Category: Real News

Fun.

It all starts on 20 January 2009, and, yeah, the guy is flexing his eel while he has window reflections in his sunglasses, as a diminutive sea bat circles a barely perceptible void in his skull.  THIS CARTOON IMAGE UNKNOWINGLY VOTED FOR SOCIALISM.

Hunker down my friends. We’re in for a long 4-8 year high volume/low velocity ride downhill on a gravel road with pre-engineered potholes and no brakes.  For those of you who still don’t get it, rent Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil.” Read “Animal Farm” again.  Find a copy of Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks and White Liberals.”

Then spread out and teach an elected Republican about the tenets of Conservatism.

Lost battles do not equate to lost wars.

Cordially, Bunk

[Image from here, via Mogadonia.]

Amazing that it takes a Brit to say what the “unbiased” American media won’t.

At least the Brits have an open press.

“You have to pinch yourself – a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.”

Paul McCartney’s Head Retrieved From Bum

…or “Lucky Bum Gets Head From Beatle“… or “Tramp Admires Sir Paul’s Bust“… or “Abbey Road Execs Accept Hobo’s Offer For Head.” (Your choice of headlines.  Way too many puns and obnoxious innuendi for this True Story, and I admit that I’m completely shameless for jumping on this one with both feet. I promise you it might not happen again.)

“The Magical Mystery Tour is over – the missing bust of Paul McCartney has been found by a rough sleeper in Reading who mistook it for a Halloween mask. Tramp Anthony Silva discovered the wax head while sleeping by dustbins near Reading railway station last Friday.

“After Anthony found the auction lot – using it as a pillow for four nights – he jumped the trains to the Abbey Road music studios in London… The mask’s authenticity was then confirmed.”

[Image and story from Arbroath.]

Koko Understands Sarcasm, Cats, Politics

“Koko the gorilla is famous for mastering more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, which she uses to communicate with Stanford researchers.

“That’s not all she’s learned from humans. One day her attendants discovered that a steel sink in her enclosure had been torn from its moorings. When they confronted her, she pointed to her pet kitten.

“‘Cat did it’, she signed.”

Strutts News Services was granted an exclusive interview with Koko, and asked the following questions, in ASL:

SNS:  ?Koko like vote who
Koko: ?koko like
SNS: ?Koko like who vote
Koko: koko. koko. koko.
SNS: ?Vote Koko
Koko: congress vote koko.
SNS:  Fat chance, koko.
Koko: Bite me elect koko 2 elect koko 56 vote koko 12330o-84jmsvpow Koko last word heh loser


[Image from here, story from here.]

A POW STORY: John McCain

[Folks, I’ve decided to make this post “sticky” and it will remain on top of the daily posts until after the election. Regardless of your political affiliation, please take the time to view the video and read the article linked below. Meanwhile, daily posts will follow below this one as usual. –Bunk]

VIDEO AND MORE BELOW THE BREAK. Continue reading “A POW STORY: John McCain”

PacMan’s Left Nostril

Or maybe it’s Sisyphus‘ Vacation.

It’s more commonly known as Venus, attempting in vain to eclipse the Sun.  Venus never stops trying (just like Sisyphus).

[More very cool images of immense far away stuff here.]

Logging Blogging

No Photoshopoopage here.  This is cutting edge, wave of the future stuff.  I already posted it here, and there’s no reason that you folks should be left out of the loop.  Check it out:

No clear-cutting, only culling of old timbers, without the logging roads.  Ingenious, but slow and expensive.

[Image from here, video from here.]

Saturday Matinee: Levi Stubbs 1936-2008

Levi Stubbs & the Four Tops, on the American TV show Hullabaloo, singing “Just Walk Away.”

From the Wikipoodle:

“Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the famed Motown R&B group The Four Tops.”

From Billboard’s Top Pop Singles:

“R&B vocal group from Detroit formed in 1953 as the Four Aims.  Consisted of Levi Stubbs (lead singer), Renaldo ‘Obie’ Benson, Lawrence Payton, and Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir.  First recorded for Chess in 1956, then Red Top and Columbia, before signing with Motown in 1963.  Stubbs was the voice of Audrey II (the voracious vegetation) in the 1986 movie ‘The Little Shop of Horrors.'”

Besides being a cousin to Jackie Wilson (!) Stubbs was also the voice of Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors.” I never made that connection until today.

Aretha Franklin’s tribute to Levi Stubbs, after his stroke and during his fight with cancer. Hard to watch.

RIP, Mr. Stubbs.

The Shaggy Woods Beast

Larry Carlson has some amazing illustrations.  This is a small part of one of many…  right-click on the image to see the full-blown version.  Excellent example of practical advanced tublication.

You Played a Real Cool Hand…

Paul Newman 1925-2008