Musical Flops, Ken Mandelbaum.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 30: Popeye and the Evil Echo, Bela Sims, Tom Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
PS: What's Going On In Alley Oop? Is Everything In Alley Oop Just A Dream Now? September - December 2023 in hallucinatory alternate universes and stuff.
