Just sayin’. No photo retouching here.
[Found here.]
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Awesome Town is Awesome.
Nobody lives in Awesome Town. There is no plumbing, no electricity and no air conditioning. There is no city council, no Police Department, no Fire Department, no Post Office. There is a jail where no one will be incarcerated. There is no telephone service and no weekly trash pickup.
Awesome Town has no industry, no farming, and no business.
There are no stores or restaurants in Awesome Town, but there is a 5-story hotel. Nobody has ever checked in to the hotel and no one ever will. There are no gas stations because there are no cars, and children are not allowed in Awesome Town.
There are no newspapers in Awesome Town because there is no one to read them. There are no medical facilities or pharmacies either, and there is no hospital. There is no internet service or broadcast radio or television.
Awesome Town is located on San Clemente Island, California. It is a Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) Training Complex.
[From this Architect’s perspective, this would have been a fun project. Found via here. Photos from here. Detailed description from CMA below the break.] Continue reading “Awesome Town is Awesome.”
Saturday Matinee – Snow Removal, Whatever, Dick Montana, Howlin’ Wolf (and giraffes).
Excellent Snow Removal Strategy [Found here.]
Annoying but kinda funny vid by Liam Lynch from 2003 found at AoS. [Ace has a bonus link to a great rebuttal to last Wednesday’s State of the Union speech, by Obama himself.] Whatever.
The Late Great Country Dick Montana and the Beat Farmers’ version of Richard Hell and the Voidoids‘ “Blank Generation.” Got that?
Meet me at the bottom, get me my runnin’ shoes. [Tip o’ the tarboosh to ADAM at Table 9.]
At least one of our readers wants more giraffes, according to last week’s poll, so there you go, bro.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 111 – Walkies, Flappies & Fluffy Escalator Cat
Saturday Matinee – Hatebird, Deathkitty, Spadina Bus, Magic Bus & the BorgMobile
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE
[Found here, crossposted here.]
Metro found this oddity. Reminded me of Karma Ghost, now on the Utoobage.
Spadina Bus: Great find by Gabriel, who tried to hide it in the comments.
Can’t believe that this one rolled in 1968. I want it.
I was looking for a song that I heard in the mid-seventies that had these lyrics:
I want to be a bus;
I want to be a big bus;
I want to bus the world around;
I want to be the biggest bus to ever bus the world around.
The google machine didn’t help; neither did the Utoobage search. Meh.
And Now For Our Feature Presentation:
Ernest Borgnine On The Bus (Part 1).
Elvis: Still Alive At 75
Dinosaurs slept with their eyes open.
Norwich, England (Strutts News Services) – A long-debated archaeological mystery has apparently been resolved by researchers of the University of East Anglia.
The excavations of the River Yare floodplain in the early 1970s unearthed numerous fossils which gave creedence to the theory of reptilian insomnia. All fossils were meticulously labeled and their in-situ positions noted, allowing for a glimpse into the sleeping habits of the great reptiles. Continue reading “Dinosaurs slept with their eyes open.”
Saturday Matinee – Reptilicus, Rob, Roches & James Gurley
The Day after Christmas. Quick! What’s the first word that comes to mind? “Reptilicus! An annihilating mastodon immune to all known weapons of warfare!”
Where’s Rob? Simple premise, funny result, and the ending makes it all worthwhile. [Found here.]
Cbullitt sent an email link to The Roches’ version of “The Hallelujah Chorus.” It reminded me of the first Roches’ song I ever heard, “Mr. Sellack.”
Here’s some serious retroness from 1967. From the Utoobage:
Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding company perform live on San Francisco TV program called “POW” that had Rolfe Petersen as the host on KPIX.
Big Brother & The Holding Company’s guitarist James Gurley recently passed away at the age of 69.
Great Christmas Vinyl
Have a Cartoon Lee Majors Christmas… oop, no, wait:
Have a Tiny Tim Christmas, or not. But hey! Lookee here:
We wish you all a Bootsy Christmas! And may Santa bring you all the funk you deserve.
Cool Crafts: AK47 Paper Model Kit
“Each AK-47 Paper Model Kit comes with all the materials and instructions to construct this amazingly life-like paper model of an AK-47.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a very detailed project, requiring some attention to detail and time.”
Paint it flat black and it’ll get you arrested in the daytime. At night, unarmed intruders will soil their chonies when they see the business end pointed in their direction. As for armed intruders, it’s kind of a death sentence… for you. It’s still cool, though, cuz u kn poze n stuf wit ur blng.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 