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Monday, March 18, 2024
Duck Soup: dysfunctional quackers
VIDEO VAULT: Dad Got Fat
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These Polo shirts we're wearing'
so tight they're 'bout to start tearin'
My old lady said let me getcha,
a shirt that's gonna fit cha
She likes 'em real fat and lazy,
that's why she made me her hubby
she likes me chubby,
like a red-neck Teletubbie
Go on, have that cheese danish.
Clip: Big Daddy Rich -Daddy Got Fat (Baby Got Back parody)
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Banksy blooms in London
There's a new Banksy in London's Finsbury Park
--Street Art News
A dead tree in London suddenly blooms again.
Yes, the gardener is painting with a fire extinguisher.
Street Art News offers details HERE.
STRANGE MOMENTS: L'Après-midi d'un Faune
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There have been many orchestral and ballet versions of Debussy's most famous melody.
I have never seen one that involves a giant Kleenex box.
I bet you haven't either.
Six minutes, with an unexpected payoff. Weird? Creepy? Sexy? Erotic? Insanely inventive?
Easily the strangest clip YouTube's algorithm sent me this week.
The dancer is Christophe Roméro.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Cat Lady
On March 17, celebrate St. Gertude of Nivelles, Patron of Cats, the Recently Diseased, Gardeners, Travelers, Those with Mental Illness and those with a Morbid Fear of Mice and Rats.
She was a Benedictine nun during the 7th century, a known opponent of rodents.
“St. Gertrude is invoked against mice and rats, which has led cat lovers to assume that Gertrude was a cat person, and so the ideal patron of their favorite pet,” according to official notation.
Wrongfully ignored by green beer drunks.
Image via James Wells
MEGAVALANCHE! FULL RUN CARNAGE!
I shared the Siegerfahrt yesterday on this blog.
It's an annual mob mayhem on skis.
The YouTube algorithm now thinks I'm searching for exciting new ways to kill myself.
It has raised the stakes.
The MegAvalanche above is the result.
Again, a mob start of an unbelievable event.
Snow at the top, rocks at the bottom.
Hell in the middle.
Does that speedometer at upper left say 86 km?
Jeez.
Clip: Kilian Bron / Megavalanche - YouTube
Friday, March 15, 2024
Stabby Stabby Croak Croak
"Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Sam? Et tu, Zink of the Zinky-Dink Clan? Et tu, Nip-Nip and Nip-Nun? Et tu, et tu, everyone!"
Sofia Warren & Ellis Rosen / newyorker.com
SIEGERFAHRT!
Gesundheit!
Until today, I had no idea what a Siegerfahrt might be.
And now that I've seen the 12-minute event, I fear the YouTube algorithm is having a nervous breakdown. I'm the last person to send this to.
I made a one-point landing on my right knee in my 30s. I'd almost forgotten.
Clip: Der Weisse Rausch - Siegerfahrt - St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria
LOST SONGS: You're Nearer - Joe Coughlin
"You're nearer than my head is to my pillow ... "
Joe Coughlin has posted a bunch of his favorite"saloon standards" on YouTube. This Rodgers & Hart 1940 movie tune is a fave.
Clip: Joe Coughlin - Saloon Standards
Song: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart ( 1940 )