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[austin_dern]

I know what you're hoping for a Thursday night/Friday morning like this. It's a list of what was on my humor blog this past week. Who am I to deny you?

• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 19
• Also I Did Not Need the Amber Alert About New Models Of Pre-Pangaean Supercontinents
• Statistics Saturday: Questions That Seize You In Adulthood About Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials
• A Disappointing State of Cheese
• What's Going On In Flash Gordon? What's this Toa's Law about? October - December 2024
• What's Going On In Mary Worth? Why is Wilbur at Stella's wedding? September - December 2024
• Cheese States? Always Was
• MiSTed: The 72 Hours Saga, Part 20

Now to what you've all been waiting for: more Kentucky Kingdom pictures.


I must have set the ISO wrong on this picture as there's no way the lightning Run sign was completely washed out in the light. Probably.


Lighting Run is along this road that bisects the park, but the road you see down there is the antique cars' track.


This was one of the few lines we actually faced that day, or at all that trip, and at that it was only two or three cycles. Barely anything at all.


Here's just a nice view of the park and ... I'm not sure what this tower is for. Maybe Fearfall, their drop tower? That seems likely.


This is just a zone of midway that gives me the feeling of Great Adventure's 1970s-built area. There was something about amusement park architecture of the era that looked like this.


Now here's a Himalaya ride, and one that bunny_hugger was newly prepared to appreciate, as she'd joined an online group for the family of rides.


Here's the ride, showing both the sign that we'd not see lit at night (the park closed way before sunset, if it's ever open after dark) and the candy-cane-suggestive reed and white stripes of the overhang.


Here's the ride itself. The backdrop art looks, if not original, at least evocative of what the original would have been. Very heavy old airbrush style.


And a last look here at the ride's sign. At least some of the bulbs lighting it are still working.


Handsome front steps to the theater. There was something called Color Blast going on but we weren't there near a showtime.


Better view of the topiary horse outside the theater. I don't know why they'd have a horse theme going in Kentucky, sorry.


It presents as a movie theater of the 80s-to-90s, but it's actually a gift shop. There might be some 4D movie experience attached but I'm not sure.

Trivia: By 1791 there were over five thousand pot stills for making whiskey in western Pennsylvania, about one for every six people. Source: A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage.

Currently Reading: Michigan History, November/December 2024, Editor Sarah Hamilton.