Una construcción maravillosa para alojar los placeres que las mujeres de San Petersburgo se daban en 1973.
[Image and caption found in here.]
Category: Odd
I found a button hole.
The Niva button factory in Patisia, Greece, opened in the 1940s and remained in operation for decades before being abandoned.
“The photo was available on various international websites. Most of them state that it is an abandoned button factory in China. […] With a little searching and a lot of luck, we found where the ghost factory really is! It is not in the Chinese city of Longhua Shenzhen, as mentioned in most posts, nor are we talking about a set photo. The abandoned button factory is located in Patisia!”
[Top image found in here, other images and story here via here.]
Psephographic Hot Links
Dance of the Rona, Shardcore (2020) from The Sounds of Covid-19“NIH released the DNA sequence of Covid-19, so I decided to convert it into musical notes and hear what it sounds like.”
The excerpt is from the .midi file download, speed x2, and chopped down to six minutes. I like the uncut electromix version better.
[h/t Lucy Dynamite]
I Don’t Look Good Naked Any More.
Something’s in the air over Moscow.
Prisencolinensinainciusol. [h/t Innocent B.]
Colorized jitterbuggery of “Hellzapoppin.
The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott.
A photo of mating weevils is available at FineArtAmerica.
Bulletproof Enterprise Jeffrey Epstein Air Freshener (1 Pack)
Nestlé Australia decided its “Red Skins” candy might offend some people so they renamed it “Red Ripper,” the nickname of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Map of Pornhub search terms by state (for Election Week 2020).
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Gunfighter, Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys, The Bus Boys, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
“In a small town in the old west, a lone and weary gunfighter enters a saloon.” The Gunfighter is a classic short by Eric Kissack (narrated by Nick Offerman). NSFK content, language.
[h/t Andy D.]
Freddie Bell & the Bell Boys “Giddy Up A Ding Dong” (1956) as performed in Rock Around The Clock, (a showcase movie featuring DJ Alan Freed). The song was written in 1953 by Freddie Bell and his friend Peppino “Pep” Lattanzi.
The Bell Boys played covers of black R&B artists, including Big Mama Thornton’s Hound Dog. Elvis Presley heard Bell’s version and decided to record it in 1955. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band covered Giddy Up A Ding Dong (with matching choreography) in 1973.
The Bus Boys had a great retro sound and were featured on SNL and in the 1982 movie 48 Hours.
New Orleans’ famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded by Pennsylvanian Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s as a dixieland revival group, and that song wasn’t at all what I expected.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be home by 9:59pm so the ‘rona don’t gitcha, or stay out to 10:01pm and you’ll earn some serious ‘vid-kickin’ braggin’ rights.
USS Nimitz Halloween Cake [Updated – More Cake!]
Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Teresa Conde, from San Diego, sculpts a Halloween cake aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo.
USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group are currently stationed in the Central Persian Gulf.
[Image and caption found here. I posted this because it’s still not Thanksgiving yet.]
UPDATE: Also on the Nimitz – A Veteran’s Day Cake
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Sarah Freitas, left, and Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Erica Rodriguez cut a Veterans Day cake on the aft mess deck of the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) on Nov. 11, 2020. US Navy Photo
Great Big Blobs
NASA scientists are studying planet magnetic fields and revisited raw data collected by Voyager 2 over three decades ago. They found that
Voyager 2 spotted a massive magnetic bubble pulling gas out of Uranus’ atmosphere.
https://www.space.com/uranus-gas-blob-voyager-2-discovery.html
Such loop-like plasmoids are typically formed as a spinning planet flings bits of its atmosphere to space. “Centrifugal forces take over, and the plasmoid pinches off.”
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=119
Uranus pinches off big blobs and flings them.
Preliographical Hot Links
Filipino Box Spring Hog, Tom Waits (1999) Album: Mule VariationsIf you don’t know who Tom Waits is, I truly feel sorry for you. Redeem yourself by clicking on this.
From the Dept. of Rare Honesty:
I received a letter from USAA this week.
“Attached is a check for $53.12. This amount represents a refund for all finance charges and fees that should have been reimbursed, as well as interest of $50.22.”
Apparently, the amount “disputed” was $2.90. Assuming 7.5% compounded interest, it dates to 1980. No idea what I “disputed.”
HUGE solar flare and more cool astrostuff.
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
Spontaneous human combustion cases are rising.
Why over 100 Seattle police quit the force (in their own words).
Interview with David Kahn (author of The Code Breakers) on modern cryptography trends (2013).
In 1968, Bernd Boettger escaped from East Germany with a home-made submarine. [Related escape story here.]
Why I Hate Australians is a rant from 2006. It’s got over 1,200 comments; more are added daily.
[Top image: Ol’ Blue Boar weighs 500 pounds, is missing an eye, has razor sharp teeth, and is the meanest pig in the world.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 658 – Demo Bueno, Stockin’ the Station & Zamboni Flambé
1920’s Demolition Derby
[Found in here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here. NMHT archive here.]
How’ do SuzukiSavages! There’s some rat rods and hogs posted here somewhere, but dang if I remember where they are.
Tacky Raccoons 