[Found in here.]
Picasso’s Girls
[Found in here.]
Category: Bizarre
Big 8 Hank & The Rhythm Slappers
Henry “Hank” Tudor (aka Bluffin’ Hal) was dubbed the King of 8 Cylinder Retrobilly. Tudor sang lead vocal and played slap bass. Little is known about the Rhythm Slappers’ lineup other than the female vocalists were replaced numerous times for unknown reasons.
Image from Historical Men Reimagined As Modern People Living Today,
[h/t Jaime G.]
Ololygmancing Hot Links
Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.
Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]
“A snek!”
Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].
Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.
The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].
Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 865 – Crib Diving, Ram Jamb & ‘Splody ‘Nana
Steno-Disc Records Actual Business Letters
Artist unknown, produced by Jerrold B. Thorpe, Keane Records, Hollywood, CA. (early to mid 1950s).
No. 507 – “Congressional Record”
SIDE A
Track 1: 9 min. at 150 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 160 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
SIDE B
Track 1: 9 min. at 170 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 189 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Back cover is from Steno-Disc No. 513 – Business Letters for Students and Shorthand Brush-Up by Steno-Disc Records, Los Angeles CA.
Bet you want to hear a sample, ya? Steno-Disc No.506 is a good ‘un. On Track 4 a guy quits his job at the Globe Sales Co. and gets hired by a competitor. He doesn’t bother to give his name to his boss, Mr. Carl Fox, but I assume Carl figured it out when the guy didn’t show up for work on Monday.
There’s a three-car pile up on Track 10. Some guy who just quit his job went on a bender and ended up in court.
Some reasonably priced copies of several editions are available at Discogs.
The woman on the covers of the series? Carol Burnett.
The Museum of Lost Toys
On a dark and freezing morning during the winter of 2015, a plastic baby doll head left behind by the outgoing tide caught my eye. I pried it loose from the frozen sand and took it home. This began my slide down the flotsam rabbit hole.
First, I only collected toys, but the collector in me inevitably took over and my toy collection grew to include shotgun shells, shoe heels, combs, old pipes, toothbrushes, balls of fishing line, and on and on and on. Soon, my yard was a plastic graveyard.
I’ve discovered that like things float together. Some days I might find 6 or 7 tennis balls, other days the wrack line is a trail of colorful bottle caps. Once, two Monopoly houses washed up on the same day about a half a mile apart.
All these items individually don’t say much, but together, they tell the story of all of us; what we value, consume, discard, hold nostalgic. – Corinn Flaherty
Plum Island Museum of Lost Toys and Curiosities
[via Mme. jujujive.]
Rhonchisonant Hot Links
Theme to the Green Hornet, Al Hirt (1966) The melody, titled Полёт шмеля (Flight of the Bumblebee), was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. It was jazzed up for The Green Hornet TV series theme by arranger and trumpeter Billy May.
A.I. ballet [h/t Pam M.]
One second per day for a year.
Mama Colugo [via Bunkerville].
Kinetic mask [via Mme. Jujujive].
Reaperman [via Memo Of The Air].
Secret Service Girl [Full song here].
Major Taylor [h/t Queen Hepzibah].
Dark Horse, Dead Ringer and other phrase origins.
Free at no extra cost [via The View From Lady Lake].
Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, 2024.
[Top image: Protest goon outside of the 2024 RNC National Convention.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The Friday .Gif Post No. 864 – Flip ‘n Slide, Flashy Dude & Nostril Polishing
[Found here, here and the last was from Nevada, 2020, lost the link to the source video.]
Update: Flashy dude is Giorgio Moroder, aka the Father of Disco.
Gravity
[Found here.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Tacky Raccoons 