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Dance of the Rona, Shardcore (2020) from The Sounds of Covid-19“NIH released the DNA sequence of Covid-19, so I decided to convert it into musical notes and hear what it sounds like.”
The excerpt is from the .midi file download, speed x2, and chopped down to six minutes. I like the uncut electromix version better.
[h/t Lucy Dynamite]
I Don’t Look Good Naked Any More.
Something’s in the air over Moscow.
Prisencolinensinainciusol. [h/t Innocent B.]
Colorized jitterbuggery of “Hellzapoppin.
The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott.
A photo of mating weevils is available at FineArtAmerica.
Bulletproof Enterprise Jeffrey Epstein Air Freshener (1 Pack)
Nestlé Australia decided its “Red Skins” candy might offend some people so they renamed it “Red Ripper,” the nickname of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo.
Map of Pornhub search terms by state (for Election Week 2020).
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 657 – Morphing
Great Big Blobs
NASA scientists are studying planet magnetic fields and revisited raw data collected by Voyager 2 over three decades ago. They found that
Voyager 2 spotted a massive magnetic bubble pulling gas out of Uranus’ atmosphere.
https://www.space.com/uranus-gas-blob-voyager-2-discovery.html
Such loop-like plasmoids are typically formed as a spinning planet flings bits of its atmosphere to space. “Centrifugal forces take over, and the plasmoid pinches off.”
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=119
Uranus pinches off big blobs and flings them.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 658 – Demo Bueno, Stockin’ the Station & Zamboni Flambé
Bonus .Gif – CNN Oopsie
The .Gif Friday Post No. 657 – Stick It To The Man, Mud Pool & Gator Rodeo
I’ve Got A Little Happy Dude
I had a CT scan last week. Just for the heck of it I asked if I could get a copy of the .dcm files and they burned me a DVD that included viewing software. Pure awesome.
I opened the program, fumbled around a bit, and found that I have a little happy dude living right under my chin.
In another file, there were soft-tissue images, and the little happy dude showed up there, too.
The scan turned up nothing significant. That made me VERY happy.
Día de los Muertos
[Images found in our living room. Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
Saturday Matinee Halloween Edition – The Ramones, Sally Cruikshank & Oingo Boingo
First recorded in 1976, The Ramones‘ I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement is sort of appropriate.
Sally Cruikshank‘s animations are Betty Boop on acid.
Face like a Frog (1987) includes the Cab Calloway-esque song Don’t Go In The Basement (starts at 02:26 ). In 2017, Cruikshank herself added this to the YouTube comments:
“Danny Elfman composed the track for this film. Period. Copyright mine. Then a year or two later I gave his agents permission to include it on a compilation LP, I guess put out by [David] Geffen. Now they claim I got the music from the album or something. They’re wrong. My film came first. My husband’s going to get into it with Geffen.”
“I don’t always listen to Dead Man’s Party, but when I do so do the neighbors.” – YouTube comment
Oingo Boingo was a standout band of the 1980s, combining ska, punk, jazz & rock, and Dead Man’s Party became a Halloween party standard. According to Wikipedia:
The lyric, “I hear the chauffeur coming to my door / Says there’s room for maybe just one more,” is a reference to “The Bus-Conductor,” a short story by E. F. Benson about a hearse driver, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906.
Video is from the 1986 movie Back To School. Yeah, 34 years ago…
Happy Halloween, folks!
This year I’m gonna scare half the neighborhood by NOT wearing a mask. Hope you get all the tricks you deserve and all the treats that you don’t.
[Paranoia moons previously posted here. More Halloween-related posts in the archives.]
Tacky Raccoons 