Four small nightmares. An abandoned stage set creates a terrifying forest setting for these visitors to a lonely theme park scene now closed. What horrible event was portrayed inside the forest with a bridge to nowhere but darker? – Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
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You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
In 2005, someone named “BENBENEK” found a box of photos at a Southern California swap meet and realized he’d found a treasure, a glimpse of unknown history. The photos were bland and banal, yet oddly endearing, so he set up a website to share them with the world: HouseplantPicturesStudio.com.
Unfortunately the site is defunct, but via the Wayback Machine we can still enjoy Photos Of An Unknown Family Who PROBABLY Owned A Liquor Store.
Jungle, The Nite Cats (1962) No information about this group, but the song is suitable for Halloween ambient neighborhood music. The Nite Cats recorded this wonder on the CPM (Consolidated Music Publishing) Records label, and it appears in several “jungle rock” compilations. The flip side of the 45rpm is Skip School Flu.
Do the monster mask.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
Halloween Safety (1977).
Throat singer on the intercom.
“A day in the life of a Twitter employee” is NOT a parody.
[h/t Bunkerville]
[Top image: No idea what that’s all about but I like it. Might be a still shot from a Netflix series that I haven’t watched. Found here. h/t Charlene.]
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SHANGHAI, June 8 2021 (Reuters) – A roaming herd of 15 wild elephants is on the move again after resting for a day in a patch of forest on the outskirts of the city of Kunming in southwest China, resuming a year-long, 500-kilometre trek that has captured the public’s imagination.
Drone photographs taken on Monday by the provincial forest fire brigade showed members of the herd sleeping in a clearing in the middle of a forest in the district of Jinning, which has been hit by heavy rain and thunderstorms.
[Absurdities culled from the nice collection here.]
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 