Friday Ephemera

It’s raining tadpoles in Ishikawa prefecture. // Schoolboy versus meteorite. // Sydney panorama. (h/t, Coudal) // The Rorschach alphabet. // Steampunk watches. // The Barbie store, Shanghai. // Hygienic robot hands. // Brown sugar bacon waffles. // A dress made of meat. (h/t, Mr Eugenides) // Beef jerky underpants. // Tactical corsets. // Goat towers. // More Communist monuments. // 40 years ago, hairless apes did something very clever. // Remember the Uniqlo grid? Here’s the Uniqlo calendar. // The baffling adventures of Unko-san, the lucky faecal fairy. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Señor Coconut. 

Comments

[pt591]

Beef jerky underpants… with rhinestones? They went too far.

[mlrosty]

Thank you for Senor Coconut. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :D

[David]

Oh, there’s more. He does a pretty nifty “Showroom Dummies”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS1p-9JY3GM

There’s an album, naturally…

http://www.amazon.com/Baile-Aleman-Se%C3%B1or-Coconut-Conjunto/dp/B00004HYJA

[mlrosty]

Awesome.

[John D]

Here's one. Air conditioning for dummies:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/3630993927/sizes/l/

Good comment too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlysound/3630993927/#comment72157619754356423

[Dr. Westerhaus]

I couldn't help noticing a Ted Nugent album (Scream Dream too - his finest work) lurking in the corner of the Beef Jerky underpants thingie. I assume that you have some third-party disclaimer and insurance for unsuspecting Thompsonians being exposed to such - ahem - filth...?

[David]

Ah, I missed that. You’d think an album cover like that would trigger an alarm or something. Still, the display of sequinned meat undergarments makes Mr Nugent seem… almost respectable.

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.9854328.jpg

[James S]

"sequinned meat undergarments"

There's three words that should never go together.

The Senor Coconut tracks are brilliant, BTW.

[Anna]

And "Neon Lights" too.

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

Pass me the sangria.

[David]

No, for God’s sake, don’t pass her the sangria. We all know what happened last time.

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451675669e201156f502dca970b-pi

[Anna]

LOL!

[Karen M]

"Unko-san, a new anime series about a brown turd-shaped fairy with lots of luck, is fast becoming the rage among high school girls in western Japan."

You'd think a cartoon about talking turds would be more of a boy thing.