Zappa’s “Black Beauty,” bass up, treble down, volume 11, because it sure as hell beats Manilow.
[Found here.]
Category: Humor
Chinese Roadhouse – My Way or The Highway
The House in the Middle of the Street: A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province, November 22, 2012. An elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their house to be demolished. They say that compensation offered is not enough to cover rebuilding costs, according to local media.
That place screams for a safety sign mounted high on both sides of the house:
Training Your Couch Part I: Changing Light Bulbs
First, convince your couch that in darkness cats will claw its legs and arms and dogs will chew its cushions. Emphasize the importance of electric lighting as a deterrent.
Next, teach it how to sit upright. Explain how stray pocket change and detritus can accumulate over time in the bowels of a couch. Describe in simple, yet graphic detail, the damage it can cause to the very fabric of its nether regions.
Your couch will become nervous and agitated, so explain that in order to eliminate the foreign objects, it is necessary for it to elevate itself such that you (the Alpha Couch) may remove the offending items easily and painlessly from the lower end. Be gentle, and speak in soft voice.
Your couch will listen silently and attentively to your explanations and will cooperate fully (this is when you should replace the lightbulb and THEN collect the stray pocket change, pencils, pens, crayons, raisins, M&Ms and other miscellany) after which you should explain to your couch that you’d like to relax on it. Your couch will likely prostrate itself on the floor.
This erases its memory of the stressful event. Your couch will become content and pliable once again, especially if you spill something sticky on it.
[Image found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Static Electricity Safety, Slide Trombone, Dancing Hard & The Superbs
I like how it makes him go ” beep.” [via]
New York Philharmonic second trombonist David Finlayson plays a tune from the slide’s perspective. [via]
PLACE: LAX Airport, Los Angeles CA.
SONG: THE BLACK ANGELS- Telephone
GIRL: Angela Trimbur
The Superbs (featuring Eleanor ‘Punkin’ Green) lip-synching Bobby Troupe‘s “Baby Baby All The Time” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand 1964.
And there you go for another edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, and we promise you lots more stuff.
The .Gif Friday Post No.262 – Walrus Love, Bathtub Girl, Dance Hard Noir
Tom & Tommy
Yay! Froggies! Collect ‘Em All!
Collect ’em all!
[Found here.]
Update: I think I found the original source (NSFK) for the photo with this caption:
“I saw a freshly poured sidewalk that was besieged with these during the night. Hundreds of the poor bastards got trapped and left tiny imprints of their contorted bodies.”
Indricotheria In The Wild
Los Culos, California (Strutts News Services)
Caught on camera near midnight and under a full moon, an unsuspecting Hasínai girl hunts for edible mollusks in the traditional way – with her toes. A mature Indricotherium silently stalked until startled by the flash of the camera strobes and disappeared back into the deep with a grunt and a splash. The girl escaped unharmed.
Tacky Raccoons 