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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Juncaceous Hot Links

Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me 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) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.

Iguana.

This pup.

Symphony 42.

Blue Barbados.

Kinetic mosaics.

Cool locomotives.

Not the right way.

Arguing with a bird.

Just One More Thing.

Norty Blues Episode 58.

Prosopometamorphopsia.

The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).

The 3 Body Problem (Newton).

How not to have an Easter party.

How to find water using a baboon.

How to get out of a speeding ticket.

How to prevent a total eclipse & more.

Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].

The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].

Macro views of various writing instruments.

WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].

Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]


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