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Updated: Wednesday May 15, 2024.

Mini "Link Blog"

The best link blog on the internet:

1. Happy Mother's Day. Mr. T knows you must Treat your Mother Right! 5/12.
2. What if Black Sabbath covered Dolly Parton's Jolene? It would sound like this. 5/12.
3. The sedimentary rocks of the future will include plastic made by humans. An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record. 5/12.
4. AI is used to create songs that sound like 1950s-70s R&B, Country and Easy Listening hits. But most of the songs are sexual or scatological Which can be funny. 5/12.
5. All I want is a piece of bread song. Short but sweet, like raisin bread. 5/12.
6. The art of Danial Ryan features many paintings of cats smoking cigarettes. 5/12.
7. How come no one told me the TV show Orville was hilarious? I feel like I've been standing my whole life and I just sat down. The tingles! 5/12.
8. It's good to watch This Lizard Video at least once a month. 5/12.
9. If you're looking for military surplus, American Pipe Dream has it. 5/12.
10. I am interested in this geological adventure in Canada as long as I can bring back rocks. 5/12.
11. I started to watch Fallout on Amazon Prime. It's not bad. The set design and gadget designs are excellent. 4/21.
12. MF DOOM Vs. The Grateful Dead and Wu-Tang Vs. The Beatles album-length mashups. I rarely listen to The Beatles or the Dead, but these mixes make them palatable. 4/21.
13. Hundreds of Beavers is the best film I've seen in a long while. It is like the live-action version of a 1930s cartoon. 4/21.
14. America is changing rapidly. Vermont-based photographer Jim Westphalen is documenting its rural decline. 4/21.
15. 60-year-old Conan O'Brien on Hot Wings was peak Conan O'Brien. I'm glad he still has an edge. 4/21.
16. Duel'in Firemen was a video game that almost happened in the 1990s. This promotional video features many B-Movie stars like Rudy Ray Moore and musicians from DEVO. 4/6.
17. A documentary about the comic Elfquest. 3/16.
18. When your French Fries are 10 minutes late on DoorDash. I love this video and I think that is because it represents the attitude of people in the North East and the fun of hanging out late at night and eating junk food. 3/6.
19. What do we want for dinner? Vegans will hate this song, although I sense the irony in the performer's delivery and presentation. They might actually be vegans. 3/6.
20. The difference between Southern and Northern French accents. I have a Quebec French accent. 3/6.
21. Beetronics FX makes bee-utiful guitar pedals. 3/6.
22. Kenneth Befus's rock videos rock. 3/6.
23. Beer commercials were added to Star Wars in Chile. 3/6.
24. Dime Store Adventures might be the best YouTube channel. Unusual New England folk stories explored. 2/25.
25. Cardboard art show at Monmouth University. 2/21.
26. The World's Greatest Speakers. Maybe, maybe not, but it's fun to experiment with. Attaching exciters to random surfaces. Where to buy them. 2/21.
27. Sasquatch Sunset red-band trailer. A movie about Sasquatches. That's my kind of movie. 2/21.
28. Stupid Simple Tools. I don't need them, but I want to buy them all. 2/21.
29. Casio SK Sampler Pack Cassette (1986). 2/11.
30. The state of the New Jersey Pinelands. 2/1.
31. Old mines and quarries I'm interested in checking out: Winter Mine, Montville Serpentine Deposit, and Cobb Mine. 2/1.
32. Lava Lamp FAQ. I have a Lava Lite and 4 Lava Lamps (in a storage unit). 2/1
33. The Fastest Way to Lose Half a Million Dollars. My Ferrari is Gone. That time WhistlinDiesel's Ferrari caught fire and melted after he met Gort the Capybara. Coincidence? There are no coincidences. 1/28.
34. Interviewing Killdozer Victims (I Brought My Bulldozer). Looks like WhistlinDiesel is building his own Killdozer. 1/28
35. 4K remaster of the Star Wars Holiday Special. I've gone on record before that this was the 4th best Star Wars movie because it is entertaining. 1/15.
36. Scrub Oaks Mine is my favorite mine. #rocks 1/15.
37. Demo for the New Jersey metal band PREY. 1983. \m/ 1/13.
38. Lava Lamps are an interesting novelty. They're powered by incandescent lights, which are mostly outlawed now. 1/13.
39. Trailside Nature and Science Center. Union County. Nature and #rocks 1/13.
40. The Gemeral Store #rocks 1/13.
41. Jabba The Huttcracker by Retro Custom Art. Perhaps the best Christmas decoration of all. 1/13.
42. Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Steamboat Willie is the original incarnation of Mickey Mouse. Now he belongs to us all. 1/1.
43. Tom Scott quits making videos. 1/1.
44. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!
45. Visit the Mini-Blog archive for links from 2019-23.

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There is a lot of stuff on this website: a blog about road trips, six free music albums, art, a comic strip, a directory of awesome links, and a mini-blog. I restarted the site out of sheer boredom in 2020. I pulled together some of my favorite internet stuff from the 1990s and 2000s. I hope someone enjoys it as much as I do.

Road trips and adventures:

Ten most recent articles:

1. Asbury Park Art Murals, Wooden Walls Project
2. Asbury Lanes (Asbury Park, NJ) The Best Years
3. Photos from Asbury Park, New Jersey from the 2000s
4. The Sterling Hill Mining Museum (Ogdensburg, NJ)
5. CNJ railroad tracks in the woods (Atsion, NJ)
6. New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge
7. Everything in the middle of Nowhere in the middle of Everywhere
8. Blueberries for the low price of 100 fly bites
9. Emilio Carranza Memorial in Tabernacle, NJ
10. Laurence Harbor Beach, yesterday and today

Ten most popular articles:

1. Nothing but trouble in Centralia Pennsylvania
2. The Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, NJ
3. Gotta go to the Hofheimer Grotto
4. The Franklin Parker Preserve and abandoned railroad tracks
5. Cliffwood Beach used to have cliffs made of prehistoric wood & amber
6. Pasadena Terracotta Brick Factory
7. New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge
8. The Egg aka the Betsy Orb
9. Atsion Furnace in the Pine Barrens
10. Circus World in Baraboo Wisconsin