Author: Bunk Strutts

Boogah Boogah.

Sumo Badminton kinda creeps me out…

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…so I thought I’d share it with you.

[Found in here.]

This kinda creeps me out, too…

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…so I’ll share the creeps.

[Found here.]

Hot Links Vacation

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Dan found “Vacation ’58,” the short story for the John Hughes’ movie “Vacation.”

Crappy Taxidermy, and lots of it here.

Slime mold remembers patterns of events. Short article here.

In 2005, this actor played 165 parts in a popular movie.  [Guess who before you click here.]

Eternal Moonwalk is clever.

Because we all love Paleogene ungulates.

Nice collection of videos by Quirkology here.

Google “handmade aboriginal novelty fake turd” and you get 6,390 results.

Some trees just piss each other off.

Froggie! Fishies! Hamster!

1:30 of pure greatness.

More Great Gift Ideas (and some are Assorted!)

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Wow. I’ve been looking for a dozen assorted Inflatable Snake Swords for years, if only to have a crazy sword fight. If you swing one ISS and miss, the snakehead homes in on and bites your enemy right in the crackerbockles before deflating. Ouch. Crazy.

Light-Up Expando Swords

On the other hand, these Light-Up Expando Swords come with a built-in choking hazard. Swing one at your enemy and it breaks up into little weaponettes that fly screaming right down his/her/its throat. These weapons of mass illumination go for $14.99/dozen, so maybe they’re better for self defense after all, but they’re definitely not assorted.

Foam Swords

Foam Swords + Duct Tape are an entirely different class of weaponry, to be covered in a future post. Meanwhile, don’t mess with ANYONE who displays little cows with crescent moons on his/her foam sword sheath. These people are dangerous, and THEY play for keeps.

[Found in here and here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – The Pencil, The Multiverse, & The Echos of Nyro

School is back in session, so check these out.


The Pencil. The late Milton Friedman is one of my favorites.


2005: Dr. Michio Kaku describes the purpose of LISA, scheduled for launch in 2010(?).  Woof.  This guy’s got some amazing ideas, despite his Berkely ties.


The intelligent Homerbird describes the daily rotation of the earth in easy to understand terms.
[Found at the Presurfer.]

Speaking of Dimensions, I caught myself before I posted a 5th Dimension vid, and decided to post Laura Nyro instead since she wrote several of their hits. Because there are so few decent Laura Nyro videos on the Utoobage, here are three of her songs performed by others, including the 5thD.

Blood Sweat & Tears‘ version of  “When I Die” from 1970, live in Japan.  (Hope someone can take this semi demagnetized video tape and balance out the sound.)


Three Dog Night‘s “Eli’s Comin’.”


I secretly liked Nyro’s version of this song, too.


The Royalettes‘ “Gonna Take A Miracle.” This was not a Nyro song, although she covered the 1965 hit in 1971.

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The .gif Friday Post 95 – Big Boy, Chuck & Jello

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[From here, here and here.]

What a difference 46 years makes.

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1963– The Steven Victor Tallarico look.

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1975– The Steve Tyler look.

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2009– The Barbara Boxer look.

[Images  from here, here and here.]

Beep.

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[Found here.]

Honk.

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[Found here.]

I snorked at today’s “Rubes.”

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[Found in the funny papers, here. Great one, Leigh Rubin.]