Category: True Stories

Graduation Day

Graduation Day

[Story and image found here.]

Some Eye Candy

Eye Colors Blue to Brown

[Source, found here.]

Tokyo’s Clothes Hangers Crows Nests

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Conceptual Art installations? Nope.

“When I lived in Tokyo, I used to watch the crows take hangers from my neighbors’ balconies. (Hangers were used to hang out washing to dry.) The crows would work in pairs to remove the clothing from the hangers and then one would fly off with the hanger. I’d never seen the nests though.”

[Images & reader comment found here, via here.]

Saturday Matinee – Carol Kaye, Tal Wilkenfeld & Jeff Beck, Jaco Pastorius, and Some Guys Jamming “Mercy Mercy Mercy.”

You’ve probably never heard OF Carol Kaye, but you have certainly heard her music, especially on bass. Pure awesome.

Tal Wilkinfeld & Jeff Beck 2009(?).

Jaco Pastorius was brilliant on bass, but had serious mental problems.

Mercy Mercy Mercy. This jam cranks, but that can’t be  Stanley Jordan on bass (or guitar, or any other instrument) despite the Utoobage description, yet someone was playing a 6-string bass…

Have a great weekend, folks. Rock on.

“Hi Honey, I’m home. Did you remember to feed the cats?”

Man Eaten By Cats

The Illustrated Police News, 19th century

[Found here.]

The Bad Hair Decade: 1970s Britain

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Unfortunately some of these *ahem* styles drifted across the Atlantic. I remember A1, A2, B1, B2, B3, C1, C3, D1 & D2. Mine was a mix of A1, B4 and D3, and no, I’m not gonna post it.

[Found here, via here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

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This one’s been sitting around  in the posting queue for too long. Might as well be done with it.
[Image and story found here.]

Varied Reactions

Prophylactics Demonstration Papua 2009

Papua, Indonesia 2009.

[Found here.]

Potoo To You

Potoo Bird

Potoo Bird 2

Yep. The Potoo bird is real [h/t to Will N].

Hot Air Blown [Updated with Link to story]

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I don’t know the story behind it, but that’s some scary stuff. Besides the balloon snag, that tower wasn’t engineered to handle a bigass inflated windsock trying to pull it down.

[Found here.]

UPDATE: Apparently the accident dates to October 2004 during a hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque NM. After the collision, the veteran pilot grabbed the tower to stop the gondola from swinging, and he and two boys (ages 10 and 14) climbed down 600 feet as news helicopters buffeted the tower before being called off. Here’s the balloon in better health:

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[Full Story here; h/t Guy Fleegman via Twitter.]