Category: Bizarre

All Grown Up.

[h/t Pam M.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

The Best of BOLLARDS II

Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS I & III.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Association™.

Calathiform Hot Links

The Booker Tease, The Residents (1977)
A mysterious tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.’s by The Residents, one of the oddest of art rock groups to come out of the 1970s.

Shake it.

Fish be like.

Dream Gallery.

Uno spaghetto.

Abandoned rails.

The Y No T Motel.

The Scriptreaders.

Real unreal places.

CPI March Badness.

The City of Tomorrow.

Norty Blues Episode 59.

Hobo Nickels [via Mme. Jujujive].

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur.

Regarding  Covent-Garden Ladies.

“Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke, Hoi Hoi Hoi!”

Go Dogs, Go! [Sound up. h/t Corrinne L.]

The first speeding ticket [via Bunkerville].

Wonders of Street View [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here with comment: “I posted this kidding around during the last eclipse and people took me serious. 😆”
h/t Pam M.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 849 – SolOreo Eclipse, Sheila’s Glasses, Spin the Grove & Ronnie Spector’s Wiggle

Oreo eclipse plate animated from this. [h/t Corrine L.]
Sheila Jackson Lee clipped from this video.
Eucalyptus plantation created from this photo.
Ronnie Spector .gif modified from this one.

Juncaceous Hot Links

Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.

Iguana.

This pup.

Symphony 42.

Blue Barbados.

Kinetic mosaics.

Cool locomotives.

Not the right way.

Arguing with a bird.

Just One More Thing.

Norty Blues Episode 58.

Prosopometamorphopsia.

The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).

The 3 Body Problem (Newton).

How not to have an Easter party.

How to find water using a baboon.

How to get out of a speeding ticket.

How to prevent a total eclipse & more.

Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].

The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].

Macro views of various writing instruments.

WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].

Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 848 – A Babble Nymph, A Shoebill Glares & A Horror Mantis

[Found here, here and here.]

Tomb Sweeping Day, Taiwan

Visual artists Lilly Kaohsiung and Yin captured Fu De Keng public cemetery in Taiwan during the Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.

[Source here, h/t Charlen604.]

ARE WE HAVING YET

[Photo by Frank Kunert found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 847 – Duck Flood, A Building Massage & Some Skidders

[Found here, here and here.]