Category: Bird Stuff

Saturday Matinee – GoPro Gato, String Bean, The Blasters & Trombone Shorty

Guy fitted his cat with a GoPro to find out what it does while he’s away, and no, it doesn’t  sleep [via].

Ever hear of David “String Bean” Akeman? No? Here’s a documentary of the comic/iconic speed banjo player. Video starts at 06:00 for his rendition of the traditional folk song “Li’l Liza Jane. [Related post here.]

Akeman and his wife were murdered by burglars at their rural Tennessee home in 1973. The killers took only a chain saw and some firearms and were later apprehended and convicted.

The Blasters perform “Jubilee Train” at the 1985 Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois. (Check out the impressive list of performers at the link.)

“Buckjump” by Trombone Shorty – a nice retro-funk groove to wrap things up.

Have a great weekend, folks.

The .Gif Friday Post No.504 – STOP IT, Grebe-ass & Squirrel pwns Chipmunk

First I was like

Then I was like

Then I was like, “Bang-zoom! To the moon, Alice!”

[Found here, here and here.]

“Psst. Dude…”

“All I did was knock over a vase, so they shaved me.
WTF did YOU do?”

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 501 – BoomBoomBoomBoom, Bird/Camera Frame Synch & Dance Hard

[Found here, here and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 499 – Pelican Pecker, Scanner Ants & Futurisma

These are all somehow related. Not sure why there’s a copier/scanner out in the woods filled with ants. So many questions…

[Found  here, here and here.]

Canary in a coal mine.

THAT was one dangerous job.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.494 – Hedgehogs on Inflatable Flamingos, Blooming Owl & Bear In The Box

[Found here, here and here. Related post here.]

Live Archaeopteryx Found Near Bayou La Batre

It was really annoying and aggressive at first, but it tasted just like chicken. [Found here.]

Mother Goose’s Nursery Hot Links

Welcome Meepzorpers & Blorters. Beer’s in the fridge.

My favorite pinball game ever: Mata Hari.

“‘I prayed about it and stuff,’ woman says of stomping windshield.” Then she did it anyway [via].

Okay. This is pure awesome. If you take a 45rpm record of Dolly Parton’s Jolene and play it at 33rpm, it sounds just like Roy Orbison. TRUE. [Found here.]

Then someone took Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire” and turned it into a Dolly Parton song.

New website on the horizon has potential: WikiTribune.

Futuracha Pro is a font that morphs ligatures as you type. (I predict it’ll go viral until people start mocking it as the new Comic Sans.)

Slow TV is a hit in Norway: “The show titled “Salmon Swimming Upstream” ran 18 hours — and afterward, the head of the station said it felt ‘too short.'”

A desert dweller put the GoPro in The Bucket of water to see what might show up [via].

[Top image found here.]

 

The .GIF Friday Post No.479 – Turkeys Circling Dead Cat, Jerome Howard & Little Kim Un

[Found here, here and here.]