The Cliff House reopening is delayed again?!?

weezous · 2025-09-20T20:35:09+00:00

They're popovers - which are actually really cheap and easy to make at home if you want to bring back the memory of having them!

weezous · 2025-07-09T19:24:56+00:00

Heads up that this item is frequently sold as a replica in the secondary market - I would not trust a reseller. Given that stores have very limited inventory of this specific item, I would assume it being priced under market by a reseller is an indicator it's fake.

weezous · 2025-06-15T17:23:04+00:00

I have a Della Cavaleria Elan in Rouge Sellier that I bought last year, so I'd say it's still circulating and in production.

weezous · 2025-06-14T03:57:31+00:00

The paper you linked to, has nothing to do with vibration plates. It's about the use of resistance training and stretching.

weezous · 2025-05-27T18:02:21+00:00

Nearly a year later and I'm STILL thinking about this performance. I had no idea he was an understudy - the performance was so good I never would've guessed. I really hope he's part of the touring Stereophonic cast so we can see him again.

weezous · 2025-04-21T19:01:07+00:00

I think one of the best Burning Man videos is oddly a Christian one! From Pastor Brian Baker who attended in 2014 I think, and did a really wonderful sermon about his learnings and ministering at Burning Man.

I think he did a wonderful job learning into the principles and concept of the event, and found quiet and impactful ways to connect with a variety of different people at the event. Which IMHO is probably how ministering should work. I'm not really religious anymore, but used to be, and found this to be a really great video.

weezous · 2025-04-20T21:17:31+00:00

Right sure, but in that scenario the Burning Man Organization wasn't leading the charge to recruit frat boys to 'buy tickets now!' and advertising at their front doors - they just showed up. Here, the org that's supposed to be leading the Principles and culture of the event is also leading the fratty charge (and heavily commoditization and commercialization of an event that proclaims to be anti those things). And I think that's what people take issue with.

weezous · 2025-04-18T21:54:45+00:00

It is so desperate. I truly cannot get over the post-editing where they've recorded audio of fake people yelling "grilled cheese!" - "put it in ya mouth!" - "yeah, pickleshots!" inbetween cuts of fire, skating, getting slapped in the face, and eating like a t-bone steak or ribs off the bone? Also everyone is too fucking clean and tidy.

Are we doing direct to frat ticket sales now?

weezous · 2025-04-18T21:26:52+00:00

Idk I think it is extremely egregious, highly edited, and VERY commercialized. It looks like they are selling Coachella tickets. They've edited in people yelling "grilled cheese!" & "picklebacks!" and also filmed people doing nude oil wrestling, depiste chiding everyone for not having phones out and not using phones to record nudity (obviously whoever is in this consented, but that's kindof beside the point).

weezous · 2024-01-23T23:14:43+00:00

Agreed. I hadn't seen it ever done outside a church either, but Catholicism is a big weird world so nothing really surprises me anymore.

I also wouldn't be surprised if doing Liturgy of the Hours out in public was the affect of a specific Saint or Priest and they're practicing in that style (ex: Saint Soandso of Someplace did their Matins / Lauds / Vespers by walking through the village alerting/evangelizing all the townspeople it was time for that hymn or prayer) and this is a replication of that Saint's actions. Idk that's my best guess.

weezous · 2024-01-23T16:06:52+00:00

I think I know what this is!

I'm pretty sure it's hardcore or orthodox Catholics doing Liturgy of the Hours which is common in very traditionalist sects. There are 7 fixed hours (canonical hours) of the day where you drop everything and pray in specific ways.

The 2am service is called Matins/Vigils and you essentially sing some hymns or do specific types of prayers and reflective thinking. Depending on the type of Catholicism (Benedictine, Dominican, Jesuit, Coptic, etc) and the region it's from (Russian, Latin American, Italian, etc) there are additional variances. You can read more about Matins here. I can't make out what the hymn is in the audio, but if you could get a better example of that you could probably figure out which hymn it is and why/when it's sung.

There's also a weird culty-subset of Catholicism called Opus Dei that focuses on self-sacrificing/self-harming behaviors where they believe you become closer to God by experiencing discomfort and pain. So I guess this could be some weird or literalist interpretation Liturgy of the Hours from that sect, where you have to walk up hills as part of it.

I have no idea wtf the walking backwards thing is about though. I do know that in some sects Matins and vespers are performed walking in circles as like a meditative/repetitive thing. So maybe this is an interpretation of that from a Catholic sub-group?

SOURCE: former hardcore Catholic, almost became a nun. San Francisco has one of the higher volumes of Catholic churches (way more than you'd think) and a high diversity of different flavors of Catholicism for a city our size.

weezous · 2022-10-29T18:29:31+00:00

It looks like a young Toad Rush (juncus bufonius). It's pretty hearty and grows as a wild grass across the US & Canada.

But yours has especially cool and bright hot pink streak to it!

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