Tag: miscellanea

Helminthological Hot Links

Oh My Angel, Bertha Tillman (1962) “R&B singer Bertha Tillman was born in Texas, but moved to San Diego where her career started. She only recorded a few singles, including her cover of the oldies staple “Oh My Angel” and a song called “I Wish” (released as Bertha Tillman & The Killers), both appearing on Bob Shad‘s New York label Brent Records. She died in San Diego on May 31, 1993, at the age of 50.”

Mitts.

Pro tip.

Tiny nails.

Dance hard.

Pips & Nubs.

Fast food race.

Train engines.

CASRSPLASHART.

Harmonic morons.

Totem if ya gottem.

Lyncornis macrotis.

Melbourne’s bridges.

The Hat Toss of 2017.

St. Petersburg bridge.

A counter in the hood.
Another counter.

Pierogie & Scammer Payback.

“What happened to your arm?“

Flashed Face Distortion Effect.

Gov. Gavin & Jake T. went fishing.

Slinky heaven [via Everlasting Blört].

Pointer pointer [via Memo Of The Air].

Compound Pejorative Frequency Chart.

US-101 plays itself [via Thompson, blog].

A gated community [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Sonny’s Discount Grocery, 1034 S. Main St., High Point, NC. In 2013, Sonny’s sold other things besides groceries, and it appears to be under new ownership. Found here.]

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Tatonnemental Hot Links

Breezin’, The Radiators (1997) Recorded live at Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the song was written and recorded by  Bobby Womack in 1971. It became George Benson‘s biggest hit five years later. The (New Orleans) Radiators don’t appear to have an active website.

Cat Patrol.

Karma dog.

Fkkn Kevin.

A hot night.

Hungry lad.

Miss Cadilac.

Collect ’em all.

Two weeks later.

Chiroptera cloud.

Multimedia chaos.

Time for a shower.

Call Me Cannibal 011.

Things going splodey.

Jimmies vs. sprinkles.

Subtracting additions.

The Experts among us.

It all makes sense now.

Werewolves of Michigan.

Cows, tractors and bikes.

Towering black and white.

Rescuing a live ray [via Thompson, blog].
Ignoring a dead ray [via me].

From rough to fine [via Memo Of The Air].

P-Town 1937-1940 [via Everlasting Blört].

Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Antonio Gaudi.

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, starring in Grass Roots.

[Top image: Unknown tire advertisement graphic found here.]

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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored.

Just a pile of random unrelated stuff. The raccoon poster was the result of asking Grok for an image based on my Xwitter account.

Peristerophilic Hot Links

Watching My Baby Get Ready, Reigning Sound (2011) Reigning Sound was an American garage rock / punk band originally based in Memphis, Tennessee, active from 2001 to 2022.

Caps.

Nope.

WARNING.

Freehand.

Dollycorn.

‘Sup, Rod?

Start here.

Ideal Zeroids.

Chex & Masks.

No mo Voodoo.

Tin toy revival.

The bass editor.

Fixing up Vincent.

A manhunt is over.

Facade of collapse.

South L.A. nightlife.

Sodium vapor vs. LED.

“You’re saving it wrong.”

The 2026 Ig Nobel Awards.

They can fly? [via Everlasting Blört].
Related post here.

Main Mecha Unit [via Bustednuckles].

Lumps’ animations [via Memo Of The Air].

Where roaches come from [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Graffiti at the Muskator factory ruins in Düsseldorf’s industrial harbor found here.]

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Indehiscent Hot Links

Un dimanche (Jubivillad), Kurt Seligmann, 1938.

Jamaica Ska, Byron Lee & The Dragonaires (1964) Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee formed the Dragonaires while attending St. George’s College in the early 1950s. Originally playing mento Jamaican music, they expanded into calypso, soca, rock steady, reggae and ska. Their recording of Jamaica Ska was covered by Fishbone (with Annette Funicello) in the 1987 schlock comedy Back to the Beach.

Dee’s.

Tater.

Buttons.

Flocking.

VW Trailer.

The Crusher.

Finding Ernie.

The carbon race.

Medical artwork.

Bulbs and tubes.

Pretty DemSocs.

Cyriak’s Sea Life.

The Whiz Monster.

RIP Yayoi Kusama.

Helen and Marilyn.

Eleven Implosions.

CNN’s Greatest Hits.

A bunch of bouncing balls.

Claymation sculpting timelapse.

Unexpected visitors [via Everlasting Blört].

Boys just want to have fun [via Thompson, blog].

Interactive Tibetan monastery bunkroom [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here: Un dimanche (Jubivillad), Kurt Seligmann, 1938.]

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Sesquiplicated Hot Links

Real Wild Child (Wild One), Iggy Pop (1986)
Iggy Pop’s cover of Australian Johnny O’Keefe‘s 1957 recording of The Wild One. After touring Australia in 1958, The Crickets recorded their version, and so did Jerry Lee Lewis. Almost everyone else did too.

Quail.

Library.

Role call.

Dance hard.

Inman’s Top 5.

Coke is Kosher.

No pay, no ride.

diggy diggy hey.

“Stupid infidels.”

“pssst… bicycle.”

Impatience is fun.

Chain link highrise.

9 out of 10 doctors.

The Hanson sisters.

The little green ball.

It’s Not All About Iran.

Awkward stock photos.

Moving a grain elevator.

Another day in Karmatown.

Porthmadog to Caernarfon.

The Bloop was discovered here.

Tower pooping [via Everlasting Blört].

Calculating the sit [via Memo Of The Air].

Lots of cars in 1970s San Diego [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Unknown Bingo Night diva found here; uncolorized photo found in here.]

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Nephelognostic Hot Links

Danny’s All-Star Joint, Rickie Lee Jones (1979) Rickie Lee Jones, aka The Duchess of Coolsville, “released her self-titled debut album in 1979 to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200, and spawned the hit single Chuck E.’s in Love, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 1980. […] The album included guest appearances by Dr. John, Randy Newman, and Michael McDonald.” [Wiki]
Note: Malwarebytes detected riskware at her official website.

Pearls.

Ratrod.

Breaking.

Xerox Hell.

Street art.

Gene Gene.

Ghost Office.

What Aa is for.

35 years of TV.

Crushing Coke.

Cycler rescued.

Conceptual Art.

EF on the WNBA.

Signs in retirement.

Remembering Robby.

Cluck cluck cluck, etc.

Alabama Turtle Burglar.

Hickshit & boogerwelds.

Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks.

A little construction work.

Gov. Gavin makes a tortilla.

Glowfish [via Memo Of The Air].

Demolisity [via Everlasting Blört].

Johanna Van Parijs’ wood mosaics.

1956 Pontiac Star Chief Ambulance.

Hotel Dramatica [via Thompson, blog].

Gabriel’s 300th post on Vankleek Hill Photos.

WMCA-AM (New York) broadcast February 1965.

[Top image: Paranoia panda balloon found here.
“Johnny Panda” was photographed during the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta in the UK, 08 August 2026.]

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Acyrological Hot Links

“Shake” sculpture by Annie Glass (2021)

Love Theme from The Flight of the Phoenix, The Brass Ring (1966)
The Brass Ring, a group of NYC studio musicians led by saxophonist and arranger Phil Bodner, turned a classic Italian song into The Now Sound (cigarette commercial music) popular in the 1960s. Senza fine (the original version) was written by Italian singer-songwriter Gino Paoli and first recorded in 1961 by Ornella Vanoni. The film version was recorded by Connie Francis, and retitled The Phoenix Love Theme.

Time.

Numbers.

Far right™.

Crane pups.

Mercury waves.

Brick tiled floor.

Gas station battle.

Homemade pencils.

Carnivorous couch.

Cerveza del Pacifico.

Nagasaki bus shelters.

Remembering Ol’ Remus.

The Red Baron (no not that one).

Eigendrum [via Memo Of The Air].

Where the rubber meet the roost.

Pennsylvania’s burning ghost town.

Homemade birds [via Everlasting Blört].

Cab Calloway’s Hepster Dictionary (1939).

The Moist Towelette Museum [via Neatorama].

Vintage Czech record sleeves [via sloth unleashed].

Batman & Robin vs. Dangerous Dr. Daka [via Thompson, blog].

[Top image: Shake by Annie Glass (2021). Story and more at  My OBT.]

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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 19 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 2026 – 19th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 7,318 posts in our archives, +12K comments and +3.35M 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 modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes Not Ranked. “NA” is Not Available (due to stats limitations or posts less than a year old).

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post.


No. 11 / 25 / 36 – The Kluck Klams

No. 10 / NR /  4 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar

No. 9 / NA / NA – Bastard Chairs

No. 8 / NA / NA – Cakes of Wonder

No. 7 / NA / 284 – Nothing Much Happened Today #101

No. 6 / NA / 280 – Third Ave & Bowery, NYC

No. 5 / NA / 273 – Noah’s Camper

No. 4 / NA / 249 – The Days of Our Hives

No. 3 / NA / 247- Childhood Nightmare

No. 2 / NA / 204 – Living on the Edge

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

The .Gif Friday Post No. 919 – A Bucketful of Reflex, Zombie Defense & Surfing the Crowd

Posted on 29 August 2025, with a rank of 1 / NA / 202, this trio of .gifs got a surprising amount of attention.

Top 5 Audio posts for the past year:

Some people somewhere seemed to like these A LOT.

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

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

Bunk

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Koniological Hot Links

This granite sculpture titled “Cranberry Eater” (Dzērveņu ēdājs) was created by artist Kārlis Īle in 2006 for the International Stone Sculpture Symposium. The artwork features a distinctive coiled form and is located in Dzirnavu Square (Mill Square) in Ventspils, Latvia.

Chicken Payback, The Bees (2004)Known in the US as A Band of Bees, the British indie / psychedelic / garage rock / country / reggae / jazz group from the Isle of Wight has been performing and recording since 2001. Recorded at Abbey Roads Studios, Chicken Payback was featured in a television advertisement for Sure Deodorant.

Fleabot.

Diceman.

FLOCK off.

Inspections.

AC/DC Lane.

Sepia people.

Just imagine.

Motobalineras.

Buy this house.

Cloud crossing.

Mary Lou in ’52.

Olbers’ paradox.

Auto suspension.

“You got it, docker.”

Karelian Bear Dogs.

A bunch of campers.

Sumpm’s goin’ down.

Flaming corrugations.

Bless the vile apostates.

Earworm / ringtone / video.

“Shhh” whispered the trees.

Sea battle [via Thompson, blog].

Animatus [via Everlasting Blört].

GWB touching bald men’s heads.

1936 Cadillac Series 60 Convertible Coupe.

Mid century motel rooms [via Memo Of The Air].

The History of Slavery You Probably Weren’t Taught in School.

[Top image “Cranberry Eater” found here.]

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