Category: Bizarre
Fungal in the Jungle
Living in the Retro Future
Thanksgiving ca. 1923
I presume the families are of Irish ancestry, dates and locations unknown.
The images are leftovers from messing with Xwitter’s Grok AI generator (click to enlarge).
Teichoscopic Hot Links
Girl Of My Dreams, Ike Quebec (1945) An accomplished dancer and pianist, Ike Quebec switched to tenor sax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quickly earned a reputation as a promising player. His recording career started in 1940, with Count Basie’s Barons of Rhythm.
The Sloopy Girl.
The real Sloopy.
Greg on X (sound up).
Frog flops [via Bunkerville].
First date / fast food survey.
The Hog Killin’ [via Feral Irishman].
Deathcalator [via Memo Of The Air].
“What would you say to the Pilgrims?”
How to move a gemsbok without getting killed.
[Top image: A GROK- generated image with the prompt “Create a photo of an American family in the 1920s sitting at the dinner table with a large potato.”
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 881 – Extra Hot Sauce, Dancing Home & The Rapture
Driving While Moth
Illuminating Gandhi
[Found in here.]
Emergency Gear
When nuclear fallout protection was all the rage.
Not sure what’s in the Emergency Life Pack, perhaps an 8 day supply of cigarettes and iodine pills. Note that the Cuban Missile Crisis went down in October of 1962, so the photo date may be in error.
[Photo by Max Scheler, colorized, found here.]
Let’s Ventriloquise!
‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 