Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.
Do the Electric Clam.
Lab-grown meat looks real.
Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.
250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].
A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].
The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]
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Tacky Raccoons 
Why ruin a bus like that? I don’t see that as art.
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I don’t look at it as art. Rat Rods are the resurrected souls of deceased vehicles.
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Oh, and nice to see you here, Mr. C. Tell Phil that the harrassing phone calls stopped abruptly when that nice lady from Orlando got sent to the slammer. I hope they rounded up the other bastards too.
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I know, that was poetic her getting the hoosegows… and Mr. C.? That is my father, I am Kevin to my friends and not friends.
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I was trying to avoid having to type the letter Q.
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