Scaramucci, Scaramucci, will you do the fandango.
“The best thing I’ve figured out is to just let things get really awful and wait for the joke. There’s always a joke lurking in the darkest shit.” –Steve Almond
Or, thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost, you can get it this other way, which you might like better because it offers an instant-play option and isn’t surrounded by confusing flashing ads.
And, besides all that, here are links to a few not necessarily radio-useful but otherwise worthwhile items that I set aside for you while putting the show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:
First contact.
http://www.truth-out.org/art/item/41413-first-contact
Watch this short video of detected earthquakes in Oklahoma since 2004 and take a guess when fracking really started up in earnest. Then see The Two Jakes (sequel to Chinatown).
https://twitter.com/USGS_Oklahoma/status/888138239109890049
Now that the Barnum & Baily Circus is no more, here are some pictures of it.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabrielsanchez/this-is-what-over-100-years-of-circus-history-looks-like
The Florida Trio rag doll act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0Thfssutk
Its a fact.
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/index.php?date=072317
You don’t have to love your body.
https://ihavenoteeth.com/2015/08/13/you-dont-have-to-love-your-body/
A slow-food movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZd33awqQk
Bec Hill visually translates Edith Piaf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTH9MKiYvM0
Monster.
https://clips.twitch.tv/StylishScrumptiousBobaTheTarFu
Paul Whiteman’s TV Teen Club.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/paul_whitemans_tv_teen_club
Pride of place.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/amusing_vintage_photos_of_people_posing_with_their_tv_sets
Energy-absorbing baseball tech.
https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/6pbhi1/let_me_catch_this_foul_with_my_nachos_and_beer/
Optimistic nihilism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14
Extinguished.
https://vimeo.com/213947174
How to make friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fteZSLvatHY
Jane Zhang sings the Plava Laguna song from The Fifth Element without any sound processing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBenttZUT7A
Here’s a charming Ukrainian young lady doing the same thing. It sounds /rounder/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QfjDnWndwc
Mr. Fish. Reaction.
https://i1.wp.com/theava.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/NoTrans.jpg
In Strong Language, a weblog about swearing.
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/global-autofellation-with-the-mooch/
Schlager, a medley of which. This is a rare example of video actually /benefiting/ from aspect ratio distortion, though it would be even further improved by random fluctuation in the aspect ratio. I think I’ll do that and show you next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI3lfSywqpQ
Counting to ten then tearing out your unprotected throat. Seven. Eight. Nine.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/07/21/business/22WEALTH1/22WEALTH1-superJumbo.jpg
Battle simulations. Jedi knights against Medieval foot soldiers in different configurations.
http://www.avclub.com/article/lets-watch-couple-hundred-jedi-kick-600000-medieva-258676
8-part animation.
https://vimeo.com/223268034
My favorite out of all these posters is: 20,000 Leagues (Of Their Own) Under the Sea.
http://www.fark.com/comments/9669173
If.
https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/christian-crock/
Turtles all the way down.
http://tinyurl.com/y6uqylhq
Stairs all the way up.
http://dornob.com/stairway-to-heaven-infinite-staircase-disappears-into-sky/
“The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures (1851).”
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-heart-of-man-1851/
Molten metal squirtgun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UYe8mxqKOM
And that’s it. Think of this when your friends try to drag you onto some obviously crazy ride. “Come on! You’ll have fun! Don’t be a chicken!” I’d rather live on my feet than die chopped in half and flying through air scented with diesel generator soot, teenage deodorant and fair-food vomit. I’ll be in the exhibit hall appreciating the competitive macrame and the giant six-foot-wide surrealistic San Francisco made of toothpicks and bread dough. And Star Wars airplanes made of Legos. And paintings of a cat sleeping on a horse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpAPheESSVc
Memo Of The Air 