Hy Eisman retired, and I had an only normal number of readers from Finland. What else is going on in my humor blog? Is any of that humor? We'll see. Here's recent stuff from there:
- MiSTed: Safety First (part 8 of 16)
- Popeye Now Being Drawn By Someone Younger Than Popeye
- Statistics Saturday: The Alphabet In Order Of Its First Appearance On VH-1
- 60s Popeye: Private Eye Popeye and the case of the missing credits
- Statistics May: Finland Doesn't Love Me Anymore, But …
- What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Why was Dick Tracy in Gasoline Alley? March - June 2022
- In Which I Have A Week Of Changing Re-evaluations
- MiSTed: Safety First (part 9 of 16)
Now here's some recent stuff from Cedar Point that I think you'll like.
Even more suggestive of how the Kiddie Kingdom used to be configured? ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger pointed out the railings here. There's a gap to the left of the windows, not matched on the other side.
Here's Raptor (Rules The Sky) and if you look close, you can see all three trains: one on the lift hill, one in the station, and one waiting to re-enter the station. This may be why the ride had a wait of upwards of seconds.
From Raptor's queue you get a nice look at Blue Streak, here going down its main drop.
This, in the main midway a bit past the carousel, is a fountain sculpture, and we spent some time paying attention to the storks(?) at its base. We don't know but suspect this is some of the statuary that Cedar Point acquired from the 1904 World's Fair.
The 1904(?) fountain in its context, amid a flower bed and just past the Midway Carousel.
This apparently featureless part of the park is a small corner that's now walled off; I poked the camera through a gap in the fencing. bunnyhugger reports it used to be a kids-to-teens-oriented shop called ``Lotsapalooza'' and the area was available until around the removal of Demon Drop in 2011. Without Demon Drop, and with GateKeeper's construction, the area became a little cul-de-sac and, I suppose, the lack of foot traffic meant there wasn't enough going on to keep the shop open. We were surprised to see parts of the park just walled off like this, as if it were Great Adventure or something.
Trivia: To raise funds for an expedition to the solar eclipse of August 1886, astronomer Johann Palisa sold the naming rights to Minor Planet Number 244, one of the 122 asteroids he discovered in his lifetime. He received £50 (something like £6,000 today) from Baron Albert von Rothschild, who named it for his wife Bettina. Source: Asteroids, Clifford J Cunningham. (Wikipedia lists this as Minor Planet 250. I have no explanation for this phenomenon.) (Actually it's probably just that there were a lot of asteroids being discovered around then and Palisa might not have got his number right in the advertisement.)
Currently Reading: Chulo: A Year Among The Coatimundis, Bil Gilbert.
