I'm gonna take all my roubles, drown 'em in the deep blue sea

You know what this past week has been on my humor blog? Me going on about comic strip news, mostly GoComics being broken for days, and then a little bit about Funky Winkerbean ending. Well, here's what I posted. Look for the piece that's actually about something, to wit, music. Also, I have a fresh original MiSTing, not published before this week.

• MiSTed: Skippy's Mom (part 12 of 12)


• Long, Depressing Nightmare to End? (Not Twitter, I Mean Funky Winkerbean)


• Statistics Saturday: Which Comic Strip's Fault Is It GoComics Has Been Down All Day?


• Yeah, GoComics Is Still Broken, But Here's Some Replacement Links


• In Which I Consider My Music for Once


• GoComics Is Still So Down That Funky Winkerbean Looks ``Up'' to It


• What's Going On In Mary Worth? Why are GoComics and Comics Kingdom broken? September - November 2022


• MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 1

And now some pictures from other, mostly shorter, walks around town, plus a delight found when I was puttering around home one afternoon.

The Capitol, seen from the northern end of our block, near sunset. We get this kind of view a lot.

Here's that album cover your needed for anytime between 1978 and today.

Photograph of a 104-year-old bit of sidewalk in walking distance of home. (Note it even gives the month it was laid down, October of 1918.) And it's not even the oldest bit of sidewalk in a short walk like that.

Hey, look at that! I found a Zorak!

Back home, what do I find eating a pumpkin in the backyard but that groundhog that's been hanging around the neighbors' yard? We got a groundhog!

Groundhog spent a while filing up and then wandered off into our backyard, thank you. We've made the big time!

Trivia: When A T Stewart opened his ``Iron Palace'', the huge department store at Broadway and Ninth Street in Manhattan in the 1860s he was the largest single payer of customs duties in the United States. Source: An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power, John Steele Gordon.

Currently Reading: Our Space Environment: Opportunities, Stakes, and Dangers, Editors Claude Nicollier, Volker Gass.