Those two are hibernating, but click on any pic below to see them in their full-sized glory.
For the WIN:
The late Huell Howser interviewed a number of Teardrop Camper afficionados at a gathering in 2003. Very cool vid.
[Images found here, here, here, here, here, and maybe some other places like here and here. Related posts here, here and here. Oh, and here.]
Yep, cars are safer now, but what a waste of a classic. Click on the image to see the test video that includes cameras inside each vehicle during the collision. [Animated .gif previously posted here.]
[Confidential to Tasha A.: Czech your email. Je ne sais quoi indeed. -Bunk]
[Found here, stitched them together.]
Pushing hay [via]. Makes me itchy just watching it.
“The Ballad of Holland House” is based upon a true story.
Holland Island sits in Chesapeake Bay, near Wenona, Maryland. The five-mile-long island was settled in the 1600s, and at one time had a population of 360 people and 70 buildings. Erosion ate away at the island, which sat on silt and clay, and the residents moved away between 1914 and 1918. The island’s church was moved in 1922, and only one house remained standing. It was built in 1888. For decades, the water ate away at the island, and the last remaining house finally collapsed in October of 2010. What’s left of the island is now a marsh, home to hundreds of sea birds. See pictures of the island and the house -and the cemetery- at the Baltimore Sun [via].
How ’bout some retro rockabilly from Budapest?
The Tom Stormy Trio (featuring Leipzig’s Miss Rhythm Sophie) is just the thing to wrap up this edition of The Saturday Matinee.
Have a great Passover / Easter, folks.
Gorilla punched out camera man.
There’s an app for water. Really.
1939 burglar alarm dials number and plays message.
Urban Planning Fail that won awards in 1984.
Here’s another one from 1978, called “the first postmodern ruin.” I visited the latter ten years after construction and it was a crumbling bio-hazard with human feces in the dry pools.
The Spelling Nazi Reports:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
I got 12/12 on the Elvis Lyrics Test [via].
41 April Fools Day pranks for kids.
Top image from here. Obviously the work of the Al-Gebra gang.
Tacky Raccoons 