Tag: art

It’s Anything Can Nancy Day

[Modified just a slurp, original strip found here. More Nancy related items in the archive.]

Rhyparographic Hot Links

The Cry Of The Wild Goose, Frankie Laine (1950)
The wild goose nose song scored No. 1 on Billboard’s most played by deejays list in 1950, the third of Laine’s three consecutive No. 1 hits of that year.

Disobey.

Pulled shrimp.

Never can tell.

Multiple choice.

Fastballs are fast.

Goodbye Tropicana.

Pennsylvania aurorae.

Norty Blues Episode 85.

An ounce of prevention?

Here come the Maskholes.

Hiking through Chimney Rock.

I Am Boris Kelstorm [via IDHMGO].

Paris street art [via Mme. Jujujive].

Dairy Queens of yore [via Memo Of The Air].

Misophonia and an example of misophonia.

1947 road trip (with music from 1959?) [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Painting by Quebec painter Mark Lague found here.]

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Making Monsters

A young girl was found imprinting her face into velvet upholstery.

[Found here.]

Antiquarians

“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers’ dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009

[Found here.]

Acolouthic Hot Links

Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Lolo Face.

Cirrus Surfer.

Soho George.

UFO crash site.

Bark bark bark.

Poling bamboo.

Listen to a moth.

Donkey nannies.

Wendy’s watching.

Self Defense in MA.

“Eh. Eh. Ah, ah, ah.”

Norty Blues Episode 81.

Escape from Springfield.

Streetscapes in watercolor.

The CPI continues to climb.

Cool maps you’ve never seen.

“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“

The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.

Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.

The worst movie death scene ever.

Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].

Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]

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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

 

Detumescent Hot Links

B-Gas Rickshaw, The Raybeats (1981)
  The Raybeats were an instrumental “no wave” surf rock band from New York (1979-1984). From their album Guitar Beat, this song is a remake of Jan Berry‘s “B” Gas Rickshaw (1964).

Rough seas.

Grow up, Jess.

Grannie Farm.

Hawkin’ the C.

Satan was bored.

The Wind Games.

AI meets Raygun.

Nature vs. Nurture.

Make the Logo Bigger.

Favorite Maple Syrups.

When lightning strikes.

Norty Blues Episode 78.

Aboriginal culture is recent.

Daddy sang bass [via IDHMGO].

To Catch A Thief [via Bunkerville].

Storytime With Mr. A [via Mme. Jujujive].

The 180th Annual Vankleek Hill Agricultural Fair.

Those zany DC superheros! [via The View From Lady Lake].

I ranked at turtle level on the CPS Test [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Illustration by R. Crumb for Charles Bukowski‘s Bop Bop Against The Curtain, Arcade – The Comics Revue #3 (Fall 1973).]

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X-Rays of Taxidermy

Prints of taxidermy X-rays are available for purchase here. Be careful with that site or you may be busy for a while. Bottom right is Baby Lilly, from an “X-Ray Your Toy” event held at the Conservation Centre, National Museums Liverpool, England, found here.

All About Tardigrades

In summary:

[Found here while looking for something else. UCL = University College London.]

Picasso’s Girls

[Found in here.]