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Colorful Lady

The Ohio State University Marching Band (aka, The Best Damn Band In The Land) has a raccoon named Bon Qui Qui for a mascot. Thanks to all the Buckeye fans who inadvertently gave us a traffic spike of almost 5x normal yesterday. [Related posts here.]

Monumental Land Art in the U.S. Sorry, but I don’t consider a trench in the desert “Art,” but some of these are kinda cool.

There’s a Robert Redford movie coming out soon about Dan Rather, CBS and the Killian Documents Forgery Scandal. Here’s a breakdown of how the fraud began to unravel and who actually uncovered it.

A selfie from Mars.

She’s inane. She’s vapid. She’s @SocalityBarbie.

Heh.

Someone doesn’t know what a knife is for.

Buster Keaton rocks [via].

Attach a corn cob to a long fishing pole, swing it at a rubber chocolate donut and try to avoid hitting a bunch of protesters with placards on sticks in a field. That’s Hornussen, aka Swiss Golf.

How about a Little Turtle Face?

Old Lady Chic: Wearing the 60’s in their 70’s.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 406 – Obama Greets Pope, Escher Falls & Bird Release Fails Big Time

Obama Greets Pope Francis
Escher Falls
Nature
These .gifs made me smile, especially the third one, because it was so well-intentioned, yet so poorly thought out.
[Found here, here, and here.]

Desert Breath

Desert Breath 1

Located near the Red Sea in El Gouna, Egypt, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation dug into the sands of the Sahara desert by the D.A.ST. Arteam back in 1997.

It reminded me of and predates Louis Sachar‘s 1998 novel “Holes” that I read as a parent at the insistence of my youngun’s. I liked it, and the movie wasn’t bad either.

[Images and story found here, via here.]

“Ya, Boss, we take care of it. You watch.”

Neanderthal Recreation

He never spoke those words.
No one alive knows his name.
Everyone who ever met him in person is dead.
TRUE.

[Image and story found here, via here.]

“Darts ready? Okay! On three…”

Balloon Queen

Careful. The Balloon Queen’s got a gun.

[Found here.]

How To Dolphin Correctly.

How To Dolphin

[Found here.]

Discovered By Kangaroos In Canberra – The World’s Largest Calcified Dog Poop

SHEEP

[Story found by the missus. More here.]

Blues Legends Illustrated

Blues Legends

Every one of those images were derived from B&W photos, and if I’m not mistaken, they were created by Robert Crumb. You’ve heard their songs covered by others (like this one by Memphis Minnie & Kansas City Joe McCoy).

[Image found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Best Coast, The Ray Beats & Bishop Bullwinkle

So I axed Bunkessa about the song she played last weekend on our patio hi-fi. She said it was “Our Deal” by Best Coast, a Beach Goth band from L.A. Never heard of the group nor the genre, but so what. I like the retro sound. [The video accompaniment is a Cliff’s Notes mime version of West Side Story.]

Okay, so what to post next? Let’s keep the retro thang going.

The Ray Beats were kinda Chantays, kinda Ventures, kinda Dick Dale and kinda NY punk in the late 70s/early 80s.  In other words, kinda young, kinda wow.

Here’s another talent who dodged my radar: Bishop Bullwinkle and “Hell 2 Da Naw Naw.” Apparently it went viral in August and I’m late to the party [via]. Dude’s got a great message.

Have a great weekend folks. See you back here tomorrow, even if you’re headed out on a 3-day family road trip to See Ruby Falls.

The .GIF Friday Post No. 404 – 1st Day Of School, Multi-Tasking, & Human Paddle Wheel

Off To School
woman-of-many-talents
Human Paddle BoatHuman Paddle Boat INVERT

[Found here, here and here.]