Category: Bizarre

Habilatory Hot Links

Do The Zombie, M.R. Baseman & The Symbols (1963) This song was the B-side of a 45rpm recorded on the Graphic Arts label, the A-side being a cover of the Devotions’ Rip Van Winkel, recorded by “Marty & The Symbols.” Very little is known about this group except they may have been from Astoria, Queens, NY. No relation to the 1960s UK pop band The Symbols.

Blorp.

Meow.

Retroman.

Honest Jaws.

Camper World.

Erasing US History.

Yabba Dabba Duplex?

Dancing with Michael.

Hating the Monstermash.

The original version is the best.

Izuna Fair [via Memo Of The Air].

Mr. Bone’s Pizza [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Earth is leaking [via Bunkerville].

The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley (1919)
[also via Memo Of The Air].

Frankencamper [via The View From Lady Lake].

Cool but impractical shelter [via Feral Irishman].

Tired of the lies? Here’s The True Story of Hushpuppies.

[Top image: Detail from The Reward of Cruelty, William Hogarth (1751) found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 825 – Mechanical Dracula, Bony Peeper, Octo Creepo & Boop’s Jack o’ Lanterns

[Found here, here, here and here. Dracula h/t Gord S.]

The X From Outer Space (1967)

Formerly known as The Twitter From Outer Space.
When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish earth invasion. After one of the spores is analyzed in a lab, it escapes, eventually growing into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast.

[These images and more found here. Wanna see the movie? It’s archived!]

Entirely Justified.

[Found here. Kinda.]

Hot Pants

They’re all liars. Every one of them.

[Found here, undetermined origin, may be AI. h/t Pam M.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 824 – ‘Boonlips, Angry Hair & HUZZAH!

[Found here, here and here.]

Flipping the Bird

[Original un-flipped un-cropped budgie found here.]

All the Parts: The Tetris Challenge

“When Zurich police published a photo of their mass of equipment laid out next to their patrol car on September 1 [2019] they had no idea that they were starting a viral challenge that would spread around the continent.

But for the past two weeks, police, ambulance and fire services have taken up what is being called the ‘Tetris Challenge’, highlighting the huge amount of equipment that they need to do their jobs – and how it fits into their often relatively small vehicles.”

[Source & story found here, via here.]

Goniometric Hot Links

Fiberglass Jungle, The Crossfires (1963) Formerly known as The Nightriders, The Crossfires released one 45rpm record in 1963, then abandoned the surf guitar sound, changed to folk rock and renamed themselves The Tyrtles. Then they changed the spelling and became The Turtles. (See also Flo and Eddie.)

The Cracker.

Do the Gomer.

Tighty Righty.

New York blizzard.

How to make a camel.

The origins of Florida Man.

“The war on inflation is over.” Or not.

Paper toy templates [via Mme. Jujujive].

Nature’s pinhole cameras & the solar eclipse.

Putting the lizard in the pot [via Bunkerville].

The Four Corners of the Earth  [via Memo Of The Air].

Window Swap opens a random video window with audio.

[Top image: Training the Worm, AI image courtesy Pam M.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 823 – Bollard Burgle, Trash Dance & Sky Troll

[Found here, here and here.]