Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Tag: miscellanea
Scapulomancing Hot Links
Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”
Applaud as if your life depends on it.
Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].
Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].
Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]
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Patroclinous Hot Links
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.
#12.
A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.
Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].
Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].
Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].
Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].
De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].
Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].
[Top image found here, colorized.]
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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Dégringolade Hot Links
I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.
More about Robot Archie.
Robbie Shilstone’s animations.
Old trains & obscure locomotives.
Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).
Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].
Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.
25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].
More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.
The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]
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Notonectal Hot Links
Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.
Pretty little flapping things.
The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].
A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].
“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”
The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.
Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].
[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]
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Adoxographic Hot Links
Zoom Zoom Zoom, The Collegians (1958) A hit for the Collegians, the intro to this song was adopted by the Marcels in 1961 for their classic version of Blue Moon.
Hotel di Vinyl [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Driving Test [via Bunkerville].
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
I don’t know any of the songs but it’s still a cool mashup.
[via Memo Of The Air]
4000 photos taken by Lluís Bussé are in the Barcelona Airport.
[Top image: Everyone in that A.I. generated photo is named Jeff. Unkown source.]
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Belomancing Hot Links
This Is Ska Live, Bad Manners (1997)
Bad Manners hooked me with their cover of Millie Small‘s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop (a cover of My Girl Lollipop credited to Robert Spencer of The Cadillacs and recorded by Barbie Gaye in 1956). Bad Manners also recorded one of the prettiest reggae love songs ever: Samson and Delilah.
Everyone needs a little space.
Bump It Up [via Feral Irishman].
Class photos [via Mme. Jujujive].
A collection of weaponry memes.
Fruity Oaty Bars [via Memo Of The Air].
Stoic, serious, and pragmatically practical cows.
The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Carbon Footprint Awards finalist [via Bunkerville].
Feeding 1st Responders after recent storms. (It’s Stalecracker, dood!)
[Top image: 1983 Bad Manners 45 rpm all clean and shiny.]
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Mothers Day Hot Links
You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
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Cinco De Mayo Hot Links
Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959 Bo Diddley recording.
“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“
Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină
Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].
Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]
Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.
Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].
The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]
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Tacky Raccoons 