It’s a quiet day in the blogosphere when one of my favorite bloggers decides to call it quits. Steamboat McGoo has already poured acetone on Aardvarks & Asshats and melted all threads prior to January 2011. (A&A was always my first stop after Drudge. Go figger.)
Here’s to you, McGoo. May you continue to piss fire on whatever is in your way. –Bunk
[Update 4 March 2011: A big fat birdy just told me that the site may be changing hands. Film at 11.]
Above: The Hav-Mor Family ca. 1947. They performed at county fairs advertising fertilizer produced by The Tennessee Corporation. (Jack “Pop” Pettett is on the right blowing smoke; Ray Courts on banjo.)
Random Garfield Generator, because everything is funnier than Garfield.
Pleased to meet you. What’s your name? [via]
Long time listener, first time caller Ken forwarded us this link o’ golf bloopers.
What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
The Foxfire Project began in the early 1970s to preserve the folklore and knowledge of elderly rural Appalachians. Through taped and written interviews, high school students amassed enough stories for several volumes of pure Americana. They’re available in .pdf format here, other sources here. (The files are huge, might take some time to download.)
Andrea Joseph’s Sketchbook is teh awesome.
Interesting collection of old songs about murders here with lots of stories.
“We’re DOOOOMED!” Great display of doomsayers of the 1970s from Paleo Future.
Oddness is only one click away. [via]
Speak With Conviction addresses a west coast speech pattern?
Women laughing alone with salad.
Pixar’s Zoetrope display is verracool.
We wish you all the best, and may we all prosper and stuff in 2011.
Thanks to all our readers who left comments this past year, because nothing’s worse than blogging in a vacuum. Here’s to you!
1389AD, akachan’s mama, Alessandra, Amanda, Amy Oops, Anna, avideditor, azahar, B.C., BW, beck taitey, Billy, Billye Pascanik, BlackLOG, Bob Smith, Bombshell_Brad, C Monster, Calo, cassandra, Cbullitt, Chiqui, Chuck Gibbs, RN, Chuck U. Farley, ClimateGate2009, cmblake6, Cooper Green, Corey Arnold, Da_Beerfreak, Dan, Dan, Danny, David, David Boyd, David H Mercier, David Traver Adolph, Dennis the Visla, Disappointed, dogs, Doraz, doriangrey1, Dr. Angelique Raymor, Dr. Julia Chicken, els, epicurienne, Estarcatus, exuseme, Feng, Finicky Penguin, Fitzsimmons, Flamenco Cola Fan, Fritz, fritzkatz, G Eagle Esq, Gabriel, gallopavo, Gorilla Man, Heart, honorarynewfie, Hooters Cardiff, Iamthor, Iarepilotswife, inflash.com, istillfeelunusual, izaakmak, j.p.christiansen, Jacob, Jessica, Jim, Jim, Jingle, John, John M., jordanduram, Julia, Kait, Keith Richards Lewis, Ken Caris, Kim, Kitty, Kitty Osdoba, kseverny, Laridian, LC Aggie Sith, Leeuna Foster, Lemur King, lies, lostbutf0und, Macker, Matt Powers, Maverick, Mel, Melanie, Merlin Panciera, Metro, Mike Boozer, Morbidosis, nesoi, Noelle, nursemyra, PaulRiders, Persephonexoxo, Pete Aldin, Peter, Petrol Leaf Blower, phil cordery, Phreak 2.0, Planetross, Posky, Possum, Puddock, pyratelickitysplits, raincoaster, ram0singhal, rbb333, Rob, Rock The Boat, Roger Mugs, Ron, Rose, S. Le, sand, Scally, Shirogane, Snarky Basterd, Someone who knows, sparrow1969, Steamboat McGoo, steve duncan, strider, Tania, Tattoo Jim, The FonZ, The Necromancer, The Never Fairy, the video boss, The Watcher, thebooreport, theliteraryhorse, Tony, Typicalwhitey, unfinishedrambler, VE, victor harris, wallernotweller, wheels, Zanypickle, ZZMike.
Awesomely creepy holiday photos… here.
Kim Jong-Il looking at things [via Presurfer].
Mobile movie theater is solar powered.
Curtis Got Slapped – Forty Pages of Demands For Reparations. Awesome.
Print all your documents with a coffee stain watermark.
Spider threatens itself, drives itself away [via].
[For the sake of anonymity, we’ve blunked out the eyes in a very amateurish fashion so you don’t accuse us of photoshopoopage… and no, that’s not me.]
Let’s compare these two photos.
The guy on the left is despondent, bummed out about everything in his miserable little life. Stuck with a wardrobe full of green and gray, the person who took the photo had such little respect for him that she deliberately offset the negative karma with her thumb.
Contrast that with the photo on the right.
The guy on the right is obviously very successful and satisfied with his lot in life, and enjoys it immensely. And he has an adult beverage camouflaged as coffee when it’s intuitively obvious to the casual observer that it’s a cup full o’ jack.
Why are we posting such an incredible story of success here? Because you too can become successful, and it’s also the start of the holiday season.
Click on either of the images above and they’ll take you to a CafePress store where you can purchase lots of wonderful things. We don’t make any money on the sales, but a percentage of the sales price goes directly to charity.
When you place your orders, tell Christopher Y. that Bunk sent you, and I bet you’ll get a discount.
If you don’t see what you want, lemme know in the comments and we’ll respond. If you need a custom design, we can do it with short notice.
And there was something else I was gonna say about being an amateur blogwhore, but I lost my train of thought…
[Update– Czech out Amy’s Store, too.]
[Important announcement: The wiener of the runoff competition is Planetross by almost a 2:1 margarine. Thanks to all of you for tolerating the behind the scenes flamewars between Planetross and Wheels. They’re both good peeps, but when you toss a free sweatshirt into a crowd there’s likely to be some blood involved.
Thanks also to the folks at CafePress for donating THE COVETED PRIZE. So here’s another plug:
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You can find millions of personalized gifts, hooded sweatshirts and 2011 wall calendars at CafePress – for any topic, interest or brand!
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Infinite comic strip by Jim Woodring with video here.
Did you know that dogs were the first domesticated animals? I didn’t, and Archaeology Magazine examines the hows, whys, wheres and whens.
Inside a tornado (video).
Revolver Maps is a cool widget, spotted at Plate O’ Fish. Unfortunately it doesn’t work on WorpDress for some reason, so we added a button at upper right above the blog counter instead.
Although the story is likely fabricated, this one from 2004 is still funny. On the other hand, This Diary is likely true.
Steve Martin‘s twitter feed is a hoot [via].
That’s our juvy possum who comes around every night to clean up the catfood messes that the cats leave behind. Not counting the tail, he’s about a foot long, maybe about a year and a half old. Although they don’t see very well, after a few camera flashes this one was seeing nothing but red dots when he trundled off.
Small town crime: troublemakers in New Castle Pennsylvania 1930s – 1950s. Mug shots were rescued from the trash, and the blogger researched the stories from newpaper clippings.
Nice time-lapse video of the preparation of a space shuttle launch.
Interesting documentary on Michael Larson who in 1984 won over $110,000 in a single day on a game show by beating the system. Part 1 of 11 here.
What it’s REALLY like to work in a music store [found here].
11′-8″ is the critical dimension, and a bridgecam records canopeners.
“Baltimore Clap” is an odd animation. Might be disturbing for the young set.
Find out what woodworms sound like here.
Clever interactive video time waster (with NSFW/K language).
There’s a website for everything on the internest. This one is an archive of images of dead armadillos.
What kind of man reads Tacky Raccoons? Here’s one of ’em.
Patchwork quilt pattern generator for folks who want to generate patchwork quilts. Great gift idea [via The Presurfer].
Meow mix. Turn on speakers and click around.
According to this nonsensical website, the energy used to load Tacky Raccoons could power a 100W light bulb for 30.731 seconds! Woohoo! [via Woosk.]
Stop clubbing baby seals (here).
Steve McGranahan is the World’s Strongest Redneck. Great videos, too.
Glowsticks + Toilet = Stoner Fun.
Green Eggs and Ham Dylan Style.
Toddler evangelist will make you believe.
I loved these.
Cleverbot is amusing. I went as far as I needed to, starting with:
“Who is Cleverbot?”
“I am, what are you?”
“What am I?”
“Yes, what are you?”
“Cleverbot?”
“Ah yeah…”
Wow. Didn’t think we’d still be around this long. Mostly, we didn’t think at all, just got up did it, starting on 3 August 2007, and we’ve since passed 671,000 views!
The year certainly had its highlights. We had our busiest day, 18 October 2009, with over 20,500 hits. I was invited to post on both AmyOops and The Blogmocracy. Amy’s site is kind of a cornocopia of oddness, and The Blogmocracy is more about current events where I provide innocuous fodder for the Overnight Open Thread. It’s all a lot of fun.
We opened up The Tacky Raccoons Store for TR paraphernalia. Our new FaceBook page was hacked and deleted, but it’ll be up again soon. Thanks to all who logged in.
This post is a retrospective of our past year, listing the Top 10 greatest hits of Tacky Raccoons from August 2009 to August 2010. Previous years’ greatest hits are here and here.
So here are the Top 10 of the past twelve months, with last year’s rankings separated by an appropriate slash. NR = no rating, indicating that the post either didn’t make rank or wasn’t posted last year. Click on the images to see the original posts.
Hey Ho! Let’s go!
No 10/NR: Steampunk Rabbit Hunt
No. 9/NR: The .Gif Friday Post No. 129 – Compound Pendulum, Nematode, Cat Slide
No. 8/6: Southern California Fires – October 2007
No. 7/NR: Bloody Mushrooms With Teeth
No. 6/NR: How to REALLY piss off a golden retriever
No. 5/9: Lesbian Amputee Dwarf Porn
[The title of this one was pure blogwhoring at its best, and it’s still paying off.]
No. 4/1: Lol Ferret Episode 1
[This was the 2nd most popular post since this blog done be borned, with over 30,6oo hits since 8 November 2007.]
No. 3/3: Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
[Don’t miss the comments on this one.]
No. 2/NR: Amy’s Motivational Poster Collection
AND THE NUMBER ONE POST OF THE YEAR IS:
No. 1/NR: An Expensive Ignosecond
This post got close to 21,000 hits before we realized that the pictures didn’t show an accident. Those guys knew exactly what they were doing, and they did it with precision.
Thanks gobs to all of you who joined up and stayed with us these past years, keep on clicking on. Let’s hope and pray that the results of this year’s November elections bring us all back to prosperity. –Bunk
[Tip o’ the tarboosh to this site that produced the top image.]
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