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Humor-blog-wise, I'm tossing out a miscellaneous bunch of old Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan fiction, comic strip stuff, and odd bits that came in my e-mail. Here's the recent roster:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 1
- What Are Tires? We Really Don't Know
- Statistics Saturday: How I Use My Recreational Time
- In Which I Let You Know, Again, Exactly Who I Am
- Rocko's Modern Life guy has a book for you
- So Why Am I Late With the Gil Thorp Report Again?
- What's Going On In Gil Thorp? What's this great idea you have for this essay? June - August 2023
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 2
Photography-wise, I'm still at the Turner-Dodge House, enjoying the Fairy Tale Festival. You want to see pictures? OK, here we go:
Habibi dancers, this year getting to dance in the shade of the house's third floor ballroom instead. There were three rows of seats, many of them empty, and we didn't feel bold enough to sit in the first or even the second row.
Here two dancers do some work with canes that they used to guide one another and, for part of the dance, to prop between their bellies so as to keep a fixed position relative each other.
And here, see? They're real canes all right. Also you maybe notice some people weren't shy about sitting in the second row, even if the first row was too terrifying to approach.
There were quite a few performers; here's the curtain call.
And now back downstairs, to the girls' bedroom with vintage dolls and miscellaneous old books and --- what's that? You want to see the cursed childhood doll? You know, not every old house has a cursed childhood doll in it, that's just a ...
Fine, here. Enjoy your soul being torn out and placed in the bakelite hair!
The gloves set atop the hand-shaped ring holders is a choice all right.
Fireplace in a second-floor family room that looks really great, especially now that it doesn't need to be burning coal.
Also we noticed the room has the same window fans we do. Maybe not the literal same brand but the same design, at least, which reassured us for how we cool our circa 1928 home.
The main bedroom and ... I guess they had a Saint Patrick's Day event here that we missed?
Wait a minute ... eyes don't have bones!
The main bedroom has always had this June 1878 issue of the Lady's Journal on display. I don't know if it's a real one or a reproduction.
Trivia: The month of September was, on the Teuton calendar as used by the Angles around AD 725 (as recorded by the Venerable Bede), known as Halegmonath. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History, EG Richards.
Currently Reading: The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meaning of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Tubes, Thomas Hine. The preface started with Hine talking about taking shopping-research trips to (among other places) Computer City and Tower Records and it threw me right out, making me ask how old is this book? It's copyright 1995, so he was probably writing this in 1993 or so. One mystery solved. Second mystery: I bought this at Schuler's this year. How do I have it in hardcover? --- OK, maybe a book reprinted for the sake of going on those discount and bargain shelves near the front door, right? Only, based on the title page, this was a first edition, so huh? That turns out to be because I forgot I got this from Schulers' used-book section and there's no reason a 28-year-old book in quite good condition wouldn't be on the shelves then.
