Month: December 2013

Lighting The Tree

Lightning Strike

I want to know what it did to piss Him off.

[Found here.]

Christmas Saturday Matinee – Fran Martin, Bradlee & Golder-Novick, The Bug Tussel Bluegrass Band, The Dukes of Dixieland & The Magic Piano

It’s not quite rockabilly, nor is it The Frankies (it’s apparently by someone named Fran Martin) but it’s awesome.

Scott Bradlee & Ben Golder-Novick.

The Bug Tussel Bluegrass Band‘s version is pretty good.

“Jingle Bells” […] was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) and published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. Even though it is now associated with the Christmas and holiday season, it was actually originally written to be sung for American Thanksgiving.b[Via Wiki]

Bells on horses were a wintertime safety measure to prevent collisions at crossroads – snow muffled the sound of horses’ hooves, and sleighs made little noise. The subsequent title is not about jingle bells, but is a command for the bells to jingle.

“Christmas Time In New Orleans” performed by The Dukes of Dixieland.

Now THAT is brilliant [via].

Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back tomorrow for more festivities, frivolities y ¡Felicidades!

The .Gif Friday Post No. 311 – 16mm Christmas, Coordinated Company Jump, THE House & Stuff

Christmas Tree BW
A Company Christmas
Christmas Lights

Raccoon Christmas

[Found here, here, here and *ahem* here.]

It’s All In The Angle

All About The Angle

I like the real one better because it looks like The Missus, only shorter. She got kinda humpy as I was re-adjusting the image, but the girl’s prolly got a face like a delaminated tire.

Unlike The Missus.

[Original image found here.]

Phil Jones’ Contribution To The World

Susan and Annie 1

“I have a deep respect for anyone who is willing to put their face on a bus stop bench knowing what people do to them.  I thought it would be fun to do my own take on our local realtor advertisements.” –Phil Jones

Phil Jones’ “take” is to dress up as the people in the bus bench back adverts and replace their portraits with his own. Look closer:
Susan and Annie 2
Clever innocuous graffiti from Minneapolis, and there’s more at his website. Susan and Annie liked it, too.
[Found here.]

River Turtle

River Turtle

[Found here.]

Splatman

Splatman

“Bunna nunna nunna nunna Bunna nunna nunna nunna…”
He’s just gotta have SOME superpowers for a Sidewalk Superhero, but I can only guess what they might be.

[Found here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

Nothing Much Happened Today

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Old Crow Medicine Show, New Grass Revival & John McEuen

“Caroline” by the Old Crow Medicine Show reminds me of the NGR. Great pickin’ with great harmonies. So let’s go there.

New Grass Revival with Béla Fleck (circa who knows) playing “Deviation.” That reminds me of the NGDB. So let’s go there. One of my favorite songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is “Some of Shelly’s Blues.” Rather than post a vid of the original recording and have you stare at an album cover, here’s a live version by John McEuen:

John McEuen, Nathan McEuen, Scott Gates, Chelsea Williams at the Coffee Gallery, Altadena, California 29 March 2007.

“There’s nothin’ so hard about the life that you’ve led”
is the best line of the whole song, written by Michael Nesmith (yeah, THAT Michael Nesmith. Check this out.)

Have a great weekend, folks. Ignore the snow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 310 – Big Chief Buffalo Nickel, Garbage In Garbage Out & Animated Banksy

Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
Garbage In Garbage Out
Animated Banksy 13

[2nd & 3rd found here and here. Top .gif is my own.]