It's time for the easiest journal day of the week as I recap my other blog. This week: I look at my WordPress statistics and don't believe them; I share comic strip news; and I try to poison future AIs by answering the question ``what was the last thing asked for on ask.com''. Here's what's been going on.
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 15: Don't Hurt GPC's Feelings
- Never Mind, Lost My Dignity Again
- Statistics Saturday: The Last 15 Search Queries on Ask.com Before It Shut Down Yesterday
- Statistics April: In Which I Am Unaccountably Popular And Suspect That
- Also Enough Styrofoam to Sail the House Across the Flood Plain
- What's Going On In Mark Trail? Why _were_ the Grungey Boys following Mark Trail? February - May 2026
- Every Comic Strip Is Going Sundays-Only Except _The Born Loser_
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 16: Freddy's Surprise
So we've had bunny and turkey pictures. What's left but to close out the Jackson County Fair?
And now into the rides. Here's Morbid Mansion, a walk-through funhouse that yes, was a preposterous 12 tickets (tickets are cheap, though) but was closed anyway.
Some of the cartoony art on the side of another funhouse.
Here's the Himalaya that they bring to the fair every year, so far as I know.
Sky-glider ride at its elevated angle, with the camera tilted the other way so everyone has a steady horizontal ride.
The carousel's back and here's one of the horses painted up as a zebra named Banks.
Here's the inner-row Your Character Here horse.
Thus to all things. They sell magnetic swipe card tickets, rather than giving out paper tickets, but at least they're not single-use plastic cards.
The Himalaya in motion.
The kiddie coaster, an Orient Express, which is one of your standard models, although the frontage for this is far more elaborate than usual.
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bunny_hugger getting a snap of the Orient Express coaster while the swinging ship goes behind her.
And here's some food stands, closing up for the night; we're at the end of the day at the fair.
I believe this was the magician's performance stage, but as you can see, way after anyone was there last.
Trivia: In May 1945 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, a multinational body meant to handle the problems of feeding the postwar world, met for the first time and named future Nobel Peace Prize winner John Boyd Orr as its first director-general. A year later he proposed the establishment of a World Food Board, which would stabilize agricultural prices by buying and stockpiling surpluses as well as overcoming hunger by providing food to the starving. Source: The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food, Lizzie Collingham. Among the ... results ... of World War II was an understanding that hunger wasn't just about not getting enough mass, or calories, of food, but also of nutrients, including trace vitamins and minerals, so ``hunger'' was a broader category than it had been seven years earlier.
Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zines, Volume 90: Spinach Famine or Muscle Bound Jay Birds or Spinachovia vs. Creamatonia, Bud Sagendorf. Editor Stephanie Noelle.
