All three take me back to the Land of the Onions and the Eels and the days of my youth. Great modern retro rock for this edition of The Saturday Matinee. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll see y’all back here tomorrow.
Tag: awesome
The .Gif Post No.342 – Pup PWN, Vortices & Ceiling Cat Jump Fall Mashup
Tacky Raccoons’ 7th Year: The Top 11 Posts
We’ve featured the Top Posts every year since this blog was whelped on 2 August 2007 and this year is no different. The numbers indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third numeral is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2014). NR indicates Not Ranked.
Click on any image and it’ll take you to the original post.
No. 11/nr/74 – Cute Baby Giraffe
No. 10/2/10 – 10/10/10 10:10:10
No. 9/11/21 – Death Row Barbie and Other Science Fair Projects
No. 8/nr/28 – How To Really Piss Off A Golden Retriever
No. 7/3/5 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
No. 6/1/3 – Capybara Lapwarmer
No. 5/nr/48 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 297 – Page Turner, Giraffe Gymnastics & “Did You Catch That?”
No. 4/5/15 – Babe Cannon
No. 3/7/24 – “Wow, Giant Isopod, Did You See That?”
No. 2/nr/2 – LOL FERRET: Episode 1
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is:
The .Gif Friday Post No.133 – Needlepoint Dog is Awesome!
“Needlepoint Dog” is a new entry in the Tacky Raccoons Blogoversary Hit Parade, with a score of 1/nr/19. We posted it on 25 June 2010 just days after it appeared at the source. Within 5 days of posting, it spiked, then went relatively dormant traffic-wise until February of this year and it’s been in the No. 1 slot for 6 months straight.
Not only is the concept great, the animation of the reverse side is even better. Congrats!
Although Tacky Raccoons doesn’t attract a lot of comments, we appreciate the “likes” and those who “follow” us. Now let’s talk Twitter. We’ve had an account for several years as an experiment to see how many followers we could get with the stated intent of providing absolutely no content and about 30 people played along. This is going to change.
Starting today, anyone who follows @BunkStrutts will get automatic notifications of new posts, perhaps some occasional inane snark from me, and all in fun. We’ll see where it goes, and if it clogs up my email inbox with too many Tweet notifications, I’ll deal with it. (There’s a button on the upper right sidebar to beam you over to Twitterville, too. You don’t need to sign up to Twitter to read it. We’ve done the same with FaceBook, even though I don’t use it much).
Wish you all the best,
Bunk
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 341 – Fun With Trigonometry Edition
Grampa Strutts made a similar machine out of wood with tapered wood dowels instead of prism-shaped dogs based upon the 2nd .gif. It’s the basis of a 4-stroke engine. The top one I messed with and added 4-colors only because someone elsewhere complained that B&W didn’t make it.
I love this stuff. I might have to add a category for Trig/Geometry/Math.
On This Day Awesome Happened.
John Belushi, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter & Dan Akroyd, date unknown, probably late 1970s.
[Screen cap from here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 340 – Lil’ Cajun Girls & Bad Karma Day
Creepy Cat Is Not A Cat
Guess what it is first, then click. 😀
Continue reading “Creepy Cat Is Not A Cat”
Rail Roadtrip = Pure Awesome.
Artists Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene (Los Ferronautas) built their striking silver road-rail SEFT-1 vehicle to explore the abandoned passenger railways of Mexico and Ecuador, capturing their journeys in videos, photographs and collected objects.
Between 2006 and 2011, the artists traveled across Mexico and Ecuador in the SEFT-1 (Sonda de Exploración Ferroviaria Tripulada or Manned Railway Exploration Probe). In a transdisciplinary art project, they set out to explore disused railways as a starting point for reflection and research, recording the landscapes and infrastructure around and between cities. Interviewing people they met, often from communities isolated by Mexico’s passenger railway closures, they shared their findings online, seft1.com, where audiences could track the probe’s trajectory, view maps and images and listen to interviews.
Tiny Beasties
You’ve never seen, felt, tasted or heard a single one of these denizens of our world, but they sense you. Not only that, the dorky dude with the Simpsons eyes and funny teeth could save your life.
The BearPig-lookin’ animal is an 8-legged tardigrade that kicks ass and beats roaches on survivability in extreme conditions. I bet it eats live roaches too – it’s that badass. Even roaches can’t see it.
Click on the images to admire these cute lil’ buggers in large scale.
[More beasties with descriptions found here.]
Saturday Matinee – 5 lbs of Possum, Trombone Shorty & Blue Mother Tupelo
“Five Pounds Of Possum” may be the greatest roadkill song ever.
Trombone Shorty (age 13?) kicks it at 01:20.
Serious Swamp Rock crankage from Blue Mother Tupelo.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow, and remember that all you have to do is cook out the bacteria.
