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On my humor blog last week I kept trying to get around to reviewing my readership figures for January, and breaking news-like things kept getting in the way. Here's the rundown:
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 2: A Moral Argument, Part 1
- This Is Like the Time I Saw on Usenet That John Candy Was Dead
- Statistics Saturday: Februaries on the Calendar, Ranked
- Robert Benchley: The Dangers of Bass-Singing
- _Rex Morgan_ and _Gil Thorp_ look weird because of surgery and probably marriage
- What’s Going On In Gasoline Alley? Since when does Gasoline Alley have EV chargers? November 2025 – January 2026
- Now the Time Has Come, There Are Things to Realize
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 3: A Moral Argument, Part 2
But that's nothing compared to pictures of Kennywood, starting with our less-often-visited Kiddieland time:
Kenny's Karousel, which I guess has to count as the oldest carousel running at Kennywood by about three years.
There's something appealing in the extremely basic carvings of cat and dog on the chariot here.
And there's the maker's plate, in case you had any doubts that was a W F Mangels ride there. Somehow.
Turtle Chase, the kiddie turtle ride, which I learn from Wikipedia apparently adults are allowed to ride? We didn't know. I'm not clear if that's ``allowed to ride with their kids''.
And here's a waterfall nearby, in the afternoon sun so it looks like a complex ice sculpture instead.
And then here's a silhouette of Steel Curtain in the afternoon sun.
Ran across this redemption game with the prizes these plush kangaroos, whose signs --- Don't Touch My Joey, Get In My Belly!, and TKO --- are pretty much all three kinds of kangaroo furry too.
Historic marker for the Golden Nugget which was back this year to having square ice cream. The year before they had a weird problem with cone availability somehow.
An expansion to Kiddieland was briefly Thomas The Tank Engine-themed, and now it's become Kennywood Junction, a Kennywood-themed area. Andrew S McSwigan, huh, now where have I seen that name before? Oh yeah, right here! Yes, Kennywood when it opened was at the end of the Monongahela Street Railway.
Some of the Kennywood Junction buildings that look like yeah, you can kinda see where this would have made sense as a new Thomas the Tank Engine area.
And here's Thunderbolt again. This is the mural put up and replacing the decades-old mural and, you know, I don't hate it. Do like how packed with cryptic park lore-y stuff it is.
And here's a slightly better view with different colors. I too agree it's weird George Washington isn't in the picture (as he was in the old one).
Trivia: The International Olympic Committee's original conception was that the presidency and headquarters would change with each Olympiad. This did not happen; in 1901 Pierre de Coubertin was re-elected for a ten year term, and six years after that re-elected for another ten year term. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense, Elliott Kalan.
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Date: 2026-02-06 01:53 pm (UTC)So, they cater to the furry vore crowd? Or are all the joey prizes female?