Anita

Coney Island freak show circa 1945 (colorized).
“Anita” the Elephant Girl (real name & date unknown).

Very little can be found about Anita the Elephant Girl on the internet.
A defunct website may have had a biography of sorts but I couldn’t find an archive of the article: “Anita The Elephant-Faced Girl: Embracing Uniqueness and Overcoming Challenges.”

[Images from here , here and and here]

Porcine Meditation

[Found here.]

An Oral-B Adventure

The Empire Strikes Plaque stars Harry Potter as Luke Skyflosser.

[Found here, more images here.]

Pillowman

[Found here, with the caption “I found a photo, I don’t know who this man is, it was edited in GPT.

Ophiomormous Hot Links

Crazy Train, cover by Postmodern Jukebox w/ Jennie Lena (2018) R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne.

Bristlebot.

Spın̈al Tap II.

Transformers.

Florida Woman.

Relieving a cow.

Steam powered.

Ammonite Ironwork.

82 year old terrorist.

Identify the candidate.

Heads, horses and men.

Norty Blues Episode 126.

“Booo,” moaned the heckler.

Mud balls [via Everlasting Blört].

A.I. and digital forensics [h/t Chuck S.].

James Bond in India [via Memo Of The Air].

31 strange television shows [via Neatorama].

On being arrogant, haughty and unmoored from reality.

The problem’s not that you’re poor, it’s that you suck at being poor.

[Top image: McDonnell-Douglas Space Bimbo (uncolorized) found in here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Emmaline, The Teskey Brothers & Toby Lee

 “Quite Like Me” is a diss track that I wrote to my friend’s EX-boyfriend. Now, I don’t write diss tracks often, but this guy was the absolute worst, folks — and that’s putting it in the nicest way possible!”
Vocalist, violinist and songwriter Emmaline has won much recognition for her jazz / torch song recordings and performances both on stage and on screen. I think this is one of the prettiest f-u songs I’ve ever heard. [h/t Octo.]

Josh Teskey (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Sam Teskey (lead guitar) formed The Tesky Brothers in 2008.  Based in Melbourne, Australia, they faithfully resurrect the sounds of 1960s/70s soul.

Born in Oxfordshire England in 2005, Toby Lee played Zack Mooneyham in the New London Theatre production of School of Rock the Musical in 2016 and was named UK Young Blues Artist of the Year in 2018. Since then he’s shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Jools Holland, and has a number one record to boot.

We didn’t have any junebugs this year, but the julybugs made a good show. I found some barfed up catfood next to the trash bin, and the neighbor got a new roof and a Solatube. I was informed that the word picnic is racist for some made-up reason, and tomorrow is porch time. See you around  half past whenever.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 914 – Pupholstery, Entranced & Playing Atari Freeway

[Found here, here and here.]

Lost but not forgotten…

“Tell Will I miss him.”

[Found here.]

Multitasking in China

[Found in here.]

Vomit Clocks

Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.

The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.

[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]