Hi Christina,

Thanks for commenting here, the post of record 🙂 Glad you liked the Halloween haunted Arcade, it was pretty fun. I obsessed over the diorama for a good two weeks, but they always feel great when they are done, much like a blog post. A young kid here in Trento, Riki, did a lion’s share of the work for the haunted arcade, and he did an absolutely bang-up job. I will write more about it soon, but the whole thing was the fist step in actually giving the space some life.

The conceit of brining the blog into the physical world is a bit tenuous, I am sure, given it depends on being able to rent a space, build it out, have things like arcade games to furnish it, etc. There’s a lot of assumptions there, but apart from that the idea of a sense of community in these public storefronts, rather than always, only businesses, has made it powerful for me. It’s a small, fairly insignificant intervention—but something nonetheless. Now to make it sustainable, that’s the real goal.