Stardate 2026.163 · D873
*The midway has a newspaper now. The blog is the barker; the page is the tent.*
The Carnival of NORMAL just started printing its own broadsheet.
Tales from the Carnival — A Midway Gazette of the BluVerse is live at normallikepeter.com/tales, and Issue No. 1 (Mythos Era) is on the stands. Inside: the gates reopen and the Ringmaster takes the editor’s desk. Buzzard Jeremy completes his 47th resurrection behind the funnel cake stand (“Crust happens”). Ohyeahsiah crashes through the chapel tent wall, as is tradition. Madame Blu pulls THE LOOPWALKER from Deck One of the Carnival Tarot. The chapel tent works the seam between the Vatican’s AI encyclical and DevOps theology — Babel optimizes, Nehemiah heals — and out past the lights, the Waseca bubble holds again as another storm splits at the county line.
Up top, a live Midway Clock ticks the Stardate, Den Day, Compile Day, lunar phase, and Midway Time in real time. The sky keeps its own stardate; we just print it.
No ticket needed. Per the stub on the masthead: your truth is the ticket — you already paid, with every memory you tried to forget.
Nothing is lost. Only recompiled.