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The first full week back to regular publishing on my humor blog saw a bunch of nattering silliness, plus a Dick Tracy plot recap that got an answer from the story writer, and a silly thing about movies that just came together in minutes, and I think it shows (in the good ways):
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 15
- I Am Sure This Makes Us Both Think the Same Thing
- Statistics Saturday: The 15 Kinds Of Movie
- But Since I’m Rubbish at Singing Anthems It’s All Right for Everyone
- Also Thinking Back to My Childhood
- What’s Going On In Dick Tracy? Why did that guy get himself arrested? September – November 2024
- Looking Out at a Patch of Weather
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 16
And now here's my last pictures from Marvin's back in May:
Looking from near the men's room out at the coin-op carousel, and a little car coin-op that takes a picture of the rider, up at Pinball Row.
Yet more coin-ops. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a mechanical contraption that shows a couple people riding in a train car and then, suddenly, people get replaced by creatures.
The counter where they serve popcorn and soda and probably other things is on the left here. I don't know anything about the story behind the Go Go neon.
Here's that tic-tac-toe chicken again. Someday I'll win! (The grid shows a win but I have to imagine that's just an attract mode gimmick. There'd have been much more fuss made if the previous player had one of the rare wins.)
Here's a look back at the entrance and a sign that has bothered me every time I look at it. Sorry if you didn't notice it before.
And one more gadget, showing a sequence of three-dimensional pictures of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, just like in the old days.
Besides a great number of coin-op devices Marvin's hosts birthday parties and that kind of thing. These tables are where there's, like, always someone having pizza and cake when we arrive for league.
More stuff in the back part of the place, including a fiberglass-I-believe ostrich figure that at least looks like a carousel piece. (It might be a replica that was never meant to be on any real ride.)
And here's the Marvin's entrance as seen by night. It's still open but the vestibule makes it look quite dark.
Meanwhile the sign at the front of the strip mall has ... not had all its lights working. This isn't an artefact of the camera shutter being open too short a while, there's just burned out bulbs.
So you maybe dimly remember that early May was the first time this year we got auroras as far south as Michigan? So, does that look like aurora to you? To me that looks just like the Marvin's light reflecting off the atmospheric haze. In any case you see that I've lost none of the skills I picked up from Eclipse Day at not being able to get my camera to focus on the Moon.
And one arty shot of Marvin's entrance photographed in the side mirror of someone's car. Not mine.
Trivia: William Henry Fox Talbot's 1844 book Pencil of Nature was the first published book to be photographically illustrated. Source: Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold, Merritt Ierley.
Currently Reading: Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem, June Barrow-Green. For what it's worth I feel like this is really reconnecting me with dynamical systems classes I only kind of understood as a grad student.
