Saturday Matinee – Spoondog, New Orleans Zombie Report, “The Creation” & Joe Bonamassa

Spoondog is a dog with a spoon [via].

Since tomorrow is the SuperBowl, here’s how one New Orleans reporter trolled an inebriated videobomber.

“The Creation.” Awesome hand drawn animation by Thomas Meyer-Hermann & Film Bilder. ” (Comment on the Utoobage sums it up: “It’s cyriak but drawn.”)

Joe Bonamassa‘s  “Just Got Paid” at the 2009 North Sea Jazz Festival. So much groove crammed into one jam, and it’d take me too long to post all of the obvious influences. “Wheedlie-wheedlie-spoo” guitar solos turn me off because they sound silly and self-indulgent, but this ‘un is a good ‘un.

Have a great weekend folks, and I hope your team wins.

The .Gif Friday Post No.265 – Zombie Baby, Hot Pony Girl & Hellstorm

Outside Month 8

fireponygirl

Hellstorm

Bottom .gif is an animation of a photo of a super cell thunderstorm from 2004.
Middle animation found here. No idea where that awesome event took place.
The top .gif is my own experiment gone wrong, based upon this image. I like it.

1931 Ford Model A 6-Wheel Snow/Mud Track Coupe

1931 Model A Snowcar 3

1931 Model A Snowcar 1

1931 Model A Snowcar 2

1931 Model A Snowcar 4

Images found here via here. Bottom image, with the snow skids mounted but without the additional spot lights, is from an Ebay advert. Video here.

Hot ‘Lanta in May

Hot Lanta

On May 11-12, 1997, NASA used a specially outfitted Lear Jet to collect thermal data on metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Nicknamed “Hot-Lanta” by some of its residents, the city saw daytime air temperatures of only about 26.7 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) on those days, but some of its surface temperatures soared to 47.8 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit). In this image, blue shows cool temperatures and red shows warm temperatures. Pockets of especially hot temperatures appear in white.

50 degrees Celsius = 120 degrees Fahrenheit = flat roof temperature. The red zone looks to be about 30C = 86F, but these are surface temperatures. The 1997 survey recorded air temperatures of 80 F – exactly the average high temp for May for Atlanta. Cool.

In other words, it’s a peachy image of normal surface temperatures for the city.

[Found here, which links to story here.]

BRAAAAAINS

LLLLLLAAAAAAA

[Found here.]

Oh Gawd. It’s the “Long Version.”

Four More Hours

Four More Hours 2

[Found here and here.]

Opportunist WIN

Opportunist WIN

Dorothy’s talking out her arse again. What a crackup. While the others moved on down the Yellow Brick Road, she was always just a little behind.

[Found here. Speaking of hindsight, related posts here, here and here.]

Saturday Matinee – Pete Candoli & Red Nichols & Al Hirt; Scott Biram, B.B. Chung King and Leon Redbone

Red Nichols, Pete Candoli & Al Hirt playing “Hot Lips.”
If that video wasn’t so entirely bitchin’ we’d never have posted it – Every decent link on the U-Toobage we found had “embedding disabled.” Some anusbrain copyright jerks don’t understand the concept of free advertisement. Let’s move on.

Scott Biram is a one-man ass-kickin’ rock machine.

“Mumbo Jumbo” by B.B. Chung King & The Screaming Buddaheads 2007. The Tail Gators did a song by the same name in 1988.

Here’s some fun etymology: In Japanese American slang, a “Buddahead” used to mean a Japanese American from Hawaii (h/t Osprey 1) and “Mumbo Jumbo” (Mandingo, West African in origin) was a bugbear who appeared at night to resolve marital disputes. Mumbo Jumbo was not nice. He’d beat the crap out of wives who disobeyed their husbands.

Let’s lighten it up a bit. Here’s Leon Redbone, one of the few folks I can think of (besides you, of course) who is welcome at my doorstep any time.

That’s it for this episode of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend and be back tomorrow for more nonsensical oddities.

The .Gif Friday Post No.264 – OddBox Roulette, Dog Rock & CheetoHead

OddBox Roulette

Dog Rock

cheetohead

[Lower two found here and here. Top one was just for fun after lifting the Oddbox mascot.]

Serious Analog Tech Support

Serious Tech Support 2

Serious Tech Support

[Found here.]