My buddy Tara had her name misspelled at Starbucks, and now I can never stop thinking of her as Terra of the Teen Titans.
She’s also an editor, so I occasionally add extra spaces in sentences to make her nuts.
Sometimes I think it’s challenging for people to be friends with me.
DC Comics.
Oil on cardboard.
My 6th grade classmates and I would have gone to Adventureland even before this ad was made. (I am linking here to Jay Lifton’s Youtube channel; he writes that this ad aired around 1987 … my friends and I went there after graduating from grade school into middle school.)
I’ll never forget the fun we had. I rode The Gravitron! But those giant rotating swings — the kind you can find at just about any carnival — were my favorite.
Adventureland is still around. It hit its 60th birthday this year.
Tragically, Wikimedia informs me that there were two ride-related deaths — which really surprises me, because I remember the rides as being pretty tame stuff. Both deaths occurred within a week of each other in 2005, and the details are pretty horrifying. Wow.
Apple TV+.
I actually had a hard time picking out the best shot of the moon yesterday up at the north edge of town. These might have been the better shots.
Sky Italia.
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