Category: Hot Links

Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the  1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]

Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].

Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]

Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].

Where to go over summer vacation.

Put this girl in charge of everything.

35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].

The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.

Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.

There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.

Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]

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Belemnoidal Hot Links

Ain’t No Big Thing, The Original Spontanes (2011) In 1966, The Spontanes (aka Joey Ray & The Spontanes, The Original Spontanes) recorded a cover of The Radients‘ Ain’t No Big Thing (1965), then reprised it at a the Carolina R&B Reunion, Gastonia NC in 2011.

Stealth.

Kid hacks.

Nice people.

Screw bikes.

24 Godesses.

Nudie branch.

Eternal Ascent.

Trucks & Lorries.

How to steal stuff.

Bees can do math!

When dots connect.

Norty Blues Episode 61.

Stopping self-driving cars.

Concept cars [via Mme. Jujujive].

Damascus goat [via Bunkerville].

You Can’t Park There, Sir. [Sound up]

The Positive of the Negative [via The View From Lady Lake].

Digital porcelain sculptures of celebrities kissing themselves.

The Management Secrets of Genghis Khan [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Space Suits Playing Cards found here via This Isn’t Happiness.]

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Parbuckled Hot Links

The Colour of Don Don, The Cactus Channel (2012)
The Cactus Channel is/was a hip hop funk & soul group from Melbourne AU. Nice Stax/Volt influence. The 7-10 piece group has apparently disbanded to pursue other projects.

The Doggos.

Negative space.

Diddy Wah Diddy.

Fugu [via Bunkerville].

Homage to GMC trucks.

Norty Blues Episode 60.

Drawing a Phénakistiscope.

Another movie I haven’t seen.

“People have raised concerns…”

Asteroid City [via Mme. Jujujive].

In ’71, after I graduated high school…

“What’s your source?” [via Mogadishu Matt].

The last Woolworth’s Lunch Counter [h/t Paul Y.]

Carnival of Venice, Mosé Tapiero on ocarina, 1908.

Making ocarinas in South Korea [via Memo Of The Air].

California’s 3rd largest city is a ghost town [h/t Paul Y.]

Beautiful rendition of the Theme to Titanic [h/t Charlene J.]

[Top image: 1954 Hubley’s Atomic Disintegrator. A weapon like this may fetch $300 or more at auction.]

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Calathiform Hot Links

The Booker Tease, The Residents (1977)
A mysterious tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.’s by The Residents, one of the oddest of art rock groups to come out of the 1970s.

Shake it.

Fish be like.

Dream Gallery.

Uno spaghetto.

Abandoned rails.

The Y No T Motel.

The Scriptreaders.

Real unreal places.

CPI March Badness.

The City of Tomorrow.

Norty Blues Episode 59.

Hobo Nickels [via Mme. Jujujive].

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur.

Regarding  Covent-Garden Ladies.

“Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke, Hoi Hoi Hoi!”

Go Dogs, Go! [Sound up. h/t Corrinne L.]

The first speeding ticket [via Bunkerville].

Wonders of Street View [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here with comment: “I posted this kidding around during the last eclipse and people took me serious. 😆”
h/t Pam M.]

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Juncaceous Hot Links

Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.

Iguana.

This pup.

Symphony 42.

Blue Barbados.

Kinetic mosaics.

Cool locomotives.

Not the right way.

Arguing with a bird.

Just One More Thing.

Norty Blues Episode 58.

Prosopometamorphopsia.

The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).

The 3 Body Problem (Newton).

How not to have an Easter party.

How to find water using a baboon.

How to get out of a speeding ticket.

How to prevent a total eclipse & more.

Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].

The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].

Macro views of various writing instruments.

WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].

Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Actual Reality Gogglesâ„¢ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]

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Refulgent Hot Links

(Until Then) I’ll Suffer, Barbara Lynn (1971) Barbara Lynn (aka Barbara Lynn Ozen, Barbara Lynn Cumby) is a well-known blues / R&B singer, songwriter and electric guitar player* with an impressive discography. She was only 19 when she began her recording career with Give Me A Break in 1961, and the following year she scored her biggest hit You’ll Lose A Good Thing. Many years and many tours later, sharing the stage with almost every big name in the business, she’s still performing.

*Barbara Lynn plays a left-handed guitar without a pick [video].

Hyperdontia.

Portal to hell.

The Art of the Stair.

Do the Fudu Kumpo.

The Expert Witness.

Discarded treasures.

A Palliwood Tutorial.

Timelapse watercolors.

Running From Camera.

Norty Blues Episode 56.

Sampling! [h/t Jaime G.]

Get Up and Do The Wobble.

Trains of the Rock Island Line.

Billions In Change [h/t Linda M.]

Mr. Skygack From Mars [h/t Gord S.].

Another indictment [via Bunkerville].

Cephalopudlian [via Memo Of The Air].

Inspired [via The View From Lady Lake].

The Jackson Lean [via Sloth Unleashed].

“Yo mates! Look at his leg!” [via Mme. Jujujive]

Valtteri Bottas, famous racecar driver [h/t Nan N.]

[Top image found here. I messed with it a tad.]

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Lá Fhéile Pádraig Hot Links

Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream), Allison Young (2020) A multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Allison Young has a timeless style, as evidence by her cover of The Chords‘  1954 classic. (More about her at My OBT.)

Be oncé.

LOL Joel!

Rising CPI.

More trains.

The Little Fly.

Sunny Emilio.

Pearly whites.

Very Disturbed.

Bicycles of 1939.

The longest game.

Lunch with Bessie.

Trolling the Nevers.

Norty Blues Episode 55.

The Shadow of the Beast.

Tom Waits does the Ramones.

Better than Bic {via Bunkerville].

Megalithic Ireland [via Mme. Jujujive].

Books of bricks [via The View From Lady Lake].

Irish “Sheena” McCalla 1956 [via Memo Of The Air].

And there’s more Saint Patrick’s Day stuff here.

[Top image cropped and modified from lost original source, dates to March 2008 according to Tineye.]

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Abterminal Hot Links

La Cumbia de Spiderman (El Hombre Araña), Patada y COZ (2022)
Twin brothers  Gabo and Frank  have a following in Mexico, South America and the US, with a number of records available for downloading. In 2016 their recording of El Pasito Perrón (the Big Dog Step) went viral.

Bimble.

Training.

Identipops.

LED curtains.

Tumbleweeds.

Cats are a-hoes.

Go with the floe.

The Hose Blower.

Norty Blues Episode 54.

The Voices [via Memo Of The Air}.

Kevin the Rooster [h/t eaglesoars].

Turn of the century bicycle stunts.

Reading Ulysses in Montana #625.

The lyrics to The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

Kim Jon Un’s captive flashmob [via Bunkerville].

The Blue Berg of Happiness [via The View from Lady Lake].

[Top image: Impasto painting by Jason Anderson, found at  My OBT.]

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Embrocated Hot Links

In My Gremlin, The Rave-Ups (1985) The Rave-Ups formed in 1979 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After some lineup changes and a relocation to Los Angeles, they hit the indie rock scene of the 1980s with some success. Their appearance in the 1986 movie Pretty In Pink gave them nationwide exposure, but problems with record company promotion and distribution stifled their career.

Puphole.

The Match.

The Message.

Parrot people.

Heinz’ New Cap.

Norty Blues No. 53.

A buncha old trains.

Rotating waterslide?!

Solar Eclipse Inflation.

King Ludwig II’s Castle.

Brian Eno’s Turntable II.

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.

Roy Sullivan, Spark Ranger.

“Willy’s Chocolate Experience”

When a rebound is not a rebound.

Slug vs. Venus Flytrap [via Bunkerville].

The Snore Dog Song [via Memo Of The Air].

William Yeldell Cosper [via The Feral Irishman].

{Top image: Mystery Movement. Congrats to Ms. Donna /  My OBT on her 10 year blogiversary.]

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