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Been another week on my humor blog which drew no comments from my father about there being too much Popeye. But there was both Popeye and his son given representation, and I dug something out of an ancient, forgotten funny animal comic to gawk at. Here's the recent stuff:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 16
- In Which I Am Concerned About Kangaroos’ Nature Education
- Statistics Saturday: The Last Six Listeners-DJ-Our-Christmas-Station Selections
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 6: Junior Gets A Job
- Reviewing _Popeye and Son_, Episode 6: Surf Movie
- What’s Going On In Alley Oop? Is Everything In Alley Oop Just A Dream Now? September – December 2023
- Perhaps My Head Is in the Clouds
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 17
With the --- first --- day at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk wrapped up, are you ready for pictures of what we did next, back in July? I am. In case you forgot, it was the ...
Second day at Gilmore Gardens! Here's the entrance and the couple people in line ahead of us.
Uh-oh! Our hopes of riding the Sky Trail Monorail again were foiled. We held out a slight hope that maybe it would open during the day, but it did not.
One of the trees up front, with a sign explaining, 'I'm getting some help growing a new RUNG (thanks!).
And the wooden bridge leading from the entrance to the main body of the park.
Timber Twister racing back by the station during its ride. Don't see a lot of snakes that fast, do you?
Timber Twister coming back to the station; now we'll get a nice look and see ...
Oh, whoops! Guess the snake has other places to be! (The coaster makes two circuits as is common for small family rides like this.)
And here's the less-grand kiddie coaster, the one we're too big to ride.
Accompanied adults live by different rules, of course. You see some of the horses here, plus the chariot.
Ah, the Circus Trees! --- which this is not! It's just a weeping giant sequoia that grew all weird on its own! So far as I know.
Looking off in a random direction to find topiary along the antique autos track.
And now here's a circus tree, one of those guarding Claudia's Garden and the antique autos ride.
Trivia: Though a comet was observed in 44 BC, the year of Julius Caesar's murder, it was recorded (by Chinese astronomers) in May and June of the year, and not (as legend has it) before the assassination. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel. There are Roman records of seeing it by daylight, but only in the last ten days of July.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 30: Popeye and the Evil Echo, Bela Sims, Tom Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
