Dithyrambic Hot Links

She’s Gone to Napoli, Laurel Aitken (1963) Dubbed The Godfather of Ska (and later Boss Skinhead) Cuban-Jamaican Lorenzo “Laurel” Aitken moved to the UK in 1960 and dropped 15 singles before heading back to Jamaica three years later. He returned to the UK in 1970 and continued performing and recording until his death in 2005.

Irony.

The Skynail.

Echo Bridge.

Boom Boom.

Inflatableman.

Enshittification.

Not the Artemis.

B&W Back Beach.

Yeeting fish heads.

Nicolas V. Sanchez.

The battle for punk.

A bunch of campers.

G.I. Jive with G.I. Jill.

The Great Wide Open.

Kinetic sand art table.

On drinking and puking.

Space Policy Directive 1.

Tom the Bot threw a hissy.

Hickshit [via Bits & Pieces].

The History of Kit-Cat Klock.

Decompaction [via Thompson, blog].

Hernán Cortés vs “the Noble Savage”.

The Chimpanzee Civil War (with video).

The Strandbeests [via Everlasting Blört].

1928 Ford LM Gypsy Wagon [via Miss Cellanea].

An excellent argument against large data centers.

WWII British home bomb shelters [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: A.I. modified 1969 Fiat Abarth 2000 Scorpione found here.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

The Girl on the Train


[Found here; unmodified Xweet from here. The story of the unsolved 1905 Merstham Tunnel Murder is here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

The Museum of Nancy

The gallery doesn’t exist, but it should.
[Found in my unposted files.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored


UPDATE: The talented doggo who painted the window at top right is JuJu, loyal companion of Corinne L.

Open 25/7

[AI Mickey D’s found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. Bottom left is a theoretical action movie starring this guy.

New Old Future Cars

AI images by graphic artist Alphonse Marcel found here.
[h/t Charlene J.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Fresh Old Coffee

[A.I. images found here, here, here, here, here and here.]