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Featured this week on my humor blog: a list of Christmas specials! Good luck figuring out which are the ones I did not make up! Also something terrifying that I found on Discord. Here's the rundown of recent posts for you.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 18
- Some Good News, or Bad News, About the WordPress Drama Thing
- Statistics Saturday: Some Recent Animated Holiday Specials, So Far As You Know
- In Which I Again Feel Alienated From Society
- In Which I Learn Another Way Humans Fail Their Potential
- What's Going On In Mark Trail? Should I avoid reading Mark Trail for now? September - December 2024
- If You Read Me, by Which I Mean Get Me
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 19
And now to close out pictures from the June visit to Marvin's, in a neat coincidence publishing on the same day we plan to make our final visit to Marvin's In This Location. They've announced where they plan to move to, now they just have to do it, somehow.
And here's a flash photograph of Chuck E Cheese figures ... uh ... [ looks up what I tried last time ] The Tweetstones.
And here, above the left side of Pinball Row, is a couple of marionettes recovered from their days as a working band.
Oh, here's a flash photo letting you finally see The Charlie McCarthy Band, which I don't think has ever been in working shape if it even could. And ... oh. Oh, dear, I'm sorry, I didn't know there was a blackface marionette in it. Jeez.
On a cheerier note. Here's P T Barnum's replica Cardiff Giant, more visible than usual because, again, flash photo.
From this angle the Giant looks almost like a CGI demonstration reel from the late 90s.
I finally had the thought to reach my camera over and see if I could photograph the Giant's legs. I can, kind of, although the foreshortening doesn't help and oh, there's trash that's fallen back there that's uncleanable.
Hanging along one of the sloped ceilings was this poster for sex-mad maniacs and the killing of Richard Hauptmann, you know, fun stuff.
Beside it are these banners for The Tigger Movie and for Return To Neverland, two Disney movies you totally remember existing on VHS and Disney DVD.
And near all of this is this clown figure from something I can't identify.
Ostrich carousel figure they have dangling from the ceiling. I don't know if it were ever on an actual ride although the hole underneath is suggestive.
On the other hand, the carousel figure in good shape here is a replica made in ... I'm going to say the 80s ... and it's got the hole for the pole like you'd expect.
And here's a poster for Somebody's Academy of Music for which comic strip witch Broom Hilda .. uh ... explodes?
Trivia: The head of the Comet of 1811 passed in front of the Sun's disk on the 26th of June, 1811. W M Olbers calculated the event a month after it had happened, but once he published the calculation several observers provided reports of singular spots observed across the Sun that day, including with observations drawn that day. One, by J W Pastorff of Buchholtz, shows a round nebulous object with a bright spot in its center; but, it was not in the right spot to be the comet (and it's difficult to see how a comet could be spotted against the sun). Source: In Search Of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe, Richard Baum, William Sheehan.
Currently Reading: The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer. Oh, now that is writing. In talking abut Frederic Wertham's argument that Batman and Robin were women-hating homosexuals Feiffer writes ``this sort of case-building is much too restrictive. In our society it is not only homosexuals who don't like women. Almost no one does.'' You know it's true because it hurts to admit.
