{"id":1339,"date":"2005-04-16T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2005-04-16T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T05:21:00","slug":"so-cal-ren-fairereefer-madness-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"So Cal Ren Faire\/Reefer Madness (The Musical)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, gf_guruilla<\/a>, ellipticcurve<\/a>, S&F, and myself went to opening day of the Southern California Ren Faire<\/a>. It appeared I screwed up on the advance tickets; for our 2nd<\/sup> visit, I’ll need to purchase more (if ellipticcurve<\/a> or gf_guruilla<\/a> are coming along) [I though I was purchasing enough with the “Buy 2-Get 1 Free” plus kids tickets to get two days for the four of us, but I miscalculated with the block and tackle]. In any case, we hit the faire a little after noon, and were there until 5ish<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

So what did I think of the new location? It has its pluses and its minus. The pluses are that (a) it’s closer to our house; (b) I like the lake. The minuses are (a) how they laid it out [which was poor, in my opinion: the food and drinks should have been better spread out, and there should have been more loops than a surpentine “S”]; (b) they didn’t take advantage of the lake. Of course, the real decision is the traffic: does attendance go up or down. Talking to the vendors, at least one thought it was better, the other thought it was worse.<\/p>\n

I think we all had fun. I, being a guy, got to indulge one of my favorite hobbies: watching the walking scenery, which is always nice on a hot day at RenFaire :-). I’m sure the ladies with me got their fill of equivalent scenery. We got to see a few shows, and do a little shopping to start building our costumes. I’m enjoying getting back into going to RenFaire: this was my 2nd<\/sup> year in a row; the time before that was when it was in Agoura, and folks from the UCLA Computer Club were still active in it.
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\nAfter we got home, we watched Reefer Madness (The Musical)<\/a> on Showtime<\/a>. A very subversive movie, which made me think of Fahrenheit 911 in its parallels to our propaganda today. If you get a chance, watch it. For those not familiar with the movie, it was based on a stage musical<\/a> inspired by the notorious 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film. It is a musical about clean-cut kids who fall into a twisted, hilarious downward spiral of reefer, sex and mayhem. You can find a synopsis of the story here<\/a>.
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\nTomorrow? Laundry, perhaps seeing a house or two, and then S&F, gf_guruilla<\/a>, and GFG’s mother are off to the Sisterhood Women’s Seder at Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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