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My humor blog this week brought some big news about Gil Thorp, in case you didn't know that could happen. Also me being all vaguely cranky and a piece that hints at what my Statistics Saturday this coming week should be, unless I get a better idea in the next 41 hours. All this plus a furry who's passing his kigurumi off as a superhero identity starts ... now.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 5
- Gil Thorp looks funny because Rod Whigham isn't drawing it, Rachel Merrill is
- Statistics Saturday: Some Annoyances In Your Neighborhood
- In Which I Compose an Open Letter to Things in General
- Sorry I'm Late, I Was Learning Biochemistry Trivia
- What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Do you have a Gasoline Alley anecdote unrelated to the plot to share? June - September 2024
- I Don't Know Much About Jaguar Man
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 6
Having finished with Crossroads Village the next thing we did with holiday attractions and my car is drive down to (not that) Brooklyn and the light show set up at the Michigan International Speedway. And now you're going to see all of them.
This is not part of the paid exhibition! These are fixtures you see on the drive up to the gate, there to keep everyone amused while waiting in a line. This goes on for like two miles so they must be figuring on lines of an hour or more which has to be just great for the kids except they have iPads in the car anymore.
Snowman blowing frost over a house that isn't The Addams Family house but has a little bit of that vibe.
Brooklyn Products International, huh? So, what, podcasts and microbrews? (I told this joke before but I think the picture was worse that time.)
Wh --- why does the roof penguin have a Davey Crockett cap?
Hey, they set up their own Over-Decorated Crossroads Village Tree! That's nice. Also you can see the trail of wrapped presents being blown away on the right there.
Ah yes, Santa and his sleigh, famously pulled by his team of antlered teeth!
Ah, finally an establishing shot! At an angle that doesn't quite let you see either side clearly.
No, this isn't a teddy bear being shot out of a cannon at the Christmas tree; they're just riding in the scoop of a bulldozer the way every safety instruction says not to do.
Finally, the front gate! Just in case you thought we were getting in without paying, you know.
And I told you it was at the Michigan International Speedway. Here's the racetrack, which we get to drive on, very slowly and with the lights off.
One of several arches of light that we're warned not to stop in the middle of because, I'm assuming, the car behind will bonk into you because those drivers are looking at that too. You can see the Michigan International Speedway logo from behind in the lower right there.
Another tunnel of lights, as we get off the speedway and back to the lights parade.
Trivia: Many American recipes of the 1930s labelled the food as ``Spanish'' because they contained tomatoes. Source: A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, Jane Ziegelman, Andrew Coe.
Currently Reading: Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells, Harold McGee.
