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This week my humor blog saw several days of writing about classic cartoon characters since one of them is coming to Broadway tryouts and another is maybe having a fan film made for the last eleven years but thinks they're going to be done soon? Also I go on some nonsense inspired by a recent update to Apple's word processor and spreadsheet and their thing that's somehow even more boring than Powerpoint is. Here's what that all looks like:
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 6
- So there's a Betty Boop musical coming together
- Statistics Saturday: What USDZ might stand for
- There Is Maybe a _Popeye_ Fan Film Being Made?
- I Need Help With Three Alligators (Not in That Way)
- What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Why did the crook warehouse burn down? July - September 2023
- What I Have Learned From Today's Test of the United States's Cell Phone Make Noise Network
- MiSTed: Altered Destiny, Part 7
Let's get a ride on the railroad! It was too early in the year for holiday lights, unfortunately.
Starting off on the ride, and going along the track. The return leg is on the right there --- or is it? Because it turns out they take the big loop in opposite directions; the other time we rode, we started on that right-hand track instead.
Geese! They hang around the area. On one of our rides a couple of them seemed determined not to get off the track and we were glad they changed their minds.
This spot sure seems like it should be a covered tunnel, doesn't it? Maybe it's for something later in the year.
I personally think it's irresponsible of bicyclists to shrink themselves to five inches tall and pedal along the edge of the railroad car seats but I guess they allow that sort of thing in California.
Near the end of the loop the outgoing and incoming tracks merge together and they do some fussing with the switch at this point. It involves the train stopping for a few minutes and when you don't know what's going on it all seems mysterious and purposeless. But then you see people not near enough you doing stuff like this and it makes sense.
Oh! Oh! Do you see it? The western grey squirrel? (In the road, near the dashed yellow line, at the left edge of the tree shadow in the center of the picture. I have better shots but I wsan't sure I would get any as the western greys had been elusive. Later, we'd see them everywhere.)
Getting back to the station! Also I wonder if the Yard Limit sign actually does signify something in Railroad Law. Anyway, ride's over, shortly enough.
And here's a plaque explaining the W E ``Bill'' Mason Carousel. Note the dedication on the 4th of July, 1991, so we were just one day short of its 32nd anniversary. I bet they did some trial runs the 3rd of July, though.
And here's a good look at the carousel as we finally get a ride in.
It's the rare (for American) carousels that run clockwise (as seen from above), in the British style. But what caught my eye is the art on the rounding boards, which are particularly folk-y here.
Horse under(?) restoration that's next to the carousel inside the building, and not under work in the carving shop.
And here's an example outer row horse, with one of the little boxes provided for shorter people to get up to it when it's at maximum height.
Trivia: In 1663 the Catholic Inquisition placed four of Descartes's books on the index of banned works. In 1998, under the direction of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later to be Pope Benedict XVI) ordered the reasons why published. (This alongside opening the Inquisition's files through to 1903.) Source: Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason, Russell Shorto. The critical matter was Descartes's reckoning of matter and the material world undermining the doctrine of the Eucharist. You know, the usual transubstantiation argument.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine Sundays Supplement Volume 8: 1946, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
