Enantiopathic Hot Links

Pachamama,”an androgynous being that is omnipresent, omnipotent and can procreate itself.”

Love Shock, Sonny and his Wild Cows (2012) From Budapest, Sonny and his Wild Cows is fronted by “Wild Cow Sonny” and plays American blues, R&B, rock & roll, rockabilly, swing, and country western with a 1940s-50s retro style. [Free download of their 2012 album The Berlin Session here.]

Yassify Bot.

Plan ahead.

Bring Back Apu.

The Campering.

The jam was epic.

Entrumpreneurs.

The Gay Pirate Plate.

 ABELEEDAWEEWOWEH

Manbuns v. Stop The Knot.

The skull of Sultan Mkwawa.

What the F-35 sounded like.

This policewoman’s response

Ambigrams, Logos & Word Art.

Celebrating 100 years of StarWars.

Splashy splashy [via Mme. Jujujive].

Get Aht-a Tahn and more  yinzerspeak.

SoKno Kroger has great deals [h/t Pam. M.].

Opening an 18th century safe [h/t Bunkerville].

The spy plane that was so stealthy it didn’t exist.

Tight dirndls of Oktoberfest [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Pachamama,”an androgynous being that is omnipresent, omnipotent and can procreate itself.” Artwork by Kurimalai.]


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Maschalephidrosic Hot Links

Ain’t Misbehavin’, Fats Waller (1929) The master of the stride piano, Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller (1904-1943) was playing at the age of six, dropped out of school around age 15 and became an organist at the Lincoln Theatre in Harlem. By 18 he was recording. According to one story, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by Al Capone’s henchmen and forced to perform at a birthday party for the mob boss.

Farts.

Belugaball.

The Spoiler.

The Elwood.

Gender confusion.

“Don’t say anything.”

There’s just no place.

Footnote citation verified.

Dealing with a burning EV.

Monkeys Spinning Monkeys.

Dress up to camp out (and more).

How to kill lobsters (thread story).

Mike Pacheco’s bongo earworms.

Recalling the Water Wiggle [via Memo Of The Air].

Die Eishöhle der schrecklichen Musik [via Bunkerville].

Realistic British seaside trip generator [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Ann-Margaret in The Swinger (1966) found here.)


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Elytriferous Hot Links

Ever Again, Bernie Williams (1969) Not  to be confused with recording artist and Major League Baseball player of the same name, Bernie Williams was a Northern Soul singer who recorded for Bell Records. A rare promo 45rpm of Ever Again/ Next To You was recently listed for £3,900 ($4,861 USD).

Howdy!

The relocation.

Dude with sign.

Dealing with infinity.

Why ESL is important.

Zero Hour vs. Airplane.

We saw what you did there.

Mama was a flying pea pod.

God Bless Cowboy Adam Ingle.

Kirby & Kendall [via Memo Of The Air].

It was an accident. Honest.” [h/t Paul Y.]

Aztec Death Whistle (slowed, with reverb).

YOU WILL BUY GLORIOUS PRODUCTS NOW

Homage to retractable headlights [via Bunkerville].

Some very important phone calls [via Mme. Jujujive]

[Top image found here.]


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Psittacine Hot Links

Hunter Thompson Weekend, Jimmy Buffett
with Glenn Frey & Steve Weisberg (1977) Audio lifted from video of their appearance with Hunter S. Thompson at the Aspen High School Auditorium, 1977.  Buffett, Frey and Weisberg performed an early version of Margaritaville at 11:04 in. That would have been one fun weekend.

Wall.

Feral parrots.

More campers.

Killing them softly.

My bad, Mom. My bad.

Vaccines at the Improv.

Awkward conversations.

InstaTan [via Bunkerville].

Shipping container hotels.

Jordan can’t take a sick day.

Beepboopbeepboop pshhhhh.

The Termite [via Memo Of The Air].
More Thai insecticide fun here.

Sauce Day intros [via Mme. Jujujive].

Long Long Man – the complete miniseries.

History lesson from the streets of Harlem.

Bruce Wayne’s other option [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image found here. R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023).]


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Myomancing Hot Links

On My Own, The Muffs, (2019) The Muffs were a successful punk band from SoCal, formed by bassist, guitarist and lead singer Kim “Kimba” Shattock in 1991. Shattock suffered from ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s Disease) for several years, and soon after recording the band’s final album No Holiday, she passed away in 2019 at the age of 56.

THIS DOG.

HO Spiral 1
HO Spiral 2
HO Dilemma

Cheese bra.

Math much?

Blues Moose Radio.

Campers and campers.

Milk pandas (and more).

Sound up for the SkaFire.

A big test is coming October 4.

Those terrifying little upticks

Theft-proof suitcase [via Bunkerville].

Pasta la vista, baby [via Mme. Jujujive].

We have never seen anything like this.

Doodling on a glow-in-the dark LP with a laser pointer.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top image found here, unknown origin.]


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Bombylious Hot Links

Number 9 Train, Tarheel Slim (1958) Allen Rathel Bunn (1923-1977) recorded under various names but was best known as Tarheel Slim. Bunn enjoyed a successful recording career playing an eclectic variety of styles including gospel, R&B, blues, rockabilly, pop & soul. In 1963 he dropped out of the music business , but was “rediscovered” a decade later and resumed recording and performing on acoustic guitar until his death at the age of 53.

Lunchtime.

Pets & glasses.

3 hours of goop.

Objectified musicians.

Waiting for someone to notice.

It’s basically a hotdog of the sea.

Just found a new ringtone. [h/t Suz H.]

The Temperature of Doom [via Bunkerville].

Ink-powered leaf boats [via Memo Of The Air].

It’s 5 minutes compressed into 3, but so what.

[Top image courtesy Serafina D.]


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Carphologic Hot Links

Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.

Message to Rudy.

Message to Nellie.

Message to Garcia.

Men looking at potholes.

The Hunga Tonga eruption.

It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].

Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.

Men and women think differently.

“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”

20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].

Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]

The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]

Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD  [via Mme. Jujujive].

Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]

[Top image found in here.]


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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 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 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M 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 (August 2007 – August 2023).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

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


No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod


No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings


No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks


No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


 No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever



No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals


No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel


And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[Note that 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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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.

Flagitious Hot Links

Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.

Elephants.

THIS PARROT

The Field Trip.

EatSleepDraw.

The Honeymoon.

The Human Camera.

Arthur’s in the tank.

No explanation wanted.

The Amazing Jonny Kim.

CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]

If you’re happy and you know it

The origins and methods of Woke.

Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].

Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)

Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].

The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]


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Haplographic Hot Links

If I, Ko & The Knockouts (2002) Cover of IF I – OH I by Nolan Strong & The Diablos (1959) “Ko & the Knockouts formed when Ko Shih [aka Ko Melina, Ko Melina-Zydeco] was bartending at Detroit hot spot the Magic Stick and had been the bass player for the Come Ons, was approached by Long Gone John of Sympathy for the Recording Industry to put a song on his upcoming compilation of Detroit bands.” [More here.]

We vs. They.

Shoona horse.

Makin’ the balls.

Bollard got skillz.

Nightmare school.

Tetris block names.

How records are broken.

Pet snorks [via Mme. Jujujive].

It’s even more creepo with sound off.

The Clark’s Cove Guano Company
[via Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge].

Beyond 3D sidewalk art [via Bunkerville].

Ancient Egyptian egg ovens. [h/t Paul Y.]

Ragtime Rockabilly Disco [via Memo Of The Air].

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Making shokuhin sampuru [via Nag On The Lake].

[Top image found here. Comic book source unknown.]


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