Hygienical Hoarding Hot Links

Uh-huh-huh.

Is It Cancelled Yet? [via]

Military rations for five in 1957.

Watch this giant sea cucumber poop.

How to write a traditional Irish folk song.

Top 10 most congested roadways in the U.S.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is 42. 😀

NSFW, NSFK & disgusting (but I found the commentary funny).

Don’t call it “the Wuhan Virus” or “the Chinese Virus.” CNN says so.

Media-fomented panic is causing widespread shortages of staples (and tempers). Fight 1. Fight 2.

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

[Top image found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Brogan’s Bar, Selfish Murphy & The Rumjacks

It’s St. Patrick’s Day Eve Eve Eve. so let’s wear out the green.

Locals show up for impromptu performances of traditional songs at Brogan’s Bar, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.

Selfish Murphy is a Romanian band (playing a Swedish DJ’s song with an Irish twist). “Wake me up when it’s over” was my mantra recently…

Hailing from Sydney Australia, The Rumjacks kick it with a profane but fun romp of a protest song.

Have a great weekend and we’ll see you tomorrow (unless the internet is shut down due to the mass hysteria over The Virus).

 

The .Gif Friday Post No. 625 – Water Wars, Platform Planter & Cat Spaz

[Found here, here and here.]

Animal House

[Found here.]

Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Eyck

The Syndics – Rembrandt

The Milkmaid – Vermeer

The Arnolfini Portrait – Van Eyck

“In early 2004 I was invited to create a new work for an exhibition at an art foundation in Holland. The subject of the exhibition was humor. I decided to depart from the field of new-media experiments, while remaining in the ‘digital’ realm, by having some fun with the great Dutch Masters — Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Eyck. My partner Andrea made all of the costumes and spent a long time crouched underneath a cardboard box while I carefully positioned and photographed her fingers. It was a new experience for me when the show’s curator refused to exhibit the work he had commissioned, even though it was already listed in the catalogue. The explanation he provided was that the photos “weren’t funny”. About a week later I received an even more puzzling request to exhibit the project in a Taiwanese digital art festival.” -Golan Levin

[Images & caption found here. Finger Spies available here.]

…And We’re Back!

Yep, the little beasties were yanked out by their fuzzy little arses and sent straight to h-e-double-hockey-sticks.

I’m still recuperating, mentally and physically, but at least I’m out of the hospital. I was sleeping in 3 hour stints and walking laps around the ward in the wee hours – the night shift nurses were more fun.

I’m not quite done as the docs still have to rip out the staples and decide on my next adventure.

Thanks to all who sent good wishes, both here and elsewhere. They helped a lot.

P.S. Thanks to Michelle S. for the card above.

An Unplanned Vacation

Yeah, I’m gonna go dark for a while. Might be a week or more.

Seems I’ve got a nasty little beastie inside that requires some medical attention. I don’t know how long the recovery is going to take or what it entails, but I’ll find out soon enough. Meanwhile, check out the great sites in the blogroll, tell ’em I sent you.

Rock on wit yo bad sefs.

Bunk

The Longest Commute.

[Found here.]

Campaign Speech Hot Links

Cat.

Playing With Polls.

Finger Poppin’ Time.

NSFW, NSFK ca.1890.

The Wall’s not done… yet.

A silent video can record sound??

Foreign Born Population in the US.

Are you a commie? Take this quiz to find out! [via AoS].

Amazing transformation: asian guy turns into white hipster.

The Corona virus is not the greatest threat to the US economy.

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

[Top image from here.]

Saturday Matinee – Max’s Journey to the Moon, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ry Cooder & Taj Mahal

Cool animation required 600 pancakes [found here]).

“Bassist Keith Ferguson is ‘playing’ one of Jimmy’s 6 string guitars upside down.”

The original Fabulous Thunderbirds in 1980:
Jimmie Vaughan (guitar), Kim Wilson (vocals/harmonica), Keith Ferguson (guitar) and Mike Buck (drums).

If Things Could Talk (1974)
Ry Cooder – guitars, vocals; Russ Titelman – bass; Jim Keltner & Milt Holland – percussion, drums; Bobby King, Gene Mumford & Cliff Givens – backup vocals. (Mumford & Givens sang with The Dominoes.)
40 years later:

Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder play Blind Willie McTell‘s 1928 Statesboro Blues in 2014.

Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll sure do something or other tomorrow.