Anthony Giants-Dodgers would be an incredible hyphenated byline for a sports reporter working in California.

Squirming Palm | Exploratorium Make the palm of your hand appear to squirm and twist.

The Exploratorium has a kit so you can make a Squirming Palm exhibit at home! 1980s bammer weed not included.

They also have a home kit for the Benham disk shown in my 1988 photo -- it produces the illusion of color when rotated.

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Great choice!

Happy 4/20!

Photo of me (left) age 17 tripping out at the @exploratorium.bsky.social when it was near the Palace of Fine Arts. Three best things to do at the museum stoned, all still there:

3. Squirming palm exhibit ✋🌀
2. Pretty much anything involving giant mirrors 😳🪞
1. Cow eyeball dissection 🐮🔪

The Oakland Ballers have been reliably fun.

ICYMI over the weekend, we got into the OG Marine World.

Loved all the comments and memories people shared. Definitely made an impact on a lot of Bay Area kids.

I’ll check it out! Thanks!

🌮🔔🚴🏄💯

How the Bay Area’s most bonkers theme park heralded Silicon Valley’s rise From waterskiing elephants to enterprise software: How a too-wild-to-be-believed Peninsula theme park’s move foreshadowed the region’s tech takeover.

This should work. Enjoy! 🎁

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quality reminiscence for those of us from a certain era in California family entertainment

since my growing-up time was divided between NorCal and SoCal (among other places) mentally I pair this with Lion Country Safari, which occupied part of the Irvine Ranch for a while and was irrational too

Thank you!!! I went to Lion Country Safari on a family trip ❤️

This is so good. Bay Area kids of the 70s and 80s, do yourself a favor and take a trip down memory lane…

I remember we could see the thatched roofs - and later the water slide — from the freeway. My nose against the glass of our station wagon. Every time.

And yes, dear reader, the Milk Carton Boat Race — where they tossed kids in janky homemade rafts into a lagoon to see who would float — was a real thing.

Third place, thanks to the engineering skills of my physics teacher dad.

(My only childhood trophy ⬇️ 🫤)

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I remember what a big deal that was! I think “Evening Magazine” covered it.

You know its a wild story when you're triple fact checking things you personally lived through.

Thank you retired Jungle Safari Ride operator @jilltucker.bsky.social for helping me keep the Marine World flame alive. I'm glad you weren't eaten by a lion.

🦁 🦒 ❤️

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How the Bay Area’s most bonkers theme park heralded Silicon Valley’s rise From waterskiing elephants to enterprise software: How a too-wild-to-be-believed Peninsula theme park’s move foreshadowed the region’s tech takeover.

"The end of Marine World Africa/U.S.A. in Redwood City, like the beginning, sounded completely made up."

Where I pay tribute to the bonkers theme park of our youth, and how its move cemented a Silicon Valley takeover.

Gift link for the Peninsula kids 🎁 🐬 🐯 ⬇️

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I’m guessing you didn’t read a word of my column.

‘The Pitt’ finale ends the most important season of television in years The writers and cast of “The Pitt” zagged from ER mayhem to explore an even bigger crisis: disastrous work-life balance. It made for some of the best television in recent memory.

Physician heal thyself.

I wrote about the fantastic and important “The Pitt” finale, and my own realizations about work/life balance at the @sfchronicle.com

(I wasn’t always on the optimism beat …)

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This is the most adorable tiny living space I’ve seen outside a magazine.

If I didn’t have a wife, dog, two kids who haven’t fully launched, three bikes & a too large vinyl, CD and LEGO collection I’d outbid every one of you.

🏠❤️

Thank you!!!

I missed that!!!! Will track it down.

“Hacks” is a great one. My biggest problem with that show is that they force conflict with characters who clearly love each other.

Honestly “Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is up there.

‘The Pitt’ finale ends the most important season of television in years The writers and cast of “The Pitt” zagged from ER mayhem to explore an even bigger crisis: disastrous work-life balance. It made for some of the best television in recent memory.

Physician heal thyself.

I wrote about the fantastic and important “The Pitt” finale, and my own realizations about work/life balance at the @sfchronicle.com

(I wasn’t always on the optimism beat …)

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The characters in this show are such a good hang. Reminds me of how I felt 40 years ago watching “Cheers”

First time I watched I loved the sequence but thought that & letting hair down was way out of character.

But second watch I remembered she’s been dealing with her sister getting action for half the season. Seemed like a much more reasonable karaoke move.

It was sooooo good. I want to see Victoria’s TikToks but this was a great consolation prize.

Is there bread in that first photo or is the bread just “more pastrami”?

@renzaro.com If Randi Scott is your operator give her my best 🚍❤️

So proud that Harsha Devulapalli & I wrote an entire story about this.

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