Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Category: Bizarre
Fancy Meeting Me Here.
A Hindu God
I saw her standing by the side of the road four weeks ago as I rode past. I thought I was imagining it. But even for me, that would have been imagining things on a super-overdrive. She did actually have a framed picture of David Lynch. Usually I have seen women carrying a small statue or framed picture of one of the numerous gods to ask money for.
I roamed around and asked for her whereabouts. After four weeks, we finally met. She, and a few other women from the same village, does this for work. When they need a framed picture of a god, they go to a local framing shop and ask if there is one that the customer never came back to collect. For some reason, she chose this one of a white god this time, she said.
“Which god is he?” she asks me at the end of our meeting and chat as I walked her back to her bus stop.
“The one that has made some of the most beautiful things in the recent years, unlike the others,” I said.
[Photo and caption by Tanmay Saxena, found here via here. The photo was taken three weeks prior to Lynch’s death.]
Diprionidian Hot Links
Last of the Singing Cowboys, The Marshal Tucker Band (1979)
The group recorded numerous albums that went gold and platinum, including their first, titled simply The Marshall Tucker Band (1973). The band was named after Marshal Tucker, a blind piano tuner whose name was inscribed on a key to the warehouse where the band rehearsed.
Mister Nice Hands – an interactive classic.
“I’ll take ‘Decipher It’ for one million, Alec.”
Photogenic couples [via Memo Of The Air].
The White Room [story here via Feral Irishman].
Cruising St. John [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Atlas moth found here via Bunkerville].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Bloor was a Jerk.
Sliced Caravelle
CARBON COPY is a sculpture by Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, installed in the Brewery District of Edmonton, Canada, in 2018. The lights of the 1988 Plymouth Caravelle glow, and a laser in the front seat scans the pavement every 20 seconds.
“CARBON COPY transforms an unremarkable suburban car into an illuminated obelisk, a monument to North America’s car-centric culture.”
Hekistothermic Hot Links
Honky, The Ho-Dads (1963) The Ho-Dads were formed by Lou Josie (aka Jimmy King) of Medina, Ohio.
Bark.
Crawfish [h/t Corinne L.].
Minnesota ice [via IDHMGO].
David Byrne’s cheerful reasons.
Arid flicks [via Everlasting Blört].
Cat score is playable! [h/t Jaime G.].
Check your messages [via Memo Of The Air].
1969 Dodge Charger Hellcat [via Bunkerville].
30 minutes of helicopter crashes [h/t Possum whose cats like watching helicopter crashes].
[Top image: If you don’t know you probably shouldn’t be here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 890 – Slo-Mo Pop, Induction Melt Plop & B-52s
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
[Top left is an AI morph of my impenetrable Covid protection from January 2021. 2nd down on left was culled from the lower right corner of my June 2020 WebEx meeting notes. Old man at upper right was created from the pair of stereoscope photos previously posted. Sluggo ghosts were lifted from this Nancy strip.]
Curious Alien
“Artvertisement” photo of a late 80’s Porche 911 Carrera by Scottish artist Chris Labrooy (ca. 2020, rotated). No damage was done as the engine was high and dry in the rear.
[via Daily Timewaster.]
Tacky Raccoons 