Month: September 2016

Bluto Blutarsky Lives.

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“Forget it. He’s on a roll.”

The gloves totally rock and his gut has a teleprompter. Awesome.
[Found here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

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[Found in here.]

We’re 3,333 days old today!

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Whooda thunk back in 2007 that we’d still be clogging up the internest with these inanities? Not I.

Almost Squeeky Clean Hot Links

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Van’s Shoes made them for Squeeky The Clown and others. Here’s a Short history of Clown Shoes.

This would have scared the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks out of me at that age. I’m guessing Squeeky was a friend of the family.

Clown Shoes Beer. Barista Breakfast Brown Ale is now on my bucket list.

“Dude, your car is total clown shoes.”
Example of usage of the slang pejorative “Clown Shoes” via Urban Dictionary.

The Eight Commandments of Clowning.

Joseph “Joey” Grimaldi was possibly the most influential clown you never heard of.

Krinkles The Clown is just a tad bizarre [via].

Puddles Pity Party is awesome.

Then there’s Wavy Gravy. There’s a movie about him, too.

[Top image of McFootwear found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Dancing In The Street

Martha & The Vandellas‘ 1964 hit “Dancing In The Street” has staying power, and was covered by many, including The Mamas & The Papas (1966):

Gah! See how long you can stand it. (At least Mama Cass did the Mash Potato.) Sixteen years later, it was covered by Van Halen (1982):

https://youtu.be/Yau0BCVdsaw

Holy crap. That was actually worse than the Mamas & Papas’ version. It wasn’t until David Bowie and Mick Jagger got together to do a halfway decent video cover (1985):

https://youtu.be/9G4jnaznUoQ

You don’t need to watch that full video either – it’s only posted for those who have never seen it and to restore faded memories for the rest of us. All that preening and prancing takes away from the original, but finally there’s an excellent stripped-down studio cut version, vocals only (2016):

Martha Reeves is laughing her JaggerBowie off about now.

Tip ‘o the Tam to Octopus for the heads-up on the strip-down. Have a great weekend folks. See you back here tomorrow for more suffrage.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 452 – Kickin’ the Metro, Steel Barrel ROTFLMAO & Can-Can

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Barrel Rolling

Troupe de Mlle Eglatine

[Found here, here and here.]

Un Champignon Heureux.

Yeah, it’s an entirely bitchin’ tree fungus and it spins, but only very slowly. Don’t know what brand it is, but it’s on the north side of a tree somewhere in Cooper Mountain Nature Park, Beaverton Oregon.

WARNING:
Never eat this kind of found stuff unless you have a microscope and can positively identify the spores, and then don’t eat it anyway, even if you cook it. Some fungi can kill within an hour, others in painful hours or days, others do it silently without symptoms. You won’t know what happened until you wake up dead. [More here.]

[Image found in here, and the vid link above has a really annoying soundtrack.]

 

How To Draw Elbows: A Tutorial

This made me smile, so I lifted it (including comments) from somewhere in here: Approxknowledge. Nice work.

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“how to draw arms ? ? holy f**k”
“holy f**k is right… but… does it work with legs???”

 

Elbow Sketch 2

“yes!!”
“but how much extend”

 

Elbow Sketch 4

Art Snark is Awesome.

 

The First Fart is Funny. The Second is Hilarious.

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[Source]

Obey The Rules or Suffer The Consequences.

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The Warning does not apply to women.

[Found here.]