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These towns that embrace/lean into their weirdness long after the precipitating events are so interesting. I don't remember Salem, MA being particularly "witchy" when I was growing up (aside from the still-there Witch Museum), but I visited this summer and it's certainly done so now.

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I'm now wondering how much this has to do with the end of industry as we know it... And we also visited Salem a few years ago and it's equally nuts.

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I heard a ton about "Fire in the Sky" when it was out, and about how scary and intense it was. Then, I watched it like 15 years later. It's not all that under-rated after all.

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yes just have to focus on those last 10 or so minutes

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It might be kind of fun to come up with a list of films that have parts in them that are well worth watching, but the whole film is kind of meh.

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oh definitely, now you've got me thinking.

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Really fun and interesting piece once again. For some reason Travis makes me want to get a hairpiece. I've always threatened to do that, get a really obvious one and go to parties and watch how people respond to me, but it's kind of a pricy gag. I had a magical hillbilly uncle who use to go out to Sedona for the UFOs along with his "psychic" (in quotes because she was a professional, not an adjective) wife who channeled spirits.

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as much as it'd be fun to let you experiment with this: NO! Funny, I work at Town Hall and the rule of being hired as the security guard seems to be you have to have a very obvious toupee. I wonder if Travis is litigious and is going to come sue me now for outing him as a hair "fraud."

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Haha! Well, I'm pretty much shaving my head now, so I could really work it, but I'll probably take your counsel.

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I think it would be so fun to go to the Pine Branch event. Super fun people watching and I would get to geek out

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Pine Bush 2024! I want to go back but def catch the museum on a normal day.

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Another great post! Have you seen the movie Jules?

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No, will look!

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