IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 18 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2025 – 18th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,973 posts in our archives, +11K comments and +3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity. Unfortunately WordPress has modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.” “NA” is “Not Available.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!



No. 11 / NR / NA – Trotify


No. 10 / NR /  NA – Doodle Challenge Accepted


No. 9 / NR / NA – Google Street View


No. 8 / NR / NA – The Essence of Doggo


No. 7 / NR / NA – Chat-N-Chew Cafe, Wing ND


No. 6 / NR / NA – Vomit Clocks


No. 5 / 6 / 60 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 4 / NR / NA – VW Lead Sled Beetle


No. 3 / NR / 374 – A Hindu God


No. 2 / NR / 360 – Halloween Costume Suggestions

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

Unreal Abandonment

Posted on 26 February 2025, with a rank of 1 / NR / 104, this collection of computer-generated abandoned houseboats got a surprising amount of attention in a relatively short amount of time.

Top 5 Audio posts for the past year:

[I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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Ophiomormous Hot Links

Crazy Train, cover by Postmodern Jukebox w/ Jennie Lena (2018) R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne.

Bristlebot.

Spın̈al Tap II.

Transformers.

Florida Woman.

Relieving a cow.

Steam powered.

Ammonite Ironwork.

82 year old terrorist.

Identify the candidate.

Heads, horses and men.

Norty Blues Episode 126.

“Booo,” moaned the heckler.

Mud balls [via Everlasting Blört].

A.I. and digital forensics [h/t Chuck S.].

James Bond in India [via Memo Of The Air].

31 strange television shows [via Neatorama].

On being arrogant, haughty and unmoored from reality.

The problem’s not that you’re poor, it’s that you suck at being poor.

[Top image: McDonnell-Douglas Space Bimbo (uncolorized) found in here.]


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Hebetating Hot Links

Nitro, Dick Dale (1994) The Father of Surf Guitar, left-handed speed picker Richard Anthony Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, originally wanted to be a country singer before becoming the master blaster of the Stratocaster.

Fanny.

Fragments.

The Incline.

Nose lickers.

Firestick Man.

No complaints.

Cranberry Zen.

Double pendula.

Gorilla playtime.

$5.5M water tower.

Breakfast with Legos.

Infrared Palm Springs.

Bigass Mormon cricket.

The trouble with Romas.

A beautiful scribble pad.

Norty Blues Episode 125.

Pistol Pete [h/t Donna M.]

The Hidden Lives of Nails.

The Bug Carousel and more.

Aron Wiesenfeld’s Post-It Notes.

Do it! Do it!” [via Everlasting Blört].

A link dump that’s almost as good as this one.

Cuddles Newsome and the Flat Mountain Boys [h/t Jaime G.]

Ancient meanders of the lower Mississippi [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: High Flyer, Chet Phillips, date unknown.]


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Galeanthropic Hot Links

GTR, Chase Walker Band (2024)
The Chase Walker Band is a blues roots rock and soul band from Riverside, California.  Guitar prodigy Walker has already attracted the attention of many in the industry, and he’s still in his twenties.

Slab City.

Rat Rods.

Ghostfish.

You do you.”

Rust harvest.

The Future Bean.

Schrödinger’s Deli.

1959 Spülmaschine.

Watch this cucumber.

The Gold Medal House.

Trix ‘O’ Treat Billy Move.

Brazilian crowd control.

A Forest Full of Fireflies.

Norty Blues Episode 124.

Stevie Wonder on drums.

Swedish barn conversion.

Lois Gibson’s many faces.

The bow of the USS New Orleans.

English Rat Girls [via Memo Of The Air].

Classic fighters [via The Feral Irishman].

Sorry to bother you, but I got a favor to ask.”

1930s nightclub matchbook covers [via Everlasting Blört].

Cheater Slick Culture [h/t Mr. Joe @ The View from Lady Lake].

[Top image via XwitterAll at Sea, Louis Wain (1860-1939)]


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Dorsiventral Hot Links

Darling Can’t You TellThe Clusters (1958)
The Clusters were a popular teenage group from Brooklyn, and earned a spot on The Big Beat, Alan Freed’s short-lived television show. The following year, Darling Can’t You Tell scored No. 10 on the Regional Billboard charts.

A Truth.

Crackers.

Mod Mobiles.

Coasterbears.

Karen’s books.

See the Engels.

See the campers.

Out of the bunker.

Messing with a blob.

Abusing the camera.

Relics of Coober Pedy.

Gruoch, Queen of Scots.

Norty Blues Episode 123.

Folding Miura [via Memo Of The Air].

There’s a railway in the crawl space.

Something’s odd about these celebrations.

A potential bundle” [via The Feral Irishman].

Soviet propaganda posters [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: Meatball martini found at Bits and Pieces.]


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Acarophobic Hot Links

Satisfacción, Los Apson (1965)
Spanish cover of the Rolling Stones by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song that topped the Mexican charts for six weeks in 1966.

Wharf cats.

Chic sticks.

A lucid dream.

An early chart.

The Seasoning.

Drawing peace.

Gator Gulag update.

The Arsinoitherium.

ICE arrested WHAT?!

Polyglot vs. ChatGPT.

What’s the magic word?

Norty Blues Episode 122.

Top 1oo prolific inventors.

Daddy! [via Everlasting Blört].

Porcapizza does Ray Charles.
Ravon Rhoden does Ray Charles.
The Khreshatyk Choir does Ray Charles.

Bob Riggles’ 2500HP rear-mounted hemi.

Homage to the Hinge [via Memo Of The Air].

Prayers for Bunkerville. He’s been fighting the covid for a month now.

[Top image found here. The mural commemorates the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.]


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Obequitating Hot Links

Try Me One More Time, Willie Nix (1951)
From Sun Records: “Willie Nix was an innovative drummer and gifted lyricist as well as vocalist, and was an integral part of Memphis’s Beale Street blues community during the late forties and early fifties. […] Nix recorded and played in both Memphis and Chicago, and worked with legendary bluesmen in both cities, among them Junior Parker, B.B. King, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby Blue Bland.”

Skill.

Killbot.

Fishin’.

N-U-J-V.

Bebes talk.
Bebes move.
Bebes laugh.

Ambient art.

World’s best.

Anna the Fox.

Veo Sinkholes.

Ramone alone.

Fan appreciation.

Carbonating tuna.

I find her amusing.

The Sound Museum.

Music to boil pasta by.

WSU Tartar Field 1970.

Norty Blues Episode 121.

Robot High School mascot.

Singers falling down stairs.

Great, Great, Great […] Great Grandma.

This Cat in the Hat [via Everlasting Blört].

California Freedom [via The Feral Irishman].

Random sounds from Wikimedia [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via text: Sister’s roommate Farah runs hot and cold.]


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Flocculated Hot Links

Humphrey Bogart and Douglas Kennedy in DARK PASSAGE (1947), colorized.

Beat Party Pt. 1, Ritchie and the Squires (1960)
There were a lot of groups called The Squires, this one had someone named Ritchie. Possibly from New Jersey, I dunno, but I do know that the flip side of this rare 45 is Beat Party Pt. 2.

Sit.

Fetch.

Lie down.

Fkkn Susan.

The Bel Airs.

Zambian rock.

Happy stories.

Used stairways.

The Stupid Law.

One story truck.

Scheduled for demo.

Norty Blues Episode 120.

Albert and Ernie Ride The Rails.

Nice racks [via Memo Of The Air].

Sharpening a pencil with a chainsaw.

Towels and owls [via Everlasting Blört].

To go where none of y’all ain’t never been to!

[Top image found here.]


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Rotocratic Hot Links

Sloozy, G.E. Smith & The SNL Band (1992) Best known as the leader of the Saturday Night Live Band, G.E. Smith is one of those rare talents who never called attention to himself while at the same time being a ubiquitous guitarist, songwriter producer and band leader.

SPANKO!

Save the chili.

Dance, Elaine.

Doggo vs. deer.

On 5 June 1989.

Camping of yore.

Chiseled flowers.

Shari’a don’t like it.

Belgium wind theft.

Shoes & power lines.

Margaret’s cowbells.

Something happened.

No fkkn taco cheese.

Norty Blues Episode 119.

Strepsiptera.
Look! There’s one now!

A satisfying five minutes.

Big Bird meets Hitchcock.

Fred Lynn & The Chuck Ups.

The Evolution of Snow White.

Kullman Dutchess prefab diner car [via NOTL].

Automotive eyeopeners [via Everlasting Blört].

Coches de Madera PUJILÍ 2025 [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: NE CEDE MALIS, 12″ × 12″ acrylic on wood, Tony Philippou 2014.]


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Morosophical Hot Links

Rocking Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Part 1
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and The Clowns (1957) Rocking Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Part 1 earned a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll; the flip side of the Ace Records 45rpm, RP & the BWF Part 2, did not.
In 1944 at the age of 15, Huey Smith began working in clubs around New Orleans and recording with partner Eddie Jones (later known as Guitar Slim). By 1955 he was a session musician, playing piano for Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Earl King and others. Smith’s mix of boogie woogie, blues and jazz piano styles became the sound of New Orleans.

Peabun.

Mugshot.

Bumstead.

Tubermail.

Can I do it?

Mirth in Space.

So long, Loretta.

Florida Bushman.

Florida Gatorman.

He’s got a big one.

Tommy Emmanuel.

Leonard Emmanuel.

Pop it like you mean it.

Song of the Cork Rider.

Norty Blues Episode 118.

How to fill a Klein bottle.

Something smells in NYC.

Dragon tail tale [h/t Amy D.]

Still my favorite puzzle video.

Tim, Michelle, Rosie and John.

This is probably an emergency.

The incomplete lives of AI generated actors.

Springfield Bushman [via Everlasting Blört].

Life inside a bag of corn chips [via Memo Of The Air].

Dawna Kaufmann discusses the late Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman. [Jump to 21:44 for interview. Unfortunate commercial interruptions.]

[Top image: Mona LisAIPeter McClard, 2025.]


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