Memorial Day

Arlington National Cemetery (via Google Maps Street View)

For those of you in the Memorial Day BBQ crowd, wrapping up your roadtrips, or just chillin’ on the porch, here are some random unrelated tunes posted in May of the years 2020 – 2025, ordered by year of release.


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Mardi Gras – Mange, bois, et sois joyeux!

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Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Valentines Day: Songs of The Love Bot


Songs above are ordered from oldest to newest, all have been posted previously. More playlists here, top image found here.


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Happy New Year’s Eve 2024 – End of Year Playlist

The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, and just as we did a mere twelve months ago, here’s a compilation of songs that buzzed my earballs in 2024.

Set 1 – January, February, March & April

Set 2 – May, June, July & August

Set 3 – September, October, November & December

[I omitted most of the tunes from the Halloween playlist, but you can hear them all here.]

And one more thing: Happy New Year!


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

18 Songs that have nothing to do with Thanksgiving

Songs above are somewhat ordered from oldest to newest, all have been posted previously; more playlists here. Image at top found here.

[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

Tunes for All Hallow’s Eve


Songs in this collection may or may not be directly related to Halloween, and it’s probably the first Halloween play list without Monster Mash.
[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]

[Update – Added SJH per Taminator’s suggestion.]

Labor Day 2024

While you’re waiting for it to burn, here’s an arbitrary mix of tunes, all previously posted, and in no particular order. Cheers!

[Image from here. More playlists in these posts.]

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 17 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2024 – 17th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,594 posts in our archives, +10.8 K comments and over 3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2024).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!



No. 11 / NR / NR – This is Robert. He wants to meet you.


No. 10 / NR / NR – Meme Peeps


No. 9 / 7 / 97 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 8 / NR / NR – Horrorchids


No. 7 / 3 / 48 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 6 / 6 / 63 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 5 / 2 / 75 – St. Pancras Hotel


No. 4 / 4 / 95 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 8 / 34 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


No. 2 / 5 / 38 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals

And the No. 1 Post for the past three freakin’ years:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/28 – Number One for three years in a row AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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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.

Happy New Year’s Eve 2023 – End of Year Playlist

Thought I might do something different this New Years Eve. Buried in the Archives are over 100 tunes that deserve a replay, at least in my opinion. Some are pure awesome, others are eye-rollers, but all are songs that pleased my earballs in 2023. Each set is in no particular order, one click and you’re off to the races. Have at it.

Set 1 – January, February, March

Set 2 – April, May, June, July

Set 3 – August, September, October, November & December

And one more thing: Happy New Year!

Auld Lang Syne Boogie, Freddie Mitchell Orchestra (1949)


[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only. Apologies for the typo in the first track – That’s Stéphane Grappelli.]