Acolouthic Hot Links

Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.

Lolo Face.

Cirrus Surfer.

Soho George.

UFO crash site.

Bark bark bark.

Poling bamboo.

Listen to a moth.

Donkey nannies.

Wendy’s watching.

Self Defense in MA.

Eh. Eh. Ah, ah, ah.

Norty Blues Episode 81.

Escape from Springfield.

Streetscapes in watercolor.

The CPI continues to climb.

Cool maps you’ve never seen.

Nice magazine. Want to sell it?

The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.

Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.

The worst movie death scene ever.

Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].

Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]


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Fissiparous Hot Links

Boeing Starliner returns to Earth without NASA astronauts Friday, 06 September 2024.

We Are Alive, Key Frances (2007) “I was born in Seattle in Kings County Hospital. I’m six months younger than Jimi Hendrix. Don’t do the math, I want to be younger than somebody and I am six months younger than Jimi. He was born in the same hospital as I was.” – Key Frances

*squish*

PUGMAN!

Monkeybrew.

First car jewelry.

Vitamin D needed.

A visored bascinet.

Lord of the Swamp.

Burning Ring of Fire.

Cows have best friends.

Norty Blues Episode 80.

Someone opened the blinds.

Miss Sukey feeds a swaddled cat.

Terrifying Satellite Jumping Shoes.

Margaret Watts Hughes’ visible voices.

The Golden Age of Radio [via Memo Of The Air].

Solving California’s energy shortage [via Bunkerville].

On the road to Black Rock [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Screencap from live Starlink video.]


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Catalectic Hot Links

Green Eggs And Ham, Not Bob Dylan (1997) In 1997, a 30-something music producer from Houston, Texas, produced a mashup of Bob Dylan and Dr. Seuss titled Dylan Hears a Who, a parody album that went viral online. IIRC, the estate of Dr. Seuss issued a cease and desist order based on copyright infringement, and the album / website disappeared (but not before some of us snagged it).

Mud Hill.

AHOOOO!

WOO-WOO!

Fkkn pelicans.

Printing a lion.

Speaking Bajan.

Gabels Ice Cream.

Animated origami.

Matinee Featurettes.

Clearing the driveway.

Human Touch Clothing.

Norty Blues Episode 79.

Night-merry-go-round.

Play nicely. Use coasters.

Someone watched for 12 days.

Alena Shymchonak spreads the oil.

Listen to Wikipedia [via Memo Of The Air]

Godzilla: The Official Cookbook [via Mme. Jujujive].

Saturday morning with Peggy and Chuck [via Bunkerville].

[Top image found here.]


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Detumescent Hot Links

B-Gas Rickshaw, The Raybeats (1981)
  The Raybeats were an instrumental “no wave” surf rock band from New York (1979-1984). From their album Guitar Beat, this song is a remake of Jan Berry‘s “B” Gas Rickshaw (1964).

Rough seas.

Grow up, Jess.

Grannie Farm.

Hawkin’ the C.

Satan was bored.

The Wind Games.

AI meets Raygun.

Nature vs. Nurture.

Make the Logo Bigger.

Favorite Maple Syrups.

When lightning strikes.

Norty Blues Episode 78.

Aboriginal culture is recent.

Daddy sang bass [via IDHMGO].

To Catch A Thief [via Bunkerville].

Storytime With Mr. A [via Mme. Jujujive].

The 180th Annual Vankleek Hill Agricultural Fair.

Those zany DC superheros! [via The View From Lady Lake].

I ranked at turtle level on the CPS Test [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Illustration by R. Crumb for Charles Bukowski‘s Bop Bop Against The Curtain, Arcade – The Comics Revue #3 (Fall 1973).]


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Vauclusian Hot Links

Pm3 – PKP designation of a German express steam locomotive with aerodynamic lagging, produced in 1939–1941 for German railways (German series 0310).

Good, Good Lovin’, The Blossoms (1966)
 The Blossoms were probably the most successful unknown group of the ’60s, and the most well-known lineup was Darlene Love, Fanita James and Jean King. Their biggest hit was not even credited to them: producer Phil Spector was in a rush to get He’s A Rebel to the market, and since his top group was on tour at the time, he named The Crystals instead.

2A memes.

Dizzy Dishes.

Beatin’ rhythm.

This begets This.

In the stone zone.

Catchin’ some ZZZs.

Norty Blues Episode 77.

Flight of the bumblebee.

Brian Wilson does things.

Excellent horror B-movies.

Monkeypox by the numbers.

Why am I laughing so hard?

Careful with that dog, Eugene.

Walrus whistle [via Mme. Jujujive].

Bridging the gap [via Bunkerville].

The OSU Marching Band TubaCam.

The 1964 Zambian space program.

Pearl Jam sings names of LinkedIn.

1971 Emoryville scrap yard [via Memo Of The Air].

Some disturbing thoughts about lab-grown sentience.

[Top image: WWII era German built steam locomotive, PKP National Railway Museum, Warsaw, Poland. Image source unknown.]


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Deracinated Hot Links

Steam Powered Aereo Plane, New Grass Revival (1981)
NGR was a tight group of talented pickers who mixed traditional bluegrass styles with jazz and rock. (The song is a John Hartfield cover.)

Knockers.

Lady In Red.

Lil’ Blammo.

Changelings.

Johnny At The Fair.

The Melon Whisperer.

Japanese marble run.

The Wingnut Museum.

Norty Blues Episode 76.

Bartender’s manual 1927.

Two Thin Lines Of Ketchup.

Warren Buffet on marriage.

Skapybara [via Mme. Jujujive].

These things seem to happen.

Some things never happened.

Chairman of the Beach [via Bunkerville].

Better with sound (and better than a .gif).

Behind the scenes in the panda paddock.

Everyday Life in Real Time [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Slugman Portrait Pillow found here.]


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Ololygmancing Hot Links

Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
 One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.

Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]

A snek!

Puttering.

Grape bricks.

Thai rednecks.

Current events.

Adam’s first swim.

Mary had a little rabbit.

Entitled Do Not Disturb .

Norty Blues Episode 75.

The happiest vertebrae.

Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].

Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.

The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].

Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]


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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 17 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 2024 – 17th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,594 posts in our archives, +10.8 K comments and over 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 (August 2007 – August 2024).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

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



No. 11 / NR / NR – This is Robert. He wants to meet you.


No. 10 / NR / NR – Meme Peeps


No. 9 / 7 / 97 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 8 / NR / NR – Horrorchids


No. 7 / 3 / 48 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 6 / 6 / 63 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 5 / 2 / 75 – St. Pancras Hotel


No. 4 / 4 / 95 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 8 / 34 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


No. 2 / 5 / 38 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals

And the No. 1 Post for the past three freakin’ years:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/28 – Number One for three years in a row AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for 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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Rhonchisonant Hot Links

Theme to the Green Hornet, Al Hirt (1966) The melody, titled Полёт шмеля (Flight of the Bumblebee), was written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, composed in 1899–1900. It was jazzed up for The Green Hornet TV series theme by arranger and trumpeter Billy May.

Pipe jazz.

Tiny tools.

Bites Guide.

Eggs of film.

The perfect toy.

Glassy beasties.

A.I. ballet [h/t Pam M.]

Airpods Max headroom.

Norty Blues Episode 74.

Bád fada báite Cé Essex.

Rev. Peyton, Fishmancer.

Good dancer / bad dancer.

One second per day for a year.

Mama Colugo [via Bunkerville].

Kinetic mask [via Mme. Jujujive].

Reaperman [via Memo Of The Air].

Secret Service Girl [Full song here].

Major Taylor [h/t Queen Hepzibah].

Dark Horse, Dead Ringer and other phrase origins.

Free at no extra cost [via The View From Lady Lake].

Statue of Sir Winston Churchill, Parliament Square, 2024.

[Top image: Protest goon outside of the 2024 RNC National Convention.]


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Jasperated Hot Links

Heartbreak Stroll, The Raveonettes (2003) Award winning indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark, The Raveonettes are Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. From the album Chain Gang of Love, the lineup includes Manoj Ramdas on guitar and Jakob Hoyer on drums.

Gigs.

Big fish.

Not today.

Bunkie Life.

Naked ‘pacas.

Yo-Yo for ducks.

Baby Got Back (ASL).

In memory of Laika.

Poster [via IDHMGO].

Norty Blues Episode 73.

On the roof of the Rijksmuseum.

Pork roll, egg & cheese flavored vodka.

Mysorean Rockets [via Memo Of The Air].

Sad and Worried Animals [via Mme. Jujujive].

Belton’s 1785 semiautomatic rifle [h/t Andy R.]

If a Little is Good, More is Better and Too Much is just right.

Trump looks ridiculous with that bandage.” [via Bunkerville]

[Top image found here, story unknown.]


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