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[Found here.]

Moonlight Serenade, The Volcanics (2013)
A warning from this blue-sweater-clad retro surf rock band from So Cal:
Squares beware, if you hang ten on their nose they’ll hang five in your face.
Van Wolfwinkle’s pet portraits.
Berry Bars [via Memo Of The Air].
The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004.
Santa on the Interstate [via Everlasting Blört].
Stayin’ Alive in the 16th Century [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Resting Schnabelperchta found here.]
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Sleigh Ride, The Ventures (1965) Straight outta Tacoma, with over 110 million records sold worldwide, The Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time.
BOING [via Everlasting Blört].
Another of Spock’s juvenile pranks.
Facebook’s “Race-Blind” Algorithm.
15 multiplanes [via Memo Of The Air].
Nevermind the Bollards [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Santa’s Time Machine, modified from the cover of The Time Machine, Classics Illustrated (1958).]
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Don’t Be Lonely, BoDeans (1987)
Classic guitar-driven midwestern rock-pop group BoDeans formed in 1986 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and they’re still at it.
dog.
Signs of the the Exit [via Messy Nessy].
MIDI Slapophone [via Memo Of The Air].
Wash your marmot [via Everlasting Blört].
Yuleshards, bummocks and Schnapsidees.
Kellog’s Contraptions [via Thompson, blog].
Guadalcanal Christmas 1945 [via The View from Lady Lake].
[Top image found here, with caption:
Twice a year at Asakusa’s famous Sensoji temple an old ceremony of dancers dressed as white egrets or herons take place, once in April and once in November. The ceremony is called Shirasaginomai (白鷺の舞) and was revived in 1968 using an old scroll as a basis that had been found in the temple, depicting a ceremonial dance in 1652.]
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Cooties, Aimee Allen (2007) Aimee Allen, aka Aimee Interrupter, sang this outro for the movie Hairspray. (Not to be confused with Amy Allen or Aimée Allen.)
“Look what the bank did to my car.”
The Nightmare [via Everlasting Blört].
Chinese thunder [via Memo Of The Air].
Jean Critchfield’s pipes [via Thompson, blog].
Ancient Tenochtitlan 3d viewer[via Nag on the Lake].
The Pitch Drop Experiment has a live cam. [h/t Kirk W.]
Top image: Papa Danny Doodles wood toy sold by Schoenhut circa 1916 found here.
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Riverside, The Beat Farmers (1990) From their album Loud, Plowed & Live. The Beat Farmers (1983–1995) were a great band from San Diego, California (best experienced live with lots of beer) and featured the late Country Dick Montana.
‘Sup.
Crip Walk demo.
Native American Crip Walk.
“Normally it’s pretty simple.”
Lunch Boxes [via Everlasting Blört].
She’s a grinder [via Thompson, blog].
Poor little thieves [via Nag on the Lake].
Miss Transportation [via Memo Of The Air].
“911? You may not believe this… “ [via The Feral Irishman].
[Top image: 1967 Subaru 360 advertisement found here.]
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