Bug a bug: Annoying a praying mantis. [Found here.]
I want this. It would make clothes dryers and salad spinners obsolete. [Found here.]
Leon Redbone is in a class all by ourselves.
Lonnie Mack and SRV with “Double Whammy,” for preview only.
Lonnie Mack with Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan, “Further On Up The Road.” Whatta classic lineup.
“Nah. That’s just a zebra with a tumor. Keep looking.”
[Found at Crappy Taxidermy. We assume that the zebra is the preserved specimen, otherwise it’d kinda be wrong.]
Dee Wallace (Elliot’s mom) hasn’t aged well.
Other E.T. trivia: Howie Hammerman provided E.T.’s belch. Thought you’d like to know.
[Found here.]
Woof. Yeah, that’s 10cc doing it’s best Zappadoowop attempt with “Donna.” A few days ago, “Brian” reminded me that 10cc sang what I mis-remembered as “I Wanna Be A Bus.” (See this post.)
Here are The Donnas doing their best Ramones impersonation with a puzzling and cheap video.
From The Donnas, we thought we’d find a video of Ritchie Valens singing “Donna,” but no dice. Jump search to “La Bamba” and there’s just garbage and clips of Lou Diamond Phillips limp sinking. So here’s the greatly underrated Los Lobos‘ version of the Mexican traditional song.
Since we started off with a brief reference to Zappa, here’s a double header from a 1980 concert in France. The segue line is perfect.
Be back here tomorrow for some cool stuff.
[Found here. It’d be a pity to miss our Mr. T Archives. ]
Excellent Snow Removal Strategy [Found here.]
Annoying but kinda funny vid by Liam Lynch from 2003 found at AoS. [Ace has a bonus link to a great rebuttal to last Wednesday’s State of the Union speech, by Obama himself.] Whatever.
The Late Great Country Dick Montana and the Beat Farmers’ version of Richard Hell and the Voidoids‘ “Blank Generation.” Got that?
Meet me at the bottom, get me my runnin’ shoes. [Tip o’ the tarboosh to ADAM at Table 9.]
At least one of our readers wants more giraffes, according to last week’s poll, so there you go, bro.
These are the folks who search for stuff on the internest. These are the same folks who find Tacky Raccoons by searching for stuff on the internest. These are the top 20 search requests over the past year that these folks used to find stuff on Tacky Raccoons. Go figger.
None of this matters, aside from being a curious list, and that I’m honestly surprised that Igde Pshat didn’t show up; not that anyone would google it, or that anyone would search for fuldkommen gak either for that matter. We’ve got bigger ducks to fry. It kinda bothers me that neither phrase showed up in our most-wanted google list.
I’ll get over it. Meanwhile…
The big question today is, Who is Ellie Light?
[Image found here.]
[Update: Ellie Light is found.]
Sure it’s simplistic, with the 1949 cartoon stereotypes and all, but that doesn’t make the message wrong. Worth watching.
[Found by danrudy here.]
Koko and Fitz try to change the climate. Fleisher’s “Out of the Inkwell” series was nothing less than bizarre, and this is a good ‘un.
How ’bout some Flo & Eddie. Nobody got the joke, and the Turtles were fairly successful.
Neil Young’s “Powderfinger” was one of my favorites. Never stopped to wonder why.
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