Category: Bizarre
Catching some Zs
How Not To Present The Evidence
The .Gif Friday Post No.189 – WubbaWubba, Creepy Cats, Hippo Flippo
How To Make Capybara Dumplings
Step 1: Get a capybara.
Step 2: Enjoy.
[Found here. Related capycrap here.]
[Update: Got a huge number of hits on capys today, and here’s why.]
1904 Budweiser Commercial
Cicada Barrettes. Why not?
My sisters used to do that, too. [Found here.]
Hot Links of the Beat Generation
Geese Teeth here.
“Zoom Zoom Zoom” by Jimmy and the Barbarellos is great a capella.
What’s your favorite number? Tell this guy.
Click and scroll down for the Snooty Cam. You’ll like it.
Interview with a 1-year old, with subtitles.
“It’s A Good Life” was a short story written by Jerome Bixby in 1953 that was turned into one of the creepiest Twilight Zone episodes ever.
Beat Generation was written by Rod McKuen.
The Late Country Dick Montana had a solo EP. Listen to snippets here (NSFW).
Wow. I’d never heard of “Action Park.” This amusement park was so dangerous the owners were forced to buy additional ambulances for the local hospital. Lemur King mentioned it here, with additional links here, here and here.
Heading to Senegal this summer? An English-Wolof dictionary might come in handy.
Conway’s Game of Life is a fun curiosity from a few decades ago.
Ever seen a hook-faced conehead? You will if you click here.
Saturday Matinee – Glassblowing, Giant Rabbits, Paul Reubens, Delinquents, Riding the Curb
I took glassblowing in college in the middle of winter. Pure awesome. The instructors all had scars, and our own teacher accidentally sat on glow worm. Burned his ass in glass class.
The biggest danger was blowing the bubble. Inhale super-heated air by accident and you’re gonna die. [h/t Woosk]
Night of the Lepus Trailer. Big bunnies be eatin’ and killin’.
Pee Wee Herman Unmasked! Interview with Paul Reubens.
Mr. Grimes was a dick. I like him, at least in the first half of this instructional video from 1947.
11 years later, Mr. Grime’s protégés were curb dragging in 1958 L.A.
Have a great weekend and be back here tomorrow for more fun.
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