The Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan 1970
[Found here.]
1970 Schizophrenia Treatment Center
The Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan 1970
[Found here.]
Category: Odd
Grallatory Hot Links
Funny, Joe Hinton (1964)First recorded by country singer Billy Walker in 1961, Joe Hinton’s version made No. 13 on Billboard’s Top 100, No. 1 on Cash Box Magazine’s R&B list, and was one of Willie Nelson’s first hits as songwriter. The title Funny How Time Slips Away was shortened on the record label. Hinton succumbed to skin cancer in 1968 at the age of 38.
Only Charlie Watts. R.I.P.
Another Funny is posted here.
Raccoon kit learns the trades.
Springfield School District board meeting?
Watch a tortoise eat stuff [h/t Mme. Jujujive].
This is what jellyfish larvae look like. The comments are fun, too.
Someone thought it was a good idea to put antifa (?!) in the classroom.
[Top image: Unknown source, probably from Reddit. h/t rightymouse.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 696 – The Mask, The Milky Way & The 99 Percent
Sulcata Rotata Blossoms
Close up image below the break shows a large home-grown specimen. More about these wonders of nature here.
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Kelp
[Photo by J. Erick Smith.]
Statues
[Found here.]
Twitter suspended that user’s account, @statuefun, for violating the ToS, presumably for promoting violence and/or tobacco use.
Absquatulating Hot Links
I Can See Everybody’s Baby, Ruth Brown & Her Rhythmakers (1955)Ruth Brown was known as “Miss Rhythm” and “The Queen of R&B,” while Atlantic Records was called “The House That Ruth Built.” The Rhythmakers [sic] provided backup vocals and were better known as The Drifters.
Brown recorded many hits from 1949-1955, and faded from public view in the ’60s to become a housewife and mother. She returned to music in 1975 at the urging of Redd Foxx.
“Click here.”
Road deaths 2018-19, UK vs. US.
[Top image: Still from short film Adiosu (2013) by Martino Pinna found here.]
Hurricane Ida live tracking images via WeatherUnderground; animated satellite image at NOAA.
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 695 – Rantbear, Hovertramper & A Light Show
Rantbear made from this image, then I messed with the trampoline colors of a .gif found here, and a blog buddy wanted some weather added to an old Stanley Clarke concert clip.
Brilliant.
I had a TV just like that. It stopped working when a raw egg somehow got into the rear vent over the CRT and fried it.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 