Metoposcopic Hot Links

Duluth, Minnesota parade 1926. “An off center wheel in the rear moved the tail in a grotesque fashion while an operator within open and shut the huge teethed jaws”. Original press photo 1926 Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Flash Chordin’, Roy Buchanan (1987) Roy Buchanan, aka “The World’s Greatest Unknown Guitarist,” was most famously associated with a 1953 Fender Telecaster nicknamed ‘Nancy’. In 1988 he was arrested for public intoxication and was found hanged from his own shirt in the Fairfax County Virginia Jail. He was 48.

Dad rule.

23 Gators.

Imelda May.

Subway for cats.

Squirrel puzzles.

Chicago Asphalt.

THIS is hard core.

Latches and locks.

Touching up Joan.

Street View History.

*brrrring… brrrring…*

Blowin’ in the conch.

Barnaby Dixon’s bug.

Out of the spud fryer.

Norty Blues Episode 130.

About those barrels of crackers

Ralph Giese [via Memo Of The Air].

Animal Prints [via Everlasting Blört].

Swingin’ Caracas [via Thompson, blog].

Hector Boiardi’s contribution to the War.

[Top image: The Monster of Duluth (1926) found here.]


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The .Gif Friday Post No. 915 – Gango Catches Some Rays, A Cat Snatch & The Trash Panda Hop

[Found here, here and here. The raccoons may be A.I. generated.]

Monsterbeer

Frank-N-Stein Restaurant, Gary, Indiana, 1973, colorized.
[Found here.]

The X From Outer Space (1967)

Formerly known as The Twitter From Outer Space.
When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, they inadvertently bring about a nightmarish earth invasion. After one of the spores is analyzed in a lab, it escapes, eventually growing into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast.

[These images and more found here. Wanna see the movie? It’s archived!]

PENGUINNNNN!

[Found in here; unaltered penguin noise here.]

Floodwaterbug

…with a California handicap license plate. Step right up. 😀

[Found here.]

Holy Terror

That’s the everted scolex of a Taenia solium, aka, a Pork Tapeworm. How they were able to turn a scolex inside out, or why, is beyond my pay grade.

Teresa Zgoda won 4th Place in the 2017 Nikon Photomicrography Competition with that terrifying micro monster maw. [Found here.]

Another Great Gift Idea: Everyday Is Monday Morning Planter

Monday Morning Planter

The forehead staples are kinda cool. [Found here.]

TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 8

hidden-monster.gif

Quick! Where’s the Monster?

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