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This week in my humor blog? A lot of pop culture stuff, actually. Not sure. Sometimes I write about actual things and sometimes I just riff on something I can feel like you probably heard of, such as Mister Ed:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 17
- I Hope Gracie Didn't Mind Him Using Her Money That Way
- Statistics Saturday: The Contents Of Your Spice Rack
- I'll Go Into Further Details About How You're Wrong in My Podcast, Ranking/Bass
- I'm Not Looking for a Medal
- What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Are those kids really on Mars? September - December 2024
- Maybe There's Something I'm Not Getting About Weather Lately
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 18
Enough mildly funny stuff. Here's pictures of the inflatables and then other stuff from Sunday at Anthrohio this year:
So there's someone who figured out how to lie down on that sea dragon. You may see there's handles on the neck, but they're harder to use to stabilize yourself when you jump on top than you might imagine. They're a little too far forward and you're liable to pitch yourself off while holding on to the handle and send the whole toy flying off-balance as you hit the ground. I've done that.
And now ... someone trying out that inflatable suit. For now, they just look like the Melvin Belli energy demon from that Original Star Trek episode with the annoying kids. No, the other one.
The dragon beside looks a little deflated compared to the fully sphere'd suiter.
Little kid here helping roll the blackberry'd suiter to the Juicing Room.
And here's someone lounging on that crocodile, which is a pretty nice one for sprawling out on.
Enough inflatables! We couldn't go to the Crown Plaza Columbus and not take a photo of this venerable sign.
Finck the Rat waving hi to us! I forget what event this was at, possibly the Rodents SIG.
And here Finck shows off his giant Chicken McNugget that looks like a coati! Adorable, isn't it?
We went to Hospitality only to discover not only had food and, more important, pop service stopped but the place was almost already cleaned up!
So you know what that means, if Hospitality is all closed up. It's time to walk around the hallways looking aimlessly for where the fun went.
Folks gathered outside that day's grease truck.
And people gathered outside Main Events, where the charity auction was running late. So here's one of the fandom's many snow leopards instead.
Trivia: As a publicity stunt during a Cubs-Reds baseball game in June 1925 Tommy Griffith, a reserve outfielder for the Cubs, spent the first two innings of the game in box seating building a Crosley Trirdyn receiver with the help of Eric Matchette from the Milnor Electric Company. After the set was built they sold it to Cubs center fielder Cliff Heathcoat. Source: Crosley: Two Brothers and Business Empire that Transformed the Nation, Dusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A Banks. Heathcoat you might dimly remember as a trivia item: he had been playing for the Cardinals when, in-between games during a doubleheader against the Cubs, he was traded for the Cubs' Max Flack; both men appeared in both games, for opposite teams.
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