Ross Noble makes me laugh. And, it turns out, he and I have some things in common:

"I like to go to theme parks and collect toys and discuss comedy, but I don't do much, really. I do those things too much, I suppose. I either don't do things or I do them to the point of stupidity."

The story of the Frozen Walt Doll.

And, a related story, Head Out on the Highway.

Rowland Emett's Railways.

Picturesque Railways.

The French O.K. Corral.

"From 1972 to 1975, Susan Meiselas spent her summers photographing and interviewing women who performed striptease for small town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. As she followed the girl shows from town to town, she portrayed the dancers on stage and off, photographing their public performances as well as their private lives. She also taped interviews with the dancers, their boyfriends, the show managers, and paying customers. Meiselas' frank description of the lives of these women brought a hidden world to public attention."

Three defunct New Jersey haunted houses: Castle Dracula, the Haunted Mansion and Brigantine Castle, here. These pages are well worth exploring, particularly for the excellent Brigantine Castle sounds page, which includes the inexplicable MP3 of The Forests of a Thousand Sharks.