Category: Bizarre

Alphitomancing Hot Links

Abandoned cars, Old Car City USA, White, Georgia. Photographer unknown.

Go Away Baby, The Baby Dolls (1960) “Hi I am an original Baby Doll who is flattered by the positive comments and that our records are being played and recognized by the many viewers of websites. Just a little history on us. The Baby Dolls were a young Black female group that consisted of two sisters. and 2-3 friends that got a record deal with Maske records. I learned that our records were being played on various websites a few months ago, and was surprised that anyone remembered us, but honored that they did.”  –  Rebecca Warren, via YouTube comments, 2014.

Balcony.

Bird calls.

Mr. Atomic.

Marco Time.

Photobooth.

Royal inbreds.

How to wallow.

Only one monk.

Capt. Ignorance.

Lady of the night.

Medieval cat bombs.

…in mysterious ways.

The Indifferent Stars.

Jeeves, dead at 30.
R.I.P David Allan Coe.
R.I.P. Nedra Talley Ross.

Popeye the Sailor Moon.

Really really tiny things.

Where crabs come from.

Fujifilm X-T3 vs. Smartphone.

For want of coconuts and fish.

Canadian military fights itself.

Real men smoke Lucky Strikes.

Roman boiler [via Thompson, blog].

Thunk the Fabric Pet Rock [via Everlasting Blört].

THE Pulp Magazine Archive [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Abandoned cars at Old Car City USA found here.]
Update: 1956 Mercury on the left, ditto on the right. h/t Dan P.

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 953 – Tossing the Batweights, Lava Lamp HQ & Beat on the Brain Cushion

[Found here, here and here.]

BIRD

Greater Adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius)
This enormous prehistoric-looking stork grows to five feet tall with an eight foot wingspan and eats small unsupervised children. It is considered an endangered species and is called an adjutant because it walks funny.

[Image found here.]

Just Cut It Out

Circa 1955, an original box goes for upwards of $200 on auction sites (like this one). Top images found here.

Laundry Day for Bluto

[Found here.]

Lendrumbilated Hot Links

Sam’s Pizza and Hamburgers, a San Francisco landmark (1974)

A Hand Fulla Gimme, Dizzy Gillespie Sextet feat. Alice Roberts (1946)Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Kenny Clark
Piano – Al Haig
Vibraphone – Milt Jackson
Trumpet & Writer- Dizzy Gillespie
A brief search of the internet provided no info on vocalist Alice Roberts.

Strategy.

Postcards.

Godzillita.

Impromptu.

Quiet pizza.

NYC whizzers.

“Don’t tell Dad.“

Lawnchair Larry.

Perth is different.

Her brother’s edits.

It’s a Kuppenheimer.

Pawpaw’s best shot.

Thiess of Kaltenbrun.

A wild and crazy time.

Rooftop Koreans rock.

Melbourne miscellany.

A downside of teamwork.

Little robot gets the blues.

Swivel-O-Matic Astronauts.

Saved by karma [via Thompson, blog].

The Bouali System [via Memo Of The Air].

Greek Revival subway vent [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Sam’s Pizza via Dancing Wombat.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 952 – Shake Shake, Stair Runner & Little Ventilator

[Found here, here and here.]

Lake Street

[Image of the Houston Tax Day Flood, 17 April 2016, found here.]

Toy Collections

USA
Austria
China
Ukraine

USA, Austria, China & Ukraine, click to enlarge.
Found here, here, here and here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Bosch Parade, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2019. Ben Niehuis photographer.

[Found here, via Memo Of The Air.]