Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Category: Stupid
Be The Bag
[Found here.]
Scapulomancing Hot Links
Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”
Applaud as if your life depends on it.
Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].
Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].
Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Cicada Broods
[Found here.]
Buy Him Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack
11 June 2024, Cincinnati
In the 9th inning of the Cincinnati Reds / Cleveland Guardians game Tuesday night, Reds fan William Hendon, a sophomore at OSU, ran onto the field of the Great American Ball Park in his socks and wearing a Johnny Bench jersey. A police officer approached, Hendon did a backflip, and the officer stopped him with a Taser.
Hendon “did knowingly run onto the Reds playing field during the game without permission to do so,” an officer wrote in one of his criminal complaints.
“Everybody thinks you landed that backflip,” Municipal Court Judge William Mallory said during Hendon’s arraignment Wednesday morning.
“I’m pretty sure I did,” replied Hendon.
Hendon pleaded not guilty.
Patroclinous Hot Links
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.
#12.
A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.
Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].
Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].
Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].
Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].
De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].
Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].
[Top image found here, colorized.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Dégringolade Hot Links
I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.
More about Robot Archie.
Robbie Shilstone’s animations.
Old trains & obscure locomotives.
Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).
Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].
Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.
25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].
More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.
The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 857 – The Splat Sisters, The Bean Bed & Elvis Whips It Out
Notonectal Hot Links
Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.
Pretty little flapping things.
The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].
A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].
“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”
The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.
Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].
[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 