[Found in here.]
1920’s Demolition Derby
[Found in here.]
Category: Bizarre
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here. NMHT archive here.]
How’ do SuzukiSavages! There’s some rat rods and hogs posted here somewhere, but dang if I remember where they are.
Hot Links on the Road of Ruin
I Love You For Seventy Mental Reasons, Red Ingle & the Natural Seven (1947). Video here.Ernest Jansen “Red” Ingle (1906 – 1965) was an American musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist. He is best known for his comedy records with Spike Jones and later as Red Ingle and The Natural Seven.
Tardigrades Found in Parking Lot.
Ozzy Man reviews Live TV Fails [language warning].
The last flight of the Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornets.
What everyone needs right now: a cover of Fish Heads.
Colorized 1902 Footage of a ‘Flying Train’ Ride Through a German Town [via].
Time-lapse video of the US/Mexico Border Wall construction is pretty cool.
Type in the name of a favorite band to see others you might like.
You’ve probably eaten castoreum. It may simply be listed as “natural flavoring.” [h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image via text message, h/t Alan U.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Alexandre Nicolas Theroude, Joe Rinaudo, Mayer Hawthorne & The Beat Farmers
“Au siècle de la révolution industrielle, la technologie des automates est maîtrisée principalement par les artisans français. Alexandre-Nicolas Théroude, le créateur de cette pièce pour laquelle il a déposé un brevet en 1866, est connu pour avoir le premier su enfermer le mécanisme dans le corps de l’automate.”
“Flautiste” – Life-size Flute Player Automaton by Alexandre Nicolas Theroude (1807-1883), Paris, France, c.1869-77.
Joe Rinaudo and the American Fotoplayer on “California’s Gold” with (the late) Huell Howser, Season 17, Episode 7, February 18th, 2006.
From the YouTube comments:
- “Ladies and Gentlemen: Please rise for our 2020 National Anthem.“
- “If people could read my mind, this is what they’d see.”
- “This is baby makin’ music for clowns.”
Mayer Hawthorne has the Motown sound down. I heard this and thought “Why don’t I remember that one?” He once stated that, when working as a hip hop DJ, he began recording his own Motown-style tracks to avoid paying fees for sampling other artists’ work. That video made me grin. An excerpt of “The Walk” was used in a Blue Moon beer TV commercial in 2017.
The Beat Farmers were a great band from So. California. I got to see them several times in the 80s, and Road of Ruin seems appropriate for our times. (Two of the original members are gone: Country Dick Montana and Buddy Blue.)
Yeah, we may be on the road of ruin depending on how you look at things, and I’m not talking about the current election fraud. It’s the bigger picture that concerns me. Not much I can do about it.
See you back here tomorrow, rain or shine, and we’ll do something stupid together.
Aw hell. I just gotta post this. GOTTA.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 657 – Stick It To The Man, Mud Pool & Gator Rodeo
I’ve Got A Little Happy Dude
I had a CT scan last week. Just for the heck of it I asked if I could get a copy of the .dcm files and they burned me a DVD that included viewing software. Pure awesome.
I opened the program, fumbled around a bit, and found that I have a little happy dude living right under my chin.
In another file, there were soft-tissue images, and the little happy dude showed up there, too.
The scan turned up nothing significant. That made me VERY happy.
Eat it.
[h/t Nate L.]
The 2020 Kids Mullet Championship
The Runners Up
“An 8-year-old in Texas [“Jax”] can now say he has the best mullet in the U.S. after winning first place in the kids’ division in the 2020 Kids Mullet Championships, which was put on by the USA Mullet Championships.”
Día de los Muertos
[Images found in our living room. Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
Saturday Matinee Halloween Edition – The Ramones, Sally Cruikshank & Oingo Boingo
First recorded in 1976, The Ramones‘ I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement is sort of appropriate.
Sally Cruikshank‘s animations are Betty Boop on acid.
Face like a Frog (1987) includes the Cab Calloway-esque song Don’t Go In The Basement (starts at 02:26 ). In 2017, Cruikshank herself added this to the YouTube comments:
“Danny Elfman composed the track for this film. Period. Copyright mine. Then a year or two later I gave his agents permission to include it on a compilation LP, I guess put out by [David] Geffen. Now they claim I got the music from the album or something. They’re wrong. My film came first. My husband’s going to get into it with Geffen.”
“I don’t always listen to Dead Man’s Party, but when I do so do the neighbors.” – YouTube comment
Oingo Boingo was a standout band of the 1980s, combining ska, punk, jazz & rock, and Dead Man’s Party became a Halloween party standard. According to Wikipedia:
The lyric, “I hear the chauffeur coming to my door / Says there’s room for maybe just one more,” is a reference to “The Bus-Conductor,” a short story by E. F. Benson about a hearse driver, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906.
Video is from the 1986 movie Back To School. Yeah, 34 years ago…
Happy Halloween, folks!
This year I’m gonna scare half the neighborhood by NOT wearing a mask. Hope you get all the tricks you deserve and all the treats that you don’t.
[Paranoia moons previously posted here. More Halloween-related posts in the archives.]
Tacky Raccoons 