Seems to be an advert for a product called ChickenOrb.
Here’s a training video.
[h/t Pam M. via Facebook.]
Category: Bizarre
Tonitrophobic Hot Links
Village of Love, Nathaniel Mayer & The Fabulous Twilights (1962)Village of Love was Nathaniel “Nate Dog” Mayer‘s first hit, recorded when he was 18. After his six year stint with Fortune Records, his whereabouts were often unknown as he would disappear into the East Detroit ghettos, sometimes for years. Apparently he’d had a rough time, too – in 2009 he recorded The Puddle.
Don’t worry [h/t Mme. J.].
Glorioso Albeneida, Bus Driver.
This snot was put on paid leave.
Altocumulus Lenticularis Duplicatus.
4K resolution images of the surface of Mars.
Orangutan offered to help man stuck in mud.
[Top image: Peruvian bus race, no explanation found, h/t Nate L.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 668 – Deadly Serious
All animations are by “Deadly Serious” artist Kajetan Obarski, aka Kiszkiloski.
Hi. My name is Kajetan Obarski and I create short animations about my true love to the mankind, death, nihilism and totally random stuff. If you want to support me and my work consider becoming my mommy on Patreon and tip me some of your unwanted money.
You can also support me and my work by purchasing tote bags and art prints of half-naked skeletons. Tip me via PayPal. Buy me a coffee or two. Whatever works.
Tote bags and prints: society6
Stickers and stuff: redbubble
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi
PayPall: kiszkiloszki@gmail.comThanks!
[.Gif animations found here.]
Let’s Pretend it’s Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras has been ruined for the 2nd year in a row. Thank God USA Today has a list of the 10 Best Ways to Celebrate Mardi Gras at Home.
1. Decorate in green, gold and purple.
Dare to be ugly.
2. Have a seafood boil.
Eew.
3. Eat a king cake.
Okay.
4. Mix a Mardi Gras martini.
Okay with that also. Oop, made a mistake. Let’s try another one.
Whoopsie. Did it again. Let’s make three and see which one is best. Then we’ll make that one.
Uh-oh…
5. Make a shoebox float.
Then look at it.
6. Learn some Cajun French.
Gitcha gitcha gris-gris gumbo yaya. Done.
7. Snack on some MoonPies.
Got it.
8. See some house floats.
Mardi Gras without the flashers, but a good excuse to keep your Christmas lights up.
9. Dress up your dog.
No. It embarrasses you and annoys the dog.
10. Take a virtual tour of Mardi Gras World.
It’s kinda cool in a 2nd grade field trip kinda way, but it’s virtual so it’s more like shopping for mattress covers online.
Enough of that nonsense. Let’s do this instead.
Legible Graffiti
Mathieu Tremblin lives and works in Rennes and Arles, France, finds graffiti and enhances them for legibility (and sometimes the taggers return).
“As if tagging the city was about freedom, and drawing decorative letters about control, I wanted to find a project to turn “ugly tags” into something “beautiful”, but preserve the subversive part of language distortion.”
I find it interesting that the vandalism in France is indistinguishable from that in the US, and I wonder why.
[More images here. Poorly translated background story here.]
Valentines & Hot Links
The Woo Woo Train, The Valentines (1956) Rama RecordsFirst calling themselves The Mistletoes, then The Dreamers, they settled on The Valentines. The Jimmy Wright Orchestra played on the Rama sessions.
The Woo Woo Train was covered by Little Isidore & The Inquisitors (1995) and the Oh!Sharels (2020).
I’m not a cat. [h/t Darkwords]
Snowplow train porn [h/t Corinne L.]
Squirrel Hunter’s March (sheet music).
Get a Hammacher Schlemmer Fart Container for only $100.
Bayeux Tapestry: 70 meter-long embroidered canvas tells the story of the conquest of England in 1066. Lots of dismemberment and horse genitalia.
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Non-Photoshopped Ceiling Cats
Taiwanese shop owner installed a glass ceiling for his cats.
Now they won’t stop staring at him.
[Story and image here.]
Super Bowl 55 Hot Links
Lookin’ For My Baby, The Earls (1961)The Earls founder Larry Chance grew up in Philadelphia, attended high school with Chubby Checker, Frankie Avalon, and Danny Rapp of Danny & the Juniors, later moved to the Bronx and formed The Earls. I’ve always misheard the song as “Look, Look, Football Baby” and I still do.
The Outbursts of Everett True.
Just where do you think you’re going?
Phil Hendrie on NFL team names (2005).
The history of women laughing alone with salad.
Buy the world’s largest log cabin (now at half-price).
Are you important? Got a Blue Check next to your name on social media? You’ll want this.
[Top image: NFL logos for Kansas City Chiefs (1963), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1976).]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Clip below found here.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 665+1 – Ball Drop Oops, Three Dogs on a Ball & Surf Dogs
Didelphimorphial Hot Links
Got To Get You Off My Mind, Soloman Burke, 1965Burke: “It was written in California the night of Sam Cooke’s death. I learned of Sam Cooke’s death after leaving him two hours prior to that. At the same time I learned about my wife wanting a divorce. A special delivery letter was at the desk waiting for me in the hotel.”
Background vocals include Dee Dee Warwick (sister to Dionne Warwick) and Emily “Cissy” Houston (mother of Whitney Houston and aunt to the Warwick sisters).
Drive to Learn – Learn to Drive.
Homeless man talks about heroin.
Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Social media discussions [via Tim Conway Jr.]:
Tacky Raccoons 