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[austin_dern]

My humor blog: what was it doing the past week? This stuf:

• From The June 2016 Scraps File: Unused Text For You, last week's big text roundup. Enjoy!
• Statistics Friday: June 2016 As It Was For Humor Blogging, looking over readership numbers.
• Statistics Saturday: The Twelve Most Patriotic English Words to be seasonal.
• The Dustin Hoffman Question based on my hobby of trying to remember stuff, which produces wrong guesses about stuff.
• Beach Fun Time! and some news from New Jersey.
• Something For Fans Of Bad Stuff in the form of something awful that's snuck into vintage-1930 Popeye comics.
• While On The Road I find some comedy and that'll have to do.
• A Name To Be Reckoned With, this week's major piece and inspired by the ever-fruitful subject of sports venue naming rights.

Some more AnthrOhio Saturday. While bunny_hugger was hard at work at AnthrOhio Live I puttered around and peeked in on, among other things, the FrankenFursuit event. You might not want to see some of this stuff.

The bin I used to collect votes (and, later, dispense candy). Here, with the slightly revised text that makes clearer what the question ``Trash Panda: Yes Or No'' might mean.

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The FrankenFursuit Competition! Here, people grabbed scraps of things and built scrappy figures.

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So, you know, for building a bat costume out of scraps in under two hours this lands safely in Five Nights At Freddy's territory.

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The end of FrankenFursuiting! And, really, given the constraints, this is not the most nightmarish Sid and Marty Krofft program ever made.

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And then someone goes and spoils the whole FrankenFursuit spirit by putting in way more time and budget and everything. I hadn't meant to photograph them, but I touched my camera while two were nearby and they started posing, and then a third joined and at that point it was easier to photograph them than not. I wouldn't want to be rude.

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Trivia: Abigail Adams brought the seven-year-old John Quincy Adams to witness the Battle of Bunker Hill. Source: Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, David S Reynolds.

Currently Reading: The John McPhee Reader, Editor William L Howarth.

PS: Theorem Thursday: The Jordan Curve Theorem, a bit of mathematics that's obvious and easy, except if you do it right, in which case it's too hard. Isn't that always the way?

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

So much to catch up on! (and good to see you are careful to meter the snark) ... ;D

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoy. And yes, I do want to snark responsibly.

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

The bat is like a minimalist partial. I'm impressed!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The work's inspiringly good.