From Lustige Blätter 1919.
Funny papers was the title of a German-language satire magazine. After a brief start-up phase in Hamburg, the magazine was published as a weekly newspaper from 1886 to 1944 in Berlin. It was founded and published by the writer Alexander Moszkowski.
[Image found here. Note that there is no Wikipedia entry for Lustige Blätter in English.]
La Coqueta, Los Intrépidos del Sahara (2015)Described as “tropical cumbianchera,” there’s not much on the internet about them except that the group is still recording and performing in Veracruz, Mexico, and is popular with the folks in poor rural areas. (The shed in the picture above advertises a show. See below for more.)
Riot.
HUGE lockdown protest in London.
The NRA, the Klan & the 2nd Amendment.
Military video footage repository is interesting.
“Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way.” – Leonard Nimoy, 1978.
[Top image from Google Maps of the SW corner of two unnamed roads at the entrance to San Leopoldo, pop. 689, a community in the municipality of San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz. Click on the maps link and take a drive via “street view.”]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
“I saw some brown algae, it looked like seaweed. I moved my hand and the current blew it all one way but a bit of it was moving the other way. I put my torch on and there was this big eye looking at me.”
[Image and quote found here.]
[Found here.]
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[Miniature & photograph by Frank Kunert. He did this one also.]
An image of a storm (near Earth, Texas, by photographer Laura Rowe) was posted on Facebook recently by Pam M.
Then someone enhanced it…
I ramped it up a notch, just because.
[With apologies to Laura Rowe and Alfred Hitchcock.]
Harlem Nocturne, The Viscounts (1959)The Viscounts’ only hit was released in 1959 and peaked at No. 53 on Billboard’s Top !00. It was re-released in 1966 and made it to No. 39.
This is on my Gotta Watch list.
The last Blockbuster store Tweets.
Star Trek death rates by uniform color.
Random stuff video has some funnies.
Pick one, hit play and close your eyes.
LOBSTERMAN SWALLOWED AND PUKED UP BY WHALE
[Top image: I was looking for something to go with the music and found Fleur de Guerre, a vintage model from the UK. Her Twitter profile states, “I like old stuff, wrestling & heavy metal.”]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 