This week my humor blog features some nonsense, some nonsense based on the English language, and even more MiSTing than usual, plus stuff you've seen before. And I get a bit of good news about Dick Tracy author Mike Curtis in the comments. Seek it in here:
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 11: The Tooth Puller
- Imagine My … My … Imagine My … Well, You Know
- Statistics Saturday: Some Nursery Rhyme Characters You Can’t Say From Text Are _Not_ Eggs Either
- Robert Benchley: Our Noisy Ghosts
- This Is a Long and Roundabout Excuse to Be Late With Recapping _Dick Tracy_ Tomorrow
- MiSTed: Safe Fun for Halloween
- What’s Going On In Dick Tracy? Is Mike Curtis ever coming back to Dick Tracy? August – October 2025
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 12: A Slight Dispute
Next up I'm going to be finishing off Christmas: we did a couple of tours of light shows and I refrained from taking a million blurry unfocused pictures of dots, so you're spared too much of all that. Let me show you.
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bunnyhugger's Christmas jigsaw puzzle, featuring a bunny and squirrel interrogating the reindeer, and a raccoon watching just in case. A very SpinDizzy Muck situation.
Here's the Lake Victoria Light Show house, with something like half the lights on all at once. It's easier to watch in movie version but movies are hard to post.
Lake Victoria Light Show snowman, who several times during the show comes out to be brutally melted by some punny tune.
The house again, this time with at least all(?) the strands of light on the central tree lit and in a variety of colors. They're color-changing LEDs and synched up with the low-power FM broadcast.
And now down to Brooklyn, Michigan, for the Nite Lites display! Here, a crane hauls twenty tons of candy cane.
Would it be holiday lights without dentist content? Here's teeth pulling Santa's sleigh, or else all the reindeer have turned their rear ends to you.
The official entrance to Nite Lights, at the Michigan International Speedway. There's like a half mile of lights of mostly sponsors leading up to this so there's a show before you even pay for the show.
And a more ceremonial entry to the light show by driving through a castle walls, which in real life would be contra-indicated.
Nice wavy Michigan here with the hat on its thumb because they didn't know of a better place to put it.
I love those tunnels of light, and the slight streaking of my windshield adds surprising motion to the Christmas trees.
Finally, some of that fairy-tale content: Rapunzel pulling a boy up to the shoe she lives in with her giant shoelace or ... I'm not sure what's going on here actually.
And here's a Big Bad Wolf trying to blow out the Three Little Pigs' home, unaware that you can't just blow out LEDs! Silly wolf.
Trivia: The first attempted buyers of the Cunard Lines' Queen Elizabeth in 1968 were a group of Philadelphia investors who planed to moor the ship on the Delaware River and operate it as a hotel (as the Queen Mary was doing off Long Beach, California), but the group failed to check whether the cruise ship would fit in the river at that point (it would not) or how patrons would access the location (it would need a new highway built). Source: Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers, Simon Winchester.
Currently Reading: Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, Adam Higginbotham.
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Date: 2025-10-31 01:06 pm (UTC)