My Marimo

Every two weeks I take a photo of Moss Toshi and the offspring moss balls Toshita, Microtosh & Nanotosh. Related post with more photos and story here.


Those pictures also represent an important milestone for me. I’ve completed a fourth year of chemo, one every two weeks, 104 in total since May 2020. All is well, side effects are tolerable, and the dosage has been reduced twice. We’re just keeping a couple inoperable little bastards from waking up and messing around.

Mirror for Sale – Only Used Once

[All images found in here. Some of the photos on this Reddit thread look deliberate / staged, but there are some fun ones.]

Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

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.]


Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

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.”]


From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Japanese Pigeon People

In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

[Found here.]

Somebody’s Future Wife

[Found here.]

Photos Of An Unknown Family Who PROBABLY Owned A Liquor Store

In 2005,  someone named “BENBENEK” found a box of photos at a Southern California swap meet and realized he’d found a treasure, a glimpse of unknown history. The photos were bland and banal, yet oddly endearing, so he set up a website to share them with the world: HouseplantPicturesStudio.com.

Unfortunately the site is defunct, but via the Wayback Machine we can still enjoy Photos Of An Unknown Family Who PROBABLY Owned A Liquor Store.

Eatin’ a Nanner

banna nanna nanna nanna

[Found here.]

Tomb Sweeping Day, Taiwan

Visual artists Lilly Kaohsiung and Yin captured Fu De Keng public cemetery in Taiwan during the Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.

[Source here, h/t Charlen604.]

ARE WE HAVING YET

[Photo by Frank Kunert found here.]

I, Ostrich

[Found here.]