Babs Johnson Is the Walrus

Posted on March 26, 2012 by atomictv

John Waters’ “Pink Flamingos” psychedelicized to The Beatles’ “I Am The Walrus.”
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Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a Neutron Bomb Strike

Posted on March 26, 2012 by atomictv

By Cyriaque Lamar (io9.com, 3/22/2012)

After entertaining happy families for decades, the Enchanted Forest amusement park of Ellicott City, Maryland was forced to shutter its premises in 1989. In the ensuing 23 years, the gumdrop cottages and fantasy castles began rotting away, giving the park the veneer of some weird post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Welcome to the happiest place at the end of the world.

When The Enchanted Forest opened in 1955, it was one of the first theme parks in the United States. Investors attempted to reopen the property in the mid-1990s, but that effort went nowhere. Nowadays, visitors are banned from the Forest — its only residents are a lute-playing dragon who guards the door and a statue of Old King Cole, who has been consigned to pointing at a nearby strip mall for all eternity. (Willie the Whale, above, left the premises in 2008, along with several other sculptures.)

Musical dragons aside, people still trundle into the Forest and inspect its unnerving architecture — these photographs were taken by an explorer at the Urban Atrophy message boards. If you’ve ever wondered what Munchkinland’s skid row looks like, here it is.

Continue reading “Maryland’s Enchanted Forest is like Candyland after a neutron bomb strike” at io9.com.

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Batman pulled over by police in Montgomery County

Posted on March 23, 2012 by atomictv

By Justin Fenton (The Baltimore Sun, 3/23/2012)

In the movies, Gotham City police required giant spotlight to find Batman.

Montgomery County police didn’t have to go quite so far, finding him cruising around in a Lamborghini Wednesday in Silver Spring and pulling the unidenfitied man over for not having proper tags. The bizarre picture was posted to the department’s official Twitter page today, followed by a note clarifying that the “Batmobile” wasn’t towed.

Officer Janelle Smith, a police spokeswoman, said the driver dresses up as Batman and visits sick children at local hospitals. He has tags for the car, but had removed them and put the Batman logo in place instead. Police told him to affix the tags and sent him on his way.

This of course led to a few quips on the Montgomery County police Facebook page.

Continue reading “Batman pulled over by police in Montgomery County” at The Baltimore Sun.


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Death of an Americain

Posted on March 23, 2012 by atomictv

By SL Solomon (What Weekly, 3/21/2012)

Charles Village said goodbye to a cherished member of its community on the night of March 12. About thirty friends and lovers of Video Americain gathered with candles, sparklers and picked flowers from early blooming trees to say goodbye to the beloved video rental store that occupied a subterranean spot on the 3100 block of Saint Paul since 1994.

At 10 p.m. the store officially closed due to a decline in business and the health of owner Barry Solan. The vigil, organized by the store’s staff, was short and sweet. One woman took a bus from New York just to say goodbye. Those gathered shared memories and stories from the store, while Barry moved through the crowd shaking hands and exchanging hugs.

Continue reading at What Weekly.

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