When Faustian Man and the Wide Open Plains Meet

I wrote my review of The Last Airbender before I had kids. Since then, I did in fact show my kids this show, and they loved it. And I still do too.

It is the Sega Genesis version that had the slightly clipped opening lines, rather than the arcade cabinet that I remember from my youth. But I definitely fed more than few quarters into machine that looks like this.

The new music venue in Las Vegas called The Sphere [although not Crichton's Sphere, a good deal on Amazon right now] was described by one of my Twitter mutuals as "the opposite of a sensory deprivation tank". In the subset of humanity described as having Sensory