{"id":1022,"date":"2003-07-27T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T04:29:02","slug":"flotsam_and_jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/27\/flotsam_and_jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Flotsam and Jetsam from the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m still trying to digest the entire Atlantic City experience.<\/strong> We brought Hugh down there for his bachelor party yesterday, and the whole place was so much more than I ever expected. More trash? More kitsch? More kitsch? More guidos? More people aging gracelessly? Yes, but also more, in a ways I can&#8217;t quite put my finger on. It should be experienced, but I thik the less time spent there the better. Maybe. I\u2019m too sleep-deprived and still too overwhelmed to decide.<\/p>\n<p>More elaborate stories and pictures to come. For now, a grab bag of links and random things we found amusing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since it came up in conversation: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntv.co.jp\/channel\/asx\/hkzkt10.asx\" >Bullet Time Ping-Pong Game<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you buy a round trip bus ticket to Atlantic City, it costs 27 bucks and comes with a voucher for a 14-dollar refund. There&#8217;s no catch, in case you think it&#8217;s just a scam: get off the bus at a casino, trade the voucher for a slip form that casino, and a quick detour to the casino floor is all you have to do to trade that in for 14 bucks <i>cash money<\/i>. A friendly travel tip from your pal Sparky.<\/li>\n<li>Smokers should note that you can still smoke indoors in Jersey, and <i>especially<\/i> in Atlantic City.<\/li>\n<li>At one point, we were trying to imagine what it would sound like if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mambazo.com\/\" >Ladysmith Black Mambazo<\/a> did a version of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apocalypse.org\/pub\/u\/gilly\/Schoolhouse_Rock\/HTML\/multiplication\/three.html\"  title=\"just the lyrics\">Three Is a Magic Number<\/a>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t given much of a thought to the recent popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njguido.com\/\" >guidoism<\/a> (there&#8217;s no novelty to it  I grew up in the thick of it), but it&#8217;s hard not to ponder the whole phenomenon in a big Jersey destination spot.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes it&#8217;s much safer when straight guys are straight guys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still trying to digest the entire Atlantic City experience. We brought Hugh down there for his bachelor party yesterday, and the whole place was so much more than I ever expected. More trash? More kitsch? More kitsch? More guidos? More people aging gracelessly? Yes, but also more, in a ways I can&#8217;t quite put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/27\/flotsam_and_jet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flotsam and Jetsam from the Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77561,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/77561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}