“My friends call me either ‘Jennie’, OR ‘Ida.'”
[Found in here.]
Category: Bizarre
Apparently the soil has a high acid content.
Stowlangtoft Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.
To make matters worse, Stolangtoft Hall is a nursing home…
[Found here.]
Black Ops Never Blink.
Australian Body Surfing Hot Links
This is what you get when you Google Fireworm.
Keep the carburetor out of the dishwasher.
Ladies and Gentlemen, due to a shift in the space-time continuum, we’re going to monitor the situation.
The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly is kinda fun [via].
Conan O’Brien, once president of the Harvard Lampoon, allegedly spent a night in jail following a stunt he pulled as an undergraduate. That story (with other unrelated pranks) found here.
How to swap pianos and not hold up the concert.
This is my favorite piano etude. I’d rename it “The Stupid Deadline Song.”
Saturday Matinee – Earl Barton & Lisa Gaye, The Wolfgangs & The Reverend Horton Heat.
If you lived in that time period, you’d have done the exact same thing. Not me. Dig, man, I wouldn’t have been caught dead dancing plaid.
I don’t know anything about The Wolfgangs except that they rock and may or may not use illegal substances.
Very few bands can cover a classic Johnny Cash song like Folsom Prison Blues, but the Reverend Horton Heat did just that, and even cranked it up a notch.
Rock on, my friends. More stuff coming down the pipe.
The .Gif Friday Post No.496 – Fluidity, Creepy Busker, Fail Bot
1975 Geeks n’ Coors
Possibly the original Geek Squad, Rice University, 1975, but I’m more interested in that LP vinyl album on display because it was apparently important to them. I think it says “Symphony No. 1” in the title and maybe Andre Previn.
Holy crap. The hints were all over the place. Those dudes were music nerds, not computer geeks, and kudos to the guy on the left with the washing machine hose bugle.
Finally, I can sleep.
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Drop It Like It’s Hot Links
I don’t know what “The Content Marketing Awards” is, but this blog post was voted the best: How To Tell If You’re Infected With Malware. (MalwareBytes saved my Franken more than once.)
In 2010, Brazil accepted money from Kentucky Fried Chicken for the rights to display the KFC and Fiery Grilled Wings logos on city fire hydrants.
Orville Redenbacher was a member of the P.U. All-American Marching Band.
Developed, then cancelled: The EFV was a high-power high speed amphibious tank.
“Her career was nearly derailed in 1941 when she was suspended for firing her service weapon while drinking off-duty at a Jackson Heights bar.” Mary Shanley, NYPD [via].
State of the Art Glass from Pittsburgh 1955.
Multiple murderer hid out for months in an Australian zoo. “When his food supply was cut off he tore the head off a Galapagos tortoise and ate its insides.” TRUE.
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Saturday Matinee – Portlandia Gutter Punks, Music From Hell & Joe Bonamassa Rips It
Heh. I’ve seen posers like this in Santa Monica and elsewhere in Southern California.
Dang [via].
Reminds me of Tom Waits’ “Conundrum” that he described as the sound of “a jail door closing behind you” and says it looks “kind of like a Chinese torture device.”
So many uncredited influences crammed into one awesome jam.
Have a great weekend, folks, and I promise we’ll never post the real names of your dogs and cats without permission.
Tacky Raccoons 