Category: Cool

Happy Ukranians

[Found in here.]

ARISE!

[Found here.]

Fun With Statistics

[Found here.]

The Real Captain Hook?

London’s Miss Zena Dare, in a pantomime production of  “Peter Pan,” 1906.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Papa’s Day Eve

Now I don’t like to post Utoobage vids that don’t have vids, but Tom Waits’ version of  James Brown’s “Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag” is too great to pass up.

There aren’t many decent videos of Papa John Creach, but here he is with Hot Tuna circa 1972.

The Temptations’ classic “Papa Was A Rolling Stone.”

And Mama, I’m fighting a head cold, so that’s it for tonight. Just remember the old adage, “When Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy; and when Papa ain’t happy, nobody gives a shit.” Have a great weekend, folks, and be back here tomorrow for more fun.

The .Gif Friday Post No.180 – Cat Stair, Digital Wave, Spinning Lizard

[Found here and here, and the lizard in a washing machine is mine.]

Capybara Cab

Yep, that’s a capybara, and those are monkeys. Cebus albifrons Zappafrankinus monkeys to be exact.

[Found in here. Like capys? We added a new category just for you.]

STAX Stay In School

Stay in School, Don’t Be a Dropout (1967) was not a commercial release and less than 10,000 copies are known to exist in its original vinyl format.

Guess what’s in Bunk’s old vinyl collection!

This is a DJ album, distributed to R&B/Soul radio stations in urban areas. It’s got no lead-in tracks, meaning that the DJ had to pick what announcement or song he wanted to play and place the needle by hand. Stax/Volt was clever, in that the tracks of songs they were selling were preceded by public service announcements by the artists themselves.

“Hi, this is the big O, Otis Redding.
I was just standing here thinking about you,
Thought I’d write a song about you,
And dedicate it to you.
Take a listen.”

More info on this nice collectible here. Click to enlarge, check out the playlist, and read the commendation from Vice President Hubert Humphrey. There’s some great stuff on this album.

The .Gif Friday Post No.179 – Schwarzenegger’s Noodles, Cukes & Surf, Blogwars

[Found here, here and here.]

Take Your Best Shot


[Calvin Demarest demonstrates the Massé in 1912. He went schizo a few years later.]

Oh yeah. I remember my best shot. Outside of Houston. Twenties on the rail in a call the shot game, and I had spots. Two spots were sitting in adjacent corners at the end of the table, and a stripe was next to the side pocket. I was blocked for the far corner, my cueball was on the wrong side of the near pocket and against the rail, and I couldn’t bank the corner shot. What could I do?

I did what any bluffer would do. Call both corners.

With my cue in the air, I jammed a Massé shot. Put so much spin on the cue ball that it hopped the rail in front of the side pocket, rode it and spun back down to the table on the other side of the side pocket and caught the side rail. It sunk Spot 1 in the near corner, then shot down the end rail to sink Spot 2. No scratch.

Of course I had to keep a poker face, so I walked to my next shot as if nothing spectacular had happened. Within seconds everyone grabbed their money and went upstairs. Game over.

THAT was my best shot.