The .Gif Friday Post No. 817 – Cat Lap, Stairwell Dramatica & The Beach Blob

[Found here and here. Cat Lap h/t rightymouse, unknown source.]

Brown Acid

So I was looking for an illustration to go with a story about the Little League World Series for posting on another website, and started with Charlie Brown. The pic was kind of boring by itself, and I wondered what the AI Deep Dreams Generator might come up with. Lower right is the cumulative result. Trip city.

Hey babe.

Chicks dig me.

[Found here.]

Blair Witch Stair

One day, the old woman who lived in a shoe just snapped.

[Original unmodified image from here, h/t Pam M.]

Wedding Wedding Photo Photo

[Found here.]

Staredown on the Pequod

Cover illustration for Moby Dick, Gerard DuBois (2023)

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 803 – Drainman, Mudsplat & Taco Tip

[2nd .gif found here; 1st & 3rd lifted from Bitter Ben when he wasn’t looking.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 800 – Windows & Watermelons

[Found here and there.]


This is the 800th edition of the .Gif Friday Post, and that means there are approximately 2.4K embedded .gif animations in The Archives. It all began with this:

Some of the old .gifs stutter or freeze and no longer animate properly and I blame WordPress. Perhaps I’ll suss out the problem some day.
Or not.

Grand Mama Bear

Beau White – Immaculate Confection, 2019

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – A.I. Family Guy Pizza, Hot Club de Piracicaba, Jimmie Vaughan, and Robert Randolph & The Family Band

When you ask A.I. to create a Family Guy pizza commercial you get this.

Hot Club de Piracicaba performs Paganini in Django style.

Guitar great Jimmie Vaughan is still pickin’ the blues at 72.
At 04:12 he says it’s an Eddie Taylor song, but a 1952 Meteor Records 78rpm issue credits Elmore James & James Taub as the writers.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band
“In his adolescent years before being discovered by the secular community, [Randolph] was almost completely unaware of non-religious music. He went on exclaim in an interview that ‘I grew up and saw a lot of older guys playing lap steels and pedal-steel guitars in my church. I had never heard of the Allman Brothers, or even Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters.’ “ [Wiki}

And I had never heard the term sacred steel before today. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow. Bring your laundry.