Rhonchisonant Hot Links

Theme to the Green Hornet, Al Hirt (1966) The melody, titled Полёт шмеля (Flight of the Bumblebee), was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. It was jazzed up for The Green Hornet TV series theme by arranger and trumpeter Billy May.

Pipe jazz.

Tiny tools.

Bites Guide.

Eggs of film.

The perfect toy.

Glassy beasties.

A.I. ballet [h/t Pam M.]

Airpods Max headroom.

Norty Blues Episode 74.

Bád fada báite Cé Essex.

Rev. Peyton, Fishmancer.

Good dancer / bad dancer.

One second per day for a year.

Mama Colugo [via Bunkerville].

Kinetic mask [via Mme. Jujujive].

Reaperman [via Memo Of The Air].

Secret Service Girl [Full song here].

Major Taylor [h/t Queen Hepzibah].

Dark Horse, Dead Ringer and other phrase origins.

Free at no extra cost [via The View From Lady Lake].

Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, 2024.

[Top image: Protest goon outside of the 2024 RNC National Convention.]


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Los Gusanos

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 859 – Freewheeling, Digital Twister & A Guitar Mandala

[Found here, here and I spun the image found here.]

Eat Me – Cannibal Movies & The Gore of Yore

[Found in here and here, and I’ve never seen any of them.]

Horrorchids

[Images found here, here and elsewhere on the internest, h/t Jaime G.]

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

If it’s true, is it still propaganda?

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]


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Easter Munchers

Watch your six, peeps. Spotted these morsels on a baking pan last night.

Blobby McBlobface

[Found in here.]

Patience waits.

[Found here.]

This is Robert. He wants to meet you.

[Found here.]