[UA] Re: N Calif. Cliomantic sites

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

Come on, there are a half-dozen sites in San Francisco 
alone that outdo those listed:

Golden Gate Bridge
City Lights Bookstore (Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Beat HQ)
Corner of Haight and Ashbury
The Castro
Coit Tower

I was starting to think about Silicon Valley, but I 
realized that the most "well-known" sites there would be 
various corporate campuses. I realized that Cliomancy is 
barking up the wrong tree: people's mindshare (in 
middle-class America, which is the center of the 
unevirse in UA, as far as I can tell) is taken up much 
more by corporate advertising and branding than it is by 
history. Why not a school of magick -- or a rewrite of 
Cliomancy -- dealing with the power of brands and 
corporate icons? Related to Infomancy and Iconomancy, 
too, but almost the opposite of Infomancy.

Any takers?

Matt Norwood
    Things more famous than Bluff Creek:  Besides the 
aforementioned locations: 
    Death Valley, (not CA but close to the border), 
Donner Pass (again close),
    Hollywood and Vine (southern, not northern).  The 
Golden Dragon Restaurant
    in San Francisco (legendary in California at 
least--a Tong gunfight killed
    eighteen there in the seventies, first place I ever 
had dim sum).  The
    Transamerica Pyramid, The Golden Gate Bridge, The 
Bay Bridge, The Nut Tree
    is fairly famous, and known by more run of the mill 
people than Bluff creek,
    though I don't know why.  All a good bit more famous 
than the Paul Bunyan
    statue as well.

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