I can’t even do this justice. The whole skull was backlit with constantly changing animated images.
My latest trip took me to Las Vegas, where I visited a former industrial block turned into an entertainment complex known as Area 15. This particular area was very well done and I wanted to talk about it.
My primary purpose was to visit the Meow Wolf exhibit there – I now feel I need to visit their installations all over the country. Meow Wolf is an art collective which has several installations in the country, each of which is unique. They specialize in surrealist visions mixed with entertainment. Good! Make a profit from what you create.
Before I go into Meow Wolf, I wanted to spend some time on Area 15. It had a big bar with a tree that had light-up leaves, a nice restaurant, some raver gift shops, a huge arcade and some lovely light shows and dance floors to experience. Really top notch. There was also a silent disco, which was not in use while I was there so I was just able to enjoy the big empty space. Which I unfortunately took no pictures of.
The bar is under that tree. The leaves were all independent, lighting up based on movement and music. Silent disco was to the right.
This giant robot lay at the front of Area 15. He has a secret code written all over him, and a translator hidden behind the door flap on his head. Secrets!
Somebody’s brain waves. Or not.
Meow Wolf’s exhibit in Las Vegas is called “Omega Mart” and it had a fully stocked grocery store there. Yes, you could buy the products. And this included snack food, etc… Here are some examples:
I had a friend that did meat sculptures like that at an Albertson’s. It took weeks for them to figure it out and stop him.
At one point I realized there was much more to this than just an odd grocery store – people kept going into a freezer unit and never coming out, there was also a little camping display selling tents, where people emerged, dazed. I wanna be dazed! So I went to the freezer, opened the door…
And emerged here.
Everything had moving active projections.
A few moments later, next to the gas station.
The long hallway of black and white leaves (great audio too, spacey animals) sent me into a huge main hall with projected images, sounds, everything. Really great. The details were very impressive and deep. This was not a simple display. An entire gas station was being subsumed into this world, down to the notes and receipts left behind by workers.
After this surreal world, you emerged into an industrial world, with many more things to explore:
My personal favorite was this safety warning. Wish those were for sale.
This was huge, with ladders and hidden rooms all over.
Beyond this you emerged into the company “office” which was also being eaten by this alternate universe. Computers everywhere had files on them, unlocked, for you to explore and learn what had happened. Company presentations, etc… Such great level of detail. I know that I never found all the secrets hidden there.
So what did happen to Walter? Where is everyone?
That’s one heck of a Zoom. I don’t see a naked buttocks, so it can’t be Glibs.
Walking from the caves to the back offices.
So what what happened? Was everyone taken by aliens? Ascended to another plane of existence? All I can say is that I really enjoyed the story and if you have a chance to go there, experience Area 15 and Meow Wolf. Nobody rushed me the entire time, I was free to explore, or sit and watch. Nothing was linear. I saw all ages in there, from various young subculture types to old men in golf pants. My wife did the overhead fly-by ride (yes, they had that too). The bar was lovely and the restaurant had great service and good food. In that same neighborhood with Area 15 there was a bar that did a haunted mystery adventure at night, a zombie survival experience, and more. You could spend a day and a night there. I recommend! It was so good that I intend to seek out the other Meow Wolfs in Denver and Santa Fe. Also, one is coming soon to DFW. That will be a Glib trip!
Thanks RJ. Interesting place.
The one being built in DFW just got nailed with a tornado. I hope it did not significantly impact the construction.
For some time, I feared that Lou Firster’s Disease would sap me of my Firsting powers. Then The Third Eye opened, and I found myself fueled by more rawpower than I had ever had before even as I carried The First That Shall Change Everything in my man-womb. The Great Firster is good. All the Firsters want to be me, all the seconders want to be with me. None can rival me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dMqHqC4pM
Oh damn. You just beat me to it.
Fortuitous timing.
What I did there? It is the ultimate Firsting flex. Especially for a Firster with the ability to traverse space and time and insert Firsts wherever he pleases.
Question your perception of reality. You do not see.
I now First in what you seconders heretically call the fifth dimension, but which really exists as the First dimension. True reality, where an objects Firstness can be seen. I see where a First is, was, and will be at all times.
Fifth of something.
Fifth of Forth
THIS IS SHEER BLASPHEMY
You have breached the point of no return.
↑ No true Scotsman
https://youtu.be/BDbBBq1Dn2U
Both Bro and that make me think of this.
Lol
EVERYBODY HUSH! THE BROTATO SPEAKS!!!
I love all of this.
Leave me out of this.
That seems only fair.
While I was in Vegas for a work conference, the same trip where I had dinner with OBE and his Lady, a friend got tix to Area 15.
He and I took a “museum dose” (~2.0 g) of shrooms 15 minutes before going in and spent most of the “trip” in Omega Mart.
I believe that whoever designed that place did it firmly with this in mind. Amazing experience. I’m not sure how to properly classify it, but… Omega Mart was a great experience.
I’d like to hit all the rest of the venues and do the same.
YMMV (Your Mushrooms May Vary).
That is an excellent way to experience it!
First hand experience? Or just “what you’ve heard from others”? 😉
I took a trip of the gummy variety. Mushrooms would be excellent. For the immersive sound and light rooms. You would be i there for hours.
We were. About 2 or so (I think?) before we finally left and went up the street and got some outstanding tacos.
Eating on mushrooms? Goats envy your constitution.
I’ve never been, but the pictures definately look like what I imagine a drug trip to resemble.
Now I want to back to Vegas. I didn’t thank that was possible.
It’s a Glibertarians miracle!
Oh, so there is an Area 15. When I saw the title, I thought you were just dyslexic.
No. The owner of the space is dyslexic.
Now I finally finished the long work day and I will get some pizza and wine. I think I last ate at 10:00 this morning.
Enjoy!
Anyway, that place looks awesome!
Ugg, I have to be in Vegas in the spring.
Go there. Also do the haunted bar experience across the street, and the zombie survival thing.
Spring is a good time for Vegas. Near perfect weather
I should be near you. Henderson, right?
I’m out in ‘west’s Henderson
My dad’s widow lives in a Del Webb in Henderson, so that is where I will be in March, not sure for how long yet. I will hit you up if you haven’t moved yet.
For sure…that’s about 5 mins away
That looks like an interesting place.
Thanks for the trip, RJ. I’ll never get to make it but vicariously with you is the next best way. I was not familiar with Area 15 at all (until now).
It’s amazing what these whippersnappers come up with! Life is endlessly entertaining.
We were just not impressed. Maybe it’s cause we live here?
Your drugs weren’t good enough, OBE!
(I’m convinced it was meant to be experienced on a sub-heroic dose of shrooms. Designed that way, in fact. The guy who brought. me there may have even told me he had some insider info to that effect, but then again, we were on shrooms. Don’t take our word for it.)
RJ – isn’t there one of these in New Mexico, too?
Yes. And Denver, and soon DFW. Each with a unique theme.
Lol no doubt and babysitting two teens
For those in Vegas and not interested in gambling or the strip, the Shelby Heritage Center is a car lovers’ delight.
Dedicated to Carroll Shelby, it’s got an unreal collection of Mustangs and other cars that Shelby designed and raced.
https://vegasfoodandfun.com/shelby-museum/
I wish I had known about this when I was last in Vegas.
Whenever I get back….
No kidding.
Thanks, Ozy!
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/musk-derangement-syndrome?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details
In the 1950’s, executives would take one negative letter as the true representation of like 100 people.
I don’t think many people believe Twitter to be a real representation of how most people think, but it’s where the woke mobs make themselves heard and it makes for easy, lazy journalism.
slot machine junkies at 2 am in Vegas
That’s insulting to slot machine junkies.
Sorry if anyone posted this already – I’ve been underway the last two days and completely glib-free – but it looks like Matt won his case and doesn’t owe anything.
https://twitter.com/MattForVA/status/1603110834859040768?t=YutNnWtw-10POyeZFO-S-g&s=19
Freedom FTW.
Posted last thread but worth the repeat!
That is great! So DEG got a job, and Goumeltz survives fascism. This is a good day.
Seems kinda like they’re holding onto enough of his property to justify dropping the fine – dick move in the FYTW phase. https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/state-abc-reaches-deal-with-spotsylvania-restaurant-owner/article_d30fa3e2-7bf9-11ed-af1b-cbd07aa85623.html
Bastards.
But.. he won. I’ll take that.
RJ just forgot to mention all of my Firsting. It’s easy to take it for granted when you are exposed to it on the daily.
🤜🏻🌟
I celebrate the fact that unsanitary seconders who don’t wash their hands didn’t kill you with their lab-grown filth.
No doubt the dozens of Firsts you and I had in his stead gave him sustenance.
Yes. Our firsts helped to cleanse the diseases of the unwashed from his bloodstream, so the firsting cells could flood his system and open his third eye.
Opening a third eye sounds like something that happens the first night in county lockup.
That’s excellent news! Your friend was getting shafted big time by the state.
That’s great. 👍
If you fucking glibertarians get near Las Vegas without telling me, I will kill you.
Also this is a handy guide to the “Areas” at the Nevada National Security Site, including a map showing Area 51 just northeast, within the larger confines of Nellis AFB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
I will drop you a line in the spring when I hit the Vegas too.
It was my anniversary, my apologies. I had to focus on that. Next time!
All is forgiven. I exaggerate about the murder threat. Of course your priorities were appropriate.
Next time perhaps!
Huh. Maybe I sent to the wrong e-mail when I was in the area?
Heh. I was looking for details that needed finishing on one of these mini, and noticed the way the light was falling on the unpainted* cloth on the front, until I realized it was actually the highlighting I’d intentionally put on there. I guess all the time and effort was worth it.
*it was painted, and obviously plastic, not really cloth
Well done. High quality pictures needed.
I try, but it’s a royal pain to get the high quality part.
I do have this Medium Quality picture before the glue and gloss incident.
Oh, that giant thing with the skull on it in the background is a standard size coffee mug.
Great write up RJ. That place looks great. I’m filing it away for my next trip.
The dance room would definitely be your thing. Pretty amazing to be covered in 360 degrees of mirrors and lights. Rave city.
Sounds like I need to find a lady in a little black dress to see it with.
Watching Ancient Apocalypse. Can’t help but notice how many on here right it off. The guy does make some leaps in logic and gloss over a few details, but he raises plenty of questions that mainstream academics don’t want to investigate. It’s the same sort of gatekeeping we see employed with regards to The Science in other areas and people around here shit on all the time.
Archaeology is hardly some exact science. The coincidences across cultures do add up after a while and at the least raise questions that are legitimate avenues of exploration to me.
I’m telling you all that there were, in fact, ancient Firsters who once led the way for seconders who followed them.
To be clear, I’m less convinced of an ancient civilization passing on knowledge and more convinced that societies may have been more complex earlier than believed and that there is an unwillingness to accept contrary ideas. They shut down debate and dismiss evidence that is uncomfortable or hard to explain.
I have heard some criticize his ideas because they aren’t falsifiable. A lot of things in history are not falsifiable. You have to work with what you have and make inferences. There is or at least was a healthy debate in history on just about everything. Archaeologists seem to fancy themselves purely as scientists these days. The guys who started the field were mostly like Hancock, though. Guys who latched onto historical myths and legends and went out searching for them.
The lines between anthropology, archaeology and history are often muddled. None of them is anything like a hard science and archaeologists need to get off their high horses.
Final note – I haven’t read Hancock’s books. I just saw one heavily edited and one-sided documentary. But the guy does raise *some* interesting questions even if some of what he believes is half-baked or in some cases goofy.
He has some interesting ideas but his claims go further than they should. There definitely is a dogmatic close-mindedness that permeates modern archeology though, his point is unassailable there.
Q clearance required. How appropriate.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/14/sam-brinton-energy-department-security-clearance/
1. Story about them/they going to a gay conversion camp sound like bullshit. I’d love to hear what the parents have to say.
2. I don’t see why that would or should disqualify someone from getting any clearance. That would, in fact, be discrimination.
Yeah, that claim is BS.
Lying about it could be cause to deny the clearance, but just having bad things happen to you or being openly weird isn’t a reason not to get a clearance.
To a certain degree they’re more concerned with what someone’s hiding than what they did or what happened to them, within limits of course. Secret shames lead to being susceptible to blackmail.
“Brinton’s origin story”
What is he? An X-Man?
“Brinton claimed to have been tortured in a gay conversion therapy clinic for over two years, which included having electricity, ice and heat applied to the body to associate images of gay men with pain.”
So they did some also and tickle while watching porn?
Way to threaten him with a good time.
The most important item: Are you a thief? If “yes” check this box. Q Clearance sounds impressive but it really isn’t and plenty of questionable people have one.
I really don’t understand Youtube. This video was suggested to me.
My actual cartoon of original content featuring unique audio from the same actor.
Good morning.
😋☕
Good morning, Sean, ‘bodru, and (a little ways upthread) hayek!
It’s going to start getting much colder around here after today, so this would be the best day for me to go replenish the break room snacks at the nearby Gordon Food Service. Got “free money” to do it with, too – we apparently broke up with a vendor and were due some sort of refund, but instead of sending us a check, they sent a gift card…the kind that starts charging a fee each month. 😒 My boss said, “Go spend it!” I may even pick up one of those bazillion-flavored cheesecakes for one senior manager’s 70th birthday party next week! 😋
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-id-suspect-wanted-in-shooting-of-philly-parking-authority-officer/3451609/
Clearly, another fucking Nazi.
https://www.fox29.com/news/students-staff-in-philadelphia-schools-to-return-to-masking-for-two-weeks-after-holiday-break
Haha!
Stupid bitches.
Tremble like it’s 2020 and/or 2021!
JFC.
Muh Tripledemic!!!!!!
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/little-mermaid-iron-man-carrie-among-new-additions-to-library-of-congresss-national-film-registry/
That list is full of suck.
Charade is an exception.
Strongly concur!
Super Fly was a good flick, a lot of throwaway schlock there though.
When the Glibertarians win all the 2024 elections, I promise to… improve that collection.
First and foremost, add Zardoz!
https://nationaltoday.com/national-cat-herders-day/
Happy day to Glib’s admin staff.
Snort.
Good Morning fellow cats.
Today I have to escort contractors because they don’t know what to do with the contract they were awarded.
That was an apt title for my position on the last project.
🙂
https://komonews.com/news/entertainment/comedian-and-actor-adam-sandler-to-receive-2023-mark-twain-prize-richard-pryor-dave-chappelle-john-stewart-tina-fey-saturday-night-live-huckleberry-finn-tom-sawyer-happy-gilmore-billy-madison-waterboy-lil-nicky-grown-ups-films-comedies-uncut-gems
That’s quite a link, eh?
Show your work.
Mostly just cry from wasting your money on terrible movies. His body of work, while occasionally and I do mean occasionally, good for a chuckle isn’t worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as The Three Stooges much less Mark Twain.
Seriously. What a joke.
I find him not only unfunny but I just actively his output, including everything he did on SNL.
insert “dislike”
That award has also been given to Whoopi Goldberg.
So it’s already achieved Nobel Peace Prize-level irrelevance.
When death comes for me, I will challenge him to a trivia game. My question will be “Name one funny Whoopi Goldberg film.”
I will live forever.
The Color Purple had its moments, way better than the Sister Act series which I didn’t see but I’ll just assume was absolutely terrible.
I’m not gonna purchase it or anything, but Sister Act was better than anything Sandler has put out.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash had some moments.
I’d rather see the director of “Terror at Bloodfart Lake” get a Mark Twain award.
The DMV area is on a two hour delay because of weather. Northerners, start your laughter.
What kind of weather?
It’s raining and it’s cold and people here don’t know how to drive.
That it? It’s not even freezing, or flooding, or gale force winds?
Abundance of caution. A few degrees colder and it could have been freezing rain. Years ago they closed schools because a snowstorm was forecast for the afternoon but it never hit us.
Multiple accidents have popped up on a local TV station’s traffic map this morning, especially right around downtown Dayton. It’s in the mid 40s and not even raining any more. Come on, people!
Around here, the forecast is for five inches of snow tonight through friday night… but the temperature is supposed to range from 32-37, so it’ll be slushing then frozen slush.
It’s 38 and rising here. We have that bright, clear winter sky. I am hoping to fashion a cardboard screen shade and go work outside.
Morning, Glibs
Good morning, U, Stinky, Roat, and rhy!
Oh, I sent you an updated timeline spreadsheet. It seems the more events get pinned down, the more events have only one logical timing.
Got it! Thanks!
…and just sent a brief reply.
Imma just leave this here (abortion chaperone):
https://youtu.be/8ZH_1tCkZ6Y
Sodom and freaking Gomorrah
Western culture has become terminally ill.
I’m not easily shocked or even that opposed to abortion but that was too much. I noticed the girl was so proud of what she did that she didn’t show her face which was probably a smart move on her part.
I’m a little surprised she got it done at a major hospital.
I thought that’s what “clinics” were for.
A good NYP Cover.
https://nypost.com/cover/december-14-2022/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons