The backboard is clean because the game hasn’t started.

Please don’t tell me about the ball.

[Found here.]

One Pint Too Many

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 500 – Spade Selfie, Virtual Reality Overload & Kikmi Dog Caterpillar

[Found here, here and here.]

Yep. Over 500 .Gif Friday posts featuring .gif animations, which means we’ve got over 1500 in our archives. Yet another milestone for 2017.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 498 – Lake Reflection, Blowup & Blowout

[Found here and here. First one is my own, original image found here.]

Okay, I got nuthin’.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 497 – Rodeo Rascals, Hedgehog Cat Tango & Pwnd by Plastic

[Found here, here and here.]

Spuds

“My friends call me either ‘Jennie’, OR ‘Ida.'”

[Found in here.]

Seven too many clowns at this party.

On 26 July 2017 the US Senate voted to keep ObamaCare in effect forever.

On Wednesday, 26 July 2017, all 48 Democrats plus 7 Republicans in the Senate voted to destroy the most efficient and successful private healthcare system in the world.

Nice move, idiots.

Every totalitarian government in modern history that nationalized medical care for their constituents did it for reasons having nothing to do with medical care or economics, and everything to do with purging the population that remembers oppression and the obvious causes.

ObamaCare is no different.

Welcome to fascism, folks. They’re gonna shove it down our throats despite majority public opinion to the contrary.

[Commentary is my own, top image found here.]

[Update: Corrected the numbers above. h/t Macker. Here’s the tally.]

Paratripper

“Don’t worry Ma’am, I’m from the Internet.”

It’s brilliant. I’m guessing it’s a methane collector connected to a burner to provide lift to the parachute. I’d name the single-user gas-fired flying machine “Jack The Ripper.”

[Image w/caption found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Bert The Turtle, Time for Sushi & Jaco Pastorious

Bert The Turtle showed children how to survive a nuclear attack – assuming they’re far enough away from Ground Zero to have time to react. The film was shown in schools from 1952 into the 1990s.

David Lewandowski‘s “Time for Sushi” (2017) is pure disturbed weirdness. (His 2013 vid “Late For Meeting” is a classic.)

The late Jaco Pastorius was one of the greatest jazz-funk fretless bass players in modern times, IMO. [Video h/t TITH]

Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll do something just as fun tomorrow.