![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Have you been reading my humor blog on your Reading/Friends page? Or how about by whatever RSS reader you have? No? Well, here's your chance to see what I've published this past week. It includes my most elaborate Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan fiction sketch of all time, a thing written basically for me alone to actually understand, featuring jokes I spend nearly a thousand words explaining, plus maybe my most successful filk ever. Tempted? Try reading some or all of these.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 38
- I Was Set to Complain About the Shoddy State of Warp Cores
- Statistics Saturday: Choose Your Award
- Thinking I Probably Won’t Be the New Head of _Star Wars_
- Statistics April: People Liked That a Little Bit More
- What’s Going On In The Phantom (Weekdays)? Why does everyone want Kit Jr dating Kadia? February – May 2025
- Probably for the best my godmother and Pope Francis didn’t live to read this
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 39
Now in the Ionia Free Fair pictures we get to an attraction that really captured our imaginations.
And here is a wonder: New York New York, a four-storey funhouse with all sorts of rooms and gadgets and majestically overdone scenery.
And of course how could you believe it was New York if it didn't have the Statue of Liberty and a rendition of Times Square?
The spiral American Flag slide was the thing that we kept worrying about: was it big enough for adults like us or would we get stuck if we tried going down its tight coils?
And here's the New York New York ride's hype statue, delivering trivia about the Statue of Liberty for us.
At one end of the funhouse is this barrel roll set in front of an array of hypno-lasers. You know, like they have in Park Slope.
But let's take a moment to look at other rides. This is the frontage of a different funhouse, a smaller kiddie one, and a skeleton animatronic playing piano for a song that, from the sheet music, seems under-written.
And another funhouse, this one with a mirror maze to start out.
Oh hey, it's the Macomb County $300,000 Ring Everyone Laughs At! Neat!
Nice action scene of the elevated swings far in front of New York New York.
And now the night is getting really beautiful here.
Well, we've got our tickets! We shied away from buying a wristband, I think because we worried we wouldn't have time to ride enough for it to pay out.
And here's a Scrambler-style ride in motion, with the flickering light streaks that let you estimate the speed of the ride because of the LEDs going off and on sixty times a second.
Trivia: When deployed and unfolded, the lunar rover faced the lunar module. Astronauts had to then pull it backwards a while so it would have room to turn around, as NASA did not want the astronauts to start the rover in reverse. Source: Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift.
Currently Reading: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, Silvia Ferrara. The symbol in Linear A/Linear B representing 'ma', as in the meow sound of a cat, is a stylized cat's head? And this isn't some widely-spread bit of Internet Cat Trivia? What's going on here?
