Category: Bizarre

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff.

Ready to Roll

rrrroar / vroom / eatme

[Found here.]

Flabellating Hot Links

“Old Lenny’s dead now. He got bitten by a badger while walking through the river naked one night, and later died of sepsis. Yet as I hit the water, the last thing I saw was his weathered and alcoholic face in my mind, and I knew the old special forces bastard was sending me a message from beyond the grave.” (Abergavenny man Johnny Turnip on his near-death experience.)

Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard, Tom Waits (1978)From the album Blue Valentine. According to Grok, the song lineup is:
Tom Waits / vocals, electric guitar; Alvin “Shine” Robinson / electric guitar; Harold Battiste / keyboards; Scott Edwards / bass; Earl Palmer / drums; Herb Hardesty / tenor saxophone.

“COLE!”

The Frog.

Camperage.

Roll ‘Em Lola!.

Melbourne alleys.

A covey of Simcas.

Baby’s 1st hibachi.

The Do Hiemon Box.

Conceptual parking.

Peter Drake’s guitar.

Flavio Belardo’s piano.

Collecting dead snakes.

Enshittificating Norwegia.

Call me when you get there.

His mudflaps were too short.

The Midnight Special pilot show.

Rocks can be racist [h/t Xenophilic].

Big dirty frogs [via Thompson, blog].

Misheard lyrics [via Memo Of The Air].

Laundry day sorrows [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image created using Grok, based upon a quote found in this story.
h/t Memo Of The Air.]

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

The .Gif Friday Post No. 964 – Miss Pierogi 1976, Pokey’s Freakout & Avengers of Oz

[Found here, here and here.]

Arf Appreciation

Pittsburgh-based artist Tom Mosser never imagined that a small pleasure painting created in 2012 would change his life forever. The painting, titled A Golden Retriever at the Museum, depicts Mosser’s golden retriever, Lucas, and it became one of the most widely shared pieces of dog art in internet history.

[Found here.]

Bigass Earhorns

Pnoe hornspeakers: “Little did we know what lay ahead when we received the review solicitation for the Pnoe hornspeakers. We scanned the website of the Greek manufacturer and learned that the Pnoe—pronounced pno ay and meaning wind or breath of life—is a huge and foremost slippery smooth design.”

[First spotted here.]

Hold Me, Love Me, Feed Me

[Found here.]

Hidden Talents of Old

Illustrations from Pantomime – Masks and Properties, by Harry How, published in The Strand Magazine, Vol. VIII, July-December 1894, pp. 662-672.

[Found here.]

Aeolotropic Hot Links

Gloria Grahame & Humphrey Bogart – In a Lonely Place (1950)

It’s Bad You Know, R.L. Burnside (1998) The remix album Come On In by Delta blues guitarist R.L. Burnside was released on Fat Possum records in 1998.
Burnside was born in 1926 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He learned from Mississippi Fred McDowell who lived in the next county over. Burnside and his family, tired of the life of sharecroppers, moved to Chicago in the early 50s. Subsequently his father, two uncles and two brothers were murdered there. In 1959 he returned to Mississippi, was convicted of murder himself, and served time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm.

Bill.

Bug.

Bikes.

Karma.

Otterballs.

OMG Street.

White paper.

Role playing.

Stray clouds.

GHOST FONT.

Angle, Reese.

Monochrome.

Oluale Kossola.

Doggy daycare.

Be kind, rewind.

RAF Red Arrows.

Grandma Droniak.

A sign was required.

The War of Key West.

Dead Mouse Delivery.

Rainforest hotel drama.

Sir Kermit & Lady Piggy.

Meanwhile at the Changoo.

Regarding Lizzie and Henry.

Cone pen [via Memo Of The Air].

JAWS – BBC edit [via Everlasting Blört].

Such a pleasant lady [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Movie .gif found here.]

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

 

The .Gif Friday Post No. 963 – Waterdancer, Grampa’s Goin’ Down & An Asian Looker

[Found here, here and here.]