On my humor blog this week was a lot of talking about comic strips that are annoying in some way. But also some talk about a cartoon that's a delight as long as you aren't put off by the nightmare logic and body horror, so that's something! Please, enjoy:
- MiSTed: JSH: So They Lied (Part 1 of 3) (MiSTing of a Usenet rant about the cabal of mathematicians suppressing a novel approach to factoring numbers.)
- Where did _Baby Blues_ go? How can I express my anger at _Funky Winkerbean_? and voting for the Funky Winkerbean awards is done but you can see the nominees, and the winners, at Son of Stuck Funky, starting here and foring forth a couple days.
- Statistics Saturday: My Schedule for Doing Things
- Wait, did Funky Winkerbean just give his wife the helmet Bull Bushka died in? And ... no, I guess, but it would be nice if it were more clearly no.
- 60s Popeye: The Day Silky Went Blozo, in which Blozo goes Silky in a big way
- What’s Going On In Mary Worth? Why does everybody want Wilbur dead? October 2021 – January 2022 And, look, you hate to say this about someone but boy does he need at minimum a stern talking-to.
- What Song Was That in the Betty Boop Cartoon ‘Bimbo’s Initiation’? And so it turns out that ``wanna be a member?'' chant wasn't just made up to torment Bimbo, who knew?
- MiSTed: JSH: So They Lied (Part 2 of 3)
Having done with nearly three weeks of photographs of Christmas lights, let me bring you ... Christmas lights! These are from our trip to Crossroads Village the last week of 2021. We got there for their drive-through exhibition last year; this is the first time we were on foot (and able to ride the train) since 2019.
The entrance to Crossroads Village, with the greeting lights that have been there just forever.
The train station and the front main street of the village, as ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger looks over something. I imagine our tickets, to confirm our train time.
This building used to be a hotel, I think, and was in more recent years a secondary shop, with those quirky little candies. It had been closed in 2019, I think, and I don't know what's in there now. The carolers out front are mannequins, with a speaker playing songs for it.
Kirby's General Store, also the main gift shop for the Village. And you can see the main street there.
In past years you could see the Print Shop run off copies of their little newspaper. To the right you see the central village Christmas tree, plus some smaller trees.
Walking down the main street and looking up at the lights criss-crossing the trees above.
Trivia: Close conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn happen every twenty years. The ones happening every sixty years occur in the same zodiac constellation. Source: Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures, Anthony Aveni.
Currently Reading: Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749 - 1827, A Life In Exact Science, Charles Coulson Gillispie with Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Oh, this is gold: ``Wishing to study [ Méchanique céleste ] in advance, [ Jean-Baptiste ] Biot offered to read proof. When he returned the sheets, he would often ask Laplace to explain some of the many steps that had been skipped over with the famous phrase, `it is easy to see'. Sometimes, Biot said, Laplace himself would not remember how he had worked something out and would have difficulty reconstructing it.''`
