Month: May 2009

The .gif Friday Post No. 80 – Sports?

Long Float_Mogadonia

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Folks–  We’ve been posting .gif animations every Friday, and although we’d prefer to give credit, the majority (but not all) of the .gif’s we post are pilfered from a handful of collection sites that give no credit to the original authors.  So here’s a poll.  Lemme know what you think. –Bunk

[Update 21 May 2009 –  When we post images and .gif animations like these, TR usually (but not always) renames and saves them in this format:

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Name of the image, followed by the name of the site, followed by the date that our crack team of webminers found it, in the format of yr/mo/day, followed by .jpg, gif, etc.  This allows us to archive unpublished images and to credit the sources later. It’s a sloppy but honest way to do it.

To find the hidden sources, all you need to do is hover your cursor over them. Rock on.  –Bunk]

Foggy Mountain Ladyland

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It all makes sense now, considering Jimbo Hendrix’ love of the ‘grass and his discography:

Hey Bud
Purple Hayes (tribute to Woody)
All Along the Wheat Flour
Breakdown Traffic
MooMoo Child
Stone Fence
Fox-N-Ladle
The Wind Cries Opal
(Many more classics were showcased at the Monterrey International Harvester Festival in 1970.)

Aside from Jimbo, The GrooveGrass Boyz mixed some Grand Ole Opry standards with funk, with Bootsy Collins on bass. Really.

yo lsn up yo @ “Walkin’ After Midnight” no wat m sayn yo.

[Image from Uncertain Times.]

I ____ da foo.

Pity Poster

[Image from here.]

Mr. Fly’s Vacation

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More of Mr. Fly’s excellent adventures may be found here.

Once a Babe Magnet, always a Babe Magnet.

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What to do when your Babe Magnet bites the dust?  Rent it out!  Face it, there’s value in everything, and in this case, the upholstery still works.

Tattoo Mullet Ricky (as he’s known to locals) has made several economical improvements to his efficiency unit, adding  solar screening to reduce the heat gain, and a semi-recessed composter for waste recycling.

His night job breaking down pallets for firewood gave him the idea to upgrade his living space.  Now he can get a decent day’s sleep without being shooed from bus benches and dumpster enclosures.  At night, he rents out the room to those less fortunate than he in exchange for something that kinda makes our skin crawl just to think about it.

[Image from TYWKIWDBI.  Related post here.]

We are now somewhere between 12 and 24. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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[Serious statistical analysis from here via here.]

Ghost Riders in the Hot Links

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Cool social experiment: Tweenbots [found here].

Let’s make some Zen music.

Serious 3D total immersion video here.  The eyes override the brain.

What type of Web Commenter are YOU?  Descriptions here.  (As for me, you already know.)

Learn a new language here.

Some things you can’t “unclick” and there’s a big fat honkin’ one here.

Rockhoppers got their webcam back up and running.  YAY!

Buncha Buildings Bein’ Blowed-up here.

American ancestry brief from the 2000 census (via this excellent website). Interesting that the largest percentage, 1 in 6, described their ancestry as German.  When asked, I usually describe myself as European Mutt.

The New Yorker Magazine cartoon caption contest can always be answered with “[this].”

Nice tasty archive of linkages here.

Teh Fairies Debate parleys on.  Over 1,500 delightful educated comments for your perusal.

Seven questions about drinking water here.

And a cordial reminder:  Mother’s Day does not mean “Be a Pain in the Butt Day.”

SatMat* – 1973 Music Sucked (Except For This)

1973.  Ugh.  Rock N Roll was losing its edge, and then some unknown band like Focus got a lot of airplay, at least for a few minutes.  We did our best to ignore the yodeling, except for the Popeye part.  Here’s a rare live version of  “Hocus Pocus,” with Gladys Knight(?!) doing the intro.

1973 also brought this to our FM converters so we could hear it on our AM car radios.  Golden Earring‘s greatest hit, “Radar Love,” wasn’t their best song, but it was great roadtrip music.

1973  had THIS highlight, though:  Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” (before he went weeny on us).

1973 music sucked on a whole lotta levels never seen before.  Top BillBoard hits included:
“You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon
“Crocododile Rock” by Elton John
“Bad Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce
“Top of the World” by the Carpenters
“There’s Got To Be A Morning After” by Maureen McGovern
“Tie a Yellow Ribbofdpnoa  oh man I can’t type any more of that garbage without gagging.

BUT THERE WAS THIS:

Gladys Knight was awesome. We were all Pips in the days of old (“Whoo-whoo!”). Then I lost my direction again with this:

Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” was being played on the radio about the same time brother Johnny Rick Derringer was getting airplay for “Rock And Roll Hoochie Coo.”  [cbullitt corrected me in the comments section.]


Johnny Winter was better at the blues, but he cranked on Dylan’s “Highway 61.” (Look for G.E. Smith on rhythm guitar.)

Dang. I could take this string for another dozen utoobage links, but I’ll cut it here… temporarily.

* “SatMat” means “Saturday Matinee.” It looked better abbreviated on the title.

The .gif Friday Post No.79 – FULL MOON YAY!

Moon Float

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No. Just because. It’s not right. No.

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[Bottom image found by Amy Oops. 2nd image posted on Amy Oops by Bunk. Top image reposted from here.  And if you live in California, remember to vote NO a minimum of six times on Tuesday May 19th.]