‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.
[Found here.]
Category: Odd
Boustrophedonic Hot Links
Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.
OCD.
Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].
Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.
Daisy has all the time in the world.
Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].
Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].
An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].
The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.
[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 880 – Hi-Def Bacon, Happy Rain Doggo & Breaking Bat
They Heard Them Coming – Bloco da Latinha
“A local helps a reveler with his costume made from beer and soda cans during the ‘Bloco da Latinha’ street party Carnival parade in Madre de Deus, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).”
“Carnival revelers in northeastern Brazil ‘s Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it: More than 30 paraders decked out in cumbersome outfits made from hundreds of beer and soda cans clanged their way around the island in Bahia state’s Bay Of All Saints.”
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Mickey’s Dreamy Spuds
fluckyducky – 23 August 2018
“This isn’t from 1960, I made it this morning while I drank my coffee. I posted it on my facebook page at about 10:45am, which was a couple of minutes after I finished making it. That’s my watermark, ‘Clarington Shpoo Imagification’, next to the french fries. It’s a joke, a parody.”
[Spotted on Xwitter, found on Reddit.]
Art du Shart
“The LAM museum in the Netherlands had artist Alexandre Lavet’s beer can sculptures on display on the floor, when it was accidentally thrown in the trash by a staff member.
The work, titled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was being exhibited at the LAM museum in the Netherlands. The piece looks like two empty and crushed beer cans that carelessly been left behind. However, upon closer inspection, they are actually tiny sculptures that have been meticulously hand-painted with acrylics.”
[Images and caption found here.]
Whirlybird
[Found here.]
Elinguated Hot Links
She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.
The Hand (1966).
R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)
Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].
1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.
Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].
Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]
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Tunes for All Hallow’s Eve
Songs in this collection may or may not be directly related to Halloween, and it’s probably the first Halloween play list without Monster Mash.
[Caveat: No copyright infringement is intended; songs posted here are for entertainment purposes only.]
[Update – Added SJH per Taminator’s suggestion.]
Tacky Raccoons 