[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Victorian Vampire Sorority
[CGI creations by FableArtsCo found here.]
Paperbag People
Saul Steinberg‘s Masks
“In 1958, when photographer Inge Morath went to his home to make a portrait, Steinberg came to the door wearing a mask which he had fashioned from a paper bag. Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg’s masks.”
[Images and caption found here.]
Quisquilious Hot Links
Skokiaan, Louis Armstrong (1955)
“Skokiaan” is an illegal self-made alcoholic beverage in Zimbabwe.
From Crime in South Africa, L.F. Freed (1960): “Isikoivane (skokiaan) appears to be a general term used for all drinks other than the traditional beer sold in municipal beer halls. But these drinks are sheer poison in that they are mixed with blue stone (copper sulphate), tobacco juice, dagga, methylated spirits, snakes, carbide, rats, beetles – anything to give a kick and a bite.”
Jaw jammer [via Thompson, blog].
Knit Bone Kitty [via Everlasting Blört].
The Bizarre Ways Cephalopods Make Bebes.
The Worm With 100 Butts [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: 2nd place winner of the 2026 Dog Photography Awards, Studio Category. This one and others found at My OBT.]
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Saturday Matinee – Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, The Danielle Nicole Band & The Nimmo Brothers
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers play a mix of blues, soul, R&B and rock. Castro began his career in the 1970s performing in cover groups in and around the San Francisco area, and has led his own bands since 1991. In 2010, The Blues Foundation awarded Castro multiple Blues Music Award honors for Blues Male Artist of the Year, Contemporary Blues Album of the Year, B. B. King Entertainer of the Year, and with his band, Band of the Year.
The Danielle Nicole Band: Bass player and vocalist Danielle Nicole Schnebelen is an American blues/soul musician born in Kansas City, Missouri. She began her career with her brothers Nick and Kris in the band Trampled Under Foot, receiving local and international recognition. Since going solo, she was inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame and earned eight Blues Music Awards
The Nimmo Brothers cover The Allman Brothers‘ cover of the Elmore James classic. In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed the band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.
News of the Week: Iran’s IRGC are still being d-bags and there are rumors of a pending firestorm. Meanwhile “student protesters” are still burning down France. Midterm election season is in full swing with reports of a surge in early voting; California is already facing accusations of fraud. There was much rain and flooding in the western states.
Tomorrow seems like a good day for Time on the Porch. If it’s missing from the itinerary, show up at the crack of noon anyway. If you don’t see me, just stomp a few times.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 977 – Poppin’ A Mickey, A Lotta Bloons & The Final Count
Make a Million Dollars
“Uranium Rush was an ‘educator approved’ game from the 1950s. Players begin with $15,000 and prospect for uranium in an area determined by a spinner (mountain, hills, or desert). Claims can be purchased for $1000 each and may be auctioned off or tested for uranium. This involves an electric ‘Geiger counter’ that produces a buzzing sound if uranium is discovered. The claim is then sold to the federal government for $50,000. Players alternate turns until all claims have been staked and the person with the most money is declared the winner.”
Produced by Gardner & Co. (Gardner Games) in 1955.
[Found here.]
Stops Along the Way
Artist Jennifer Bolande created Visible Distance / Second Sight for the 2017 Desert X biennial exhibition in the Coachella Valley:
“In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted. In the language of billboard advertising this kind of reading is referred to as a Burma-Shave.“
When Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
[Pothole somewhere in Ireland ca. 2012 found here.]
Beverage Castle
[Found here and in areas accessible to Florida Man.]
Aischrolatric Hot Links
Zoot Suit, The High Numbers (1964)Zoot Suit was the first single by The Who, who recorded it under the name The High Numbers in an attempt to appeal to a mod audience. It was a ripoff of
Misery, The Dynamics (1963)
Dog.
Cake.
35 years ago [h/t Bustednuckles].
Window dogs [via Memo Of The Air].
70 whistles [via The Feral Irishman].
The fate of the Zénith [via Miss Cellanea].
Geometric livestock [via Everlasting Blört].
Relativistic Asteroids [via Thompson, blog].
The contents of a ±96 year old ostrich stomach.
[Top image: Skin 2, a sculpture created in 2010 by Turkish artist Mehmet Ali Uysal, originally installed in Chaudfontaine Park, Liège, Belgium.
Found in here.]
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