Month: January 2025

Saiga Antelope

[Top image found here. More about them here, with video.]

Inauguration Day 2025

[Still image from The Patriot.]

Tropophilous Hot Links

Timebomb, Tommy J Stewart (2024) Tommy J Stewart  is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Dublin, Ireland (not to be confused with the American drummer of the same name).

Ayup.

Shells.

Beerball.

AI floor plan.

The Castaway.

RIP David Lynch.

The chase scene.

How old are you?

Meet the Hoopers.

HB vs. Sacramento.

Advertising in grime.

HATEHATEHATEHATE.

Norty Blues Episode 99.

Patriotic dental surgery.

A lot of peeps are pissed.

Gyroscopic progression.

Sinclair at the World’s Fair.

Mr. Robert’s Neighborhood.

The cobra roars [via Bunkerville].

Chiropractor’s spinal massage gun.

Rhombic dodecahedron holoscope.

Hair of the 70s [via Memo Of The Air].

Onion sandwich [via Everlasting Blört].

Johnny Reb Cannon [via Feral Irishman].

Man With A Wine Lamp, Tiffany Velázquez.

[Top image found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – HeavyDrunk, Nuno Mindelis & 19-Twenty

HeavyDrunk: “Sippi Dupree was my bus driver when I was a kid. He helped me through an emotional crisis when I was in 3rd grade, and became my friend. He disappeared the next year. This is his story.”

Nuno Mindelis (aka “The Beast from Brazil”) is an Angolan-born Brazilian blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. (His website’s bonky, gotta scroll down.) This song is sung in Kimbundo dialect according to the Utoobage notes, Google Translate says it’s Zaptotec, and it seems to be about bears.

19 Twenty is a roots blues / rock / punk band from Australia with a sizeable fan base who know all the words to Tramp Stamp.

Fires are still burning in California, people are still recovering from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, news of just about everything is breaking hourly, and I hope 2025 stops dicking around and shows at least some respect. Meanwhile, I’ll be on the porch talking to dogs, see you at half past whenever you show up.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 889 – Driving While Dumpster, Snout Snacks & Here’s Your Sandwich

[Found here, here and here.]

Le Petit Chat

[Found somewhere on FB, dates to at least January 2019.]

Sphinx Butt

Its tail is blocking the view. Sorry.
[Found here.]

Monsterbeer

Frank-N-Stein Restaurant, Gary, Indiana, 1973, colorized.
[Found here.]

Phantom Fluorite

Phantom Fluorite – Bergmännisch Glück Mine, Frohnau, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Beautiful sharp-colorzoned fluorite crystals up to 1.2 cm in size as an unique crystal cluster from the famous Bergmännisch Glueck Mine, Frohnau, Ore Mts., Saxony, Germany. Fotos were taken when backlit the piece. Slight power of light is a enough for illuminating this beauty.

Inside of the amber-yellow fluorite crystals there are sharp signed blue to purple colorzones visible. Very expressive coloration from a small find before the pieces with the blue phantoms were found. A few chalcopyrite crystals are also visible. The matieral is highly sought after among the locals and the fluorite collectors. Much better in person!

[Images and description from here, via  Dancing-Wombat. ]

Ingravescent Hot Links

The Rose of Washington Square, The Frankie Carle Quartet (1947) Frankie Carle was nicknamed “The Wizard of the Keyboard” for his piano skills. Sunrise Serenade was Carle’s best-known composition, rising to No. 1 in the US in 1938 and selling more than one million copies.

BZZZT!

Citizen Wade.

Schulz’ Virtue.

The comments.

St. Nan the Polite.

The first webcam.

Which way is best?

“I need a mannequin.“

Happy Birthday, Elvis.

Norty Blues Episode 98.

“Say it” [via Bunkerville].

The Margate Shell Grotto.

Dropping the Tannenbaum.

Another reason to have kids.

Visit Alcatraz [via Everlasting Blört].

The Flying Saucer [via Memo Of The Air].

Grammarian vs Errorist: The Showdown.

The Son Who Couldn’t Leave [via Nag on the Lake].

Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum. [h/t Bits & Pieces].

Pacific Palisades Fire updates here.
Also this.

[Top image: Early 1900s stereoscope photos, unknown origin, found here.]

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