Professional Shadow Puppetry

I can make a pretty good rabbit, donkey, swan and an elephant, but those three are professionals.

Yeah, I know, so don’t bother. XD

[Found here.]

Update: Greetings to all you folks who came here from Gentlemint. Have a look around, just leave some breadcrumbs so you can find your way back out again. Tip o’ the tarboosh to Pets Lady for the links, and both sites have been added to our blogroll.

Van Gogh’s Shoes 1888

Never saw this one before now. There’s a lot of subtlety and stuff hidden in there if you look at it a bit, and squinting helps.

[Found here.]

The GARA Award

If I had one of those to give, I wouldn’t.

[Found here, by way of here.]

Saturday Matinee – 100 Rock Guitar Riffs, Ricky Skaggs, 16mm Clogging in the UK & Dan Hicks

So what if it’s a clandestine advert, it’s cool. I recobanized 95% until he got into No. 66 or so, but I got more than I expected after that. Now let’s talk about some serious pickin’.

That’s Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, playing in a cave in Cumberland Kentucky in 2010. “Salty Dog Blues” is a traditional song with traditional innuendo that dates to the early 1900s.

Imported from the UK ( and elsewhere):

Clogging is the official state dance of Kentucky and North Carolina and was the social dance in the Appalachian Mountains as early as the 18th century. [Wiki]

The Banjo Boy scene from Deliverance shows a local clogging at about 02:50 [link]. Although the movie was entertaining, it promoted the false and insulting stereotype of southerners as a bunch of inbred ignorant hicks.

Speaking of hicks, here’s one of the better ones.

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks with “Milk Shakin’ Mama” from the Flip Wilson Show 1972.

And with that, we’re out of here until tomorrow. Have a great weekend, folks.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 237 – Clam Licker, Nancy’s Trip & The Dance of the Triops

[Top inspired by CDR; 2nd created from this; Triops found here.]

12/7/12 7:12:7

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Context is Important

A few years ago we posted that image in puzzlement, and we’re still mystified why a young guy in a skirt and a headband is so pissed at an older man that he needs a piece of furniture to take him down. I mean, look, it’s not a matchup between David and Goliath here. On the other hand, maybe Skirt Boy is playing a prank on the old man by stealing his chair right before grampa is about to sit down, but there’s no need to grab it by the leg.

More likely, the strong young man is going to aid his father and hurl the chair at someone or something out of the frame, like this:

That’s my best guess, Occam’s Razor and all.

Ingenuity + Necessity + Logic

That guy kicks more ass than anyone you know. Then there are these guys:

Necessity = Invention. I don’t know about you, but I want the Third World to have the same technology we have. Taking down the successful folks (cropping poppies) won’t do it despite what “Progressives” say.

As a subtle aside, READ THIS.

[Top image found here.  Last two via email from 1389AD.]

Antigravity Nancy

She must have got into Aunt Fritzi’s meds again.

Because I’m a Bushmiller Fan, we’ve created a New Category in our archives. All Nancy All The Time.

“Now Take A Deep Breast.”

“Now turn your head and cough.”

[Found here.]