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My humor blog has not been entirely a recounting of Funky Winkerbean and Funky Winkerbean-related matters, but it's been close. Here's the past week of writing about it:
- MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 3
- Based on the Sound From Her Pen in the Living Room
- Statistics Saturday: Questions Raised By _Funky Winkerbean_ This Or Any Week
- Why is everyone mad at _Funky Winkerbean_ this week? (December 11, 2022)
- The Things You Only Notice in Their Absence
- What's Going On In Gil Thorp? Are there even stories anymore in Gil Thorp? September - December 2022
- The Answer Is ‘Yes, Of Course, You Doorknob'
- MiSTed: The Tale of Grumpy Weasel, Chapter 4
Now, how about some Halloweekends Friday night pictures? I hope you like them because these are, surprisingly, the last ones I've got!
The Tiki Twirl, formerly Calypso, which next year is to be renamed Calypso again and possibly? relocated? Maybe? Anyway, this was the ride as we walked up to it and then found it was already closed for the night?
Look at the operator in his booth there. Does that look like a ride-is-closing ride to you? In the background is construction for the new Boardwalk restaurant that's the food-based center for the new area.
Giant skeleton waving to a friend from over near the construction area. Power Tower's the tall thing in purple in the background.
Inside the gift shop formerly devoted to Top Thrill Dragster they'd set up with all sorts of Halloweekends merchandise, and at the center of that was this dead rose trestle and small graveyard and all, which spruced things up.
Late-night photograph of Frontier Town. Cedar Creek Mine Ride, the second-oldest roller coaster still in the park, is the ride with the green lights in the near background. The tall structure behind it is the SkyHawk giant pendulum-swing ride.
And here's Steel Vengeance by night. Oh, also a Dippin Dots, you know, from the future.
Trivia: Apollo 17's transearth injection had the Command/Service Module achieve a speed of 8,374.3 feet per second, after 75 lunar orbits, 147 hours 43 minutes 37.11 seconds. Source: Apollo By The Numbers, Richard W Orloff. NASA SP-4029.
Currently Reading: King of All Balloons: The Adventurous Life of James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut, Mark Davies.