Alectryomancing Hot Links



Last Night (live version), The Mar-Keys (1967) Recorded in Europe during “Hit the Road Stax,” a Stax-Volt Records showcase revue. The Mar-Keys were the first house / session band for Stax Records, and Last Night was the first recording for the label. The instrumental made No. 3 in the US charts in 1961. For some reason the producer didn’t want guitars, so Steve Cropper played second keyboard.

Agent 146.

Dale’s Bits.

Meepmeep.

Amphibian.

Greek Mythos.

Hoarder Barbie.

Cool, but what if

Yinzers on COPS .

Two sets of ducks.

Whole Lotta Folsom.

A righteous hangout.

Pretty sure I need this.

Lazercat [found in here].

The cost of going Green.

Norty Blues Episode 129.

What was wrong with Vincent.

Amazing tea brewing machine.

Zappa’s war on drugs [via Memo Of The Air].

Engineering Rushmore [via Thompson, blog].

Who is The Burry Man?  [via Everlasting Blört].

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words.

[Top image found here with the caption:
A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance. ALL CONDUCTORS ARE AWARE OF FELIX.


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Frumentarious Hot Links

Don’t Drag No More, Susan Lynne (1964) Born in New York, Susan Lynne Koskowitz recorded a handful of singles while still in high school. Record producer and promoter Artie Kornfeld composed Don’t Drag No More in 1964 as an answer song to Jan and Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve. By 1966, Kornfeld had written over 75 Billboard charted songs and participated in over 150 albums. He was also co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair.

ijamot.

What if…?

It’s the law.

Redistrickery.

Redneck Trek.

Really old fish.

Die Nachthexen.

Can’t park there.

Winston’s platypus.

An emotional milestone.

Norty Blues Episode 128.

Here he comes [sound up].

Deconstructing Raffaello.

The doors of Mary Procter.

Every blockbuster film trailer.

Do the Spazbot [via Everlasting Blört].

Medieval medicinal recipes [via Thompson, blog].

New Shroud of Turin news [via The Feral Irishman].

The Atmosfär Project is for people with autism [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via Bits and Pieces. Batmobile replica crashed on Fathers Day 2006 at some place named Woodside, more about the car here.]


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Rupestrian Hot Links


Clumsy
, Mudwerks (2025)
Not a spoof.

Camperama.

Possumette.

Spot the rat.

37 years ago

Hopkins & Feifer.

Playing with food.

Scores of animals.

Machete ban in Oz.

Custom Afghani rugs.

Bunkerville dodged one.

Norty Blues Episode 127.

Bees of the 13th Century.

Talking to cats in absentia.

One more thing to deal with.

Shoplifting and progressive empathy.

Song of the Eiders [via Everlasting Blört].

Forensic dollhouses [via Memo Of The Air].

Pollution reduction increases global temperatures.

[Top image: Eureka Tower, Melbourne, AU. Photo by Leanne Cole 2024.]


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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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