This week my humor blog has seen a lot being made out of the fact Wikipedia has a list of notable soups. But there's also other stuff, no less weakly motivated. For example:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 41
- The Guy Who Used to Draw _Beetle Bailey_ Saw a Fox
- Statistics Saturday: Your Forecast For The Week To Come
- I Need Hardly Explain Why I Looked at Wikipedia's List of Notable Soups
- But as Long as I Am Looking at Wikipedia's List of Notable Soups
- What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Why celebrate a 106th anniversary? On the wrong date? March - May 2025
- Not to Say I've Finished Chewing This List of Notable Soups Bone
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 42
Now something that never needs motivation, the sharing of pictures of Kennywood. Enjoy!
Here's a picture of some of the horses from the inside of the carousel, showing off the less-elaborately-carved sides.
This is the band organ, a Wurlitzer something or other model.
Here's that carousel tiger scaring off some riders.
And someone so delighted she's clapping and leaning back. (Yes, I know, she's taking a picture and not stepping back a little.)
Is that the night already? Vending booths all closed up here.
The traditional picture from the bridge of the Racer and midway games and Jack Rabbit. That tree on the right's obscuring the logo almost completely now.
It is the end of the night! Grand Carousel with all the lights off, and people being quietly but insistently pushed toward the exit.
So here's another quick picture of the lake, looking over towards Steel Curtain so there's none of that pesky nature obscuring the buildings.
The waters were quite still and the reflection of Steel Curtain looked great.
And here's Jack Rabbit where you can see the neon logo and the parts of the legs that still aren't illuminated.
Refreshments continues to be one of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's favorite pieces of neon.
And here's the Kangaroo. The rainbow-lit roo is part of a lights animation, the extra brightness and colors jumping from right to left.
Trivia: During World War II, Japan had 99 motorized farm tractors. Source: The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food, Lizzie Collingham. (Given the typical size and landscaping of rice paddies it's not obvious that more would have helped much, and in any case, fuel and oil were short.)
Currently Reading: The Harvey Comics Companion, Mark Arnold.
