Tag: miscellanea

Malleating Hot Links

Farmer Brown (No. 2), Officer Roseland (2006) “Hailing from the outskirts of Philadelphia, Officer Roseland has been protecting and serving rock music since 2000. Comprised of Dan Daidone (bass/vocals), Brian Jones (keyboards/guitar), Harry Grannis (bass/guitar) and John Ilisco Jr (drums/percussion).”
Officer Roseland provided soundtracks for several Billy Blob animations.

BeepBox.

PASTAAAA!

The Ricochet.

Cat sings Alugalug.

Dance Little Stevie.

Mr. Swingline, I presume.

A link dump of rabbit holes.

How to survive a sloth attack.

When the doggy day care calls.

Mine is low [via Memo Of The Air].

Mr. Chosen One got all humpy (01:30).

Money-saving drinking game [via Feral Irishman].

Babs Streisand has a mall in her basement (pic #13).

The Grand Marshal of the Tree Parade [via Bunkerville].

How to calm the kangaroo you just pissed off [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Danny D.’s high pressure boiler, photo cropped & enhanced.]

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Quadrumanous Hot Links

Running Around, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs (1961) Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs were best known for their classic 1960 hit Stay, the shortest recorded number one hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (US).

Taco Spin.

The Rewind Museum.

On Southern Heritage.

Norwegian bicycle lift.

An Aperiodic Monotile.

Always save the receipt.

U.S. Marines tested DARPA AI.

Silent Props [via Nag on the Lake].

Whanganui men [via Memo Of The Air].

The Flight of the Helivector [via Bunkerville].

Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon.

Don’t let the dandelion horn die [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image was posted by somewhere on Twitter, misplaced the linky. It appears to be a pissed-off Short-eared Owl making a big scary face with its wings.]

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Lambitive Hot Links

You Can’t Make Me Doubt My Baby, Bunker Hill (1963) In the late 1950s David Walker joined a traditional gospel group, the Sensational Wonders, who would later become The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Walker used the pseudonym Bunker Hill to avoid conflict of interest trouble but they found out anyway and Walker was booted. As Bunker Hill, Walker also recorded with Link Wray (with brother and manager Vernon Wray).

CLICK

In Reality.

What are you?

Rock-a-bye baby.

Robbie the Robar.

A letter to a centenarian.

Robopigeon [via Mme. Jujujive].

Jammin’ the bar codes [via IHSTWOTI]

What we have that they don’t [via Feral Irishman].

Buy ’em by the sack [via The View from Lady Lake].

Explained: Netherlandish Proverbs, Bruegel the Elder, 1559.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]

Flight 5390 in flight photos; story here. [h/t Bunkerville]

[Top image found here. I think those are young emus.]

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Dodder Fodder

So some meme fodder appeared recently and I decided to take it for a spin. These were posted previously (FuBuk, Twitzerz) so some of you may have seen the sneak preview.

I pity the guy for his condition.

And yeah, I was bored.

Ventilabral Hot Links

I Do, The Marvelows (1965) Formed in Chicago in the 1950s  as Little Satan & The Demons, later as The Mystics, the group landed a recording deal with ABC-Paramount in 1964 and became The Marvelows. In 1968, to avoid being confused with The Marvellos, they became The Mighty Marvelows and recorded In The Morning.

Don’t eat it.

Aerchie’s Norty Blues.

Sandwiches rotating slowly.

Eatin’ the bottle [h/t Chuck C.].

“…a redneck hick.” [h/t Gord S.].

Penn Gillette’s Great Green Gobs.

Rock and roll tree scooter [via Bunkerville].

When you know someone’s taking a photo.

The Peeps of Willendorf [via Mme. Jujujive].

Early cinematic special effects [via Memo Of The Air].

Newark NJ partnered with a country that doesn’t exist.

[Top image: Alarm clock from 1643 found by Mr. Philosopher Mouse.]

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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

 

Dextroducting Hot Links

Soul-Limbo, Booker T. & The M.G.’s (1968)
Greatest rock /soul session group ever. Soul-Limbo features a marimba solo by Terry Manning and cowbell by Isaac Hayes.

The Tree.

The Turtle.

The Bollard.

The Handyman.

Here’s the pitch.

What’s for dinner?

Luckey’s Lost Rockers.

Unsatisfying animation.

俺たちイケてる奴らでwow.

Ozzy Man’s Jack Black interview.

Jackin’ the cane [via Bunkerville].

Macaroni Legos [via Mme. Jujujive].

Geometry in action: Batman’s Epicycle.
[via Memo Of The Air]

[Top: Rotated and inverted colors of image found here.]

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Fun Times

[All images found in here. Click ;em for full size.]

Gnosiological Hot Links

Freddie’s Boogie, Freddie Mitchell And His Orchestra (1953) Saxophonist Freddie Mitchell was among other things “a session musician and bandleader for multi-artist rock shows held by Alan Freed. Mitchell had previously recorded Moondog Boogie named in honor of the disc jockey and the two of them appeared together in the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock.”

Rock, Rock, Rock was the first video cassette tape I ever bought; spotted it in a bargain bin for a couple bucks.  My next purchase was a video player.

The Honker.

Bench Wars.

100 kid farts.

Tucker & Fritz.

The Bystander Effect.

Sexism in PhD Awards.

Icecoasters [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Celtic sport of ferret legging.

R.I.P. Wayne Shorter (1933-2023).

Um, better stay out of Earl Orkin’s room.

The angels’ share and the devil’s fungus.

This cheeseburger costs over $21 per ounce.

Czar Peter the Great, Amateur Dental Surgeon.
[via Memo Of The Air]

Meerkats. Cutsey little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
[h/t Bunkerville]

[Top image: Mao money mockery found here.]

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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored