When JL beat ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger for the Michigan State Women's Championship this year she unknowingly did us a favor. This because it turns out that the Women's North American Championship series was this weekend, out in New Hampshire. Also this weekend: Motor City Fur[ry] Con, in Ypsilanti. While the finals were on Friday you see the issue in getting to both events at once. We're having a hard enough time accepting that Anthrohio's move to mid-April --- something we hope is temporary --- puts it the same weekend as Easter (admittedly, not something going to repeat soon) and Pinball At The Zoo. The latter threatens to happen all the time, if the convention doesn't move back to late May or any other time of year. Really hoping it does. It's bad enough to lose one of our two conventions to pinball and Easter, but to lose both of them to pinball competition would be unbearable.
Meanwhile, at the Women's North American Championship Series, JL did nicely in winning her first round, but was knocked out in the second. So bunnyhugger has got a claim yet to having the record for getting farthest in the North American Championship, with having got through two rounds to be knocked out in the third. And last year's champion, AMK, had a first-round bye and then lost in her first match, which shows again how fickle being a champion is. Or just that there's 54 people there and 53 of them will not take first place. You know.
And back in June, here's some more pictures from Jungle Jim's. The place is kind of overwhelming and it's hard to know everything work photographing.
I'm told that when he was at Chuck E Cheese's Elvis here had only implicit connections to the more famous Elvis. Jungle Jim's is not shy about saying exactly who this lion is.
And nearby is a jellybean portrait of ... uh ... uhm ... I'm going to say the Fourth Doctor as Paul Gaugin or maybe the Skipper?
Back to Elvis, with a bit of view of the mechanism on his feet.
I include this shot for your 70s-style pictures of the singer seen from two camera angles at once.
bunnyhugger looking over her stamped penny in front of Elvis.
There's a lot of custom signs too, or at least I don't recognize this as any particular established squirrel character.
Traffic signs directing people around the ice cream. Yes, that's Graeter's ice cream there. Told you we were in WKRP-town.
Some penguins above the frozen foods area. There's stuff like this all over the grocery.
So where do you imagine the honey's kept?
And this would be the aisle for flying bicycles and also ... I guess soup, on the endcap there?
A whole bunch of fake storefronts put above eye level. I assume they all reflect brands or product lines, but that's just going by the fact I know that Hodgson Mill is a thing.
Toys and clothes get here under the Blue Q kangaroo.
Trivia: Family sources say that Paul Terry offered Paul Robeson the chance to do vocals and singing for TerryToons. But as no voice credits were on the finished films --- and Robeson's hiring would have been kept secret after his investigation by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities --- it is unknown when, or what films he might have worked. Source: Terrytoons: The Story Of Paul Terry And His Classic Cartoon Factory, W Gerald Hamonic
Currently Reading: One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession, Birch Bayh.
