Category: Bizarre

The .Gif Friday Post No. 919 – A Bucketful of Reflex, Zombie Defense & Surfing the Crowd

[Found here and here. Lost the source of the bucket magician.]

What a Low Blow

Built by Bohland & Fuchs in 1912, the sub bass uber tuba was nicknamed “Big Carl” and was housed at the offices of Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, NY.

[Top photo from 2014 found here via here; bottom photo and history here.]

UPDATE: Video h/t Corrine L.

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

El Mundo Futuro de BOIXCAR

[via Google Translate:]
BOIXCAR, the Pop Monarch of Space

It was high time we started to clear their minds of all the false information that the usual official critics have been dumping on their naive minds regarding the comics’ past from this Celtiberian homeland.

To this end, the first guest of the new section […] is the idolized cartoonist of the Spanish comic book of the 1950s, Don Guillermo Sánchez Boix, alias Boixcar.

The most conspicuous representatives of What Good Taste Should Be have heaped various kinds of fame on him, denouncing him as subculturally and aesthetically aberrant. Their hatred has only increased because they know he’s the author of the moral melodramas that you’ve been told are fascist. No, no. Just another lie they’ve fed you. A lifetime of putting up with vocational inquisitors, oh my…

The stigma attached to him, as to his entire generation, is that he worked in the lowest-level media, handling the flesh of cheap comics, extracting their pulp and juice. Precisely what I consider a virtue, as do all of you if you’re people of taste. And being fascist, and pernicious, and practicing uninteresting comics. Pure lies.

[More at the source.]

Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Dad rule.

23 Gators.

Imelda May.

Subway for cats.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers…

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 918 – Koko vs. Cat, The Gryffining & Skating Eights

[Found here, here and here.]

Carmen y Zosa

Carmen y Zosa, Bolivia, 2022.
[Photo by Nick Brandt found here.]

PSA Movietime Fun

Half a beer, one leapfrog too many, and then she fell off a cliff in Maui.

ALCOHOL AND YOU (28 minutes, color, 1969). Produced by Max Miller for Avanti Films, Bailey-Film Associates, Los Angeles, California:

“This film establishes that young people are growing up in a drinking society in which it is easy for them to slip into the attitudes and drinking patterns of the one-in-fifteen drinkers who become alcoholic. Well known physicians provide concrete illustrations of the health hazards and emphasize that excessive drinking will produce the same physiological and social deterioration as alcoholism.”

[Images found here.]

Sola Busca Tarot (1491)

Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — was the first to be produced using copperplate engraving. It is also the earliest known tarot deck that illustrates the Major and Minor Trumps in the way that has become the standard, with characters and objects depicting allegorical scenes. In the Renaissance era this would have been revolutionary, while, today, some of these cards may seem familiar.

[Full size images and the history of the deck found here.]

Alectryomancing Hot Links



Last Night (live version), The Mar-Keys (1967) Recorded in Europe during “Hit the Road Stax,” a Stax-Volt Records showcase revue. The Mar-Keys were the first house / session band for Stax Records, and Last Night was the first recording for the label. The instrumental made No. 3 in the US charts in 1961. For some reason the producer didn’t want guitars, so Steve Cropper played second keyboard.

Agent 146.

Dale’s Bits.

Meepmeep.

Amphibian.

Greek Mythos.

Hoarder Barbie.

Cool, but what if…

Yinzers on COPS .

Two sets of ducks.

Whole Lotta Folsom.

A righteous hangout.

Pretty sure I need this.

Lazercat [found in here].

The cost of going Green.

Norty Blues Episode 129.

What was wrong with Vincent.

Amazing tea brewing machine.

Zappa’s war on drugs [via Memo Of The Air].

Engineering Rushmore [via Thompson, blog].

Who is The Burry Man?  [via Everlasting Blört].

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words.

[Top image found here with the caption:
A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance. ALL CONDUCTORS ARE AWARE OF FELIX.

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