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It's time for my humor blog again, which this past week saw me making fun of my humor blog, gently, observing something dumb about Automan, obliquely, and here I mean my observation is dumb and not that I was observing something dumb in the show, have an unsatisfying yet gripping dream, and concede a special case on the are-clowns-scary question. Hope you enjoy.
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 16: Freddy's Surprise
- OK, This Clown Is Scary
- Statistics Saturday: Some TV Shows It's Kind of Weird They Didn't Make a Saturday Morning Cartoon of
- Won't Be Tuning in to That Dream Again
- Statistics May: In Which I Complain About LLMs Some More
- What's Going On In Mary Worth? What is Tommy's problem? February - May 2026
- Fortunately It Wasn't a Recycling Week or They'd Be Twice as Late Already
- MiSTed: FX Down To Mobius, Part 17: Almost Two Hours Later
We're now all the way up to the start of September 2025, which you'll recall was Labor Day, and what do we do for Labor Day? Yes, we get to Michigan's Adventure's closing day of the season. I took fewer photos this time around, so you're getting a break here. We do start, though with the tradition.
The parking lot establishing shot. Here we are closer to Mad Mouse and the front of the lot.
And there's the great heap of wood that is Shivering Timbers's lift hill.
The station and the lift hill for Thunderhawk, with me thinking to try tilting the camera to match the lift hill's angle and slightly missing.
The carousel here, showcasing the camel. There's a secondary figure of a person's head on the saddle, you may notice.
Here's a view of the kiddie areas near Zach's Zoomer.
And the other way, looking north from Zach's Zoomer's steps, with the Camp Snoopy stuff beyond that tall tree; you can see some of the fencing and the tower that's the balloon ride.
Autumn's coming to the trees outside the Ferris wheel.
And the last ride of the season! A park employee has just closed off Mad Mouse's queue and is guarding it against people jumping the chain.
They were running one of the cars empty for some reason; probably the restraints were stuck and they figured it was easier to leave it empty than it was to take it off the track.
Panorama from the parking lot at the end of the day; you can see how few people stuck it out to the end of the afternoon.
And there's Shivering Timbers sending an empty train around as part of putting the ride to bed.
And here's the Ferris wheel seen from side on because I thought that would be an interesting vertical split. It teaches me how in-line this ride and the Mad Mouse launch station are.
Trivia: The Spanish Era is a calendar system starting the dates from the 1st of January in the year we call 38 BCE, adopted as a representative time for the start of Roman rule in Spain. The Iberian Peninsula used this dating through to the fifteenth century. Source: Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar, Duncan Steel.
Currently Reading: The History of the Telescope, Henry C King. It's a Dover reprint of a book from forever ago so it's full of nice chonky facts, although I see early on that King subscribes to the ``conflict thesis'' between science and religion that was basically taken seriously by Edward Gibbon and by pop science writers who didn't want to learn much about religious views toward scientific thought, so I'm looking for him to write something just plain wrong about Galileo.
