I'm here today to introduce the next phase

This was a week of comic strip news on my humor blog, some of it silly, some of it informative, some of it choking back disbelieve because Funky Winkerbean is not just somehow being like that but has managed to be even more like that than it's been already and should really stop. To recap:

• MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 3 of 12)


• So I Guess They're Trying to Make a Slylock Fox Movie Now


• Statistics Saturday: Phrases That the Kids Today Use to Say They Like Something, So Far as You Know


• What I Thought About All the Gene Deitch Popeye Cartoons


• In Which the Title Raises Questions It Can't Answer


• What's Going On In Rex Morgan, M.D.? Is there a story in Rex Morgan right now? July - September 2022


• Again I Ask What the Flipping HECK Is WRONG With You, Funky Winkerbean?


• MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 4 of 12)

That's as much exasperation at Funky Winkerbean, which should be apologizing to its audience, as we need for now. Here's a half-dozen pictures of the evening setting in at Sylvan Beach:

Galaxi seen in the early evening light. Also, what a gorgeous sky there despite the lack of clouds.

Rotor was illuminated; I briefly thought maybe the ride would run, but no. We just got to look at it.

And then went back to Carello's for a second and last ride, before it closed for the night.

The bunny that bunny_hugger rode and that frightened the dog mount beside it.

Getting to see the lights. Playland, you can see, offers both Ske and Skee-Ball.

Galaxi's launch platform, photographed for what we thought was going to be our final ride of the night. No! Turns out the park was open another hour so we got to enjoy more of the place.

Trivia: As late as 1825 upstate drovers such as Daniel Drew would herd an estimated 200,000 head of cattle across King's Bridge (connecting Manhattan to what is now the Bronx) each year, herding them down to the Bull's Head Tavern and nearby abattoirs in the Bowery. Source: Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G Burrows and Mike Wallace. (King's Bridge is also discussed on Forgotten NY.)

Currently Reading: A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstration the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, Sylvia Donmoyer. You know, all these decades after my first introduction to them, hexaflexagons have lost none of their power to not interest me at all. Sorry to flexagon fans but I just don't get it and I'm going to say, at my age, that whatever their charms are, they're not for me.