[All images found in here. Some of the photos on this Reddit thread look deliberate / staged, but there are some fun ones.]
Category: Bizarre
Mothers Day Hot Links
You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 853 – Gorillas in the Back Seat, The Pug of the Party & Welcome to Tralfamador
[Found here, here and here, and yeah, that’s a Vonnegut reference.]
Japanese Pigeon People
In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
[Found here.]
Telephonque
Professor Drakeon’s Wondrous Sound Wave Generator found here.
Cinco De Mayo Hot Links
Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959Â Bo Diddley recording.
“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“
Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină
Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].
Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]
Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.
Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].
The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 852 – Pulseface, Dad vs. Kid Gamer Styles & Rubbermaids Are Go
Everybody wants to be one someday.
Is this your day?
[Found here].
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Fruit of the Cow
[A fine example of bachelor food, grilled using a coathanger over the one burner that still works, found here.]