Bizarre – Tacky Raccoons

Inconcinnate Hot Links

Tear Drops, Soul Brothers Inc. (1967 Salem Records) 1960s northern soul group from Christiansburg, Virginia, with vocals by brothers Earl and Marshal Carter. A copy of this rare 45rpm can fetch as much as $5k. (Not to be confused with Soul Brothers Inc. from Houston, Texas, or S.B.I. / Soul Brothers Inc. Records.)

Art of Folk.

The Cool S.

What a trip.

Repurposed.

Misdirection.

KitKat hoarders.

Perpetual Motion.

A Flight of clones.

The Duke of Cones.

Hanta photoshoot.
Hanta can do what??

Herringbone gears.

Fluorescent casques.

The Bells of Dearborn.

Eggshell [via Memo Of The Air].

NYC bag dogs [via Everlasting Blört.]

100 year old Marenghi Organ Smashmouth.

Aug(de)mented Reality 2 [via Miss Cellanea].

Your Internet Radio Dial [via Thompson, blog].

Free healthcare, clothing room & board for $1.

[Image at top: Impressionist graffiti (aka “deep fried graff”) by ForzaNokia (Belgium 2026) found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 956 – No Distractions, The Cromag & Through the Looking Glass

[Found here, here and here.]

This was The End

[Found here.]

A Dressed-up Phalanx CIWS

The ship may be the JS Myōkō (DDG-175), a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The Ratheon Phalanx CIWS is sometimes painted as a “Minion“.

[Found here. More info here.]

A Storehouse of Asiatic Antiquities

[Found in here.]

Noah’s Camper

Looks like there’s a small concrete mixer in the back, too.
[From Reddit, via Bustednuckles.]

Drapetomanic Hot Links

Moon Baby, Bo Diddley (1961) The amount of time to compose and record this song must have taken almost an hour. It was the last track on Side 1 of Bo Diddley is a Lover (reissue, ca. 1961). It also appears on retro compilations (like this one).

Bighorn moving.

Fun with kinetics.

She did it her way.

Stones and sticks.

Martin the Eyeball.

A nice place to visit…

Pre-1931 AI chatbot?

An hour of Mall music.

The Age of Purity
& Victor Davis Hanson.

Monochrome lighthouse.

Multiply by 9 for 2026 dollars.

Furniture [via Nag on the Lake].

Unraveling AI’s Knitting Bullshit.

Dungeons & Dragons according to Scripture.

Preggo texts to punk [via The Feral Irishman].

Trucks parking on a boat [via Thompson, blog].

A large angry dude jumping into a crowd of punks is art.

Datsun/Nissan pickup truck evolution [via Memo Of The Air].

[Image at top: Leviathan, Hirusuke Yabe (2020) via Everlasting Blört.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 955 – Big Boy Bag Blaster, Bottle Flipout and Leo Looks Around

[Found here, here and here.]

Smile

[Found here.]

Illecebrous Hot Links

Pressure Drop, The Clash (1979)
“Now when it drops on your dirty little head (oh yeah)
Where you gonna go?”
In 1979, premier UK punk group The Clash covered The Maytals’ 1969 hit.

Alien Cat.
Nora the Cat.

New ringtone.

Bugs ‘n’ Ghias.

L’aria del Cane.

Special effects.

A sad situation.

Landsgemeinde.

Una Vespa rossa.

June 1982, Berlin.

Leaving California.

Robin Trower is 81.

Mother’s Day knits.

Rat kings.
Rat king dumplings.

OPC commemorative pin.

Into the bowels of Everest.

“It’s a Jeff Lewis Meal Deal.”

No one remembers 2nd Place.

Cowboy Adam sings The Eagles.

The Teether [via Everlasting Blört].

Astronaut Michael Collins’ secret fear.

Catchin’ crawfs [via Memo Of The Air].

10 minutes of ant noise [via Thompson, blog].

[Image at top found here. Don’t forget to call Mom.]

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