“In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2018, cardboard cutouts are installed at Georgia State Stadium in Atlanta for an episode of “Brockmire.” Even though it was converted to college football after the Atlanta Braves left for the suburbs the stadium worked just fine as the stand-in for a fictional Florida spring training site in Hank Azaria’s IFC show “Brockmire,” in which he portrays a tart-tongued baseball announcer trying to recapture his former glory after a failed marriage, a very public meltdown and struggles with addiction.”
Lettuce [aka Lettuce Funk] is a six-man combo that combines retro-future funk with soul, jazz, rock, and hip-hop, and it works.
Dustin Arbuckle & The Damnations are an eclectic blues band from Wichita, KS, playing a mix of Delta roots blues, honky tonk, Stax soul, and country. (Arbuckle was half of the now defunct team of Moreland & Arbuckle.)
Selwyn Birchwood is an American blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter from Tampa, Florida. He plays what he calls “Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues,” and was the winner of the Blues Foundation’s 2013 International Blues Challenge (band category), as well the winner of the Albert King Guitarist of the Year award. [Wiki]
Max Hightower is a multi-instrumentalist (harmonica, guitar, bass, piano and vocals), writer and producer, and a founding member of Plate Full O’ Blues.He has toured across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, performing alongside greats like Hubert Sumlin and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith. Born and raised in Upstate South Carolina, Hightower was inspired by a Muddy Waters cassette when he was 12.
New of the Week: The midterm elections were a wondrous mix of surprises, anomalies and statistical impossibilities. Aside from that, a lot of other stuff went down that I don’t recall.
Remind me tomorrow, on the porch, at Porchtime o’clock. Be there.
The photos appear to be of the Lucha Libre Taco Shop in San Diego, California. Luchadores eat for free, and customers get a discount if they wear a wrestling mask. Es popular entre los luchadores profesionales.
[Found here and via a random Google image search.]
Lumi Bekteshi managed the Palms Grill Cafe in Atlanta, IL, and won two blue ribbons at the Illinois State Fair in 2009 after learning how to bake them only a few months earlier. Her husband, who owns the Country-Aire restaurant where the statue is located, wanted to celebrate her achievements. so he had the giant Lumi installed in 2024.
[Image found here, caption from here, details here.]
“The Restroom Archive is an ongoing repository of publicly accessible restrooms. Designed and built by Jake Welch, this archive aims to document the diverse qualities of these unique spaces. Everyone uses restrooms, yet as spaces, they are considered taboo and are rarely considered. There is perhaps no space in society that better captures the creativity and impertinence of humans when they know that nobody else is watching. Currently, 48 archivists have documented 221 restrooms in 99 cities across 15 countries.”
Click on any screencap to enlarge. Better yet, click the link above, choose a random restroom and rotate it in any direction.
