Enjoyed another surprisingly easy-on-myself week on the humor blog; here's what you could have seen already if you were reading it as it's published; it includes one of my most Robert Benchley-esque pieces published as a Statistics Saturday bit:
- MiSTed: All The King's Horses, Part 21: What I Did On My Summer Vacation
- Statistics Saturday: Your Trick-Or-Treating Experience
- What's Going On In The Phantom (Sundays)? Is Tony DePaul gone for good? August - November 2026
- Vixen Park will return in Vixen Park
- MiSTed: All The King's Horses, Part 22: Interlude
Continuing the tour of Little Amerricka:
Ride operator on Meteor along with its amusement-ride inspection plate. I'm always fascinated by the numbering of these.
And there's the Mad Mouse seen from Meteor's platform.
Hey, you know what Little Amerricka has? Monorail.
Also, a train. I was approached by one of the guys there with the offer that, you know, they need volunteers to help with the train and you could even get to operate it. So I guess I've entered the ``looks like a train guy'' phase of my life.
The train runs through the park at grade, so, please don't get in the way. But you'll see just where it goes.
There's both covered cars and open cars for people who have not noticed how hot the sun is.
Here's the carousel, your usual Herschell-or-maybe-Chance postwar kiddie park model.
Amusements? I like being amused!
And your typical sort of view of the carousel and the chariot that is at least very affordable for an amusement park on a budget.
So here we are in line for the monorail.
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bunnyhugger deciding whether the miniature golf course is interesting enough to photograph.
And here's the long straightaway leading out past the edge of the amusement part of the park.
Trivia: Japan's Lord Tanegashima Tokitaka saw a Portugese visitor fire an arquebus to knock a duck from the sky sometime in the 1540s; he swiftly bought the firearm and ordered his expert swordsmith to copy the weapon. Source: Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History Of The Explosive That Changed The World, Jack Kelly. Wikipedia notes that the swordsmith was able to do copy most but not all of the gun; drilling the barrel to insert the bolt required importing a Portuguese blacksmith to solve.
Currently Reading: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, Matthew G Kirschenbaum.
