Morty Comix # 2511

Morty Comix # 2511 provided a few minutes of entertainment while devising a way to determine where it will be sent.

 

 All my United States puzzle pieces were scattered on the hallway floor

 A foam basketball was employed

 I rolled it down the hall hard enough so it would bounce back toward to United States puzzle pieces

 

 And it worked, first time!

 Let's see that again in slow motion, shall we? What an amazing play!

 It landed on-- North Carolina!

 

So now I go to the studio and ... oh. Wait.

 

First, let's get a close-up of this puzzle piece. We see poultry, swine, and tobacco. I can't wait for the new 2013 Washington State puzzle piece where we will see lumber, fish, and marijuana!

An ancestor of mine, named Thomas Reeve, attempted to set up a turpentine operation in North Carolina in the 1630s, but couldn't make it stick. So he migrated to Long Island to an English community called Southold. Several other ancestors of mine passed through NC on their way West. One of them was enlisted under the NC banner in the Revolution and took part in a couple battles. Someday I really have to go back there and visit.

OK, back to the prehistoric critter. I went into the studio and looked for anything pointy. The tail of this little guy fit the bill.

Then I hauled out my 1955 atlas, opened the page to North Carolina with all 100 counties neatly given a different color and readied myself for the next dizzying step.

 With the pointy tailed dino-toy in hand I spun around in place---

 And landed the tail on the map at random.

The nearest town on the map to the point of contact was a place called Fuquay Springs. But with a little research I learned that town merged with a neighboring community in 1964 and is now called Fuquay Varina, North Carolina.

Anyway, as this method of artistic distribution continues to evolve, I have started favoring the sending of these Morty Comix to non-residential addresses and only to public or quasi-public places, which includes business. Also I am discovering how to use Google street view as a tool. In this case I was cruising through a main road and spotted a business that included the word "Glam-O-Rama" in its name. I like it!

So it is off to the other side of the country for this one.