[Found here via 1966.]
Only Because I Recognize It
[Found here via 1966.]
Month: April 2013
Embryonic Bat Skeleton
[Found here.]
Molossus Rufus
Great Calamary 1873
[Image found here; we also have a nice collection of cephalopodia.]
Vintage Vehicles 28-34
Saturday Matinee – Fresh Guacamole, Freshlyground, Leon Russell & Friends
[h/t Bunkarina for finding this.]
“Pot Belly,” recorded in 2007 by South African band Freshlyground. Nice song with a cool video [via].
Here’s Freshlyground live with “Fire Is Low” from 2011.
Leon Russell celebrated his 71st birthday 2 April. From the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, here’s his take on the Stones‘ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and The Coasters‘ “Young Blood.”
The event was the first-ever benefit concert of such a magnitude and featured a supergroup of performers that included George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, the band Badfinger, Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan [Wiki].
With that, we’re out of here. Have a great weekend folks.
The .Gif Friday Post No.274 – Cat Trap, Speed Corn & Cat Party
A TR Milestone – 1,500,000 Big ‘ol Honkin’ Views
According to the Tacky Raccoons Statistics Department, we received our 1,500,000th blog view sometime this morning, and this is our 2,329th post. Thanks a wad for the all the visits. – Bunk
Oscar Big Grouch Bird
That image was in the “One Of These Days I’m Going To Post It” file. Might as well post it now since Jane Henson, muppeteer and wife of the late Jim Henson, passed away 2 April 2013.
[Image found here.]
RIP Jane Nebel Henson 1934 – 2013
Jane Nebel Henson 1934-2013
Jane Nebel Henson passed away at the age of 78 on 2 April 2013. Although her late husband is more well known, Jane Henson was an important contributor. Married in 1959, she and Jim Henson reinvented the ancient art of puppetry and created a huge entertainment industry: The Muppets.
[Jane] Nebel and [Jim] Henson met in a puppetry course at the University of Maryland, College Park, where they were both undergraduates. At the time, Nebel was a senior majoring in art education and Henson was a freshman studying to become a commercial artist. Nebel later became Henson’s puppeteering partner on the television show Sam and Friends, and the two eventually married. [via]
Prior to the creation of Sesame Street, the Hensons produced awesome entertainment for advertisers and television shows. Here are some arbitrary pre-Sesame Street selections.
Talented people are often under-appreciated until they’re gone, especially those who leave such a great legacy. RIP Jane.
Tacky Raccoons 