[Found in here.]
A Storehouse of Asiatic Antiquities
[Found in here.]
Noah’s Camper
Looks like there’s a small concrete mixer in the back, too.
[From Reddit, via Bustednuckles.]
Drapetomanic Hot Links
Moon Baby, Bo Diddley (1961) The amount of time to compose and record this song must have taken almost an hour. It was the last track on Side 1 of Bo Diddley is a Lover (reissue, ca. 1961). It also appears on retro compilations (like this one).
The Age of Purity
& Victor Davis Hanson.
Multiply by 9 for 2026 dollars.
Furniture [via Nag on the Lake].
Unraveling AI’s Knitting Bullshit.
Dungeons & Dragons according to Scripture.
Preggo texts to punk [via The Feral Irishman].
Trucks parking on a boat [via Thompson, blog].
A large angry dude jumping into a crowd of punks is art.
Datsun/Nissan pickup truck evolution [via Memo Of The Air].
[Image at top: Leviathan, Hirusuke Yabe (2020) via Everlasting Blört.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Ghalia Volt, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, and Soledad Brothers
Belgian guitarist (and occasional one-woman band) Ghalia Volt grew up listening to her grandparents’ traditional Spanish music and flamenco songs, then moved onto punk, garage rock, psychobilly and roots rock. She began performing as a street busker in Europe and is now anchored in New Orleans.
“This is the sort of band that gets booked by unwary festival promoters as an early evening support only to discover they’ve stolen the show by 8 pm.”
Since their beginnings as a Copenhagen bar band, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have been dubbed Denmark’s premier roots rockers. The septet has performed in Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia for the past twenty years.
Soledad Brothers were an American garage rock trio from Maumee, Ohio. Taking strong influence from blues rock and punk, the band produced four albums and were active from 1998 to 2006. They took their name from a trio of convicted members of the Black Panther Party, incarcerated at Soledad Prison in the early 1970s.
Panic walks amok: This week’s news feeds shifted to stories of dignitaries chowing down in China, a possible super El Niño, un-salmandering the gerrymandering, snorkeling near the USS Arizona, and the Rat Turd Virus. All in all it made for a slight respite, and Porch Time is scheduled for porchtime o’clock. See you then and there.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 955 – Big Boy Bag Blaster, Bottle Flipout and Leo Looks Around
City Hall
He’s presumably somewhere in this building in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Found here, via here.]
Something’s Not Right, Ma.
In the early 1900s a German, Max Kruse, criticized commercially made baby dolls as being “hideous” and refused to buy them for his kids, so his wife Käthe began making her own, modeling them after their own children. It became a hobby. She started taking orders for the handmade dolls, made of muslin stuffed with reindeer hair, and heads of painted papier maché.
The dolls were popular in Germany, and a 1910 exhibition in New York City brought her dolls international attention. In 1916 she received two orders (750 dolls) from a large New York toy retailer and she opened a successful manufacturing business.
After the deaths of two sons and her husband during WWII, Käthe Kruse began painting sorrowful faces on her dolls. Chancellor Hitler noticed and personally ordered her factory shut down in 1944 – the dolls didn’t look cheerful and optimistic enough for wartime (and she had refused to dismiss her Jewish employees).
In the 1950s her custom doll manufacturing business resumed, but with difficulty. It eventually recovered and her name brand is still going. Käthe Kruse passed away in 1968, just shy of her 85th birthday.
Antique Käthe Kruse “Little Hempel” dolls are collectors items (beware of counterfeits) and can fetch up to $1,200 0n Ebay.
[Images at top found here.]
Smile
[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.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 