Disastrous family seasonal attractions and the never to be forgotten Lapland New Forest Theme Park

[BigMoaner]

my fav baudrillard moment right now is those who do "van life", i.e. living out of van, totally off of grid, but then spend what seems like the entire time communicating the experience through social media and youtube. the replicated becoming, probably, more important than The Real, esp if they are racking up followers which equals the youtube dollars.

 

[hitmouse]

Really enjoying the excellent new book Goblinhood by Jen Calleja, which touches on the film Labyrinth a lot, and then unexpectedly veers into this thread's territory, when discussing a Labyrinth convention:
"I got massive gloopy blobs of schadenfreude from watching the disaster of the convention play out in the comments. The clues in the treasure hunt were wrong, it was a boiling hot day and there was no water, to get to the masked ball in the evening people had to traverse a wood and a grassy slop in the pitch black dark, the bar was massively understaffed, then the convention organisers closed the Facebook group, causing the dissenters to climb over the barricades and open a new one in which to post complaints."