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Over on my wildly popular humor blog my weeks of reprinting Finley Peter Dunne essays, in the voice of Mr Dooley, came to an end on a couple bits about the Presidential Election, 1896 edition, and its immediate aftereffects. Accident, but I like that it is how things ended up on the week before the 4th of July. So if you'd like to read that, or to get two story strip plot recaps please look to these:
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 13
- Finley Peter Dunne: A Candidate’s Pillory
- Statistics Saturday: Number Of Sisyphus Jokes In The Comics This Week
- Finley Peter Dunne: The Day After The Victory
- Finley Peter Dunne: Prosperity
- What’s Going On In Mark Trail? What’s with the guy freaking out? April – June 2024
- What’s Going On In Flash Gordon? Is Prince Vultan the villain now? April – July 2024
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 14
And now I'm already, in early July 2024, up to the second day of our visit to Cedar Point's Halloweekends last October. Enjoy here, too!
Morning! It's late October so yes, it's bright and sunny and warm out. Also you can see Top Thrill's 2 Tower in the center there under construction, using cranes that are about as tall but wired in ways that make sense to them. Your guess where the focal plane is is as good as mine.
Inside the park here, having lunch from the place that makes burrito bowls, our first real use of the dining plan that we already couldn't do without.
More of the plant decorations around the Frontier Town area, in back of the park.
SkyHawk, the huge rigid swing ride, that's a favorite. Seen from below.
I put the camera really close to the ground so SkyHawk would look big here.
SkyHawk near the top of its swing. I like this angle for the tree cover making it look like I took the picture upside-down. Maybe my most severe canting angle ever.
Peeking over the fence between SkyHawk and the exit ramp for Mine Ride and we noticed huh, seems like there's more stuff there than we remembered even if it is all work roads.
What's in the shed? ... Well, stuff Mine Ride might need, such as a place to store trains not in use.
Peering here from the exit of SkyHawk and the end of the Mine Ride's exit queue out towards, on the right, the place that used to be the arrival station for the Frontier Sky Lift and is now bathrooms and work spaces, and on the left, the Town Hall Museum, entering its fifth year of a one-year renovation.
Horse skeletons set up at the Frontier Town to ghost the place up some. And good news, everyone, these skeleton horses do not suffer from bone-ear-tis.
Walking down the Top Thrill midway, with the 2 Tower rising but, have to say, can't see much difference between this and Thursday's pictures of it.
Some very exciting fencing blocking off our view of the Top Thrill 2 renovations/construction work.
Trivia: John Adams described Edward Rutledge, who originally struck him as part of ``a young, smart, spirited body'' [ the South Carolina delegation to the Second Continental Congress ], and later a reluctant signer who postponed debating the declaration by nearly a month, as ``a perfect Bob-o-Lincoln [sic] --- a swallow, a sparrow, a peacock, excessively vain, excessively weak, and extremely variable and unsteady, jejune, inane, and puerile''. Also ``uncouth and ungraceful''. Source: Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed The Declaration of Independence, Denise Kieran, Joseph D'Agnese.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Volume 30: Popeye and The Evil Echo, Tom Sims, Bela Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
