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Things on Boing Boing that made me sad 9 September 2008

No, it wasn’t just the eleventy-millionth lame steampunk related entry, or the eleventy-millionth-squared shameless self promotion from Herr Dr. Ow. It was the following items:

A visit to Casa Bonita restaurant in Denver: If you didn’t grow up close to Denver you probably have no idea what Casa Bonita is (was). If you’ve seen the relevant South Park episode you may have an inkling. For serious, people. When I was a child Casa Bonita was the veritable shit. It was where each and every one of us always wanted to go. Cartman’s desperation to get there only scratches the surface.

It was for birthday parties and entire full-on school/church/scouts field trips. Certainly it was absolute hell on the adults considering the drive, the expense, the be-snotted throngs of overstimulated children and the profoundly mediocre Mexican food. But for kids anywhere on the Colorado Front Range it was as close to Disneyland as we could reasonably get. There were actors having gunfights. There were indoor cliff divers. Sometimes with fire. Secret caves, puppet shows, games, toys, mariachis and profoundly mediocre Mexican food (which kids just fucking love). Also when you ran up the little flag at your table they would bring you sopapillas in whatever quantities you demanded.

The state to which Mark Frauenfelder has discovered Casa Bonita fallen to just reinforces that my youth is well and truly dead. Thanks for that.

Diane Webber, RIP: The girlfriend passed this along to me as it pertains to my current place of employment. Diane Webber/Marguerite Empey was a raw slab of smoking ’50s sex, even (or especially?) when equipped with a fish tail. I dug up some of her archive material at work and truly it is some of the hottest business I’ve seen at this job. A job which is very much concerned with the handling of hot business every day of the week, mostly. I don’t know why exactly (some theories focus on silicone), but the girls today just don’t have it like that.

It is important as well, that you not miss her in Mermaids of Tiburon. Darryl Hannah only wishes she had been that hot.

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Previously
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  1. Tradition
  2. Trunk Call
  3. During the War
  4. Orientation
  5. Imposter
  6. Adjustment Period
  7. Supplemental Mencken
  8. Mole-manification
  9. Death, Canadian Style
  10. World Animal Day

Comments

jima

9 September 2008, 22:17 #

And yet they have Fanky Malloons at Casa Bonita. So you gotta go for those.

Brenda

10 September 2008, 07:19 #

Aw, Casa Bonita, so sad. I remember it being like Disneyland too. The walkways were full of performers, roaming mariachi bands, and at 10 I didn’t really know from good Mexican food, but I don’t remember it being inedible. So sad.

And yes, Diane Webber was The Hot. They just don’t photograph em like that anymore.