Category: True Stories

Cloudy With A Chance Of WTF

[Found here.]

Damn The Emojis! Hot Links Ahead!

Bath Day.

Ringtone Cat.

Jakow Trachtenberg.

Admiral David Farragut.

Funny & Chair. Guy’s a good sport.

Building a Les Paul style guitar (timelapse). Nice soundtrack, too.

What do the names, Orange Ricky, Blue Ricky, Cleveland Z, Rhode Island Z, Hero, Teewee and Smashboy all have in common?
A lot, according to Page 12.

=D XD XD XD XP

“Just go away, mind your own business, and get over it.“

Pure awesome. If her neighbors were smart, they’d do the same thing she did, then petition the Manhattan Beach city council to rename the street “Insert Emoji Here,” turn it into a profitable local tourist attraction then sell.

From the Save The Planet Department:
“It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the whole world.”
Jair Bolsonaro Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil

Either he never said it, or Bolsonaro was yanking somebody’s chain.

A Humble Request. Thanks to all contributors and those of you who continue to donate. The Goal wasn’t set arbitrarily, and we’ve still got a ways to go.

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

[Top image: Three sisters from the Strutts family archives.]

Tin Can Tarot Vardo

It was a homey-looking stainless-steel-sheathed transport, so I decided to contact the owner of the vardo.

“Been passing by the parked “Tinct” often on my morning commute from the southlands. That thing is definitely compact and I’d like to know its history – where you bought it, who modified it, etc., just out of curiosity.”

Madam Colleen responded:

“Thanks for your interest in Tin Can Tarot trailer.
It was an old 4×6 hauling trailer we cut off to use the trailer bed and build a new structure with maximum interior space possible, and that was round so it became a tin can. It is all custom fabricated by me and a variety of BurningMan friends and artisans who donated time and skills and other parts I paid for. It was and is a true labor of love.”

I didn’t ask her about my future. I already know more than I want to.

[More here and here.]

13,000 Years BC Hot Links

Lavalampage.

Chonis Donees! [via]

Irish Barrel Dancing.

When a post hits your eye
Like a big pizza pie,
That’s a Moire.

Bear necessities [h/t bekitschig].

Twilight Zone Radio Show Episode 61.

Gillette lost billions after a bigoted ad campaign.

It’s only 4th Grade Science. (Brilliant captions, too.)

Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922).

“We spoke with many people today who say that the President should consider coming here to Baltimore … to see for himself.” [via]

READ CHAPTER X and explain to me how the U.S. Democrat Party (and Bernie Sanders’) platform differs from that of mass murderer Josef Stalin. Describe the results.

[Top image from here: “One unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slight, malnourished teenager missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot pit deep inside a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán. Rising seas flooded the cave and cut it off from the outside world—until a team of divers chanced upon her nearly complete skeleton in 2007.”]

Fun With Dick & Jane

He hangs out in the Washington Square Park Central Fountain on hot summer days (according to this).

Lady In Red Hot Links

Moondog [via].

HandiMonster. Click it.

Another face of #Antifa.

Yoda schools young Jedi cats.

“Mind taking a photo of us?” [via]

Beerball: 2 runs and 1 out. Strike 1.

Steve Allen & Jack Kerouac (1959).

If you get this joke, you’re old.
If you get this joke, you’re even older.

Never piss off a quart of Mountain Dew.

LOL. It wasn’t even a parking lot. It was a dirt road.

Maybe she’s generating business for her body shop? Nah.

SRV broke E-string, swapped out guitar with no stopping.

Scamming the scammers: Guy logs into scammers’ systems, deletes their files. Profanity ensues.

Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin had just about enough of this dickwad.

Florida 1: Well, poop.
Florida 2: Generating business for her body shop? Nah.
Florida 3: “Florida Highway Patrol […] trooper and a deputy jumped into the river to get the suspect.”

But wait! There’s more!

[Top image circa 1978, Cancún. I married the Lady In Red.]

Hybrid Airships

Yep. The past is also the future.

“Hybrid airships are not the blimps of years ago. They have the potential to transform military logistics, command and control, and surveillance and reconnaissance.”

[Source]

99 & 44/100% Pure Hot Links

Flash mob.

Florida News.

Yellin’ California.

What’s for supper?

Let’s forgive ALL loans.

The Silver Bridge Disaster.

THIS SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME.

What a happy otter sounds like [via].

What a sleeping dog sounds like [via]

Coast Guard seized 4000 lbs. of what?

In 1860, 10 of the 4.9% were Republicans.

The Irish banshee and the Scottish bean nighe [via].

Best TR Search Phrase yet: カモンエブリバディ ジョーンジェット
I hope he/she found this and this.

Antifa Portland Class of 2019. What a waste of white privilege.

Renowned economist Art Laffer didn’t invent the curve named after him, but he explains the concept here.

Former ICE Director Thomas Homan explains immigration law to AOC.

Only three people in the world can beat Chuck Norris.
One of them is Chuck Norris.
Another is also Chuck Norris.
The third one is Cüneyt Arkın [via].

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

A Humble Request [Updated 13 July 2019].

[Top image cropped from here.]

Photographer Fattens FLOTUS for Fourth – Reuters hasn’t changed.

That photo by Carlos Barrias [Reuters] of President and First Lady Trump looked a bit odd to me, because within seconds of that photo, Melania Trump dropped 30 pounds.

Reuters has a history of photojournalistic  malfeasance.

Carlos Barrias’ Reuters bio includes this gem:

“I was very moved after covering the earthquake in Haiti. I was one of the first journalists from Reuters to arrive, and I was there for about 45 days. It was long and tough. You can see human beings at their most basic instinct for survival.

It was a very weird feeling in Haiti because I know I was there doing my job, and I would like to feel that our job means something for people, but at the same time I felt powerless. What do you say when a kid comes to you and asks you for water and food, and you have nothing but a camera? I couldn’t answer that question, and I felt frustrated that I couldn’t do anything.”

[Confidential to @ReutersBarria: I don’t know you, never met you, but you’re full of sanctimonious crap. You were in Haiti for 45 days without food or water? Sure you were. Please click on this. The first 50 seconds are just for you.]

Henri Lanos 1888 – Les Travaux de la Tour Eiffel – La Grande Echelle

Henri Lanos (1859-1929) was a French illustrator and painter whose work appeared in French magazines like La Caricature, L’Illustration and Je Sais Tout. He was member of the Société des Artistes Français (French Artists Society).

3-point perspective (1 point + zenith + right) is awesome. He even detailed rivets, and showed Paris’ 1855 Palais de l’Industrie in the distance.

[Found here, via here.]