Category: Odd

Couch Sale 200% off

“We’re tired of looking at ’em, we’ll pay you $$ to take ’em away.”

[Found here; more couch related posts here.]

Little Latte Foo Foo

[More found in here. Artsy coffee tutorial previously posted here.]

Escher’s Great-Grandson?

[Nightmare Perspective by Swedish photographer Erik Johansson
found here.]

Bubble Girls

Capsule life at the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair, Japan.

[Found here.]

Foudroyant Hot Links

Drumheller, Alberta boasts “the world’s largest dinosaur statue”, a 26.3 meter tall Tyrannosaurus Rex statue. Just like the iconic T-Rex from the Fallout New-Vegas videogame, visitors can climb an internal staircase and view the surrounding desert through its mouth.

If You Were Mine, Otis Rush (1957)From his first hit in 1956 (I Can’t Quit You Baby) Otis Rush was the sound of West Side Chicago electric blues. His vocals and playing style influenced many who followed, including Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn (who named his band after Rush’s 1959 hit Double Trouble).

Wash.

Quacky.

Hillrider.

A Library.

Sand choir.

CT pigeons.

66 weenies.

Flock party.

It’s not right.

Summer beads.

Balloon wombat.

Extreme cocktails.

On again, off again.

Crustacians & clams.

Popcorn & stop signs.

She hates intolerance.

Swiss Mountain Finder.

1976 Top 100 audio montage.

Tubas of history [via Thompson, blog].

Harry Revel’s Music From Out Of Space.

Pruncey-hayshin [via Everlasting Blört].

Hellbent For Safety [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Canadian T-Rex with caption found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 962 – Vincent, Smoldering Girl & A Froggie

[Found here, here and here.]

Flaminglet

A baby greater flamingo, pictured at Vogelpark Walsrode in Germany, 11 June 2015. The birds are 1-2 weeks old and are being raised by hand, since their populations are low and their parents did not look after them.

[Found here.]

2004 Redneck Sentra

[Found here and here.]

Google Earth 2021

Map bearing 39º01’18.5″N 93º35’40.5″W
[Image from 2021 found here.]

Obtruncated Hot Links

Whale bone chess pieces found in Uig, Scotland, 12th Century AD.

Dap Walk, Ernie and The Top Notes, Inc. (1972)
Over the years, Ernie has arranged and written songs for the likes of Ernie K-Doe, Alex Spearman, King Floyd, Eddie Bo, and Jessie Hill. He’s backed stars like Joe Tex, Solomon Burke, and Mardi Gras Indian bands, including the Wild Magnolias and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux’s Golden Eagles. He’s been a staple at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Formed in 1971 in New Orleans, the group consisted of Ernie Vincent (aka Ernie Vincent Williams) / guitar, writer & producer; John “Dap” Peters / bass; Lawrence Bowie  / trumpet; Freddie Green / trumpet; Nathaniel Gaines / sax; and Peter Rooster / drums. They disbanded in 1980.

OWL.

Loft.

Why?

Splody.

Baby snek.

Able Mable.

Munch Sun.

Home karate.

Ukraine train.

Jessica’s fish.

A little squirt.

Home au Rone.

Ethics is so passé.

Efficiency camper.

Memories of Covid.

Laundromat clothes.

“Is the coffee ready?“

Liver-eatin’ Johnson.

Mischievous tiny people.

The Phantom of Heilbronn.

She hates fascist democracies…

Vocal Fry-y-y [via Thompson, blog].

Women in trees [via Everlasting Blört].

Jemma’s discord [via Memo Of The Air].

Shadowbanned & threatened over a song.

Exposing Afghani women to modern art is pricey.

Silky malachite plate with stalactites and botryoidal formations.

[Top image: Two pawns from a 12th century Scottish chess set found here. More about the Lewis Chessmen here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.