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bunnyhugger is going to the Women's Nationals pinball championship and interviewed her. You can see how she presented herself here, and also see the fantastic logo she paid to have created for the Lightning Flippers club. None of the B-roll footage of people playing pinball is of her --- our barcade wasn't open when they were preparing the interview --- as you might guess from how the tables are labelled in some Cyrillic language. We have no explanation for that phenomenon.
And in pictures ... what follows pictures of the day before the Ingham County Fair? That's right, a visit to the Jackson County Fair.
The parking lot for the Jackson County Fair extends to within the walls of the old state prison. I assume the hill leading up to the edge of the wall is a post-prison development.
But seeing my car and the parking going on here gives some idea the scale of the wall.
Into the show and hey, look at that! It's magician Adam Radatz, last seen by us at Darien Lake amusement park in upstate New York!
Radatz practicing how to use a rope as a slingshot just in case he needs to fend off stalkers like us.
Huh, wonder why he's having his assistant climb into a tiny confined box like this.
Oh. Well, I'm sure he knows how to apply a blade like that safely to a boxed assistant.
The most dangerous trick in any stage magician's repertoire: getting a bunch of kids to follow direction!
Huh, wonder what he's squeezing that box full of assistant down for.
Oh, he's sending the box at warp speed through things, I see.
Hey, the assistant turns out to be fine! Wonder how that happened?
Now to more stuff within the fair, such as this lion drinking fountain, for all the kids who want to fantasize about drinking lion spit? ... I don't know, the theme works as long as you don't scrutinize it.
The Jackson County Fair has a number of floral bins like this with folk painting to make them more interesting than otherwise would be.
Trivia: In spring 1960 the Matson Line introduced its first all-container cargo ship on the San Francisco-Honolulu route, with the Hawaiian Citizen, a ship that began as a wartime C-3 transport. It could handle 356 containers. Source: Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed The World,
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