Happy New Year, Peeps!

2016

This year is going to be an awesome year because I said so.

1116111 = day/month/year hour : minute : second

2016 = 11111100000 in binary. So there you go.

Happy New Year’s Eve

Tacky Raccoons Be Crawlin' 3002015 World Conquest

Netizens and Denizens Of
EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD*
Visited Tacky Raccoons in 2015.

Here they are in alphabotanical order:

Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Bunkasia, Bunkistan, Bunklandia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Compton, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Culver City, Curacao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Inglewood, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, La Habra, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Republic of, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Yemen, Zambia, and you, too, Zimbabwe.

It amazes the hell out of us that this small blog can garner such global interest by merely posting stuff that keeps our attention for more than 5 seconds. Thanks for all the comments, “likes” and Re-Tweets, and we wish you all a healthy and prosperous New Year.

–Bunk

*North Korea is a no-show on that list, but we’ve received surreptitious hits emanating directly from Pyongyang. That can only mean that Kim Jong Un Baboso himself reads here, and since that’s the case, we cordially invite him to golf himself.

A Small Art Show

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[Found here. The last image reminds me of this classic story.]

Cats Don’t Understand Why Farts Are Funny.

Farts Are Fun

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Okudart, TV Ad Extended Cut & The Alabama Blacksnakes

Okuda San Miguel transforms abandoned church into Kaos Temple. [Related post herevia].

GEICO extended cut.

How bout some rough cajun booze-rock blues? Give a listen to “Interstate Love” by the Alabama Black Snakes… then read this.

Christmas Eve – Part II

Merry Christmas

[Found in here.]

The Best Gift of All

"I will sacrifice my life to keep you safe."
“I will sacrifice my life to keep you safe.”

[Found in here.]

The Church of the Half Pipe

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Church of the Half Pipe

Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel (aka Okudart) collaborated with La Iglesia Skate and Red Bull to transform the decrepit interior of the old, abandoned Santa Barbara church in Llanera, Asturias into an awesome skatepark called the Kaos Temple.

[Caption found here. Other images and more to the story found here.]

The How & Why Wonder Book of Hot Links

Wonder Book

Levitating Superconductor on a Möbius strip [via].

Oikophobia and Xenophilia are related.

Chocolate or vanilla? The debate began around 1520 when Cortés y los Conquistadores brought both to Europe.

Irreverent satire/snark posted in 2004 comes true.

Repost: The Entire Bible in 30 minutes or less.

The Cliff’s Notes’ version of The New Testament takes more than 30 minutes, but the intro is interesting.

Top image from The How And Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy. This illustrated series was awesome.

Saturday Matinee – Pre-Christmas Festivities

That’s a cover of one of the best songs of The Phil Spector Christmas Album from 1963, but it’s not Christmas until I hear Leroy Anderson‘s “Sleigh Ride” sung by The Ronettes.

This corrupted and irreverent version of the traditional song always amuses me even though the missus hates it.

Have a great weekend, folks, and I’ll make up for this later. Honest.