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This week my humor blog saw the conclusion of two projects, the long-running reposting of the MST3K fan fiction based on Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction Jaded Views and me riffing on what I guess is accidental clickbait where I give answers to where area code 661 is, just as though 661 were a real area code that exists somewhere.
- MiSTed: Jaded Views, Part 19
- Where can I find Area Code 661?
- Statistics Saturday: Summer Olympics Declining Newark, New Jersey's Offer To Host, By Year
- Where does Area Code 661 cover?
- Why I Say the Bookstore Is Making Fun of Me
- What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Why are you suddenly excited about Charon's granddaughter? May - August 2024
- In Which I Root for the Spider Despite My Self-Interest
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 1
And now to close out our trip to Bronner's last year:
A quite tall Santa statue welcoming you all to Bronner's, photographed as Bronner's had closed for the day and we were leaving.
Decoration showing very large elves decorating a house.
Oh, this penguin looks like they're having a great time on top of the igloo! I wonder where this is going!
It's going splat!
Past the arch over the roadway you can see a ski sled made of lights and, over to the right, some actual prop that I guess has a manger vibe going on. I can't tell from the picture anymore.
Here, a gigantic ball ornament has fallen off a 50-storey-tall tree.
Whole mess of decorations seen where the road turns a little bit.
And here's a Santa and reindeer fixture simply illuminated by bright lights, as though it were a flag at a car dealership.
I don't believe that Crossroads Village uses this animated fixture of gifts dropping out the back of Santa's jalopy but it would not be out of character if they did.
And now we've gone into town! Here's something from the main drag of Frankenmuth, which is very happy to be a German Christmas-y town. But what brings us there?
Oh yes! The Frankenmuth Cheese Haus, we do need that. Note the Swiss cheese backing of the message board sign.
Cheese Haus has expanded a fair bit including getting way more merch, like these picnic blankets.
Trivia: Ted Healy's performing group, when his sidekicks were Moe and Shemp Howard and Larry Fine, was called (variously) Ted Healy and His Racketeers, Ted Healy and His Three Southern Gentlemen, or Ted Healy and His Gang. It was never billed as Ted Healy and the Three Stooges. Source: The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, Anthony Slide.
Currently Reading: The Oregon Trail: Yesterday and Today, William E Hill. Not the game, the actual thing.
