Tag: awesome

‘Weeners of the ’70s

[These and more found here.]

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 18 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2025 – 18th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,973 posts in our archives, +11K comments and +3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity. Unfortunately WordPress has modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.” “NA” is “Not Available.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!


No. 11 / NR / NA – Trotify

No. 10 / NR /  NA – Doodle Challenge Accepted

No. 9 / NR / NA – Google Street View

No. 8 / NR / NA – The Essence of Doggo

No. 7 / NR / NA – Chat-N-Chew Cafe, Wing ND

No. 6 / NR / NA – Vomit Clocks

No. 5 / 6 / 60 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever

No. 4 / NR / NA – VW Lead Sled Beetle

No. 3 / NR / 374 – A Hindu God

No. 2 / NR / 360 – Halloween Costume Suggestions

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

Unreal Abandonment

Posted on 26 February 2025, with a rank of 1 / NR / 104, this collection of computer-generated abandoned houseboats got a surprising amount of attention in a relatively short amount of time.

Top 5 Audio posts for the past year:

[I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Vomit Clocks

Private FB group VOMIT CLOCKS defines them as
“A 1960/70s mid-century craft trend where one incorporated rocks or other items (dead insects, dried plants, glitter, shells, etc.) into a mold (clock, animal, trivet, plate) and then poured a clear or colored resin which hardened into the molded object. […] The vomit clocks’ jumbled contents often look like regurgitated vomit or a gelatin salad full of fruit chunks.“

The history, cleaning, maintenance and repair of Vomit Clocks may be found at The Vomit Clock Museum.

[Images found here and elsewhere on the internests.]

Rafael Araujo and Phi

[Found here. More by Rafael Araujo here.]

Easter Lamb Cakes

[Found here. Related post here.]

Doodle Challenge Accepted.

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All are the work of artist David Jablow, and there’s more at his website. [h/t Donna of My OBT.]

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.]

The Roof Ninja

“It’s not for everybody, it’s not even for me.” – The Roof Ninja

I sometimes watch police bodycam videos for amusement – someone gets pulled over for a minor infraction, then escalates the encounter into multiple felonies and jail time.

This one intrigued me.

Midland Michigan Police were called to evict a woman who had been living on a grocery store rooftop in a sign access space for about a year. From the YouTube description:

On April 23, 2024, police were dispatched to the Family Fare grocery store in Midland, MI, to investigate a suspicious incident. The store manager reported that a contractor working on the roof had stumbled upon a 34-year-old woman, known as the ‘roof ninja,’ residing inside the store’s rooftop sign. The sign had been transformed into a mini-apartment, containing items such as a printer, pantry, desk, and coffee maker. It was subsequently discovered that she had been residing there for quite a while.

The policewoman was impressed, noting that the attic was clean, and she could smell a whiff of garlic. The Roof Ninja offered the officers some non-alcoholic ginger root beer before leaving most of her possessions behind in the attic. The police presumably issued a trespass (that if she returned to the property she’d be arrested) and her possessions were ultimately returned.

Full video:
https://youtu.be/osTeKSTvtC8?si=91JjrkvAB3FHb7Zh
Short version:
https://youtu.be/R28ZSY2Sc2A?si=NUE1UjX37TDwZ6fK

Geometricities

A state prison guard found this in a cell. Apparently it was drawn by one of the prisoners who suffered from schizophrenia.

[Image and caption found here, Revelations 21:17 here. Background story unverified.]

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.