[Found here.]
Vending Machines
[Found here.]
Illecebrous Hot Links
Pressure Drop, The Clash (1979)
“Now when it drops on your dirty little head (oh yeah)
Where you gonna go?”
In 1979, premier UK punk group The Clash covered The Maytals’ 1969 hit.
Rat kings.
Rat king dumplings.
“It’s a Jeff Lewis Meal Deal.”
The Teether [via Everlasting Blört].
Astronaut Michael Collins’ secret fear.
Catchin’ crawfs [via Memo Of The Air].
10 minutes of ant noise [via Thompson, blog].
[Image at top found here. Don’t forget to call Mom.]
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Saturday Matinee – Monster Mike Welch Band, Joe Ely, and Colin James w/ Amanda Marshall
Monster Mike Welch Band: Mike Welch / guitar & vocals; Alex Schultz / guitar; Lorenzo Farrell / keyboard; Derrick “D’Mar” Martin / drums & faces. Welch has been performing and recording for over 30 years. The bluesman from Boston was only 13 when Dan Akroyd gave him the nickname.
Texas roots rocker Joe Ely kicked the Austin progressive country music industry loose in the 1970s. Besides his own solo work, he performed with many other headliners, including Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, The Chieftains, James McMurtry, The Clash, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark. After suffering from Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease, Ely passed away at the age of 78 in December 2025 [obit].
Colin James‘ 1988 self-titled debut was the fastest-selling album in Canadian history. It won him his first of seven Juno Awards and an opening spot on tour with Keith Richards. So far he’s got seven Gold-certified albums in Canada, including four Platinum albums and two Double Platinum albums.
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Canadian singer and songwriter Amanda Marshall was 16 in 1988 when she met blind guitarist Jeff Healy; he was so impressed with her vocals he took her with him on tour. In 1993, Marshall’s self-titled debut album was released in 1995 went on to become one of only eighteen albums in Canadian history to achieve Diamond status, and achieved Gold or Platinum status in fifteen countries.
Enough to keep yer bones a-rockin’ and yer earballs a-poppin’ – at least until Porch Time. Tomorrow. On the porch. Be there or be L7.
The .Gif Post No. 954 – Miniskirts ‘n’ Boots, Shake Your Thang & Do The Spazz
Dumbo of the Deep
Dumbo Octopus
Members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, these critters are the deepest-living octopus known to science and can be found near the seafloor at depths of up to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). These adorable cephalopods flap their ear-like fins as they move through the water—a behavior that inspired scientists to name the genus Grimpoteuthis after Disney’s flying elephant. Unlike many other octopuses, Dumbo octopuses do not have ink sacs. Some scientists think it’s because they rarely encounter predators in their extremely remote, deep-sea habitats.
Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Wikimedia Commons
Credit: American Museum of Natural History.
[Image and description found here. Dumbo octo gif found here; more cephalopod stuff here.]
Shades of Green
Cinco de Mayopia
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only. Images found scattered around the internets.]
4 May 1970 – Kent State University
Hobart North Post Office
North Hobart Post Office was built on part of a seven-acre (nearly 3 hectares) allotment originally granted to John Swan who was considered by many of colonial Hobart’s social elite to be a man with a shady past – he had been acquitted of ‘receiving’ at the Old Bailey in London. By the late 1820s, Swan had a successful haberdashery business and his family acquired several properties in North Hobart including this allotment. By the 1840s a cottage and extensive garden had been built, but by the 1890s, the allotment was subdivided and Swan Street created. In 1903, the Commonwealth acquired the site for the new post office (refer to http://www.hobartcity.com.au).
Surveyed in 1912 and built in 1913, the North Hobart Post Office was constructed to a design by the Commonwealth Department of Works and Railways under the aegis of architect, J S Murdoch although Warmington cites the Department of Works’ Office (Warmington, 1987). The scope of this citation has precluded further research to clarify architectural attribution. An early (undated) postcard of the building depicts it as freestanding on a large corner site, flanked either side by picturesque picket fencing and landscaped areas.
Alphitomancing Hot Links
Go Away Baby, The Baby Dolls (1960) “Hi I am an original Baby Doll who is flattered by the positive comments and that our records are being played and recognized by the many viewers of websites. Just a little history on us. The Baby Dolls were a young Black female group that consisted of two sisters. and 2-3 friends that got a record deal with Maske records. I learned that our records were being played on various websites a few months ago, and was surprised that anyone remembered us, but honored that they did.” – Rebecca Warren, via YouTube comments, 2014.
Jeeves, dead at 30.
R.I.P David Allan Coe.
R.I.P. Nedra Talley Ross.
For want of coconuts and fish.
Canadian military fights itself.
Roman boiler [via Thompson, blog].
Thunk the Fabric Pet Rock [via Everlasting Blört].
THE Pulp Magazine Archive [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Abandoned cars at Old Car City USA found here.]
Update: 1956 Mercury on the left, ditto on the right. h/t Dan P.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 