I gotta start carrying around a bag of self-adhesive googly-eyes.
Just gotta.
Category: Cool
Infraterrestrial Hot Links
Gone With The Wind in 1 minute.
Guy got fired for doing what comes naturally.
What The Heck Is It? The Giz Wiz dares you to guess.
Like early 20’s-30’s jazz? Free public domain downloads here.
Ever review the Socialist Party USA Platform? Everything is free except for freedom.
Yank the plastic straw out of the sea turtle’s left nostril and sell it to China = RECYCLING!
Dust in the foreground, stars in the background. This .gif of the surface of a comet (67P?) may or may not be amazing.
This is possibly The Best White House Press Conference you’ll ever hear.
[Top image: US Navy Hurricane Hunters, 1960, found here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 547 – Ghost Scooter, Wire Mesh & #InMyFeelings Challenge Fail
TRUCK FOR SALE NEEDS PARTS
[Found here.]
Engine in Retirement
Hot Links with Daisy and Joe
THIS is amazing.
Remembering Triggly Puff.
Stuff I never knew about petticoats.
Cats during an earthquake in Japan [via].
The Dancing Plague of 1518 killed hundreds of peasants in Strasbourg Germany.
The Laughing Epidemic of 1962 affected hundreds of people in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
Got a critter trapped under the kitchen counter? It might not be what you think it is.
In the past six years (2002-2018) there have been three recorded deaths in the US from snake bites during religious services. Pastor Cody Coots survived a bite to the face. Jamie Coots, Cody’s father was bit on the hand and died in 2014. (Pinkard and Bowden addressed this practice in 1984.)
About Hollerin’. Wanna hear some? Leonard Emanuel was one of the best.
Petticoat Junction trivia – Edgar Buchanan (aka Uncle Joe Carson) was a dentist in real life. He’s pictured above with Irene Ryan (aka Daisy Mae “Granny” Moses) on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
Saturday Matinee – Cyriak, Zappa, Traffic & Aretha Franklin
Cyriak outdoes himself creepy-wise, with “Indigestion.” [Found here.]
Frank Zappa‘s final live performance (with backup by Pražský výběr) 1991, Prague, Czechoslovakia, shortly after the collapse of the USSR. Long intro, but worth the listen.
Traffic, 1971. We played their albums in college so often that if you held the vinyl to a light you could see through the grooves.
A great cultural icon passed on this week. She possessed one of the greatest voices in the business, singing and performing gospel, blues, R&B, jazz, soul and pop. Multiple generations grew up listening to her recordings, myself included.
What a natural. Only 22 years old in 1964, and she was already amazing. Respect indeed.
R.I.P. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018).
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.
The Friday .Gif Post No. 546 – Crab Shell Molting, Hippo Roll, Dance Hard & Lil’ Demon Photobomb
Dang. I lost the source links for these (despite the watermarks) so I need to tighten up. If anyone has the original links, I’ll update with credit. The 3rd one reminded me of the last one (which is one of my all-time favorites.)
Little Shop Of Horrors
[Found here.]
Drawing The Wild Hot Links
Cows herd car thief to police (infrared video).
Cambodian DIY snake trap (NSFK). Those boys caught a big one.
TRUE. A dentist travelling to the Arab Emirate of Dubai from London was sent to prison (along with her young daughter) because she admitted to having a single glass of wine on the plane en-route. After international outrage, they’ve since been released. The UAE are supposedly our allies…
Sharia Law in Dubai. Not sure how accurate this is. The laws seem to change per offense (kinda like the vague and indecipherable Twittter and FaceBook Terms Of Service rules).
No pop stars, no vocal show offs, no overpaid social justice warriors “taking a knee.”
[Top .gif: A sphere has a constant diameter, and so does a Meißner Tetrahedron, discovered in 1911. Here’s the book used in the graphic example above.]
Tacky Raccoons 