This week my humor blog caught an LLM in the process of stealing all my writing, and I parried by including two things from the public domain, and then a startling thing to consider about Iron Maiden. Plus my MST3K fan fiction went another week without touching the Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction it's theoretically riffing on. Enjoy!
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 3: A Moral Argument, Part 2
- Statistics January: Oh, I’m Being Scraped _Today_ Edition
- Statistics Saturday: Some Ohio Metropolitan Areas And Whether I Would Have Sworn They Were Bigger Than Columbus
- Robert Benchley: Lucky World
- What’s Going On In Mark Trail? Why are the Grungey Boys after Mark Trail? November 2025 – February 2026
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- Not Where I Expected Pinball Night to End Up
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 4: Host Sketch
Now, a dozen pictures from Six Flags America from the couple hours we were able to spend there on the last day of June.
The Pirates Flight is a kind of swing ride. We were on one much like this, with a Flying Dutchman theme, at ... I want to say d'Efteling, back in the day, but I may be wrong about that.
Party Pavilion is not getting itself too overboard.
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bunnyhugger was cross when she got the pun.
Here's a little pond out in front of Chop Six and right nearby the carousel. We figure it's an older part of the park, given that.
Wildlife! Hanging around near the Chop Six and that pond was this squirrel.
Squirrel did a bit of that personal grooming and keeping an eye on us to ask what we thought we were up to.
Minutemen Motors is the antique car ride and we can't pass that up on a ride.
Here's the carousel from the antique autos track.
As you can see, I wasn't recklessly photographing while driving.
One of the other cars, off the track, so you know what model they went for.
The track looped just past some heavy bamboo trees out to green lawn next to the parking lot, which was less scenery than I was expecting.
But it did take us past some signs, like this picture of 'Splinter Alley' in Laurel, Maryland, a century ago.
Trivia: In his youth, seventh International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch was a boxer fighting under the name ``Kid Samaranch'' in the Catalina championships, and then played and promoted bockey sobre patinas (roller hockey), a hockey variant played on roller skates. Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Volume 84: A Man in a Moon, Ralph Stein, Bill Zaboly. Editor Stephanie Noelle. A steam-powered rocket sends Popeye and beloved well-remembered character Pommy to, not the Moon, and not to Squareturn --- the strange planet with square rings ruled by a look-alike for Wimpy --- because that was like two stories ago, but instead to Earth orbit to go recover Swee'Pea.
