The .Gif Friday Post No. 896 – Karate Bulk Belt, Bouncing Beds & Popping A Wheelie

[Found here, here and here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

All previously posted elsewhere. Crow eye photo courtesy of @CrowMonthly. Hair Blobs & tattoo courtesy Chuck C.

Dies Paschae Hot Links

Love Is All Around, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts (1996)
Probably the best version of one of the most cloying songs ever – Theme to The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Vitiligo.

Sitzfleisch.

This doggo.

What a beach.

Three little pigs.

Watch your step.

Before The Scream?

Slug Dub [h/t Jason M.].

20 minutes of DAYYUM!!

Norty Blues Episode 106.

Elena is one tough woman.

Short haulers [via Neatorama].

Kwan Yeuk Pang’s watercolors.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Doloresaurus [via Everlasting Blört].

White trash troubles. More details here.

The women of Brooklands [via Bits & Pieces].

No more P00P [via The View From Lady Lake].

Wait for The Horned Screamer [via Bunkerville].

The astonishing depravity of the Adélie penguins
[via Nag on the Lake].

The Malling Hansen Writing Ball [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Ancient A.I. found here.]


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

Homichlophobic Hot Links

(There’s Gonna Be A) Showdown, New York Dolls (1973)
 This seminal proto punk band took their name from the New York Doll Hospital, a doll repair shop.

R.I.P. David Johansen.
R.I.P. Roberta Flack.
R.I.P. Gene Hackman.

Quiet.

Greasy.

PB Mona.

Street art.

Light’s out.

Goop Scoop.

I got nuthin’.

Lowe’s Cabin.

The Fun Police.

Choctaw Bingo.

Bajan Rock Cakes.

Flightless fearing.

How March comes in.

The Colonel is pissed.

Norty Blues Episode 105.

M.C. Escher film collection.

Metal detectable bandages.

Hagfish slime [via Bunkerville].

Space X and the Coastal Commission.

European box beds [via Everlasting Blört].

Mantis ate the whole thing [via Ephemera].

St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.

Hey Joe. Where was your cousin’s apartment?”

Do Something Cool in Slo-Mo [via Memo Of The Air].

Lyonel Feininger (1871 – 1956) [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Ceramic art by Sergey Isopov, found here.]


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

Bisulcated Hot Links

You Keep On Worrying Me, Ike Turner & the Kings of Rhythm (1959)Turner maintained strict discipline over the band, insisting they lived in a large house with him so he could conduct early morning rehearsals at a moment’s notice. He would fire anyone he suspected of drinking or taking drugs, and would fine band members if they played a wrong note.”

THIS.

Stoops.

The Trap.

LOOK OUT.

Sitar metal.

Duck Radio.

Off the ferry.

Fertile turtle.

Gravestone circles.

A decision was made.

Dancing with robots.

3D models of models.

The Confetti of Venice.

The $40K pizza delivery.

Norty Blues Episode 104.

The only TED Talk you need.

The history of Mah Nà Mah Nà.

It’s gonna be okay [via Bunkerville].

The Spotniks [via Everlasting Blört].

The Toronto Recursive History Project [h/t Jason F.].

It’s a profound gas, Mr. Gunn [via Memo Of The Air].

Soho (Cafe Francais) 1955 [via The View From Lady Lake].

I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole. Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole.”

[Top image found here.]


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

Marimoman

[Found here.]

All Star Batman Pow Orange Drink

[ASBPOD ca. 1966 found here.]

Diprionidian Hot Links

Last of the Singing Cowboys, The Marshal Tucker Band (1979)
The group recorded numerous albums that went gold and platinum, including their first, titled simply The Marshall Tucker Band (1973). The band was named after Marshal Tucker, a blind piano tuner whose name was inscribed on a key to the warehouse where the band rehearsed.

The flew.

Dance hard.

Proof of age.

Selling Ukiah.

The Paper Ark.

No matter who.

Great blue heron!

¡La Migra! ¡La Migra!

Emma O’Leary’s dogs.

Norty Blues Episode 101.

The NYC A-Train Sax Battle.

USSR December 1978: -73°F.

Mister Nice Hands – an interactive classic.

I’ll take ‘Decipher It’ for one million, Alec.

Photogenic couples [via Memo Of The Air].

The White Room [story here via Feral Irishman].

Cruising St. John [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Atlas moth found here via Bunkerville].


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

Le Petit Chat

[Found somewhere on FB, dates to at least January 2019.]

Redundant

I believe that’s a 1956 Ford Fairlane Town Sedan with a 31 year old stunt baby. [Found here.]