The Great Mel Blanc On Letterman Back In The 80′s

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Hunter Thompson Was On The Show Too

It Must Have Been Intense In The Green Room

I, like the two generations before me, grew up with Mel Blanc. If you don’t know, he was the voice of almost all the cartoons that were good back in the day. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Barney Rubble, Sylvester and Tweety, shit.. even the roaches in the old RAID commercials (kills bugs dead).

In 1981, at least according to the Internet, Mel Blanc shared the bill with none other than Hunter S Thompson on the old NBC David Letterman show. Oh to be a page in the green room for that night. I bet it was the craziest thing ever.

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The Government Is Your Friend

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Meet the new boss Same as the old boss

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

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Taj Mahal – Leaving Trunk Is The Coolest Thing Ever

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Went Upstairs To Pack My

Leaving Trunk

I only recently learned of this awesome song by Taj Mahal. I’ve been aware of Taj Mahal, of course, but not very deeply at all.

This song is soooo infectious you may ruin relationships because you won’t be able to stop singing it. It’s ok. It’s worth it. Let it soak in good, like Robatussin. Get that tussin into the bone. It’s the coolest thing ever.

I woke up this morning

With the blues 3 different ways

One said to go

The other two said stay

EXTRA CREDIT:

If you would like 5 points added to your score then watch this performance of Leaving Trunk from 2009, with the Allman Brothers. I love it when he steps back and says, “Somebody pay the guitar” to two of the bestest guitar players around, Warren Haynes, and Butch Trucks.

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3000 Year Old Boats Found Intact In UK

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One of them still floats.

One of them still floats.

8 Boats Found Buried In A Creek

Dated To 1600BCE

Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire have excavated 8 wooden dugouts from the mud of ancient creekbed. Ranging from 9 meters ib length, to little runabouts only 2cm thick, the boats are remarkably well preserved. As you can see, the decorative marks on the side are perfectly visible. Perhaps those designs were used to identify the boat, given that there may have been hundreds of thousands of such vessels in use from 1600 – 1000 BCE.

Click the pic to read the story. It’s remarkable. It’s the coolest thing ever.

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A Creepy GIF To Make You Uneasy

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This is what you will see

If you ever smoke dope

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Brilliantly Prescient Robert Anton Wilson Video

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1991 Talk

Introducing Timothy Leary

This great Robert Anton Wilson talk popped up in my Google Alerts a couple of days ago. The subject of the conference at which RAW was speaking was psychedelics, but before he got there, Uncle Bob veered into political territory.

He discusses the anagrams of some of our presidents, before discussing what was then our future, but is our present. He asserted that the children growing up in the middle East during Operation Desert Storm, would foster a great hatred toward the West, particularly the United States, and would bring that rage to our soil. After the first George Bush’s war, his son came in and finished the job. Kaboom.

Anyway this talk is a complete joy to listen to, and it touches on some stuff you don’t often hear from our beloved heretic. It’s the Coolest Thing Ever.

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How (Some) Guys Will Use Google Glass

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Pretty funny, but not creepy enough. I’d get much darker with it, and still get the girl.

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News Footage From The Funeral Of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham

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john bonham gravesite

photo courtesy of johnbonham.co.uk

A Truly Amazing Musician

A Drummer’s Drummer

This is a sad video, but one I’d not seen before. It was recently discovered and posted in the forums of my favorite Led Zeppelin site, Royal Orleans.

There’s not really any good footage of band members, although you can see a bunch of people file past the hearse, as Bonzo’s casket is being loaded. The service itself was said to be heart wrenching, with people wailing and sobbing, as one would expect.

John Bonham was only 32 when he died. That’s 13 years younger than I am now. It’s a tragedy to his young family, his poor widow, and his parents and siblings.

This footage pushes that point home to me, much more so than the “death of a rock god”

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Thug Kitchen Is The Coolest Thing Ever

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thug kitchen pesto wrap

Add salsa or lime juice if you want. I don’t give a fuck.

Eat Like You Give A Fuck

ThugKitchen.com

I came across this on Tumblr, where I’m 3 times the age of the average user, yay. Thug Kitchen is a vegan recipe site that’s not all uppity and smug about being vegan. “Eat Like You Give A Fuck” is their motto. Love it.

The information is awesome, the recipes are hilarious, and if you want to keep your shit intact, son, you best listen. (see below about how lycopene helps prevent dick cancer. It’s the Coolest Shit Ever.

me too son

You ever get worried about dick cancer?

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Ginger Baker Asked For Rolling Papers On TV Show

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While Filming A Cooking Show

Craziest Thing Ever

I have a great deal of love for Ginger Baker. There’s a movie out about him, and apparently, he’s a super duper asshole, but I don’t care. I’m never going to meet him and it has no impact on my appreciation of his amazing drumming.

At some point in the early 1990′s, someone decided to film a cooking show called Rock n Roll Kitchen. To film the pilot they chose, incomprehensibly, Ginger Baker to be their rock star guest. It’s the craziest thing ever.

While the host is called aside for some notes from the director, someone walks up to Ginger and asks him for rolling papers. Rather than being taken aback, he asks if the young man will be rolling a joint, to which the young man answers in the affirmative. Then Ginger looks for his cigarette pack, in which (one assumes) he keeps his rolling papers.

It’s a short clip, it’s weird, and aside from the rolling papers bit, we find out that Ginger Baker knows how to say ‘halibut’ in Swedish. Enjoy.

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Robert Anton Wilson On Conspiracy, The Vatican, and Cocaine.

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Recently Discovered Video

Found At A Yard Sale

This really is the coolest thing ever.

Robert Anton Wilson, of whom I’ve written so many times he has a category on my blog, gave this talk somewhere 1988ish. It was recorded and distributed on VHS tape, presumably by the organization that held this get together, but never made it to the digital realm, at least publicly. The uploader of this unexpected gem bought the tape at a garage sale, and was good enough to convert and upload this wonderful talk.

For almost 2 hours (there’s some bullshit bookending the talk itself) Robert Anton Wilson, he of Masks of the Illuminati  and Prometheus Rising, speaks about the connections between the Vatican Bank, the CIA, and the illicit cocaine business. It’s absolutely fascinating. All your favorites are here. The Knights of Malta, International Banking, Nazis, the CIA, P2, Grand Orient Lodge, masonic murders, the mafia, and of course billions of 1970/80′s dollars in cocaine/heroin money.. all laundered through a network set up, and run, by the Vatican bank.

This is a treat and a half because until recently, no one knew it existed. So, enjoy!

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Ingenue by Atoms For Peace Is The Coolest Thing Ever

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atoms for peace amok cover

Horrible Artwork. Great Album

Thom Yorke & Flea (and two others)

In A Band That Sounds Nothing Like Radiohead Or The Chili Peppers

My wife is a bit of a Radiohead fan. She’s particularly enamoured of Jonny Greenwood, but her love extends to Thom Yorke and his new band, Atoms For Peace.

I really love this song, Ingenue, and the video. I think it’s the coolest thing ever, and I hope you do as well.

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Funniest Thing Ever: Patrice O’Neal HBO One Night Stand

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Watch The Whole Show

RIP To A Great Talent

Y’all know I love me some Patrice O’Neal. I’ve posted his material before.  I fell in love with comedy of Patrice O’Neal watching him on the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, and from then on, I was a fan.

This video is about a half hour long, and worth the time. Enjoy it. I think it’s the funniest thing ever.

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This Statue From 225 BCE Is The Coolest Thing Ever

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seated boxer

I think it’s his posture. It conveys fatigue.

Seated Boxer by Lyssipus of Sikyon

Alexander The Great’s Personal Sculptor

I saw this on Pinterest and instantly was transfixed. No, not because I can see his dong, but thanks. The entire piece conveys weariness, rest, and also, readiness to go back for more.  His ear is even cauliflowered.

Lyssipus of Sikyon was a legendary sculptor from the 3rd Century, BCE. He is the guy who sculpted the four horses of Florence (stolen by Crusaders from the hippodrome in  Constantinople).  Read about him here. It’s the coolest thing ever.

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Rappin’ For Jesus – Old White Southerners Connect With The Youth

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If You’ve Ever Spent Time In The South

This Will Not Be Surprising At All

The liberal use of the n word is jawdropping.  The pastor of this lovely Southern church decided to reach out to “the kids” and connect with them through their Urban music. Ok, points for earnestness, but minus several million for execution. Still, the complete wrongness of it all makes it the funniest thing ever.

So we must all ask ourselves, is Jesus my nigga?

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Funniest Pic Of The Week

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dog meme

Go Home, Dog. You’re Drunk

This is just one of the myriad treasures you can see on my Tumblr, which has a thousand times more content, because it’s easy as fuck to use, and takes two seconds to post something.

 

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Watch/Listen To Radiohead’s Reckoner From The Basement

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Radiohead Live From The Basement

Because We Separate Like Ripples On A Blank Shore

(In Rainbows)

There are few bands that have grown and matured as well as Radiohead. It’s been 20 years since Creep, and almost every album they’ve released has been a new direction, and sound. Kid A is mindblowing still, 13 years after it’s release. Ok Computer is 16 years old and still works as a masterpiece of rock.

In Rainbows is now 5 years old, and it just now has hooked me. It’s sophisticated, mature, and complex as hell. As with all good bands, they’re much better live, and I prefer the From The Basement live performance of In Rainbows, to the studio album.

This song, Reckoner, is absolutely lush, gorgeous, and an aural pleasure for all ears. The subtle groove is insane. I’ve never grooved on a tamborine before, but Ed O’Brien’s entrance at the 3 minute mark is sheer perfection.  Every member is great at their instrument, and many others. Colin, Ed, and Jonny all play percussion when not playing their primary instruments. At the end of the song, you can see Jonny move from guitar, to keyboards smoothly, and every beat that he’s not playing the keyboard, he’s shaking a shaker (shaped like a lemon. yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon… get it?). In an age when digital can replicate anything, it’s refreshing as hell to see musicians playing music.

Add on to that Thom Yorke’s amazingly pure voice, and excellent musicianship with the SG, and you have an amazing band, playing an amazing song, amazingly well. Enjoy it. If you don’t like it the first time, let it soak for a bit, and go back again. It’s really, really, good. It’s the coolest thing ever.

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Liquid Rivers Flow On Titan

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saturn titan

Saturn’s Moon Has Rivers of Hydrocarbons

From The Cassini Probe

The European Space Agency has released some really cool pics of the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan. That image is the first photo of a river system on another world. I love Cassini porn, as I’ve posted before, and I hope to live long enough to see the discovery of life elsewhere, be it microbial or giant monsters that eat us all. It’s all good, and it’s the coolest thing ever.

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Beautiful

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Terrifying Clip From Dixie Carter’s Yoga Video

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Drug People May Want To Look Away

Or not, depending on the drug

You never cross a Sugarbaker woman, because if you do, they roll their eyes back and let the demon take over. Holy Shit. This is a completely inadvertent find (meaning I found it myself and didn’t snatch it from another, funnier, blog). If you watch it and survive, you will live forever in the land of eternal summer. You laugh you lose.

This is from a yoga video made by the star of Designing Women, and spokeswoman for torticollis, Dixie Carter. The humor is quite juvenile, I admit, but watching her eyes roll back in her head as she does the Lion pose creeped me the fuck out. So I wanted to share it with you. It may not be the funniest thing ever, but it’s the creepiest.

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