There'd be no you and me
Would you believe I have a humor blog? Me neither, barely. Would you believe I frontloaded a bunch of stuff so I wouldn't have to try and be funny in the aftermath of the election, just in case? I would. Would you believe I'm relieved I did that even though I would much rather be spending the week enjoying time off from blogging while celebrating being on the good timeline for the first time in decades? Yeah. Well, here's last week, dating back to before everything ended.
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 12
- In Observance of a Tragedy This Past Halloween
- Statistics Saturday: The Length Of 2024, To Date
- Statistics October: In Which People Cycle Back to Having Had Enough of Me
- Music That You Can Laugh To: Sparks's ``Please Don't … ''
- What's Going On In Olive and Popeye? Why is Swee'Pea a king? August - November 2024
- Music That You Can Laugh To: Allan Sherman's ``Good Advice''
- MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 13
Speaking of ending, here's the last of Eclipse Day at Cedar Point. After this would just be an enormously traffic-jammed ride home.
Parting look at the eclipse backdrop, the E-Calypso ride, Giant Wheel, and GateKeeper. And those gorgeous skies.
And there's the Atomic Scrambler, one of Cedar Point's oldest rides, although it doesn't quite date back to the 50s its two-year-old theming wants you to imagine.
Last look at Wild Mouse, with the eclipse-glass-wearing mice. Come Halloweekends they'd be wearing Phantom of the Opera masks.
Looks like someone's doing commentary for the news from atop the Grand Pavilion.
Peeking out at the park from behind an eclipse sign because I like taking photographs from the wrong side.
Packing up one of the eclipse midway games. Guess the day really is over.
Walking out, taking a look where they'd fenced off the end of the park, with ValRavn just behind and not-quite-silhouetted.
Walking through the Kiddy Kingdom, with a view of the Carousel as its center.
Last look at the Kiddy Kingdom Carousel for the day. The light's just gorgeous on it.
Proof we were there: bunny_hugger in front of the Midway Carousel.
Oh, wow, Ocean Motion with the pool around it drained. I assume the puddles are from rain the night before as it wouldn't make sense if they had only drained the pool a couple days before this spring event.
bunny_hugger takes a farewell shot of the sesquicentennial sign in its Total Eclipse livery.
Trivia: The 1949 conference establishing the Council of Europe (distinct and not formally linked to the European Union) closed with laying a wreath at a statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at Strasbourg University, honoring him as symbolic patron of Western Europe's reborn Christian celebration (and part of the celebration of the bicentennial of his birth). Source: Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II, Paul Betts.
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