Weirdness: December 2006

Happy New Year!

Let's hope it's a good one...

http://www.va.gov/gilgamesh/index.htm

I don't even know where to begin with this. Let's see, it's a site run by the Veteran's administration for the Department of Defense to introduce it's health care workers to procedures for intial treatment of veterans returning from combat. They do so through the use of an animated version of the Gilgamesh Epic (!!!) and the presentation is Vaudevillian/Borscht Belt. There's even a brief reference to Groucho! Ultra-bizarre. I look forward to future VA cartoons featuring Beowulf and/or the Vedas!

(Thanks for the link, John!)

very cool "armor" and contraptions

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/animal-armor-new-art-form.html

neat list of roadside Americana architectural oddities

http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside2.html

Man's Best Friend

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=&storyid=2006-12-29T131847Z_01_L29782848_RTRUKOC_0_US-GERMANY-DOG.xml&src=nl_usoddlyenough

Hi-tech Swiss Army Knife

http://www.x-tremegeek.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=13534

Ghee Happy!

http://www.gheehappy.com/
A fun site! They have the cutest pictures on prints and t-shirts of Hindu dieties there. And the one of Mother Kali is just precious! All murder cults should be so adorable! Now where did I leave that strangling scarf...

Cthulhu Bucks!

http://www.dagonindustries.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21&products_id=98

Cthulhu is my Copilot bumper sticker

http://www.cafepress.com/tredara.13802351

Video of Altered Images taking on The Village.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BDi5ZY4Ig
We're all pawns, my Dear....

Happy Birthday Sister Morphine!

http://www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Faithfull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkVYREqNnOM

Dave Edmunds - Slippin' Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG5eh6eA81o

One of the classic British Rockers...

Jane Wiedlin - Blue Kiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPTplKqmyGw

One of the most under-rated songwriters of the past twenty years. A perfect mix of Brill Building and 80's pop; equal doses of whimsy and wary sophistication.

Rockville's Finest - Joan Jett performs Bad Reputation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYF8jYE6GE

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Shotgun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTIDrfnWSA0&mode=related&search=

Mach 25 Space Plane

http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/airforce/Supersonic_Combustion_for_a_Hypersonic_Space_Plane10009677.php

more on Cloaking...

http://www.thothweb.com/article4389.html

New Years' traditions

http://www.thothweb.com/article4391.html
(Hmm, would this make the Turks "red diaper babies"?

nice resource - Today's Front Pages

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Satellite Imagery of the World's Most Mysterious Places

http://www.ignatdrozdov.com/?p=24

Mars: 2020: Springtime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0

(Nick, you're gonna love this!)

Russian Flying Tank of WWII

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=374

(Thanks for the link, John!)

interesting tidbit about a pre-WWII British super-submarine

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_headline=futuristic-sub--was-scrapped-in-1936-wales-&method=full&objectid=18332431&siteid=50082-name_page.html

Road Trip!

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html

These routes ARE pretty impressive. But I'm afraid they pale in comparison when it comes to driving around Baileys Crossroads at rush hour when there's a half inch of snow on the ground. For sheer terror and amazement, nothing can compare.

Happy Birthday Alex Chilton!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chilton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3KuIoOc7pI

neat little article about the written language of Easter Island

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=710#more-710

DIY UFO

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061227/NEWS04/612270379

Parrot Intelligence?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3430481.stm

I still feel we're not looking at our definitions and evaluations of intelligence and consciousness with enough sophistication. As we do so, animals are going to present us with more and more surprises and shades of meaning. (And I am betting on elephants being reevaluated in the long run...).

Happy Birthday Sydney Greenstreet!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002113/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Greenstreet

Al Green - Sha La La

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjBChRG-nok
Beautiful...

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness (from Monterey)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2rkLz-jVZ0

Probably my fave Soul singer. Amazing voice.

Spirit - I Got A Line On You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJwfGRrY_M

Dead Skunk - a video interpretation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sgKRm-JRK4

I know that Loudon's done a lot of good songs, but I've always loved this one. The fact that everyone else hates it just adds to my merriment...

Dire Straits - Skateaway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js-OKc3nL8Y

Nice...

the end of snake charmers?

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=&storyid=2006-12-26T133025Z_01_DEL83844_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-SNAKES.xml&src=nl_usoddlyenough

Happy Wren Day!

http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/wren.html

I Want To Hold Your Hand

Was released on this day in the US in 1963...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEZA4UqAhI

Happy Birthday Steverino!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Allen_(comedian)

http://www.steveallen.com/main_page/index.html

What an excellent day for an exorcism!

Happy Anniversary to The Exorcist! Probably the best propaganda for Roman Catholicism in the past century, and a fun horror movie, to boot! Suddenly, parents had an excuse for why their kids were always smoking dope and sassing 'em! Based on a "real" incident that was exposed as bogus long ago (http://www.strangemag.com/exorcistpage1.html). But some great imagery and location shots in Gtown. Meet you at the Steps!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/

http://www.angryalien.com/0204/exorcistbunnies.html

Happy Birthday Bogey!

http://www.humphreybogart.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000007/

that gift for the man who has everything

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/25/MNGDTN5GSQ1.DTL&feed=rss.news
Nothing says "True Love" more than whale vomit...

And where were the Kennedys at this time?

http://www.funreports.com/fun/29-09-2006/1410-Monroe-0

(Thanks for the link, Infidel753!)

Worst job in the world?

http://www.funreports.com/fun/20-12-2006/1454-sewage-0

(Thanks for the link, Infidel753!)

RIP James Brown

Elf Yourself

http://www.elfyourself.com/

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

new Doors box set from Rhino

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=77645

DC just keeps growing...

http://baconsrebellion.blogspot.com/2006/12/suburb-that-ate-virginia.html

(For those of you in the Hinterland, Richmond is about 100 miles from the Capitol...)

God performs Badge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42dTUGPdXvo

Nico - I'm Waiting For My Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNtZ-ckZUfQ
Smack Valkyrie. A spiral waltz for the dying.

The Byrds - It Won't Be Wrong

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qId2KynVBY4&mode=related&search=

Beautiful song...

video for Mazzy Star's Fade Into You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VddShgx5Ahg

Tee Hee!

a final reminder - NORAD tracks Santa

http://www.noradsanta.org/index.php

Ahhhhhh

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?prod=1&ts=2006122303&number=PM75007

for the kids - A plush Necronomicon (with squeaky toy!)

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TYV12017

new REH collection on the way

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345490186

The Cthulhu Fanny Pack!

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=TYV12503

THE police car...

http://www.wimp.com/nzjxe/

The 10 Least Successful Holiday TV Specials of All Time

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003030.html

Priceless...

One Billion Mazes

http://www.onebillionmazes.com/?t=919990

British trap for U-Boats discovered

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2515016,00.html

new nano-critters

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20061121184849data_trunc_sys.shtml

very weird moth

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10826-moths-drink-the-tears-of-sleeping-birds-.html

Munchkin Cthulhu Game

http://www.boardgamenews.com/index.php/boardgamenews/comments/gone_cardboard_news_munchkin_cthulhu_forthcoming/

Weird Fossil Finds of 2006

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/creepy-fossils-06/

Space Marines!

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/aviationspace/f2c1d65a5f59f010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

(Sounds like a boondoggle to me...)

Jesus & Mary Chain perform Kill Surf City!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDgyk06S8Vs&mode=related&search=

The Cramps perform Human Fly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQcSiq--F0I&mode=related&search=

Dancing Russian Helicopter

http://englishrussia.com/?p=530

Amazing stuff. (It resembles my last attempt to find a parking space at Tysons Corner...)

(Thanks for the link, Infidel753! http://www.infidel753.blogspot.com/)

We'll Always Have Paris...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6197921.stm

Daring Methodist Church Name

http://www.cummingfirst.com/

(Thanks for the link, Don!)

Happy National Hamburger Day!

http://www.fiveguys.com/

Happy Birthday Vampira!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampira

http://www.hotweird.com/crow/vamp.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Jbva7dePk

very nice animation on the Mythos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrQRcy45RQ&NR

(Thanks for the link, Sean!)

David Bowie performs Heroes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCooR2chfk

The performance that scares the shit out of the Washington Post.

Bowie & Bing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901260.html

As usual, the Post misses the whole god damned point. The important feature of the Christmas special and the duet was the historical importance in pop music of Bing and David. Crosby was THE entertainer in America from the mid 30's up until Sinatra started to move in during the mid 40's; and he continued to be a major money maker and star right up to his death. It became popular in pop music circles to chart super superstars as going from Bing to Sinatra to Elvis to the Beatles. And after 1970 there was always talk of who would be "next". No one ever really was. But Bowie probably came closest in terms of both depth and breadth of his exposure and influence.
So, here we have a unique performance by the grand old man of pop and someone who was as close to being the heir apparent as anyone. THAT is what the Post missed, THAT is why it's of interest - it's not just "white bread" Crosby and "offbeat" Bowie; it's a chance to see two of the most important people in pop music history performing together for the first and only time, (and performing quite well, I might add).
And while we're at it, I take exception to the Post's breathless characterizations of Bowie. I watched that broadcast, and he was quite subdued. There was a wonderful video in the show of him singing "Heroes", (my fave Bowie song), but it was no wilder than an episode of The Muppet Show or any other artist's performance at the time. Only a Postie would go on about Ziggy Stardust, (a performance aid Bowie had moved away from years earlier), in the context of the show. There was no such weirdness, bizarreness, or any other hyperbole the article is throwing around. It was just a typical Holiday show of its time. Perhaps if they had been born in time to see it, the Posties would know that. They really need to get a grip. And they need to hire someone who has an interest in and a knowledge of anything that happened before the year 2000. They're just pathetic.

Christmas Radio this Sunday!

http://www.wrvu.org/

My friends Peter and Perry will be hosting a Christmas music spectacular on Perry's regular show, "One Part Harmony" on WRVU out of Nashville this coming Sunday morning (12/24)from 9:00 - 11:00 EST. The broadcast may be followed from the above link, and will also be available at the site's archive. Pete has already hinted that we can look forward to Christmas tunes from the Kinks, the Pogues and DC's own Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band. I can only hope that they will see fit to include such Holiday Classics as "Godzilla Christmas" by The Towels, "Monster Holiday" by Lon Chaney Jr., and the immortal "I Found The Brains Of Santa Claus" by Jason & The Strap-Tones.

Interesting video documentary on nazi underground bunkers from WWII

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z3JCW3hDwtQ

Plastics...

"The Graduate" premiered on this date in 1967. You either get this movie, or you don't.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/

And here's to you, Mrs Robinson....

Forget About Those Ipods...

http://tinfoil.com/cylshop.htm

Happy Birthday Phil Ochs!

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/
http://www.furious.com/Perfect/philochs.html

a creepy guitar

http://amycrehore.blogspot.com/2006/12/teenar-girl-guitar.html

Holiday Lights always bring out that special Christmas Spirit

http://player.clipsyndicate.com/player/play_clip/68773&cpt=8

nobody knows the truffles I've seen....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121700890.html

the cutting edge of Yule Logging

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/17/AR2006121700806.html

very interesting interview on cybernetics

http://www.itwales.com/997730.htm

Helium-3 & the race to the Moon

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/12/is_this_why_wer.html

I ahve no idea on the validity of any of this...

Old reporting from Nagasaki finally available

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/175639,CST-NWS-wwii17.article

Rogue Creches!

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=29420&in_page_id=2

For some reason this reminds me of the old joke:

Q. How do you terrorize a Unitarian?

A. Burn a Question Mark on their front lawn.

Be, All That You Can Be!

http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/160717

New Wargame: War On Terror

http://www.waronterrortheboardgame.com/thegame/index.php

(Thanks for the link, Nick!)

Happy Birthdya Michael Moorcock!

http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/moorcock/

Great Horror Movie!

http://www.countgore.com/Lab.htm

That Ghost Host With The Most, Count Gore De Vol, is webcasting the Christopher Lee film, "Horror Hotel", this week! I highly recommend this rather obscure horror movie. It's sort of a proto-Hammer Studios film and very cool with an interesting plot and imagery. Neat stuff!

Merry Whatever!

With December 17th we come to the beginning of the Saturnalia Festivals. So let me just take the time right now to wish everyone a safe, healthy and happy Saturnalia, Christmas, Channukah, Solstice, New Years, Festivus, Yule, Kwanzaa, Cthulhumas, and whatever other names we've come up with for the darkest time of the year.
Since I was a kid I've always taken some time around this season to reflect back on the previous twelve months, to sort of recount and categorize what I've done wrong, and what I've done right; where I've succeeded, and where I've failed; to appreciate the friends that are with me, and to remember those who no longer are. And to get some idea of where the hell I'm going. I suspect I am not alone in this activity. May your past be satisfying and honorable, and the future more so.

Problem with Zombies?

http://www.zombiehunters.org/index.php

the ultimate Velvet underground recording

http://www.goldminemag.com/Default.aspx?tabid=825&articleid=4767&articlemid=4972#4972Articles

interesting article on one of WWII's greatest spies

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2506830,00.html

new weapon (DIME) being tested in Gaza?

http://www.traprockpeace.org/israel_dime_bombs_121206.pdf

Hollywood!

My next car. Perfect for the Springfield Mixing Bowl.

http://surbrook.devermore.net/superpics/machines/postapoc.html

Robots!

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/robots-and-such.html

Cool photos!

Deck The Halls!

http://www.tamponcrafts.com/

Happy Birthday Alan Freed!

http://www.alanfreed.com/

http://www.history-of-rock.com/freed.htm

My "To Do" list...

http://www.mindpowernews.com/BuildACult.htm

book review of the Wagner cult and its nazi connections

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/13/DDG2VMTS1O1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment

nice little article on the T-34 tank

http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-2/11660029354470.xml&coll=1

Happy Birthday John Hammond Sr.!

http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=117

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Hammond

my next cabinetry

http://www.coffinitup.com/kitchen/kitchen.htm

RIP Ahmet Ertegun

We've lost a giant...

http://www.history-of-rock.com/atlantic_records.htm

http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=99

Huh?????

http://www.mnci.centcom.mil/Victory_Times/VictoryTimes_Vol2_Issue138_2006-12-10.pdf
Is the military this far behind the curve ball?!? Think of the excitement when they discover that Nixon beat Humphrey in '68! Place your bets now, Kids!

(Thanks for the link, John!)

My Theme Song! Black Moses conducts "Shaft"!

One of the coolest songs ever. Essential.

http://spikepriggen.onlinestoragesolution.com/shaft.mov

Who's the black private dick That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
BLAU!
Ya damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck For his brother man?
BLAU!
Can you dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out When there's danger all about?
BLAU!
Right On!
They say this cat Blau is a bad mother...
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I'm talkin' 'bout Blau.
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
He's a complicated man But no one understands him but his woman
ROB BLAU!

Shark spies for the military

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003067.html

Happy Birthday Spike Jones!

Essential...

http://www.spikejones.net/news.php

http://hometown.aol.com/sillysongbook/JONES.htm

Neat Buildings!

http://www.wonderfulinfo.com/amazing/building.htm

RIP Peter Boyle

http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54347

the cutting edge of artistic technique

http://www.wftv.com/education/10523713/detail.html?treets=orlc&tid=2654358485813&tml=orlc_strange&tmi=orlc_strange_1_10000212132006&ts=H

She surrendered immediately

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2114974.html?menu=

Happy Birthday Dick Van Dyke!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001813/
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/V/htmlV/vandykedic/vandykedic.htm

http://www.dickvandykeshow.com/

Tommy James & The Shondells sing Crimson & Clover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op-mjhGoPvY
A fun song from a mis-spent youth! Undoutedly the only band to ever have their album liner notes written by Hubert Humphrey! http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1178397

Nilsson performs Jump Into The Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaaPqRX4JXI

This was a scene from a movie called Son Of Dracula, one I doubt any of you have seen; probably because it's a muddled mess of a film. But you got to see Ringo and Nilsson mumble through a bunch of surreal scenes and there was some excellent music, including this song, (and the wonderful ditty, Daylight, with it's happy-go-lucky tune masking a dark theme). And yes, that's Keith Moon on drums. I caught it when it came out. My friends Roger and Margrete took me down to the old Foxchase Cinema for a midnight showing amidst the porno movies that were its usual fare, ("See Misty Beethoven - Our 75th Week!"). The crowd was very edgy; for once I was the most sober person in the room. People were yelling up at the screen in sort of a proto-Rocky Horror fashion. Which was fine. Like I said, the movie was a mess...
Poor Harry, another lost talent. For the record, he recorded the second best version of As Time Goes By. That's pretty impressive in my book.

Mars Attacks?

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=65362

Christmas Shopping for Norman Bates

http://www.horrordecor.com/products.htm

Happy Birthday Karl Wagner!

http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/kane.htm
http://www.darkecho.com/darkecho/features/kew.html

One of the last great writers of Fantasy, and one of my faves.

Patti Smith performs Gloria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLlHtIU9Wg0

Jesus died for somebody's sins; but not mine...

Joy Division perform Dead Souls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYBibAYd90

Marching to Hell...The Anthem of Dis.

the cutting edge of cookies

http://www.cookiehq.com/Sonogram_Picture_Cookies_p/lf-pct5-sngrm.htm

Rudolph! No!

http://www.wftv.com/foodnews/10495671/detail.html?treets=orlc&tid=2654358485813&tml=orlc_strange&tmi=orlc_strange_1_10000312112006&ts=H

Liquid Armor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LdfOFw7jy4

(Thanks for the link, Sandy!)

biojewelry

http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/southlondonpress/slpheadlines/tm_headline=lovers-have-rings-made-from-their-bones%26method=full%26objectid=18230620%26siteid=50100-name_page.html

http://www.biojewellery.com/

Happy Birthday George Mason

The most under-rated Founding Father. A Giant. Essential.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/gmason/mason.htm

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html

The Stones perform 2000 Light Years From Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMcdjFcsJfM&mode=related&search=
Smoke filled darkness, mixture of grass, tobacco and jasmine; glass of Mateus; single candle; old friends quietly listening; a song never played in the daylight.

Gary "U.S." Bonds - Quarter To Three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2w79Id6Q0

One of the great frat party songs. Cannot be appreciated sober.

Psychedelic Furs perform Ghost In You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6xaW6o6A_0

One of the great lost groups of the 80's. First two albums were brilliant.

the pocket knife...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbOZL8sIpT8

Simulacra

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/12/butterfly-wings-alphabet.html

for the children...

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Jan/cthulhu.html

For centuries now, the Holiday Season has always resulted in children asking their parents that most important of questions - Does HE really exist? And this is the classic reply.

The Return Of Water-Skiing Santa To The Potomac

http://www.waterskiingsanta.com/

My annual plug for NORAD's Santa Tracker site

http://www.noradsanta.org/index.php

The coolest thing the government does...

KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXsW-AsAfM&mode=related&search=

(Of course, the song is referring to the Justified Ancients of Mummu, as any Illuminated One can tell you. fnord)

Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKi1J7QjfQ&mode=related&search=
One of my fave videos.

Dusty performs A Brand New Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJHpG9TUeB0

Beautiful...

quantum communication

http://www.thothweb.com/article4297.html
Fascinating stuff, the potential for very long distance simultaneous communication...

Interesting hero of WWII

http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/166605,CST-NWS-xscour09.article

Count Gore De Vol Calendars!

http://www.countgore.com/Market.htm

Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson

http://www.bartleby.com/113/

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

The Haunted Cruise

http://www.dearbloodymary.com/cruise_information.html

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown!

I've written about this before. One more footnote in my complicated relations with the Holiday.

http://funwithmendip.blogspot.com/2004/12/merry-christmas-charlie-brown.html

Happy Birthday Worf!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dorn
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000373/

Happy Birthday, My Pretty!

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/6396/maggie.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton

Forget Mary...

Try Scary Poppins!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Imagine...

Lennon was assassinated on this date in 1980...

Happy Birthday Sinead O'Connor!

http://www.sinead-oconnor.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sineadoconnormusic

Messed up mind, FANTASTIC Voice.

Happy Birthday Mr. Mojo Risin'!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morrison
http://www.thedoors.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRwvdOZC9I

Ahh, many hours/bottles spent divining Jim and the Doors...
Essential.

Joan Armatrading performs I'm Lucky!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUkIU8S9SE

Christmas on TV

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120602196.html

An incredibly weak article, but hey, it's the Post, so what did you expect? What people need to know is that regardless of one's views of the holiday, (and let's face it, mine are pretty shaky), the Grinch is incredibly important. You've got the basic storyline and artwork by that genius, Dr. Seuss; animation by another genius, Chuck Jones; and narration by a fine actor and one of the greatest voices in the history of mankind, Boris Karloff; (and let's not forget the theme song sung by the unmistakable and immortal voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, AND June Foray as Cindy Lou Who). Why, we're talking something along the lines of THE Harmonic Convergence of Pop culture here! Who hasn't watched this at least half a dozen times? And does anyone NOT know the theme song? Why, only Gilligan's Island's theme is probably better known. As for myself, I am petitioning the Olympics Committee to recognize Zoo-Zither-Carzay in upcoming games. This is imporatant and Essential.

Santa Science

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2006/dec/212.html

Re-Attaching a Head?!?!

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=1709636&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1

Is this for real??? Was his name Abby Normal? Since when are 12 year olds in car races???

new "military" weapon

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html

my Mythos Shopping List

AKLO - Music of the Mythos

http://www.nightmaresforsale.com/aklo/?gclid=CK6t8JnK_ogCFRJQVAodkm9kLA

A Cthulhu Party Game!

http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhugame/main.htm

Happy Birthday Tuco!

http://www.classicmovies.org/articles/eliwallach1.htm
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0908919/

A really great actor - one of my faves.

"A Date Which Will Live In Infamy"

Today is Pearl Harbor Day. The follwoing is a site with newly discovered photos of the attack. Hirohito dying peacefully in bed makes him the luckiest man of the 20th Century...

http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/Misc/Pearl%20Harbor/original.htm

(Thanks for the link, Dolores!)

Happy Birthday Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes - Mr. Excitement!

AKA Dracula...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm

Naughty Or Nice

http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54171

Watch It! He's Got A Marshmallow!!!

http://www.thingsyouneverknew.com/website/store/promotion.asp?item_no=81835&source_code=JE593&entry=email

Wow! Dogfish Olde School Barleywine!

http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Limited_Edition_Beers/Olde_School_Barleywine/18/index.htm
We just purchased some this morning and I'm trying it now. I've been very impressed by Dogfish brews ever since they were recommended to me by Phil down at one of my fave restaurants - Laporta's, (no web site, but it's at 1660 Duke Street, 703/683-6316 ). At any rate, their IPA's are just about at the level of my beloved Stone Brewery, and now here's their barleywine. Like Stone's brews - this is not for the timid or meek. We're talking 15% alcohol and a real powerhouse of flavor. Wow!

RIP Mariska "Venus" Veres

http://www.geocities.com/ofmang/greg/shockblu.html

http://splendida.blogspot.com/2006/12/mariska-veres.html

Zombie Portraits

http://www.zombieportraits.com/

Justifiable Homicide

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/21A0F729496ED22D8625723A0015A7EB?OpenDocument

You Are Damned!

http://www.youaredamned.com/

Tee hee! Too Late!

Happy NinjaDay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZUO5VUajQI&eurl=

http://www.askaninja.com/ninjaday

Happy Birthday to the Queen of Rock'N'Roll!

http://www.kolumbus.fi/timrei/lre.htm
http://www.littlerichard.com/

http://www.rockhall.com/hof/inductee.asp?id=179

Happy Birthday Mr. Kimball!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600886/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Moore

The Blues Magoos perform We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet!

http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2006/12/blues_magoos_we.html

Another personal fave. One of the coolest songs in a year that was full of them, (1967).

"Wreaths Across America"

http://wreathsacrossamerica.org/

An interesting personal project. The accompanying video has some nice shots of Arlington. For those of you out in the hinterland, it's quite a place. When folks are visiting town I often tell 'em that Mt. Vernon is my favorite place to visit, but Arlington vies with the Lincoln Memorial as to the most important place to see.

Cylon Jack-O-Lantern!

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/CylonOLantern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7f2dgROVUg

Cool!

(Thanks for the link, Chris!)

Santa Butt Beer Controversy

http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54114

Hmmm, there's something about a brewery in a place called Belchertown that sounds less than appetizing. I am curious if the good people in the Maine Department of What Is Pleasant would ban alcohol making fun of the Easter Bunny? Or perhaps the Tooth Fairy? How about other mythological creatures such as unicorns, elves, fairies, mermaids? I need to know if my plans to market "Frosty the Snowman Melted Pilsner" in Bangor are in jeopardy.

Russian Card "Mysery"

I am unconvinced there is anything going on here. But feel free to have a go:

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/russian-card.html

http://www.veryrussian.net/2006/could-this-be-the-new-da-vinci-code.html

Bad Santa

http://www.lettersfrombadsanta.com/index.html

Piranha In Illinois?

http://biofort.swampgasbooks.com/2006/12/03/are-illinois-toothy-fish-surviving-winters-and-reproducing/
I detect a new Made-For-TV movie from the Sci Fi Channel...

Hitchhiker's Guide To Astrobiology

http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2164&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

a blog devoted to weirdness in India

http://weirdindia.blogspot.com/

WWII Code Talkers are dying off...

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/158755.php

Happy Birthday Southside!

http://www.southsidejohnny.com/

Something Abbie Normal at University of Maryland

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120201243.html

The War On Halloween

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=258159

How long, O Cthulhu, will we have to tolerate non-believer rampages such as this against us at our Holiest Day of the year? Already, there are stores forcing the clerks to say "Happy Harvest" when greeting customers, rather than the traditional "Merry Human Sacrifice". And try to find a blood-stained altar! In my youth, every neighborhood had one prominently displayed in public parks and store windows. Nowadays, you'd be lucky to find so much as a skull on a pike. All in the name of some ACLU mandated secularism. It makes me sick! Something is being lost here and I worry for our children's sake that the true meaning of Samhain is going with it. We must protect our sacred traditions, for our children's immortally damned souls, if nothing else. It's time these do-gooders and busy bodies realized that this is a Cthulhoid Nation and founded on Cthulhoid Principles. We need to Re-Take America, and restore her to our Lord's Tentacled Embrace! Ia! Ia!

Cool English Class on Vampires in Literature

http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2006/fall/110.htm

Mythos Art For Sale

http://www.johncoulthart.com/

Count Gore DeVol is showing White Zombie this week!

http://www.countgore.com/Lab.htm

Happy Birthday Ozzy!

http://www.ozzy.com/

Feeling old...

The year and the temperature outside are both getting cold. It remains a time of reflection. I am reminded of nights long ago. Here's to those of you who were there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIpxlrPloK4

my next computer...

http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/10/wooden-laptop-design-new-fad-from.html
This looks so cool!

The Marx Brothers and the Mirror Scene

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo&mode=related&search=

Classic!

Happy Birthday Barnabas!

http://www.jonathanfrid.com/
http://www.collinwood.net/cast/frid.htm

Firesign Theatre Film Extravaganza!

Toy Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJXHp_wFuss

Olympic Confidential
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kssx2R9nH4

Sperm Bank Holdup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PpAOo5-qWs

Last handgun On Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgm9H3hmH1o

Heaven Is Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNoXQGFsq0

The Mounties Catch Herpes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nU2s7BTO0

a nice video collage for Michelle Shocked's "Come A Long Way"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6UKmWdFPtI

A very nice video, and a wonderful song, perhaps my favorite by 'Chelle. It's been decades since I've been in L.A.*, and I hear it's the only American town that's a bigger pain in the ass to drive than D.C., but I would like to take the freeway there once at night while listening to this tune.

*The last time would have been '77. I was visiting my Uncle Bill and Aunt Lois, two of the nicest people, always happy to take me around to bookstores and whatnot. Both long gone, and both sorely missed.
I found the town interesting, but also sinister. There seemed to be fires everywhere, and the ever present danger of earthquakes. In DC the dangers are human, LA has that too, but the blind wrath of angry earth gods is a little more than I want to roll dice with.

Weirdness

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Happy New Year!

Saturday, December 30, 2006

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Monday, December 25, 2006

RIP James Brown

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Tee Hee!

Friday, December 22, 2006

Thursday, December 21, 2006

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

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Merry Whatever!

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Friday, December 15, 2006

Hollywood!

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Wednesday, December 13, 2006