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The Day I Met Superman

January 13, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

Last November a film blog that I regularly read shared a short documentary video that touched me in an unexpected way. It featured Christopher Dennis, a guy whose alter ego is Superman on Hollywood Boulevard. I had never heard of him before, but given my fascination and often adoration of people who create elaborate costumes of their favorite cosplayers, I clicked on the video. The documentary’s soft, colorful, cinematography complemented its fantastic subject. It portrayed Mr. Dennis in a respectful […]

Categories: Fame, Mythologies, Popular Culture, Tourism • Tags: cosplay, hollywood, superman

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God(zilla) Will Destroy L.A.

January 10, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

Just a few days after the New Year, while in Los Angeles, we visited Hollywood Boulevard. While I don’t imagine the beautiful people do a lot of hanging around in that particular neighborhood, it is sacred ground for the global mythology of Hollywood. Visiting the “walk of fame” is, after all, what tourists are expected to do when they visit L.A. So we went to see the stars—more specifically the traces they have left behind—their handprints and their footprints and the concrete […]

Categories: End of Times, Movies, Mythologies, Random Reflections, Tourism, Video clips • Tags: Fundamentalism, hollywood, Religion

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