WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

Ahh, Suburbia

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White Wine in the Sun

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Someone Miscalculated.

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This is video of the demolition of the Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant's old tower. It was supposed to fall to the northeast, or to the right in the video. Instead, after a couple of delayed detonations, it falls to the left, smashing through a set of power lines which run very close to the camera's position. The power lines whip up and down wildly, endangering the observers. No one was hurt.

Pratchett Knighted; Forges Sword

This year, he took his new station of Knight Bachelor seriously: Pratchett took it upon himself to forge a sword using more than 175 pounds of iron ore found in a deposit near his home in Wiltshire. For good measure, he added several chunks of meteorite — “thunderbolt iron” for their “highly magical” properties: “you’ve got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not.”

Never Work With Children Or Animals

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This is apparently Take 74.

Thanks to Cute Overload.

She Has A Storefront Down On 34th & Vine

The Coasters, Love Potion No. 9, 1971.

That kind of makes The Clovers' version look pedestrian.

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More Fabulous With Every Passing Column!

I have no idea.

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OK Go -- End Love

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Fetch Your Poetry Appreciation Chairs

William McGonagall was an astonishingly bad poet, the most famous example of whose body of work I inflict upon you below for your entertainment.



The Tay Bridge Disaster

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

'Twas about seven o'clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem'd to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem'd to say-
"I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay."

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!

Courtesy The Annotated Pratchett File.

Oh. My. God.

Colin Baker sings!



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You might want to disable your embarrassment circuits before you click play.

The YouTube page says this is from the Doctor who Audio Book "Doctor Who and the Pirates." Lyrics at the Youtube page, if you expand the description below the movie.

Someone Robbed This Woman Of The Fruits Of Her Labor

This poor young woman has spent several years earning one of the highest GPAs in her class, and at this moment captured on film she believes that she has spent that time committing the grave sin of "worshiping the intellectual mind:"



She then asserts that there are people in the audience who have not lived as Jesus has called them to live, prays that they will come to see the error of their ways, breaks into tears, starts shaking uncontrollably, and finally collapses. The video ends with one of the officers of the school asking someone to call an ambulance, and announcing the processional.

The note on the YouTube page says this occurred at Midwestern State University, Texas, and the video was posted to YouTube on January 26, 2010; but there is no other indication of when it occurred.

It is unclear from the video whether the girl in question was the salutatorian or the valedictorian. She's giving a "benediction."

Who messed with her mind so much? It seems a cruel and heartless thing to do, to rob this girl of her achievement and wind her up so much she collapses in public.

Ha Ha Commie Lois Made Corner Bookstore Employees' Children Starve

This might be one iota more amusing if you couldn't imagine Glenn Beck* making this exact same argument in the future.

*To pull an example out of my hat at random.

Stolen from the Comics Curmudgeon.

D'awwww

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Central Park Beatles on the Ukelele

Via Shakesville.

This Time ...

... he had pushed her too far.

Wow (For Another Reason)

I can grok all the rest of her posture -- but why is she en pointe? What's "Ridgid" about that?

Via Retrospace.

What The What?

I'm just going to reprint the whole of this:

A well-heeled Philadelphia school district gave out laptops to students—then used the webcams attached to covertly spy on them, both at school and at home, according to a class-action lawsuit. The case, Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District, was filed after one of the school’s vice principals disciplined Robbins’ son for “improper behavior in his home,” using a photo taken from the camera as evidence, according to the filing.

The laptops were issued to 1,800 students at three high schools in the district, each with a built-in webcam that, according to the lawsuit, administrators can activate remotely and covertly. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all the students and their parents. They’re seeking damages for invasion of privacy, theft of private information, and unlawful interception and access of electronic information.

Words fail me.

Wow

From EpicWinFTW.

Not In Those Shoes, Lady

Dorothy Parker, Ms. Washington 1938. Perhaps a somewhat impromptu photo op. I believe you can still see marks just above her knees from her elastic stocking tops, in addition to wearing her heels on the ladder to the diving board.


Via the vintage photograph aggregator blog, Shorpy's. I heartily recommend them for a rapt afternoon of surfing.