Things to see in Alabama after the end of the world.
“Dear Jesus I wrote to you before do you remember? Well I did what I promised but you did not send me the horse yet what about it?” -Lewis
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.
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:
The end of the world. Again? Ugh. Okay, you kids know the drill: get the briquets and meet me in the bathroom. The good briquets, not the guest briquets. I’ll get the dog. Go. Go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoNp8dkyYWU
A charming promotion for black dogs. As if they need promotion. They promote themselves.
https://vimeo.com/227771796
Abilities. Jesus, the watermelon-colored basketballs one. Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpddITk3bK8
Pentatonix sings the hooks of Daft Punk songs. There’s a girl in Pentatonix now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MteSlpxCpo
“A wonderful sense of shared obscene solidarity.” “Without such a tiny exchange of friendly obscenities you don’t get real contact between each other. It remains /cold/ respect.” He’s like this all the time. His nose really tickles him. Or rather something tickles his nose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNbWGaaxWM
Things to see in Alabama.
http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/11/the_quirkiest_roadside_attract.html
Billions of dollars in security theater to find out that the carpet hardly ever matches the drapes. I would have told them that for three months’ rent.
http://www.amyoops.com/2017/09/screening-results.html
White like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0
Japanese fireworks.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/09/magnificent-photographs-of-japans-summer-firework-festivals/
Prizewinning astronomy photographs.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2017/sep/15/insight-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2017-winners-in-pictures
When you were ten, how many people did you think would be in space by how old you are now?
http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
How to properly dispose of a body. Except now that everybody knows, it won’t work anymore.
http://cdn77.eatliver.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/evil1.jpg
Pep up with Malvaz!
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/malvaz_malt_tonic
Click on the muscle you want to make bulgier and find out how.
https://musclewiki.org/
How your I’m With Stupid t-shirt is destroying the world.
https://laughingsquid.com/the-life-cycle-of-a-t-shirt/
Privilege in a time of global inequality.
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/001-privilege-in-a-time-of-global-inequality/
Emeraude, Marshmallow, Comet, Stromboli, Stardust, Zircon… “Every day, having a crappy day? Hummingbird! Every day, making the day better: Hummingbird! I mean, /Look/ at them!”
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/09/the-hummingbird-whisperer/
Femke Hiemstra’s animals.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/mystical_cats_smoking_foxes_the_fantasy_animal_world_of_femke_hiemstra
Guano. (In Ian Fleming’s first James Bond 007 book, the lair of the evil supervillain –Doctor No– was a guano island.)
https://laughingsquid.com/claim-unclaimed-island-that-contains-bird-poop/
Head.
https://theawesomer.com/head-short-film/446113/
Balls of steel.
https://theawesomer.com/great-balls-of-steel/446392/
Making cars before we had Japanese robots to do it.
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/19/watch-depression-era-machinist.html
Astounding video shot from a drone dogfighting with a train. It reminds me of The Train Job episode of Firefly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQDcDZ6rmGE
A pleasant bonding experience.
https://twitter.com/pkrugg/status/910323504339238912/video/1
Rerun: Christ, what an asshole.
http://www.robertsinclair.net/comic/asshole.html
Compare something like this to a so-called artist throwing paint at the wall or paying men to bend a big piece of iron over and stick it in the ground or to cover a bank with a giant American flag made of underwear. This is better, being actual art.
https://laughingsquid.com/giant-pacific-octopus-carved-with-chainsaw/
Speaking of which, Shanghai t-shirts: “My mom says I’m special so fuck you.” “Sniffing glue won’t keep families together.” And so on.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/fart_sexy_style_more_wildly_offensive_t-shirts_from_the_streets_of_shanghai
The book got wet! What will I do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9_fwmdCyzo
And proper fungal arrangements.
http://joannecasey.blogspot.com/2017/09/fungi-arrangments.html