Month: May 2014

Anyone Who Owns A Couch Like That Doesn’t Deserve To Own A Dog Like This.

Dog asparagus

Please don’t make your dog do this. Asparagus is not a reward.
And where are his/her ears? Augh.

[Found here.]

Hot Links To Infinity – AND BEYOND! *Wooooosh*

Infiniti Pizza

“It’s A Gas” features King Curtis on sax, 1963 [via].

The origins of Mad Magazine – 1954 Senate Subcommitee on Juvenile Deliquency, led by progressive Senator Estes Kefauver (D), moved to censor comic books.

Animatronic spider is amazing.

Public Service Announcement. Please watch.

Kent State University, Kent Ohio, 1980 drive-thru.

How to save an uprooted tree.

What’s in Marcellus Wallace’s briefcase? I had to axe Mr. Google for the reference, found that it has to do with a scene in the movie Pulp Fiction. Now that I know, this kinda makes sense.

THIS was a clever prank.

“I told my brother he had a bug on him.”

You can’t see The Great Wall of China from space, but you can see this.

Not sure what this means, but it’s kinda cool.

[Top .gif from here.]

Saturday Matinee – Mock Lobster, Mountain Of Dinosaurs & Spirit Family Revival

Mock Lobster by the Bit52s is very cool [via].

Mountain of Dinosaurs [Rasa Strautmane, USSR 1967] was an anti-soviet propaganda film. Watch it for the nuances before you read the following.

The short warns about what happens if powerful stewards meant to care for individuals actually stifle those they are charged to protect. Dinosaurs didn’t die because of climate change, the short says, but because their eggs became so thick-shelled in response to colder temperatures that the baby dinosaurs couldn’t hatch. The shells (yes, the eggshells speak) mindlessly drone that they are doing their “duty,” but by growing thicker and thicker they kill the nascent sauropods. The scene is the saddest dinosaur cartoon I’ve ever seen, and it seems to be a metaphor for the Soviet government suppressing the rights of individual citizens. Indeed, the death of dinosaurs was not only used by Americans to issue dire warnings — they are an international symbol of extinction.

Brian Switek

Heavy stuff is neither to be ignored nor swept under the rug, IMO.

So let’s lighten it up a tad instead.

The Spirit Family Reunion plays “Come On/Anna” in a bus. Nice roadtrip music, even if they play it at 11.

Have a great weekend, folks, and be sure to hug your mother on Sunday.

The .Gif Friday Post No.331 – Whack-A-Kitty, Pony Surfing & Basket Cat

WhackAKitteh

Goat Surfing

Catsketball

[Found here, here and, um, sorry, lost the source for the 3rd.]

On Harassment

Sexual Harassment Graffito

Looks like someone’s harassing a building to prove her femininity.

[Original image found here.]

Two Fun Girls In A Cage

Fun Girls Twist

[Found here.]

Q. What If 4PM To 7PM Didn’t Exist?

day-to-night-stephen-wilkes-8

A:  Dusk in New York City would look like this.

[Found here.]

¡Eh, tú! ¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

Cinco de Mayo Guacamole

¡Toma un poco de guacamole!

[Imagen encontrada aquí.]

May 4 1970 – Kent State

Kent State 4 May 1970

Remember Always that this atrocity was planned and choreographed, not by students of Kent State University, the City of Kent Police Department, the Ohio National Guard, or the Nixon administration.

KSU was chosen.

[Related posts with links here.]

Saturday Matinee – Teeth, Shocking Blue & Postmodern Jukebox’ Greatest Hits Mashup

Teeth [via].

Shocking Blue had an almost invisible drummer, and here they are *ahem* playing their hit “Venus” in 1969. I never knew they were from the Netherlands until this posting.

The song’s a ripoff of “The Banjo Song” recorded circa 1963 by The Big Three (featuring a young Ellen Naomi Cohen, aka Mama Cass). They co-opted and renamed Stephen Foster’s “Oh! Susannah,” one of the most popular minstrel songs of the late 1800s. Fun facts to know and tell.

Postmodern Jukebox did a one-take mashup of their greatest covers, and it’s pure awesome.

Have a great weekend, folks. We’ve got more inane stuff in the queue.