Myomancing Hot Links

On My Own, The Muffs, (2019) The Muffs were a successful punk band from SoCal, formed by bassist, guitarist and lead singer Kim “Kimba” Shattock in 1991. Shattock suffered from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for several years, and soon after recording the band’s final album No Holiday, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.

THIS DOG.

HO Spiral 1
HO Spiral 2
HO Dilemma

Cheese bra.

Math much?

Blues Moose Radio.

Campers and campers.

Milk pandas (and more).

Sound up for the SkaFire.

A big test is coming October 4.

Those terrifying little upticks

Theft-proof suitcase [via Bunkerville].

Pasta la vista, baby [via Mme. Jujujive].

We have never seen anything like this.

Doodling on a glow-in-the dark LP with a laser pointer.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top image found here, unknown origin.]


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Bombylious Hot Links

Number 9 Train, Tarheel Slim (1958) Allen Rathel Bunn (1923-1977) recorded under various names but was best known as Tarheel Slim. Bunn enjoyed a successful recording career playing an eclectic variety of styles including gospel, R&B, blues, rockabilly, pop & soul. In 1963 he dropped out of the music business , but was “rediscovered” a decade later and resumed recording and performing on acoustic guitar until his death at the age of 53.

Lunchtime.

Pets & glasses.

3 hours of goop.

Objectified musicians.

Waiting for someone to notice.

It’s basically a hotdog of the sea.

Just found a new ringtone. [h/t Suz H.]

The Temperature of Doom [via Bunkerville].

Ink-powered leaf boats [via Memo Of The Air].

It’s 5 minutes compressed into 3, but so what.

[Top image courtesy Serafina D.]


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Carphologic Hot Links

Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.

Message to Rudy.

Message to Nellie.

Message to Garcia.

Men looking at potholes.

The Hunga Tonga eruption.

It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].

Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.

Men and women think differently.

“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”

20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].

Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]

The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]

Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD  [via Mme. Jujujive].

Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]

[Top image found in here.]


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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2023).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!


No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod


No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings


No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks


No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


 No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever



No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals


No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel


And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[Note that I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

P.S. Follow @bunkstrutts on Twitter for automatic updates and ephemeral inanities; ditto for you folks on Facebook. Both accounts are spam-free. Also, muchísimas grassyass to those of you who contributed to the PayPal Donation Account. I’m not in this for profit and don’t beg, but that doesn’t rule out blogwhoring. In any case, I appreciate it, and a dime a day keeps the meerkats away.
Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Flagitious Hot Links

Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.

Elephants.

THIS PARROT

The Field Trip.

EatSleepDraw.

The Honeymoon.

The Human Camera.

Arthur’s in the tank.

No explanation wanted.

The Amazing Jonny Kim.

CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]

If you’re happy and you know it

The origins and methods of Woke.

Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].

Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)

Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].

The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]


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Haplographic Hot Links

If I, Ko & The Knockouts (2002) Cover of IF I – OH I by Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959) “Ko & the Knockouts formed when Ko Shih [aka Ko Melina, Ko Melina-Zydeco] was bartending at Detroit hot spot the Magic Stick and had been the bass player for the Come Ons, was approached by Long Gone John of Sympathy for the Recording Industry to put a song on his upcoming compilation of Detroit bands.” [More here.]

We vs. They.

Shoona horse.

Makin’ the balls.

Bollard got skillz.

Nightmare school.

Tetris block names.

How records are broken.

Pet snorks [via Mme. Jujujive].

It’s even more creepo with sound off.

The Clark’s Cove Guano Company
[via Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge].

Beyond 3D sidewalk art [via Bunkerville].

Ancient Egyptian egg ovens. [h/t Paul Y.]

Ragtime Rockabilly Disco [via Memo Of The Air].

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Making shokuhin sampuru [via Nag On The Lake].

[Top image found here. Comic book source unknown.]


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Meconomancing Hot Links

One Way Out, Elmore James (1960) James recorded the song in 1960 but it wasn’t released until 1965, two years after his death; Sonny Boy Williamson II covered it in 1961 (released in 1962);  in 1965 G. L. Crockett reworked it and recorded It’s A Man Down There. There have been many covers since, with The Allman Bros. Band‘s 1971 version being the best known.

The Sightseers.

Have some Chet.

Pop Tartsand more.

Discover New Mexico.

Kasey Kasem’s Top 10.

17 TIMES! [h/t Pam M.]

I Mess With The Fishies.

Home Depot tips in Portland.

Don’t go here and don’t do that.

Corn snake boobs [via Neatorama].

Skibidi Toilet explained [h/t Gord S.].

Johnny Sang Barbie [via Memo Of The Air].

Gladys Ingle & the 13 Black Cats [via Bunkerville].

Bagel reviews [via Mme. Jujujive. She knows where to find excellent music].

Added to blogroll: Archie Archive’s Norty Blues. Nice eclectic collection from 1920s to the present, with brief commentary.

[Top image: The Ugly Grouper, h/t Gus_802.]


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Rectitudinous Hot Links

Luisa Bodem competes during the women’s long jump event at the German indoor athletics in Leipzig, Germany, Feb. 19, 2017.

Crazy Rat, The Violetz (2014) Neo rockabilly / psychobilly band from Japan.

Boops.

Inky Dink.

Slap battle.

Um, Vermont

Magic manholes.

Some nice trains.

Van T. Barfoot vs. the HOA.

Work smart [via Bunkerville].

The pants see through your lies.

Abacusynth [via Memo Of The Air].

I Got Drunk And Slapped Me A Midget.

Zulu pronunciation tutorial [via Mme. Jujujive].

I’d buy this dumpster a beer for a story [via This Isn’t Happiness].

You already know what’s going to happen and you’re gonna watch it anyway.

[Top image found here.]


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Pantagruelian Hot Links

Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.

Seahorse.

It was hot.

Dot Matrix.

Quiet modesty.

Do the Electric Clam.

Advertising honesty.

The cause of the fires.

Chiropractors be like..

Lab-grown meat looks real.

Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.

250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].

A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].

The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]


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Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.

Foraminiferous Hot Links

Cruisin’ For A Love, J. Geils Band (1973) One of the greatest bar bands to hit it big (timeline of band members here). Guitarist John Warren Geils Jr. passed away in 2017 at 71.

Good morning.

Anatidaephobia.

His name was Eugene.

Pretty sure I need this.

The Art of the Drive-By.

Bishop’s got the moves.

This dog [via Bunkerville].

Draw Logos From Memory.

Pretty sure I need these too.

The plateau that disappeared.

Building Barbie [via Mme. Jujujive]

Blunting the Tip of the Spear [h/t Kirk W.]

Ray Jessel‘s 2014 performances of What She’s Got [NSFK].

North Korean anti-American propaganda art, 1950-1970 [NSFK].

[Top image:Apocalyptic play house, Lazio, Italy, via Google Maps Street View via Neil.Fun h/t Memo Of The Air.]


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