[Images of ROMP found here, here and here, video here.
Category: Bizarre
Magical Duck
[Found here.]
Wave Hello To Honest Joe – Rubin Goldstein
“Nobody outside his family knew his real name. Dallas knew him as Honest Joe. For nearly three decades Honest Joe’s pawn shop was one of the central hubs of activity in Deep Ellum. He sold everything from gold watches to prosthetic limbs to automatic weapons. His two-story building was covered in hand-painted signs and hubcaps – or was it? It was covered in signage and hubcaps, but as for the two-story part . . . well, that’s another story . . .”
[Top photo by Thomas Hoepker (1963) found here. Second photo found here (with a must-read history); third here; fourth here.]
Ligyrophobic Hot Links
She Drives Me Out Of My Mind, The Swingin’ Medallions (1966)
The Medallions formed in 1962 in South Carolina, and became Swingin’ in 1965 when they recorded their hit Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love).
Bubblehead [via Bunkerville].
Dogs and food [via Everlasting Blört].
“Give Him a Ticket!” metal version [h/t Gord S.].
1953 Spartan Manor trailer [via Feral Irishman].
Still life with woman, tea and letter [via Memo Of The Air].
Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1550).
Interactive key map here.
[Top image found here, h/t Charlene J.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 903 – Mothra 1922, Pelican Mouth & RUN!
Cat Charging
[Found here.]
Gurgles
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here.]
The Pillar-Biter
The Pillar-Biter (1509-1517), seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, the Netherlands.
A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety.
[Image found here, caption here.]
[Update: Another pillar-biter from the same church, found here.]
Fabaceous Hot Links
Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Taj Mahal (1996) Cover of Jesse Hill’s 1960 classic. It was originally performed by a New Orleans pianist known only as “Big Four”. Reportedly Hill wrote down the melody and lyrics while hearing it live and began performing it with his own band.
Tasting Surströmming.
Discussing Surströmming.
Fkkn Jeff [via Feral Irishman].
The French invented car theft.
The Infanticiser [via Bunkerville].
Kerry Hyde’s science fair project (2021).
YouTubes’ 20 year anniversary Top Ten.
Pickle lovers always insist on a proud pickle.
Listen with your teeth [via Memo Of The Air].
American polyglot learns bonabo [via Everlasting Blört].
[Top image: The Crow, digital art by Sigi Kolbe ca. 2009 found here.]
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Tacky Raccoons 