Pavement Princess

[Found here.]

This creeps me right out.

Seed pod from an Australian Banksia shrub, and no, I don’t want to hold it. No telling what’s gonna come flying out of that hellnest.

[Found here.]

104° in the Hot Links

Guarija Flute, Tito Puente (1961) GNP Crescendo Records.
Tito Puente was also called El Rey Del Timbal, and guarija is a cubano music style that traces to 18th century Spain.

The Tire.

The Crow.

The Baptism.

Cool your ferrets.

How storks keep cool.

Conical Kähler metrics.

It’s all about the Vespas.

Campaigning in Uganda.

The Greatest Entrance Ever.

Paul Harvey’s history lesson.

Jailed, freed, keyed and jailed.

Check out THIS recording label lineup.

Hurricane Laura got blown away [sound up].

Play-by-play: Steve Inman’s Top 5 (August 25 edition)

[Top .gif stolen from The Day The Earth Caught Fire trailer (1961).]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


The .Gif Friday Post No. 650 – Cat Bomber, Coaster Bird & The Possession

[Found here, here and here.]

The Wedding Crashers

[Found here.]

Mostly Peaceful Hot Links

Have A Good Time, Big Walter Horton, Cobra Records (1956)
Horton was also known as “Mumbles,” and “Shakey” because of his head motion while playing the harmonica.

Relentless.

Please. Let her go.

Cats and Dominos.

Good news on the WuFlu.

¡Mirale! ¡El Ladder Luchador! [via]

Best lipsynch of Little Richard I’ve seen.

House cat on a drilling rig with high seas.

How women think men use the bathroom.

Puppy ate one of the last woolly rhinos in existence.
[h/t Paul Y.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.


[Top image: Bunk as Flash Basbo Space Explorer, back from the Planet of the Mindgobblers.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 649 – Four Swallows, Grouper Grab & Fast Food Dash

[Found here, here and here.]

Mr. Tomato is disheartened.

[Found here.]

DEVO 1977

Devo, 1977

“I don’t think Devo would have hatched in a major city. We were surrounded by an anti-intellectual culture and antagonistic people in Ohio. By the time we came up on the radar of the tastemakers, our aesthetic was fully formed.”

Jerry Casale

[Found here.]

Let’s Not Go There.

[Found here. More Potty Humor here.]