Wednesday, June 06, 2012

RIP, Ray Bradbury

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One of the best days I ever spent working at the Park was the one day I spent at the summit of the Alpine Slide. The sun was shining. It ...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Stranger than (Science) Fiction

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Cyriaque Lamar's post on the cannonball loop over at io9 included a lengthy quote from the COTA. I am delighted, as the site is a daily...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

What I Did on my Summer Vacation, or, Days in Rodanthe

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I spent the last week on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. On the way to the rental house, I passed through a town called Rodanthe, setting o...
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Two Amazing Videos of Abandoned Parks

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These two videos deserve more prominent placement than they'll get in the larger post I'm working on.  The first has been circulatin...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Park Talk on the Best Show

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Oh, hey there! Last night, I was listening to The Best Show on WFM U, as is my Tuesday night tradition. One of Tom's callers mentioned t...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

The City That's Running Wild

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While the Park may only live on in sanitized form, another Sussex County institution perseveres. I am referring, of course, to Wild West Cit...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Meet the New Boss.

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Same as the old boss. Mountain Creek resort in N.J. sold to developer Gene Mulvihill
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Showdown at the Transmobile

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Very few perks to working the Transmobile. It was the ride of the lazy, the lame, and often, the drunk. (The fact that it was maintained b...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

One Summer At The Speedboats

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You know what we don't speak of enough? (Besides ANYTHING, as the blog's been dormant since September?) Motor World. Please enjoy th...
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Monday, September 07, 2009

The Dukes of Sussex

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In the Park's heyday, Cobblestone Village was filled with gift shoppes, food concessions and a "Broadway" stage. But as att...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Parkular Mechanics

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Popular Mechanics posted a piece recently titled 5 Theme Park Rides that Pushed the Limits of Common Sense . Guess which park featured two...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

At The Movies

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So.   Adventureland .    I liked it much better than I thought I would.   The director, Greg Mottola, worked at an amusement park on Long Is...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Adventureland

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Oh great, someone beat me to the Park movie.  Though this looks more like Bowcraft than the Park: I pledge to you, Dear Reader, that I wil...
Monday, February 23, 2009

The Center Goes To Brooklyn

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If you like your blog posts in a more dynamic, audio visual format, please come to Union Hal l in Park Slope on Tuesday, March 3.   I will b...
Monday, September 29, 2008

From the Police Blotter

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Of all the rides I attended at the Park, the only one I actively hated was the Transmobile.  It was hot, it was boring and the office manage...
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Sunday, August 24, 2008

That's how we do it at the AP...

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I got a text from Stacey the other day.  She told me she had just explained the Park's version of water polo to her husband.  It wasn...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

That's Not in the Handbook

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When I tell people I worked at the Park's Bungee Tower, one of their first questions is always, "So, how many people died on that r...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Cold Trade for Warm Sunshine

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Because I miss everything awesome, I was off the day Alice in Chains came to the Park to film segments for the Headbanger's Ball . Luc...
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$3 off admission is no reason to patronize Pizza Hut

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Okay, this seems to be just a normal 80s Pizza Hut commerical, featuring the comedy stylings of Rich Hall, until you get to the end: The Par...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Another New Jersey Institution Needs Your Help

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Okay, at the moment, the best connection I can make between WFMU and the Park is that they've both been featured in Weird New Jersey . ...
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