Blesiloquent Hot Links

ASKO Beer, 50 Country Artists (2025) Compilation lifted from There I Ruined It: “I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing ‘cold beer.'” [Related song here.]

Bicycle.

AI or Die.

Read fast.

Sound UP.

Squeezins.

Carol Lang.

Hidden art.

Altar attack.

Buying Fats.

Self-defense.

Invisible scars.

US Pipe Factory.

Because internet.

Stop interrupting.

Project Nightengag.

Fact checking Robin.

Amy Stewart’s glass.

Painting the windows.

Tom Waits as a blender.

Jackie Chan’s elephant.

Student loans vs results.

Rik Boa says you look good.

Don’t bring your dog, whitey.

About Industrial Sea-Foam Green.

Jumping Dave [via Everlasting Blört].

How bad was it? [via Thompson, blog].

Now they must cryCry, cry, cry.
But why do they cry? [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: 7-pack of ASKO Beer created by Grok per my request.]


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Dithyrambic Hot Links

She’s Gone to Napoli, Laurel Aitken (1963) Dubbed The Godfather of Ska (and later Boss Skinhead) Cuban-Jamaican Lorenzo “Laurel” Aitken moved to the UK in 1960 and dropped 15 singles before heading back to Jamaica three years later. He returned to the UK in 1970 and continued performing and recording until his death in 2005.

Irony.

The Skynail.

Echo Bridge.

Boom Boom.

Inflatableman.

Enshittification.

Not the Artemis.

B&W Back Beach.

Yeeting fish heads.

Nicolas V. Sanchez.

The battle for punk.

A bunch of campers.

G.I. Jive with G.I. Jill.

The Great Wide Open.

Kinetic sand art table.

On drinking and puking.

Space Policy Directive 1.

Tom the Bot threw a hissy.

Hickshit [via Bits & Pieces].

The History of Kit-Cat Klock.

Decompaction [via Thompson, blog].

Hernán Cortés vs “the Noble Savage”.

The Chimpanzee Civil War (with video).

The Strandbeests [via Everlasting Blört].

1928 Ford LM Gypsy Wagon [via Miss Cellanea].

An excellent argument against large data centers.

WWII British home bomb shelters [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: A.I. modified 1969 Fiat Abarth 2000 Scorpione found here.]


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The Girl on the Train


[Found here; unmodified Xweet from here. The story of the unsolved 1905 Merstham Tunnel Murder is here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

The Museum of Nancy

The gallery doesn’t exist, but it should.
[Found in my unposted files.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored


UPDATE: The talented doggo who painted the window at top right is JuJu, loyal companion of Corinne L.

Open 25/7

[AI Mickey D’s found here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. Bottom left is a theoretical action movie starring this guy.

New Old Future Cars

AI images by graphic artist Alphonse Marcel found here.
[h/t Charlene J.]

The Night Before Christmas Eve Eve Eve Hot Links

Sleigh Ride, The Ventures (1965) Straight outta Tacoma, with over 110 million records sold worldwide, The Ventures are the best-selling instrumental band of all time.

Yulesville.

Stay warm.

Amish AAA.

It’s 9 o’clock.

Waymo bricks.

Equine paranoia.

1921 killer robot.

The Gibson Girls.

Makin’ the beans.

A Band of Karens.

Digging up a river.

Sanctuary School.

Edibles for children.

They gave it their all.

An ominous warning.

This was THE topper.

The Christmas Closet.

Who were the Belgae?

Understanding Children.

Hunter T.’s Christmas tree.

BOING [via Everlasting Blört].

Christmas in 1964 Appalachia.

Another of Spock’s juvenile pranks.

Facebook’s “Race-Blind” Algorithm.

15 multiplanes [via Memo Of The Air].

Nevermind the Bollards [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Santa’s Time Machine, modified from the cover of The Time Machine, Classics Illustrated (1958).]


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