[Found in here.]
Women with Pumpkins
Category: Bizarre
Best If Left Unopened.
Victorian Vampire Sorority
[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Paperbag People
Saul Steinberg‘s Masks
“In 1958, when photographer Inge Morath went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg’s masks.”
[Images and caption found here.]
Quisquilious Hot Links
Skokiaan, Louis Armstrong (1955)
“Skokiaan” is an illegal self-made alcoholic beverage in Zimbabwe.
From Crime in South Africa, L.F. Freed (1960): “Isikoivane (skokiaan) appears to be a general term used for all drinks other than the traditional beer sold in municipal beer halls. But these drinks are sheer poison in that they are mixed with blue stone (copper sulphate), tobacco juice, dagga, methylated spirits, snakes, carbide, rats, beetles – anything to give a kick and a bite.”
Jaw jammer [via Thompson, blog].
Knit Bone Kitty [via Everlasting Blört].
The Bizarre Ways Cephalopods Make Bebes.
The Worm With 100 Butts [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: 2nd place winner of the 2026 Dog Photography Awards, Studio Category. This one and others found at My OBT.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 977 – Poppin’ A Mickey, A Lotta Bloons & The Final Count
Make a Million Dollars
“Uranium Rush was an ‘educator approved’ game from the 1950s. Players begin with $15,000 and prospect for uranium in an area determined by a spinner (mountain, hills, or desert). Claims can be purchased for $1000 each and may be auctioned off or tested for uranium. This involves an electric ‘Geiger counter’ that produces a buzzing sound if uranium is discovered. The claim is then sold to the federal government for $50,000. Players alternate turns until all claims have been staked and the person with the most money is declared the winner.”
Produced by Gardner & Co. (Gardner Games) in 1955.
[Found here.]
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
[Pothole somewhere in Ireland ca. 2012 found here.]
Beverage Castle
[Found here and in areas accessible to Florida Man.]
Aischrolatric Hot Links
Zoot Suit, The High Numbers (1964)Zoot Suit was the first single by The Who, who recorded it under the name The High Numbers in an attempt to appeal to a mod audience. It was a ripoff of
Misery, The Dynamics (1963)
Dog.
Cake.
35 years ago [h/t Bustednuckles].
Window dogs [via Memo Of The Air].
70 whistles [via The Feral Irishman].
The fate of the Zénith [via Miss Cellanea].
Geometric livestock [via Everlasting Blört].
Relativistic Asteroids [via Thompson, blog].
The contents of a ±96 year old ostrich stomach.
[Top image: Skin 2, a sculpture created in 2010 by Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal, originally installed in Chaudfontaine Park, Liège, Belgium.
Found in here.]
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