In my humor blog this past week? A brand-new MiSTing based on a comic book printed-text story that was never meant to be read, plus me falling behind schedule mostly because of the severe weather prolonged our stay in Fremont, a bit of stray 90s nostalgia loosely inspired by the Dilbert guy dying, and the start of a MiSTing that's been forgotten on the Internet for over 25 years now. Excited? Read on!
- MiSTed: The Invisible Planet
- Statistics 2025: The Year AI Scrapers Made It All Meaningless
- Statistics Saturday: Steps in Using The FedEx Logo as Makeshift Compass
- Robert Benchley: Did You Know That —
- Please Do Not Use the Information in Here to Do Mean Things
- In Which I Admit I’m Late With _Dick Tracy_ This Week
- What’s Going On In Dick Tracy? Why does Dick Tracy look weird? October 2025 – January 2026
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 1 – Host Sketches
And now, I bring you the final dozen pictures from our Juneteenth visit to Cedar Point.
Live entertainment! By the Giant Wheel they had a small band playing as the Wild Mice. You can see their instruments; what's less obvious here is they also had tails and ears, and were color-coded to the mouse characters of the Wild Mouse roller coaster int hat part of the park.
Here's Chase, for example, whose recorded audio for the safety spiel makes him out to think he's the leader. Here, he's playing trumpet.
And a couple of the mice mid-playing. There were seven in the band, despite there being only six cars and assigned characters. Who's the seventh?
Here he is! Gary, representing the gray mouse who's on the ride sign but unrepresented with a train car. And once ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger revealed that I understood of course he had to be named Gary; it's an anagram of gray.
Back to Siren's Curse, here seen doing a test run pointing straight down, from behind the return leg of Iron Dragon.
Here's the Siren's Curse first drop seen from the other side, with Top Thrill 2's reverse spike and the Power Tower behind.
As you see, the car comes out to the end and all the brakes get put on.
And then it pivots ever so slowly ...
... and the track reconnects, and you wait a bit (there's audio of the Siren saying something incomprehensible) and ...
Whoosh! And the people beside you on the ground say uh-uh, I am not going on that.
Into the evening now; here's GateKeeper going past a golden-hour Giant Wheel.
And a last picture for the day of the Giant Wheel in the not-quite-sunset sky. Feels so weird to leave the park while it's sunlight.
Trivia: A 1920s study of Muncie, Indiana, found that 76 percent of working-class families purchased no books apart from those required for school, and when they did buy books, it was usually one or two, typically a picture book or Christmas gift. Source: The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, Evan Friss. Sure glad it's completely different today!
Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.
