Mostly impulsive stuff previously posted elsewhere. The owl’s face (top left) is a from a linoleum cut by Gorehound Smithers.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Category: Automotive
Myomancing Hot Links
On My Own, The Muffs, (2019) The Muffs were a successful punk band from SoCal, formed by bassist, guitarist and lead singer Kim “Kimba” Shattock in 1991. Shattock suffered from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for several years, and soon after recording the band’s final album No Holiday, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.
HO Spiral 1
HO Spiral 2
HO Dilemma
Sound up for the SkaFire.
A big test is coming October 4.
Those terrifying little upticks…
Theft-proof suitcase [via Bunkerville].
Pasta la vista, baby [via Mme. Jujujive].
“We have never seen anything like this.”
Doodling on a glow-in-the dark LP with a laser pointer.
[via Memo Of The Air]
[Top image found here, unknown origin.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
MODERN MACHINES AND INVENTIONS MAGAZINE
These retro-future fictitious covers are the work of Chet Phillips.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 813 – Meet the Wipers
More Rat Rods
[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]
Flagitious Hot Links
Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.
CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]
If you’re happy and you know it…
The origins and methods of Woke.
Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].
Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)
Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].
The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 812 – Wakeup Machine, Testing the Hitch & A Fluster Cluck
[Found here, here and here. The Wakeup Machine is the work of the amazing Simone Giertz, inventor and breaker of things.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 810 – Blownado, The Weavers & Mabel Normand’s Demon
[Found here, here and here. The Mabel Normand clip was part of a damaged reel from the short film Won in a Cupboard (1914).]
The Past is the Present
[Found here.]
Pantagruelian Hot Links
Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.
Do the Electric Clam.
Lab-grown meat looks real.
Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.
250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].
A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].
The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
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Tacky Raccoons 