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Rhymes with Sewage, Part 5: 2010

Friday, June 4th, 2010

[In Parts 2, 3, and 4, I told you about my continuing adventures at the 2004 New Living Expo. It’s now 2010. Time for me to go again!]
They held the 2010 New Living Expo in San Francisco last month. As I previously mentioned, I hadn’t been to one of those in at [...]

Rhymes with Sewage, Part 4: Kirlian Conclusion

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Was I about to throw this into the gears of his sales pitch?
[In Part 3, I told you about my continuing adventures at the 2004 New Living Expo. Among other things, I had a past-life regression. But earlier in the day, I agreed to try a $50 aura-healing pendant, in exchange for getting [...]

Rhymes with Sewage, Part 3: I’m Starting to Regress

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

(From Cafe Press)
[In Part 2, I told you about my adventures at the 2004 New Living Expo. I had a Kirlian photograph made, but it (and my $50) was being held hostage at one of the vendor booths.]
I wandered around the newage fair for the rest of the day. There were panels on [...]

Rhymes with Sewage, Part 2: Get Your Photography Curled

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

(Image from Wikipedia)
[In Part 1, I told you how I enjoy exploring the fringes. Sometimes I actually discover something that works (Hypnosis. Hubba hubba!).]
The first time I went to the newage fair was in 2003 or 2004. As I mentioned yesterday, it was partly to see if I could find the little [...]

Rhymes with Sewage, Part 1: Eating Sushi

Monday, May 31st, 2010

(From Zazzle)
Earlier this month, I went to the “New Living Expo” in San Francisco. In plainer terms, it was a new-age fair. Or, as Penn Jillette would pronounce it, “newage” (rhymes with “sewage”). I had been to one of these before, probably in 2004, so I was overdue to return.
The tricky thing [...]

Depression Will Ensue

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Last Saturday, I went to a new age fair (for the lulz). It actually wasn’t nearly as funny as I thought it would be. Sure, it had its moments, but overall I came away depressed. We’re a truly pathetic species. We believe some incredibly far-fetched crap. Stuff that couldn’t be [...]

San Francisco Green Festival

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Last Saturday, I went to the San Francisco Green Festival. This is my story.
The experience actually began as I was walking from BART to the Concourse Exhibition Center. I saw this spray-painted onto an overpass support:

Why do people do that? Is their message so important that they have to deface public property? [...]

A Fast Threesome

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

(Image from 9Gag)
I have three quick notes worth mentioning this morning.
Note 1: Oops!
I found this amusing inconsistency over at Futility Closet:
In The City of God, Augustine raises a curious question: How did Methuselah survive the flood? According to the Septuagint, the patriarch was 355 years old when Noah was born, and the deluge occurred 600 [...]