Tag: WTF
China V-word Hot Links
R.I.P. Kenny Rogers (1938-2020).
Ootah after the return from the sledge trip.
Fargo police dog sniffs out black market Purell.
Monty Python Black Knight plush action figure.
Glen Greenwald’s list of media lies (and no, he’s not a Republican).
Running out of bumwad? Order it here. If that’s not what you’re looking for, click here.
Wikipedia is actually debating whether or not to delete references to the 1918 Spanish flu. Now about the Wuhan Chinese Asian Corona virus…
“It’s a funny thing… After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that that what the west needed was more socialism.” – Milton Friedman 1993.
[Status update: A Humble Request.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image of canned cheeseburger from here.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 626 – Stay 6 Feet Away, Save Your Toilet Paper & Wash Your Hands
“What’s for supper, hon?”
“Holding the two claws of the bear that her husband shot on the doorstep of their new cabin.”
[Date & location unknown, found in here.]
St. Patrick’s Day – The Way It Ought To Be
Watch closely. That’s one lucky guy.
https://twitter.com/DashCamTwats/status/1233784417476317185?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email
And you thought your Monday was bad…
Hygienical Hoarding Hot Links
Military rations for five in 1957.
Watch this giant sea cucumber poop.
How to write a traditional Irish folk song.
Top 10 most congested roadways in the U.S.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is 42. 😀
NSFW, NSFK & disgusting (but I found the commentary funny).
Don’t call it “the Wuhan Virus” or “the Chinese Virus.” CNN says so.
Media-fomented panic is causing widespread shortages of staples (and tempers). Fight 1. Fight 2.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image found here.]
Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait – Van Eyck
“In early 2004 I was invited to create a new work for an exhibition at an art foundation in Holland. The subject of the exhibition was humor. I decided to depart from the field of new-media experiments, while remaining in the ‘digital’ realm, by having some fun with the great Dutch Masters — Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Eyck. My partner Andrea made all of the costumes and spent a long time crouched underneath a cardboard box while I carefully positioned and photographed her fingers. It was a new experience for me when the show’s curator refused to exhibit the work he had commissioned, even though it was already listed in the catalogue. The explanation he provided was that the photos “weren’t funny”. About a week later I received an even more puzzling request to exhibit the project in a Taiwanese digital art festival.” -Golan Levin
Onomasiological Hot Links
This song is stuck in my head.
Fill in the blank: “No ____ no gain.”
The murder of Jovanni Alexander Sierra.
“Bullied 9-year old dwarf is a fraud” is a hoax?
(He’s also a young actor.)
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
[Top image from here.]
Saturday Matinee – The Great East Japan Earthquake 2011, Steve Gibbons Band, Keb’ Mo’, Juzzie Smith & Jeff Beck’s Killer Lineup
11 March 2011 – The Great East Japan Earthquake (video at Sendai Airport) measured 9.0–9.1 on the Richter Scale. It moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 8 feet east.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that may have reached heights of up to 40.5 meters (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku’s Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, traveled at 700 km/h (435 mph) for up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. Residents of Sendai had only eight to ten minutes of warning, and more than 19,000 were killed, many at evacuation sites, more than a hundred of which washed away. [Wiki]
[Watch the whole thing. Video found here, via here.]
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That’s a tough one to follow, but let’s try this.
Long intro, good story by The Steve Gibbons Band (1977). If you don’t know who he is, check out his credentials. I bought one of his albums for his cover of Chuck Berry’s “Tulane.”
Keb’ Mo’ plays Son House‘ “Walkin’ Blues” (1930), accompanied by musicians from six countries. It’s part of the “Playing For Change” video series.
Juzzie Smith introduces his One Man Band, and it’s amazing. I can play harmonica and guitar, but my brain won’t let me do both at once.
Jeff Beck (guitar), Tal Wilkenfeld (bass), Beth Hart (vocals), Lizzie Ball (violin) and Jonathan Joseph (drums) crank out Freddie King‘s 1971 classic “Going Down” at Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013. What a lineup.
That should hold y’all for a bit. See you back here tomorrow for something or other.
Tacky Raccoons 