More proof that carpentry and drugs don’t mix… or proof that they do. You be the judge.
[Found here.]
Timothy Leary’s Playhouse
More proof that carpentry and drugs don’t mix… or proof that they do. You be the judge.
[Found here.]
Category: Cool
Spike
Reminds me of the song “Arkansas Dog” by Pinkard & Bowden.
Oh, Arkansas Dog,
Won’t someone pick you up?
Oh, Arkansas Dog,
Poor little pup.
Across the field I thought I saw,
A dog who walked from Arkansas.
His feet were raw, his eyes were red,
With porcupine quills stuck in his head.
Won’t someone kindly take this pup,
And feed him lots of bread;
And if the quills don’t pull out quick,
Just drive ’em in his head.
Oh, Arkansas Dog,
Won’t someone pick you up?
Oh, Arkansas Dog,
Poor little pup.
[Image found here. Lyrics from memory.]
Hot Links Del Mar
Electric eel leaping out of a tank to shock a fake alligator head [via].
Woman from San Diego has been banned from visiting over 21% of America.
Riding the Strandbeest bike [via].
Classic P.J. O’Rourke heresy. (Don’t get any ideas, kids.)
PNBHS Haka for Mr. Tamatea’s Funeral Service is still an excellent tribute.
“100 Years” is a movie scheduled for release in 2115. The idea is to purchase metal tickets and pass them on to your descendants.
“…We can be rich in cotton and mining metals, and silk worms, and we can make things, things cars, the machine can make it for us; and we can have the community, and city, in San Francisco; and we can make things and put them in the store. On the East Coast they have slaves and believe in slavery and made in China…” She has it all figured out.
[Top image: Giant gastropod egg capsules of the species Adelomelon brasiliana washed up near Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires and were herded into concentric circles by locals. Found here.]
Saturday Matinee – USS America, Accidents & Blunders, Johnny Winter w/ Popa Chubby
Cool timelapse of USS America LHA-6 arriving in Pearl Harbor for RIMPAC 2016 (not to be confused with the aircraft carrier USS America CV-66 which was decommissioned in 1996) [via].
[Found here.] Warning: Too dark for young kids.
Here’s something a bit lighter.
Johnny Winter, with Popa Chubby, Frank Latorre & The King Bees, at the B.B. King Blues Club in NYC on 23 February 2014.
Have a great weekend, folks.
The .Gif Friday Post No.442 – Flip Fail, Emu Chase & Dog Spit
Treebeard
[Found here.]
Update: I suspected that it might be a very good photoshop, but I was wrong. It’s a 65 year-old beech tree in Bulgaria. Via UK Daily Mail 1 June 2016:
Deyan Kossev, 49, spotted the unusual tree when he was hiking through the forest, saying “nobody knows” why the trunk and branches have formed this way.
“I was walking through the mountains when suddenly I spotted him. I was speechless and stopped in my tracks. It was surreal, it looks exactly like a man does. It has the legs, arms, body and head of a man and they are all in proportion too.”
Manikins, Watermelons & Fireworks: A Deadly Mix
Proof that manikins have no business setting off fireworks. Jump to 01:00 for the splodeys.
Don’t shoot bottle rockets at each other’s eyes or hold exploding M-80s, kids, and definitely don’t lean over a firework that’s going to shoot into the air and explode [via].
They could at least have made it more realistic and scattered some empty beer cans around. Here’s one with an appropriate soundtrack from 2010:
The manikins recovered from their injuries (several times) but they never learn from their mistakes. This one’s from 2009:
[Above videos courtesy of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission.]
Meanwhile, this guy’s got some manikin blood in him.
Yeah, the explosion turned the lights on and changed his shirt, but so what. It’s still a classic.
Be sane tomorrow, and if you can’t manage that, at least be safe.
Saturday Matinee – Big Daddy, Big Daddy and Big Daddy
Big Daddy‘s take on Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” is pure awesome. Check out their mashup of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – you’ll love it. You might even be able to find a clean download somewhere before it’s gone (hint hint nudge nudge).
Then there’s this Big Daddy I never heard of. Pure brilliance happens within the first 60 seconds. See how long you can stand it before you click on
this. The Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Mugs mug too much, but their music is retrohot.
Nice drivin’ acoustic blues by Big Daddy Wilson, live at the Bluesmoose Café 14 March 2012, featuring
Big Daddy Wilson – vocal & percussion
Roberto Morbioli – Guitar
Detlef Blanke – Bass.
Whoa Mama! There’s a long weekend coming up. Have a great one, and be back here tomorrow if only because we told you to.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 441 – Sweded Pixar, Umbrella Strike & Capybara Rolling
Positive Negative Hot Links
Ultra-High Speed photography .gifs are ultra-slow to load, but they’re worth the wait.
Interesting essay on the existence and non-existence of the FBI Files on cartoonist Walk Kelly. [Related post here.]
“Michael row de boat ashore, Hallelujah!” Earliest known published lyrics of that song date to 1867 and were written in dialect. It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned St. Helena Island prior to the arrival of the Union navy. [Wiki]
Gullah is still spoken on St. Helena Island. It’s a creole language.
Squirrel painlessly removes girl’s tooth. TRUE.
[Top image: A parallel LC circuit or band-stop filter. Image found here, via here.]
Tacky Raccoons 