This week in my humor blog: more Jimmy Rabbit, some public domain comic book nonsense, my ongoing obsessive interest in Compu-Toon For Some Reason, and a list of creative projects for the month that actually took a bit of work, although in short bursts of thinking rather than an extended period of joke-writing. Here's that, plus pictures to follow!
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 12: A Slight Dispute
- Also I Wonder Who Attends the Zoo if Animals Talk and Own Houses and Send Packages
- Statistics Saturday: Some Creative November Projects
- Robert Benchley: MacGregor for Ataman!
- Turns Out the Kid in _Compu-Toon_ Is Named Irving
- What’s Going On In Prince Valiant? Why is _Prince Valiant_ in reruns? August – November 2025
- Statistics October: That Looked Pretty Normal
- MiSTed: The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit, Part 13: The Strange Man
And now ... recovered from a camera thought lost forever in an Ypsilanti bathroom ... pictures from Motor City Furry Con 2025! Yes, these are the pictures that the forces of fate and my forgetting to pick the camera up again almost stole from you! Ready for the excitement?
Well just wait a little moment more as here's an establishing shot of arriving in the far reaches of the parking lot! We were fortunate to find somewhere to park most days of the con and I hope we aren't forced to do that when the next Motor City comes up in (shiver) February.
Peering down from the second-floor balcony to see the crowds, in a picture that could almost be my album cover.
Folks gather around to interact casually with the fursuiters. Meanwhile we make a beeline for ...
Pinball! At the hospitality suite! We enjoyed playing this through to Saturday night when the game went down and never came up again.
Craft paper and quality crayons in Hospitality; I drew a quick sketch of myself looking vaguely near-ish ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger. Sometime in the last year I figured a way to draw fingers that's not any more right but looks a little better.
bunnyhugger drew a little cockatrice, an underrepresented creature.
And other folks had their fun.
So I went to the macros meet-and-greet and they set up 'skyscrapers' of cardboard boxes to loom over and occasionally topple.
The aftermath of one of these topplings. The organizer had only had time to cover one, most of the way, with skyscraper 'plate glass' printouts.
Now here's a tower in the midst of toppling!
And someone sneaking into the nearly glass-lined skyscraper. The debris on the floor is tiny human and animal figures for that stomping experience.
And what's better after a good stomping than sitting back with your feet by the fire and a coffee in your paw?
Trivia: On the 7th of November, 1775, Virginia's Royal Governor John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, offered immediate freedom to all enslaved people who ran away from their enslavers and joined the British forces. Despite the propaganda of an appalled Continental Congress hundreds did flee and join British forces at Norfolk, along the way picking up thousands of other enslaved people who wanted British protection. Source: The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom, Bruce Chadwick
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Sundays Supplement Volume 18: 1956, Tom Sims, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
