Category: Bizarre

Bell Bollard Blues

232 St. Mildreds Road,  London, England

[Images found here & via Google Maps. More bollards here.]

Making Monsters

A young girl was found imprinting her face into velvet upholstery.

[Found here.]

Panglossian Hot Links

The Caterpillar Crawl, Dick Dixon and the Roommates (1959)
Relatively unsuccessful cover of The Stranger’s hit. Flip side of the 45 is another instrumental, Be Good, Be Good, Be Good. I couldn’t find any details about the band.

Post Helene I .
Post Helene II .
Post Helene III.
Post Helene IV.

Fence.

Automata.

Moto-Potty.

The Staples City.

How many days?

Barbados Quakers.

Product placement.

The Most Deadliest Day.

Time Ghost: A CGI demo.

Norty Blues Episode 84.

Boogie Boogie Hedgehog.

Judge this book by its cover.

The Making of Animal House.

Dog training [via Bunkerville].

Stew noir [via Memo Of The Air].

The end of a beautiful relationship.

Recycling mannequins in Japan [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Moon pie found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The Microwave Yawns

[Found here.]

Le Chat Lego

[Original may be from here, h/t Pam M. Related image here.]

Amtrak’s Best Mustelid Poll

I’m sorry to report that due to DNA analysis, skunks are now classified as mephitids and are no longer members of the mustilid family. That’s okay because honey badger is.

[Live Amtrak poll found here. More mustilid stuff here.]

BONUS: This is what a skunk sounds like.

Haptotropic Hot Links

Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.

Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.

This dog.

This web.

SOMF live.

The Little Apple.

The Countdown.

Shadow jammin’.

Auctioneerspeak.

Squeeze-N-Pump.

Birth of a tardigrade.

Norty Blues Episode 83.

Live frugally on surprise.

The details of the painting.

Decycling [via Bunkerville].

Van Gogh’s harvest season.

Playing the Dualo du Touch.

You can’t choose teal or turquoise.

“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].

Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]

Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].

THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.

[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 874 – The Restless One, Raising Puppies & The Competition

[Found here, here, and I lost the source of the PB&J race.]

Stonefinger

“To the person who left a painted rock that looks like a severed finger on the Arroyo Verde hiking trail, you’re my kinda people! I put the rock back to freak out the next passerby.”

[Found here, h/t Kirk W.]