Category: Hot Links

Kapnographic Hot Links

Mumbles,  Clark Terry (and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1964)
Reportedly Richard Pryor’s favorite song, Mumbles was also known as Pookie’s Theme for The Soupy Sales Show.

Bubble fun.

Adam Rainer.

Headbangers.

Billy the AI Fish.

Giant Crab 1969.

Plant City sunset.

Custom modification.

Norty Blues Episode 107.

Now about that manicule…

Canada’s stealth weapon.

Paintings of paper and glue.

Catlines [via Everlasting Blört].

Pedestrian crossing in Vietnam.

Another reason for the internet.

The moment punk rock was born.

The Mirror Dance [via Bunkerville].

Name that tune [via Feral Irishman].

Flailing hoses [via Memo Of The Air].

Breakfast, dinner, tea & supper 1912.

It’s 2am, SR412 West, 147 miles from Tulsa.

Queen Hepzibah’s favourite Bajan Calypsonian.

The Dual Primate Console [via Sloth Unleashed].

What Did He Say? (The Mumble Song) by The Charioteers.

[Top image: Who Can Sleep, Gérard DuBois (2025) found here.]

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Dies Paschae Hot Links

Love Is All Around, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts (1996)
Probably the best version of one of the most cloying songs ever – Theme to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Vitiligo.

Sitzfleisch.

This doggo.

What a beach.

Three little pigs.

Watch your step.

Before The Scream?

Slug Dub [h/t Jason M.].

20 minutes of DAYYUM!!

Norty Blues Episode 106.

Elena is one tough woman.

Short haulers [via Neatorama].

Kwan Yeuk Pang’s watercolors.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Doloresaurus [via Everlasting Blört].

White trash troubles. More details here.

The women of Brooklands [via Bits & Pieces].

No more P00P [via The View From Lady Lake].

Wait for The Horned Screamer [via Bunkerville].

The astonishing depravity of the Adélie penguins
[via Nag on the Lake].

The Malling Hansen Writing Ball [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Ancient A.I. found here.]

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Homichlophobic Hot Links

(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown, New York Dolls (1973)
This seminal proto punk band took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop.

R.I.P. David Johansen.
R.I.P. Roberta Flack.
R.I.P. Gene Hackman.

Quiet.

Greasy.

PB Mona.

Street art.

Light’s out.

Goop Scoop.

I got nuthin’.

Lowe’s Cabin.

The Fun Police.

Choctaw Bingo.

Bajan Rock Cakes.

Flightless fearing.

How March comes in.

The Colonel is pissed.

Norty Blues Episode 105.

M.C. Escher film collection.

Metal detectable bandages.

Hagfish slime [via Bunkerville].

Space X and the Coastal Commission.

European box beds [via Everlasting Blört].

Mantis ate the whole thing [via Ephemera].

St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.

“Hey Joe. Where was your cousin’s apartment?”

Do Something Cool in Slo-Mo [via Memo Of The Air].

Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956) [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Ceramic art by Sergey Isopov, found here.]

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Bisulcated Hot Links

You Keep On Worrying Me, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm (1959) “Turner maintained strict discipline over the band, insisting they lived in a large house with him so he could conduct early morning rehearsals at a moment’s notice. He would fire anyone he suspected of drinking or taking drugs, and would fine band members if they played a wrong note.”

THIS.

Stoops.

The Trap.

LOOK OUT.

Sitar metal.

Duck Radio.

Off the ferry.

Fertile turtle.

Gravestone circles.

A decision was made.

Dancing with robots.

3D models of models.

The Confetti of Venice.

The $40K pizza delivery.

Norty Blues Episode 104.

The only TED Talk you need.

The history of Mah Nà Mah Nà.

It’s gonna be okay [via Bunkerville].

The Spotniks [via Everlasting Blört].

The Toronto Recursive History Project [h/t Jason F.].

“It’s a profound gas, Mr. Gunn“ [via Memo Of The Air].

Soho (Cafe Francais) 1955 [via The View From Lady Lake].

“I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.”

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Rhotacismic Hot Links

My Only Man, Helen Merrill & Piero Umiliani (1962) Smooth and sultry, from the 1962 Italian drama Smog. Umiliani wrote many scores for spaghetti westerns and sexploitation films, but was best remembered as the composer of Mah Nà Mah Nà.
Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) was a jazz vocalist who recorded in the bebop era of the late 50s / early 60s. She traveled abroad for some years before returning to the U.S. in the 1970s.

Smog.

Read it.

Stencils.

The Niffle.

The Wackids.

This dog.
This dog, too.

Zoom fashion.

Things to sit on.

F-bomb generator.

F.I.’s misc. memes.
Memes for $6,000, Alex.

Norty Blues Episode 103.

“Andy is hot on a smell trail.”

Balloon ride [via Bunkerville].

Thank You Very Much (trailer).

Ruth’s mallets [via Memo Of The Air].

Venetian entry buzzers [via Everlasting Blört].

I Wanna Rock and Roll Until a Reasonable Hour.

Jayne Mansfield walks around her Hollywood home.

The Alafia River Beer Shed [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Helen Merrill in studio, unknown date.]

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Super Bowl Lix Hot Links

Jumpin’ Jacquet, Illinois Jacquet & His Orchestra (1946) Recorded in New York. Illinois Jacquet / tenor sax, John Simmons / Bass, Freddie Green / guitar, Emmet Berry / Trumpet, Bill Doggett / piano, Shadow Wilson(?) / drums.

Amber.

Der Käfer.

One Got Fat.

Beetlejuicies.

Working late.

House of Dan.

Yay! Campers!

How to parent.

Stickler’s snails.

Animated street art.

Click for more NEWS.

“But why?” said the dog.

Norty Blues Episode 102.

Psst… hey O.J. – ISWYDT. 😀

Talk like an orca [via Bunkerville].

Saxquatch [via Everlasting Blört].

Mastering The Art Of Hock A Loogie.

Routine graph [via Innocent Bystanders].

Abraham LeBron Lincoln – An American Icon.

OVERRIDE: The opening salvo of the DOGE war.

Everybody and The Sunshine Band [via Memo Of The Air].

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Diprionidian Hot Links

Last of the Singing Cowboys, The Marshal Tucker Band (1979)
The group recorded numerous albums that went gold and platinum, including their first, titled simply The Marshall Tucker Band (1973). The band was named after Marshal Tucker, a blind piano tuner whose name was inscribed on a key to the warehouse where the band rehearsed.

The flew.

Dance hard.

Proof of age.

Selling Ukiah.

The Paper Ark.

No matter who.

Great blue heron!

¡La Migra! ¡La Migra!

Emma O’Leary’s dogs.

Norty Blues Episode 101.

The NYC A-Train Sax Battle.

USSR December 1978: -73°F.

Mister Nice Hands – an interactive classic.

“I’ll take ‘Decipher It’ for one million, Alec.”

Photogenic couples [via Memo Of The Air].

The White Room [story here via Feral Irishman].

Cruising St. John [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Atlas moth found here via Bunkerville].

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Hekistothermic Hot Links

Honky, The Ho-Dads (1963) The Ho-Dads were formed by Lou Josie (aka Jimmy King) of Medina, Ohio.

Bark.

BB Cat.

GO ELGSES!.

Pigs penned.

Gord’s prints.

Who can sleep?

Little Big World.

Roadtrip ruined.

And Dali howled.

Men Into Space Part 1.

Pain slinky deployment.

Norty Blues Episode 100.

Splodey Head Syndrome.

Crawfish [h/t Corinne L.].

The Dynamic Distortions.

Commuter train efficiency.

Minnesota ice [via IDHMGO].

Unidentified seismic object.

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House.

David Byrne’s cheerful reasons.

Arid flicks [via Everlasting Blört].

Cat score is playable! [h/t Jaime G.].

Check your messages [via Memo Of The Air].

1969 Dodge Charger Hellcat [via Bunkerville].

30 minutes of helicopter crashes [h/t Possum whose cats like watching helicopter crashes].

[Top image: If you don’t know you probably shouldn’t be here.]

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Tropophilous Hot Links

Timebomb, Tommy J Stewart (2024) Tommy J Stewart  is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Dublin, Ireland (not to be confused with the American drummer of the same name).

Ayup.

Shells.

Beerball.

AI floor plan.

The Castaway.

RIP David Lynch.

The chase scene.

How old are you?

Meet the Hoopers.

HB vs. Sacramento.

Advertising in grime.

HATEHATEHATEHATE.

Norty Blues Episode 99.

Patriotic dental surgery.

A lot of peeps are pissed.

Gyroscopic progression.

Sinclair at the World’s Fair.

Mr. Robert’s Neighborhood.

The cobra roars [via Bunkerville].

Chiropractor’s spinal massage gun.

Rhombic dodecahedron holoscope.

Hair of the 70s [via Memo Of The Air].

Onion sandwich [via Everlasting Blört].

Johnny Reb Cannon [via Feral Irishman].

Man With A Wine Lamp, Tiffany Velázquez.

[Top image found here.]

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Ingravescent Hot Links

The Rose of Washington Square, The Frankie Carle Quartet (1947) Frankie Carle was nicknamed “The Wizard of the Keyboard” for his piano skills. Sunrise Serenade was Carle’s best-known composition, rising to No. 1 in the US in 1938 and selling more than one million copies.

BZZZT!

Citizen Wade.

Schulz’ Virtue.

The comments.

St. Nan the Polite.

The first webcam.

Which way is best?

“I need a mannequin.“

Happy Birthday, Elvis.

Norty Blues Episode 98.

“Say it” [via Bunkerville].

The Margate Shell Grotto.

Dropping the Tannenbaum.

Another reason to have kids.

Visit Alcatraz [via Everlasting Blört].

The Flying Saucer [via Memo Of The Air].

Grammarian vs Errorist: The Showdown.

The Son Who Couldn’t Leave [via Nag on the Lake].

Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum. [h/t Bits & Pieces].

Pacific Palisades Fire updates here.
Also this.

[Top image: Early 1900s stereoscope photos, unknown origin, found here.]

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