OPERATION MAG-NEATO
Update: no real update. I haven't received fresh pictures of the Mighty Dumb-Vee (the US Army fightin' machine in Iraq wallpapered with your refridgerator magnets) for a while, perhaps owing to the fact that Supreme Allied Commanderer Doc Lee was off to Qatar for R&R and $6 beers. But I do have some new action photos of Strike Team Dumb training in hand-to-neck combat against "General Malaise," the team's latex chicken mascot sent by an anonymous Iowahawk reader. Here we see Major Sargeant Carlos Underhill Nattington Tetheringtonsonston applying his patented Palm of Fury to his hapless poultry victim (note the magnet-festooned Arsenal of Dumb in background):
After that kind of violent choking, a chicken will need intensive massage and chiropractic adjustment. Fearless Leader Doc does the honors:
Many more pix and reports over at Doc's Blatheration blog. Doc says magnets keep coming in, but that doesn't let you off the hook! Enlist in the Legion of Dumb today and get your finest fridge magnets (or cookies, or backup chickens) to:
Dr. Darren Lee
Attn: PSYOP
TF-3-187
FOB Brassfield Mora
APO AE 09349
As always, participating blogs will a complementary plug and spot on the IH blogroll (I'll be posting an update tonight with new members of OpMag).
HEAP OF THE WEEK
In my various travels I've had the opportunity to meet some very cool people, but they don't get much cooler than Bobby Green. Bobby is proprietor of four of the best watering holes on the West Coast (LA's Saints and Sinners, Lucky Tiki in the SFV and The Big Foot Lodge in LA and SF), founding member of THEM! car club, a fine writer who blogs at the Old Crow Speed Shop, keeper of a world-class garage parts pile, and owner of a kickass A roadster that has served as integral scenery in [CAUTION: NOT 100% WORK SAFE] "mature cinema."
But the true piece de resistance of Bobbydom is his recently completed, home-built, period-perfect lakes streamliner, fashioned from a surplus P-51 underwing fuel tank. It harkens back to the great bellytank cars of Bill Burke and Alex Xydias that tore up the dry lakes in the early postwar, but is sui generis with its astonishing hopped-up Ford B motor 4-banger topped with an OHV conversion head and nasty little roots blower. It also sports copious vintage surplus aircraft pieces, and rolls on ultra-rare Divco milk truck wheels. This little bullet is a masterpiece of backyard engineering, and seeing it under construction this summer literally gave me goosebumps. Now it's done.
After missing its planned debut at Bonneville Speed Week in August, Bobby and his crew were recently rained out of Bonneville's season ending World Finals. Not to be discouraged, they got the car out to El Mirage (in the high desert east of LA) for some testing last weekend. Coop went along for the fun and came back with some pictures, a few swiped copies of which I have glued below. Many, many more pictures and video are available at Coop's and Bobby's joints.
Go. read. watch. now.
HAWKEYE HOOSEGOW HONEY OF THE WEEK
Like your gals with a little tabasco in their attitude? Then say thanks to Iowahawk reader and dilligent online talent scout Zach T. for forwarding this week's lovely discovery from the online mugshot files Des Moines' Polk County Jail, the provocatively smoldering Jennifer:
This 5' 5" lit-fuse cutie was recently given a $1000 bond on a charge of non-support. It was not immediately known if the bond magistrate required hospitalization for the searing laser gaze holes she burned into his frontal lobe. Just joking, Jennifer! Congrats, and remember - turn that frown upside down and let a smile be your umbrella.
And for the rest of you, remember - all Hoosegow honeys are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!
ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES
Some sidebar bidness: Blogroll is updated with fresh additions and categories. Broken links are repaired, and dead links have been give decent burials.
I have also disabled BlogAds and Google Ads, and will no longer be taking advertising outside the Pajamas Media network. I apologize to the wacky t-shirt and herbal male enhancement industries for any inconvenience.
PRICELESS TREASURES FROM THE IOWAHAWK MUSEUM
This week's selection comes from the museum's abstract-expressionist-primitivist-ridiculist sculpture collection, a matched set I have tagged as "Twitching Tikis," by an anonymous (and apparently drunk) Polynesian caveman. Since it is a kinetic sculpture, I have included a demonstration film with soundtrack by Daws Butler.
NEW FEATURE: SECRET MESSAGE OF THE WEEK!
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