Category: Odd

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Edna

In April 1958 Harry and Edna took a cruise from San Francisco to Hawaii on the SS Matsonia. Photographer Jeff Phillips found a ton of Kodachrome slides and is searching for Harry and Edna’s family.
[Story and more photos here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

[Found in here.]

Demephitised Hot Links

Lazy Onions, The Lachy Doley Group (2016) Mashup of  Deep Purple’s Lazy with Booker T. & The M.G.s’ Green Onions by Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan R. “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet.

Jelly.

Dang it.

Hick Hop.

Pickaball.

Be the hoop.

Sleepy trout.

Only one left.

What’s My Line?

Really old jokes.

Do the Back It Up.

Spirit of the Bean.

Mongo rides again.

They spotted a typo.

Enhancing public art.

Animated oceanic art.

Silos, sheds and stars.

Norty Blues Episode 141.

A 60 second Dark Mirror episode?

Restoring a 1950 Hohner Seductora.

Song of the Car Alarm [via Memo Of The Air].

The deadliest natural disaster in US history.

No one else called it that [via The Feral Irishman].

Lived-Experience Advocates [via Thompson, blog].

Portable emergency subwoofer [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here. “Шедеврум” is a Russian AI art generation application.]

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 928 – Heavy Metal Cooking, A Lucky Day & Planned Destruction

[Found here, here and here.]

Pensive Pup Ponders Pretty Pumps

[Found here.]

Sure, why not…

[Found here.]

Making of a Great Martini

[Painting by Guy Buffet (1943-2023) found here.]

R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find

Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]

Nychthemeral Hot Links

Crawlin’ (The Crawl), Untouchables (1960) Sparce information on this group, too many others by the same name. Written by guitarist Frank W. Perry and issued on Rello / To-Da Music, this recording is a less sleazy cover of Crawlin’ by Richie Mayo and the Paramours (1957).

Fail.

Hotchoo.

Batter up.

Street details.

No more treats.

“I am like spider.”

Gasser in the wild.

Heads up, Baltimore.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Birth of a Tardigrade.

Be amused in Sweden.

“How many now, Greg?”

Ambiguous storytelling.

Norty Blues Episode 140.

Prayers for Scott Adams.

AI-enhanced photography.

How to trade Halloween Candy.

Visit Us! [via The Feral Irishman].

1963 NOLA [via Memo Of The Air].

Pachyderm podiatry [via Thompson, blog].

These dogs got treats [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here.]

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