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This week I'm trying something I haven't done in ages on my humor blog: letting Robert Benchley write it. I like this. He's got a pretty solid comic voice. Here's what you might have missed if you weren't reading it day-by-day:
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 42
- There Are Limits to What I Can Say About Notable Soups
- Statistics Saturday: Some Unsuccessful Soups
- Robert Benchley: The Lost Locomotive
- Robert Benchley: ``Take The Witness!''
- What's Going On In Mark Trail? Why is Kelly Welly pitching AI garbage? March - May 2025
- Robert Benchley: The New Strokes
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 43
With that having got you moderately amused now please enjoy the end of our stop-in at Cedar Point last July, as photographed:
This is not the Space Age ride mentioned as a rotation point. This is a ride in Planet Snoopy, a completely separate kids area on the other side of the Coliseum from the Kiddie Kingdom.
And this is a small performance area in Planet Snoopy that I think we've never been around when it was in use.
Walking over to something or other (Iron Dragon) we saw a pack of musicians performing in front of the Coasters Diner. Also someone who bought a seagull backpack, that's nice.
Also you can see a mother who does not have the time for people in poodle skirts dancing.
And here's Iron Dragon, always a favorite, although in its last season before the indignity of a fast-pass line-cutting lane was installed.
Meanwhile the griffin, now gold, stands proudly there and refuses to explain why it vanished for a few years and why it's in front of Iron Dragon instead of the griffin-themed GateKeeper.
Now here is the turnstile outside the Cedar Downs racing carousel. I photograph this just because I'd never paid any attention to the manufacturer of the turnstile before, so here we go.
The afternoon light flatters the horses here.
The lights inside not being on improves the composition here. I should have centered the center area, though. If I ever get the chance I'll have to re-photograph this right.
Tilting the camera this severely emphasizes how the horses are racing, moving back and forth in those slots, so that some look like they're leaping ahead of the pack.
Cedar Downs is next to the Cadillac Cars, last remaining tracked car ride.
And that's our drop-in done. Here's a look to the front of the park from Cedar Downs on the right and in the concrete you see how much has been done to dry up the rain already.
Trivia: On the fourth flight day of Gemini 4, the astronauts found themselves unable to turn off the computer (to conserve spacecraft power). Even after switching the unit to off the computer light stayed on, with no malfunction light. Source: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 63: The Abdominal Snowman, Ralph Stein, Bela Zaboly, Editor Stephanie Noelle. There's a lot of energy going into this story, especially after the four thousandth college football story by Sims and Zaboly.
