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On my humor blog we've got a new old MiSTing, some nonsense, some Popeye, and a slow day for humorous thoughts saved by GoComics breaking stuff. Here's what you've missed:

• MiSTed: All The King's Horses, Part 2: The Author Notes
• What's Going On In Eye Lie Popeye? Do you know Eye Lie Popeye's publication schedule? February - May 2026
• Statistics Saturday: Some Questions ‘Cleveland' Is An Incorrect Answer To
• It's Like Existential Dread, but Ridiculous
• In Case You Needed to Know Who I Am
• What's Going On In Alley Oop? Why is Alley Oop a dog on Sundays? March - June 2026
• There Is a Reason Every Comment on GoComics Is Missing and They Promise They're Coming Back
• MiSTed: All The King's Horses, Part 3: Prologue

And now some more pictures of walking the Nite Lites track:

Ah, the beauty of bringing a cut neon tree back to the North Pole.

This started a sequence of alphabet blocks; they're all there, trust me.

I think this Bear In A Helicopter is also used in the free, drive-up section where it's attached to a sponsor's logo.

There's a couple of lights that are just fairy tales which is why we have this cartoon wolf who looks like he's from someone's second-best picture on SCFA for August 1997.

And there's some of the children whose old lady lives in the shoe.

Jack and Jill, I imagine. Note there's a real bucket near the illuminated bucket, like it was part of that magic sideshow in The Last Unicorn.

And of course what would Christmas lights be without dinosaurs? ... I feel like this pterodactyl might be from something, like Land Before Time or We're Back or something, but I don't know.

And a holiday sea serpent! The tail wags.

If you think this is all the boats at Nite Lites you're mistaken, I don't know why you would think that. Anyway, Santa Crocodile.

That's right, Nite Lites has a Noah's Ark! And, far as I could find, all the animals on display did have a second one too.

Here's raccoons, squirrels, and the other frog and giraffe to pair the ones in the previous image.

And a couple rhinos too. I do appreciate these aren't all in the same pose, either.

Trivia: In its seventeen minutes of photographing the final approach to the moon Ranger 7 took and transmitted 4,316 images. Source: Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rovers and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, Earl Swift.

Currently Reading: Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation, Robyn Arianrhod.