Showing posts with label fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fair. Show all posts

Saturday, July 4, 2026

FAIL: Trump's Great American State Fair

I blame Democrats and Obama. Somebody came in here and made it all cheap, vandals.

Saturday, May 2, 2026

May Day: Int'l Workers Day solidarity



What is May Day?

Pyramid of Capitalist System
International Workers' Day ("May Day" to most of the world outside the U.S.): International Workers' Day, also called Labor Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as "May Day" [2, 3] is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May 1st [4, 5] or the first Monday in May [6, 7].

Traditionally, May 1st is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. The International Workers Congress held in Paris in 1889 established the Second International for labor, socialist, and Marxist parties.


It adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the 8-hour day.

The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886, and culminated in the Haymarket affair on May 4th.

The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event [5]. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace" [8]. More

Friday, May 1, 2026

Renaissance Pleasure Faire (4/4-5/17)


Visit before the season ends: renfair.com/socal
Who doesn't love the cleavage-rich styles of the Renaissance when boobs were elevated to high fashion like a jiggling platter to behold? And there's feasting, jesting, jousting, and cosplay of all kinds...whatever the Faire means to attendants.
 
This is the only chance to experience it in SoCal until next year. And who knows if there'll be a next year, what with all those meteors, UFOs, Israeli nukes, Iranian retaliations, and Trump implosions coming. So join RenFaire for one last Huzzah!

Tickets at renfair.com/socal/tickets. BUY TICKETS NOW. IF ALREADY PURCHASED, USE THEM OR LOSE THEM! If there are still tickets for this season in pocket or purse, please plan to join in for some fun before the final day of this season. Tickets are non-refundable. Please click here to learn how to exchange them for any remaining 2026 Faire day.

NOTE: If a date is sold out, no one will be able to exchange tickets to that date. Make exchanges ASAP! As the Faire heads into its final weekend, a quick reminder to help keep things running smoothly for all: Tailgating, outside alcohol, and cannabis/marijuana are not permitted on the Faire grounds, inside the Faire, or in the parking lots of the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area. The Faire appreciates everyone's cooperation in creating a safe, welcoming experience for every guest. It can’t wait to celebrate one last magical season with all! For safety, everyone is encouraged to drive into the Santa Fe Dam. Climbing over the rock wall is not advised, as there is an increased number of biting rattlesnakes on the rock wall. Pedestrian traffic in the roadways impedes vehicle traffic, so please stay on sidewalks if walking the 1.5 miles into the Dam.

Pro Tips to Enter and Exit the Santa Fe Dam: Follow the directions of the traffic team, and please be patient. Bring $15 cash in exact change for the park entrance fee. Watch for bicyclists and please yield! When leaving, take the asphalt road to Peckham Gate, or take the dirt road closest to the dam wall. That road leads to Arrow Highway. Exit right to get to the 605 and 210 Freeways. Find all directions and parking tips here.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Wild Mushroom Fair 2026, Los Angeles



WHAT HAPPENED?
Mushroom heads for all: snug headwear for fans
The Arboretum sold out for everyone who failed to plan. It staggers entrance times, so while it was possible to get a ticket, one would miss most of the fair. The event was packed, the largest in years. Sun broke through the heavily chemtrail sprayed skies. Now the crisscross lines start with perfect X's, which would not happen in nature nor in ordinary flight paths overcrowded LA County. In any case, what was clear was soon covered over in an artificial and no doubt toxin mist. But the sun managed to break through at times. The Fair opened at 9:00 am, the Mushroom Hunt began at 10 with Olga from Smugtown, and it was followed by a fabulous Brando with a culinary demonstration that fed everyone -- hundreds of mushroom fans -- crowding the seating area. It was standing room only after a while, as the samples table was full of gawkers and vendors were hard at work keeping up with demand: medicinal tinctures, popular red-and-white mushroom hats (French berets), grow bags, dried delicacies, books, guide, posters, clothing, jewelry, and services. This is the only event that ever provided samples such as a choice of savory soup, sauteed morrells, black trumpets, or all three. There was a vegan food booth in the back with a line out the door. Then came the first speaker, Mycologist Else, talking about spores, which exists in the billions and trillions. "Spores are not seeds," she emphasized. Each needs a mate since one can create a small mat of tubule structures but must then meet with a partner spore to continue onto the mycelia phase. Mycelia is what keeps forest together, the Woodwide Web, breaking down matter and communicating between individual plants. (See Paul Stamets' Mycelium Running). A "mushroom" is the fruiting body of underground mycelia, what we see popping up from the ground or growing on trees. To study mushrooms and fungi soon becomes the study of trees and ecosystems. Our natural world would not be what it is without fungi.

EVENT DETAILS
LA Mycological Society (lamushrooms.org)
Where, oh where, do the wild things grow? We're determined to find out!

On Sunday, February 15, 2026, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, we're trekking over to Arcadia in the San Gabriel Valley, next to Pasadena, to the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
How could an entheogen bring out the divine?
It's time for the 42nd Los Angeles Mycological Society (LAMS) Wild Mushroom Fair. This event is FREE (with the price of admission to the Arboretum). RSVP:
Wild Mushroom Fair Schedule
  • 9:00 am - Wild Mushroom Fair opens
  • 10:00-11:00 am - Mushroom Walk with Olga Tzogas
  • 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (noon) - Culinary mushrooms of California cooking demo with Brando Farr
  • 1:00-2:30 pm - Fascinating mushroom spores keynote address by Else Vellinga
  • 2:30-3:00 pm - Art and photo contest winners announced
  • 3:00-4:00 pm - Feces, corpses, and the business of fungal decay talk by Sam Shoemaker
  • 4:00 pm - Fair closes
TICKETS: Admission to the Wild Mushroom Fair is FREE with admission to The Arboretum. Tickets are available online. Act now because time slots may sell out as they have before. Check ticket availability here: Hours and Admission (The Arboretum).

Admission to The Arboretum: $18 for adults, $14 for seniors (62 and over), $14 for students with school ID, $8 for children (ages 3-12), and children 2 and under $0 (free). Arboretum members: free. Parking is free. More info about LAMS events is available at lamushrooms.org/events.

DIRECTIONS: The Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia: lamushrooms.org/locations

Friday, July 18, 2025

The Orange County Fair 2025 has begun

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OC Fair - OC Fair & Event Center - Costa Mesa
In 10 days, the OC comes to life. Get ready to find your "happy" at the OC Fair. With acres of mouthwatering Fair [toxic fried junk] food, heart-pounding carnival rides, adorable and enslaved farm animals, and spectacular exploitation competitions, there's something for everyone. Grab family, friends, and sense of adventure and come pursue that elusive happiness. Single-day tickets $15 for General Admission on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays; $13 GA on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and $9 senior (60+) and youth (6-12): ocfair.com

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Chappelle's Guide to Abortion (Wood)


Ana Kasparian harming rights with her outrage

  • David Wood (Apologetics Roadshow), Dave Chappelle; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Just Like Heaven Fest, Pasadena (5/10)

The seasons are changing because there comes a time when weekends start to jam up with events. This weekend is Wango Tango (LA's top of the pops festival featuring Doja Cat, Katseye, Meghan Trainor, DJ David Guetta, and others). The Altadena Future Fair is also in town at the Pasadena Convention Center alongside the Just Like Heaven Fest a few doors down Brookside at the Rose Bowl.

Just like Dharma Buddhist Meditation took over the BeachLife Fest for a mass meditation, we're on the lawn at Just Like Heaven doing some hometown healing along the foothills. There's no sense in trying to meditate to vapid pop rock and schlock. That would be like trying to achieve clarity at AC/DC's show at the Bowl.

Why attend a fest? It's not as if the Arctic Monkeys are going to show up

The Altadena Future Fair is a free community rebuild and healing event happening May 10-11, 2025, at the Pasadena Convention Center. This fair aims to unite residents, innovators, and local leaders to collaboratively envision and rebuild the community’s future.
  • Saturday, Sunday May 10-11, 2025, 9:00 am-5:00 pm
  • Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E. Green St., Pasadena (where Thich Nhat Hanh used to come every year to give a rousing dose of Zen, singing, and mostly silent notmuchtosayism, which people loved).
  • Speakers, workshops, trade show, locals' market, community healing, kids' room, music and entertainment (Saturday 5:00-9:00 pm), and a community vigil on Sunday at 4:00 pm

The mission is to ensure that every neighbor affected by the Eaton Fire has access to resources, knowledge, and community support — so no one rebuilds alone. It seeks to bring together displaced neighbors, builders, innovators, and local leaders to facilitate a collective recovery process. More
  • Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q., Kelsey (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Terrifying Amusement Parks (video)


Early amusement parks were terrifying
Tested on live subjects. Mostly harmless.
(Historidame) Creepy clowns, weird Sideshow attractions, a midway, and rides that were actively dangerous -- early amusement parks were terrifying, and I want to visit them so badly. So join me today, dear viewers, as we take a trip into the past and explore the golden age of amusement parks.

Music: Merry Go - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Breaktime - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Fig Leaf Times Two by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 - Slavonic Dance - Merry-Go-Round #60fps #amusementpark #rollercoaster #coneyisland #history

Friday, March 14, 2025

Is Black Lives Matter a scam? (TJDS)


Has corruption set in at Black Lives Matter?
Rapper Lil Yachty CALLS OUT Black Lives Matter (BLM) because Patrisse Cullors spent millions of dollars (taken from the BLM foundation) buying mansions in Los Angeles and Canada, while Blacks suffered grievously under police, state, and court oppression.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
"Black lives do not matter until all lives matters," for anyone who thinks Blacks are being selfish to single themselves out as being in need of fair treatment as if we were not all in need of it.

Indeed, everyone needs it, but it should be obvious that everyone does not get it, and Black are among the most oppressed groups in society along with Indigenous and Hispanic folks. This is a demonstrable fact, and if anyone who points it out makes others uncomfortable, it may be necessary to look up Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, white privilege, white fragility, and most of all IMPLICIT bias.

We are becoming more aware of an inequitable system based on race, just as the Me Too Movement brought attention to the disparate treatment of women in Hollywood's movie and music industries. Awareness has not been enough. Systemic change is needed.

Reparations are needed because the same whites who say they did not own slaves and should not be blamed for the past are benefitting from the country's past system of oppression that advantaged them in the past and present and is doing so into the future. See the work of Dr. Joy DeGruy and Prof. Michelle Alexander for starters.

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier implicated in Penis Diddy Combs rape case
after his strangely coincidental involvement in the Las Vegas mass shooting 

Thursday, February 13, 2025

The Kombucha Mushroom People


LAMS (lamushrooms.org)
Los Angeles tries. We're the center of the world, if not the entire solar system. So everything that is is biggest and best here, Hollywood adjacent. Beverly Hills builds houses, Brentwood estates, UCLA graduates students, USC football stars, and LAMS (Los Angeles Mycological Society) forages wild mushrooms more than any other place in America, except apparently for Telluride, Colorado's 
Mushroom Festival. If only we had more forests, marshland, and old-growth forests.

The famous Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
Instead, we're in a Mediterranean climate zone that looks in every way like a desert with sand dunes and precious little rain most of the time. Last weekend, LAMS held the annual Wild Mushroom Fair at LA's Arboretum. Maybe someday someone will film it, whereas six months ago, at the height of a warm summer high in the mountains, Telluride outdid the City of Angels by celebrating a class of magic mushrooms called psilocybe, which contain two "magical" (entheogenic) substances known as psilocybin and psilocin.

Inside the biggest (Magical) Mushroom Festival in North America | Telluride Mushroom Festival
We may have to go Down Under to get to this year's Mushroom Valley Festival 2025
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We are sentient beings who talk
(North Spore) Join Lou from North Spore as he explores the biggest, oldest, and most magical mushroom festival in North America. From foraging with Mycologist Alan Rockefeller in the picturesque San Juan Mountains, to a private lunch with Chef Graham Steinruck, to participating in the wildest and wackiest mushroom parade in the world, this video has something for everyone. Special thanks to Telluride Mushroom Festival (tellurideinstitute.org). Visit: northspore.com. Use this link to get 10% off tickets events.humanitix.com.

The Kombucha Mushroom

The SCOBY produces the fizzy drink kombucha
Kombucha (the bubbly drink made of a symbiotic mix of probiotic bacteria and yeast) is not a mushroom, but it sure looks like one sitting atop a sugary drink of polyphenol-rich tea. The tea provides the protein to form of symbiotic community of beneficial organisms, and the sugar feeds them. The community is called the SCOBY (symbiotic community of bacteria and yeast). What does it want? More SUGAR! It will keep growing, leaving traces of "mother" (the rust found in unfiltered apple cider vinegar), creating new generations. Like a UFO, it drops discs of new SCOBYs.
  • Surā (सुरा): Indigenous beer beverage prepared with sugars from cereals or jaggery (palm sugar) and other spices that are naturally fermented. It is beneficial for the emaciated and those suffering from obstruction in urine, piles, alleviates vata (wind imbalance) and useful in anemia. Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद) is the branch of ancient Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy, and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millennium BC and its literature is commonly written in Sanskrit (Sura, Shura, Surā, Sūra, Śūra, Sūrā)
Who would drink alcohol-free moonshine?
How it organizes itself and produces useful compounds like hyaluronic acid all while making a great tasting drink, technically a kind of "beer" or sura (brew) that tastes more like musky wine if fruit -- cherry, grape, pomegranate, and so on -- juices are added for their sugar content, phytonutrients, and resveratrol. Anyone who gets into it tends to become one of the "mushroom people," enthusiastically singing its praises and enjoying better gut health. Someone must've given Serj a sip at some time for him to sing the band's first hit: "The Kombucha mushroom people, sitting around all day / Who can believe you? Who can believe you? / Let your mother pray Sugar / Sugar..." More: Genius Lyrics

How the world appears through mushroom eyes

CHAPTERS
  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 02:10 - Foraging with Alan Rockefeller
  • 12:35 - Exploring the Telluride Mushroom Fest!
  • 14:35 - Magic Mushrooms: Potency Testing (Noah Novello) and Psychedelic Retreats (Irene Dubin)
  • 16:26 - Medicinal mushrooms with Fruiting Bodies (Roger Holden) and PACT Outdoor mycoremediation products (Noah Schum)
  • 18:12 - Cooking/lunch with forager and Chef Graham Steinruck
  • 28:59 - Telluride Mushroom Festival Parade
  • 31:47 - Outro
Don't drink kombucha, Kids, like SOAD once did

Full interview with Gabriela D'Elia: northspore.com/blogs. Full interview with Alan Rockefeller: northspore.com/blogs. Check out more fungi festivities here: northspore.com/pages/events.
Music from Epidemic Sound & Artlist Stock video from Artlist.

Slamming with System of a Down, circa 1997, Whisky A Go Go, Hollywood
System plays "Sugar" at Whisky (and Honey, Marmalade, Sweet Pee)

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Severe storm hits Midwest; sun warms SoCal

VIDEO: Severe storm threat of showers today and severe weather Thursday | (MSN)
People walk through rain during Nor'easter storm on 4/3/24 (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)
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A powerful storm system is forecast to unleash heavy rain, large hail, strong winds, and thunderstorms capable of spinning up tornadoes this week across much of the south-central United States.
This area was battered just last week by deadly storms. The low-pressure system invigorated by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico began a slow, multi-day journey from Texas to the Great Lakes region on Eclipse Monday (4/8/24).

As it headed east, severe weather was expected to hit the Gulf Coast, the mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest regions, the National Weather Service said.

The threatening forecast led organizers of The Texas Eclipse Festival to end the celebration early Monday and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to activate emergency response resources.

More than 30 million Americans from eastern Texas to Mississippi were at risk of severe weather Tuesday, when heavy rain, wind, "large hail," and several tornadoes were expected to lash the region, the storm prediction center said.

The highest risk of flooding was in the Texas Panhandle Tuesday night and the mid-South on Wednesday, the weather service said. More: More
What about Southern California?.
Meanwhile, SoCal had clear skies in the L.A. metropolitan area for viewing the partial eclipse.

Chemtrails Over Country Club (Lana Del Rey)
The super bloom is overtaking LAX, the international airport blocks from the Santa Monica Bay. Along the landing and takeoff lanes, there are more colorful flowers than anyone has ever seen.

For the rest of the region, we have had too much of a good thing, rain. The extra precipitation is holding back the explosion of desert flowers in the usual areas. Meanwhile, the streets and fields of Los Angeles are full of "volunteer" golden poppies, the state flower. They are spread by birds or the wind or guerilla gardeners, particularly in Pasadena.

Lana Del Rey is coming to SoCal
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is ramping up for two consecutive weekends of partying in the desert east of Los Angeles County. And the greatest female singer alive, Lana Del Rey, is headlining. Meanwhile, Beyonce Carter keeps topping the country charts to the chagrin of white racists looking forward to the next Stagecoach Music Festival.

Why not work at the Fair? Help wanted
And the Renaissance Pleasure Faire has arrived in the San Gabriel Valley at the Santa Fe Dam Recreational Area in Irwindale, where the 134 and 605 Freeways cross.

The Renaissance Faire opened last weekend for its Southern California run. This lakeside area (Santa Fe Dam reservoir) is a wonderful place to spend a few hours, with a lot of great opportunities to people watch, says Robyn.

Blue Banisters is not her best work.
Thanks to an abundance of actors and stages, visitors really do feel like they have been transformed back to the Renaissance ["Rebirth"] time period. Small children really have fun, as there is a plethora of things for them to do amidst the adult debauchery. There are plenty of options for food and drink. But mainly it's just cosplay for busty adults in those special "cleavage platter" brassieres and the people who love them (RenFair.com).