The .Gif Friday Post No. 852 – Pulseface, Dad vs. Kid Gamer Styles & Rubbermaids Are Go

[1st .gif made from images found here; 2nd & 3rd from Xwitter vids found here and here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

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.

Color-By-Number

Instructions: Download and print out full size. Use crayons, colored pencils or markers to complete. Sign your name and return your work to my desk at end of the solar eclipse. Have fun!


While you’re busy doing that, here’s a playlist of random music to watch the eclipse by.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 846 – Nancy & Sluggo

Ernie Bushmiller‘s ubiquitous comic strip has intrigued me since I was a kid. It was rarely funny, sometimes creepy, and the drawing style was unique and constrained. Bushmiller was more of a draftsman than a comic strip artist, and it’s obvious that he used tracing templates, photography, and in his later years, photocopiers.

One day in the early 1980s, this panel showed up in the Sunday funnies. I was hooked, and I began paying closer attention to the Zen of Nancy.

The .gifs above have been posted here previously, and scraping them into a pile seemed like the proper thing to do. The one in color was an early experiment with Jasc Animation Shop v.3.11, a program I acquired in 2012 (thanks, Possum). Most of the panels were lifted from Nancy strips posted on X/Twitter by @JohnnyCallicutt and re-used with minimal editing.

[For more Nancy, Sluggo & Aunt Fritzi stuff visit The Nancy & Sluggo Archive.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 842 – Dancing The Radioactive Flesh, Vintage Tagger & Jake Blues’ Brows

[Found here, here and I messed with Joliet Jake’s mugshots just because.]

More about the top one: From Mexican surrealist producer Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965), the final scene in a nightclub (Café Milleti). Saint Simon Stylites is present, and so is the Devil. St. Simon asks “her” for the name of the dance, and the Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
The band is Los Sinners. [Scene starts at 41:18.]

Hellberry USA

Opie & Sheriff Andy Taylor from Hell
Opie Taylor & friend inspecting a crank from hell
Aunt Bea Taylor & Barney Fife laughing at something from hell

There are some things that AI should just leave alone. Top is Opie & Andy Taylor from hell; middle isis Opie & friend inspecting a crank from hell; bottom is Aunt Bea & Barney Fife laughing at something from hell.

[AI generator: https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img.%5D

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

[Update:  Re-arranged gallery, added Shut Up Helmet. All images previously posted elsewhere, click for larger.]