Have a gumball?

If you have one of these, you’ll chip a tooth. They ain’t gumballs, baby, they’re marbles, and not just any marbles, either. They’re part of a display called The Marble Wall at the Moon Marble Company, 600 East Front Street, Bonner Springs, Kansas 66012-1122, telephone 913-441-1432.

There are lots of things to do at the Moon Marble Company. You can take a guided tour:

or visit the Moon Marble Museum:

You can play marbles (but only if you’re a Cub Scout...

...or an Amish girl):

You can even see a fascinating marble-making or marble-sorting or marble-something-or-other demonstration (but only if you are Chinese):

You’ll have loads and loads of fun!

Then, if you need to, you can visit the Moon Marble Museum Bathroom:

I think my temporary obsession with marbles has now ended, not that I have obsessions or anything like that.

Bonner Springs, Kansas, is also home to the Agriculture Hall of Fame:

Coordinates: 39°4′0″N 94°52′45″W

I believe I will have a gumball, after all.

Thank you for asking....

That Live Traffic Feed thingy over there in the other column -- not me, silly, further down --

...has gone berserk, or whatever the inanimate object equivalent of berserk is. Kablooey, maybe. For over a week now, almost every visitor to this blog has been shown as going to a single post of mine called “And now, for a complete change of pace, here’s...” which I put together back on September 13,2010. It contained a video that is six minutes, 55 seconds long in which a woman named Gladys Hardy in Austin, Texas, talks to comedian Ellen DeGeneres on the telephone. It also contained a photograph of Alfalfa, the child actor, and one of alfalfa, the plant, the reasons for which became clear only to those who actually watched the six-minute, 55-second-long video of the woman named Gladys Hardy in Austin, Texas, talking to comedian Ellen DeGeneres on the telephone. I was just trying to be helpful.

I think Feedjit’s Live Traffic Feed thingy has finally lost its marbles.

If any of you think I have lost my marbles, however, you have another think coming.

Just click here and you’ll see. They’re all present and accounted for.

And if you look closely, you may find some of Gladys Hardy’s marbles in there, too.