Category: Odd

Geometricities

A state prison guard found this in a cell. Apparently it was drawn by one of the prisoners who suffered from schizophrenia.

[Image and caption found here, Revelations 21:17 here. Background story unverified.]

Kodak Time

All images from Square America, an excellent collection of random vintage photos.

Goldilocks

Montpelier, Vermont, 2010

[Found here.]

X-Rays of Taxidermy

Prints of taxidermy X-rays are available for purchase here. Be careful with that site or you may be busy for a while. Bottom right is Baby Lilly, from an “X-Ray Your Toy” event held at the Conservation Centre, National Museums Liverpool, England, found here.

Deracinated Hot Links

Steam Powered Aereo Plane, New Grass Revival (1981)
NGR was a tight group of talented pickers who mixed traditional bluegrass styles with jazz and rock. (The song is a John Hartfield cover.)

Knockers.

Lady In Red.

Lil’ Blammo.

Changelings.

Johnny At The Fair.

The Melon Whisperer.

Japanese marble run.

The Wingnut Museum.

Norty Blues Episode 76.

Bartender’s manual 1927.

Two Thin Lines Of Ketchup.

Warren Buffet on marriage.

Skapybara [via Mme. Jujujive].

These things seem to happen.

Some things never happened.

Chairman of the Beach [via Bunkerville].

Better with sound (and better than a .gif).

Behind the scenes in the panda paddock.

Everyday Life in Real Time [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Slugman Portrait Pillow found here.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 866 – Magic Mirror, Baby Shower & The SBD High Seas Rockers

[Found here, here and here.]

All About Tardigrades

In summary:

[Found here while looking for something else. UCL = University College London.]

Picasso’s Girls

[Found in here.]

Big 8 Hank & The Rhythm Slappers

Henry “Hank” Tudor (aka Bluffin’ Hal) was dubbed the King of 8 Cylinder Retrobilly. Tudor sang lead vocal and played slap bass. Little is known about the Rhythm Slappers’ lineup other than the female vocalists were replaced numerous times for unknown reasons.

Image from Historical Men Reimagined As Modern People Living Today,
[h/t Jaime G.]

Ololygmancing Hot Links

Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
 One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.

Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]

“A snek!”

Puttering.

Grape bricks.

Thai rednecks.

Current events.

Adam’s first swim.

Mary had a little rabbit.

Entitled Do Not Disturb .

Norty Blues Episode 75.

The happiest vertebrae.

Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].

Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.

The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].

Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]

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