Formivorous Hot Links

Potrzebie, Alfred E. Neuman & His Fershlugginer Five (1959) MAD Magazine published a number of recordings over the years, some included as tear-out  vinyl 45s in various issues. Potrzebie was the B-side of the truly awful What Me Worry? From Google Translate:
Polish – “Potrzeba” (poat-seh-bah) translates to “need”
“W potrzebie” (poat-seh-byah) means “in need of”.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]

Campering.

Hello Froggy.

1 possum per hour.

THE Best Sandbox.

Painting with Legos.

A fishing reel diddley bow.

It’s worse than we thought.

BBC News in pidgin [h/t Possum].

Have you heard dis information?

The coming darkness of October 14.

Percussion solo [via Feral Irishman]

Different dogs get weighed at the vet.

Messin’ with the skid [via Bunkerville].

The Memory of a Mighty River [via Memo Of The Air].

Happy 23rd Blogiversary to Everlasting Bloort & the Queen of the  Illustrated Link Dump Mme. Jujive. May the Meepzorp be with you.

[Top image:  Colorized still from The Wild Party (1929) starring Clara Bow and Frederic March, via The View From Lady Lake.]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Ode to NANCY

For some unexplainable reason, I’ve been collecting random Nancy panels for a while, many culled from this fine collection. I have only one paper copy I clipped long ago from the Sunday Funnies because it’s so Zen; the others were all found online by accident. I messed with one or two…

[Click on any image to enlarge. Previously posted Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi Ritz stuff here.]

America Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 2

[See Part 1 for more. Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889]

American Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 1

[Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889]

MODERN MACHINES AND INVENTIONS MAGAZINE

These retro-future fictitious covers are the work of Chet Phillips.

Art

Silent film actress Alberta Vaughn was featured in a surrealist artwork by Persian artist Jon  S. Oshanna (1895-1980) circa 1924. Oshanna was a muralist and commercial artist, active in California.

[Found here.]

Muskrat Love

Spanish trapper hanging muskrats up to dry their fur before skinning. Stretching and drying the pelt follows this. His camp is in the marshes nearby. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parrish, Louisana, 1941.

[Image and caption found here.]

“A Tumble-Weed Ball (From A Photograph)”

[Found here.]

Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918

Related posts here. Complete archived issues of Electrical Experimenter may be viewed and downloaded here.

More Rat Rods

[All images found at Rat Rods Rule! More rat rods here.]