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The local big-box store has decided not to let Hallowe'en get in the way of Christmas and set up the twelve-foot animatronic skeleton right next to the twelve-foot inflatable Santa. The inflatable Santa's wobbling keeps setting off the animatronic skeleton's motion activated flail-and-scream routine, which in turn sets off the inflatable Santa's motion sensor and makes it play "Jingle Bells".
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Once the harsh winter is gone, when come the good and easier days, we often encounter bears swimming by the ice edge. Polar bears are extremely capable of having fun alone with whatever they find 🐻❄️ !.
I don't even want DVD special features back – I want VHS space-fillers back. I grew up in the era when distributors would just stick random shit at the end of a VHS tape to use up any space left over once the actual film was recorded, and sure, a lot of the time it was previews for other movies, but sometimes it was The Weird Stuff.
#also . tbh i think it'd be hilarious if some lost media was uncovered this way #like imagine a lost dr who episode being found on a vhs after the credits of like. jimmy neutron (via @exoflash)
It's honestly not outside the realm of possibility. The 1997 Warner Bros. VHS release of Cats Don't Dance famously used the original pilot episode of Dexter's Laboratory – an episode which, at the time, was not available in any other home video format – as space-filler at the end of the tape, and the 1984 Family Home Entertainment VHS of The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings has a bunch of random Merrie Melodies shorts from the 1930s and 1940s padding it out, just off the top of my head. It's completely plausible that some bit of otherwise-lost media is just hanging out on the tail end of the VHS release of a random movie from 1992.
(Ironically, The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings would itself later be used as space-filler at the end of an unrelated VHS release, though for the life of me I can't recall which one.)
Am now regretting never speeding through the credits on any of my movies
White Elephant Sale table at a church harvest festival
(Eliot Elisofon. 1942)
An underappreciated visionary genius who lost the PR battle with Edison.
في حَال أنكَ لم تَرى شيَئاً لَطيف اليوم 🤎🍂!.
In case you didn't see anything nice today 🤎🍂!.
In my town, the deer hang out all year round.
Lamb approaching Navajo baby in traditional cradleboard, ca. 1930s.
-Samantha Camargo
The sign of high quality is the fact the book was banned by the government. Trash literature NEVER EVER had any troubles with the law.
FARENHEIT 451 IS ON THE BANNED BOOKS LIST??? IT’S LITERALLY ABOUT THE SOCIETAL DANGERS OF BANNING/OUTLAWING/BURNING BOOKS ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
That’s the reason it’s on the bloody list.
BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT HOW BANNING AND BURNING BOOKS IS WRONG.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (this was the only free version I could find, and it’s a downloadable thing, so do so with caution)
Catch-22 (it was either this version or one where the entire thing was in comic sans font)
The Jungle (personally I don’t like this formatting, but the site doesn’t look sketchy so…) - there’s also this which is the proper book format in a pdf, but it’s directly photocopied so it might be hard to read some of the print
Our Bodies, Ourselves (we learned about this one in APUSH!)
COULD NOT FIND Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the ebook is 47 fucking dollars??? and i can’t even find sketchy websites that’ll let me download a pdf. if anyone manages to find a link, lmk please)
Where the Wild Things Are (this is a slideshow!!!! how fun)
COULD NOT FIND The Words of Cesar Chavez (however I did manage to download the first 71 pages of the book from EBSCO and I put it here but I couldn’t get the rest. sorry y’all)
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
(Robert W. Kelley. 1962)
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