Random photos, comics, etc.

[Leo Enticknap]

My local paper just won the gaffe of the year award.

Here is the front page of one of the sections in today's edition:

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It's a puff piece on the city of Oak Glen, CA, which is a pretty little town in the San Bernardino Mountains. The annual apple picking season is a big thing up there. It traditionally starts on Labor Day, and you can drive up to one of the orchard farms, pay a fee, and pick and take away your own apples. There are restaurants and other amusements in the town, too.

Note the references to "safety precautions" and "back to nature" in the story.

Now, here is a view of this place, taken from our car about 200 yards from our home, yesterday evening - around the time that newspaper would be being printed.

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The fire was already getting bad by yesterday lunchtime, so the fact that they went ahead and printed this either illustrates serious incompetence, or a black sense of humor. I wonder if apple flambé will be on the menu up there?

[Frank Cox]

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[Frank Cox]

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This is one of my regular customers, and a really nice guy. He owns an autobody shop and built this pedal-powered Flintstones car to entertain himself and his grandkids a couple of years ago.

[Marcel Birgelen]

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[Mathew Bailey]

The Mysterious Cities of Gold animated series. (1982-1983) 1986-1990 (Nickelodeon) 2012-current.

[Leo Enticknap]

Some of the world's worst album covers (according to the author of the collection of these images, and it's hard to imagine much worse):


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For those who are unaware, Harris was a popular entertainer on British children's TV during the 1970s and '80s, who, in retirement many years later, was discovered to have been a prolific pedophile and sent to jail.

[Leo Enticknap]

The CDC has just released its interim report into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic:

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It's topping the bestseller list at the Barnes and Noble branch in downtown Wuhan, apparently.

[Leo Enticknap]

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I bet this business is now wishing that it had called itself something else...

[Jim Cassedy]

My new AKA is:
"The Masked Projectionist" LoL!

☞ Actually, this photo was taken in July of Y2k18, when San
Francisco was blanketed with clouds of smoke & ash from a
huge wildfire up north of The CIty. Not only was the air quality
bad enough to require masks when outside, but the ash
particles in the air were small enough that they were able to
pass through the air conditioning filters. The day this picture
was taken, you could see a visible 'fog' in the projection beam.
(And it took quite a bit of work the following week to
open up & clean out the equipment & replace all the filters)
I'm glad I hung on to the extra face masks I bought back then,
even though I really didn't think I'd ever need to use them again.)

[Joe Redifer]

Here is an animated GIF of that hallway Marcel posted above. I downloaded it and did a quick animation to it.

EDIT: Sadly this site does not seem to support animated GIFs.

[Frank Angel]

I came along this picture, which I wanted to call "Multiplex Dystopia". Long, empty hallways filled with nothing, leading to rooms, filled with mostly nothing.]

Ah, the uninspiring utilitarian anti-charm of the multiplex.

And Frank M -- all those abandoned projectors...as a one Professor Higgins would have said of that state of affairs, It's enough to make the angels weep. And I am.

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

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[Leo Enticknap]

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"Stop! Wait! That's an unprotected left!"

Either that, or this could be an ad for the braking performance of Toyota trucks.

[Gregg D Hart]

An all time favorite. Figured the new board is a sign to stop lurking and start participating.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/movie_theater_layout

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[Kenneth Wuepper]

There are many old theatres that have been saved by enthusiasts for the theatre organ. The old Towne Music Hall is an example of a theatre where the organ was implanted and both survive.

When i was there last, they were using an RCA 16mm Carbon arc lighted projector. They lost the exciter lamp during the credits of the film they were showing. Too long ago to remember the title of the film. Got the sound back before the credits ended.

What fun times.