Daily Archives: May 19, 2023

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A PHOTO ESSAY RETROSPECTIVE ON THE COLD CLUTCH OF COVID

Those grim days whose stranglehold on society began  in March of 2020, plunged  the world into a cloistered crisis of fear, shutdowns, panic buying, hoarding, dread, loss, death, grief, sickness and regressive life style impacts. Days fraught with two hour lines stringing around the back of the Costco Warehouse and the mad, flailing  search for rubbing alcohol, Clorox Wipes and toilet paper long gone from barren  shelves are ones we might well want to forget. In the very beginning, we had… [READ MORE].

PPM’s Newest Highlight Reel Tribute

By Christopher Rummel Silver pinballs, mirroring  electrons in frozen orbit above an atom’s  nucleus, appear to hover in the air instead of flying madly around on a pinball machine’s playfield as they are supposed to. The gleaming  orbs, beneath which lies an old school pinball machine score reel reading “104”, are encased by plexiglass, all part of a remarkable  trophy recently acquired by Alameda’s renowned Pacific Pinball Museum. Originally presented to legendary pinball community figure Wayne Neyens in 2018, the… [READ MORE].