One of many ice sculptures at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge, Lake George, Bolton Landing, New York. Or maybe it’s at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge in Rockport, Maine.
[Image found here.]
Month: February 2024
The Amazing 1951 Hoffman
“There’s something to be said about a car company that after 73 years, 100% of its cars are still running today.”
The Hoffman was a German three-wheeled microcar created by Michael Hoffman, a shop foreman from Munich. It features an aluminum body with asymmetrical roof/windshield, rear wheel drive and steering, a pivoting single-cylinder 6.5 hp engine, and many more questionable design flaws.
Only one exists: the only one ever built.
Images (and more) found here, test drive video via Road & Track.
What.
[Found here.]
Speedtrap
Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Apparently it’s a daily thing.
[Image at top left found here, others found elsewhere. Video here.]
Dentiloquent Hot Links
Radioactive Flesh, Los Sinners (1964)
From the nightclub scene in Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965). St. Simon Stylites is sitting at a table with the Devil and asks “her” for the name of the dance. The Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
[Scene begins at 41:18.]
This video AND those comments.
Crêpe [via Mme. Jujujive]. Sound up.
Useful inventions [via Bunkerville].
“Mercy on us!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat [via Memo Of The Air].
Decommissioned nuclear reactor guts [h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image: Houston Elvis fans, story here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Wendy Saddington & Copperwine, Dutch Tilders & The Blues Club, and The Lachy Doley Group
Wendy Saddington with Jeff St. John & Copperwine ca. 1971. From the Utoobage comments: “I dislike it when people say that she was ‘Australia’s Janis’ or ‘Australia’s Aretha’ – she was Wendy, a one of a kind and no imitation of an imported product.”
Matthew ‘Dutch’ Tilders, dubbed the Godfather of Australian Blues, was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His family moved to Oz in 1955 when he was 14, just in time for the rock and roll era and the resurgence of American blues. Self-taught on guitar, by 1960 he was playing original songs in the local coffee houses.
Lachy Doley channels Jimi Hendrix on his Hammond C3.
All Australian blues for this edition of the Saturday Matinee [h/t Archie]. It’s a mystery to me why these musicians got so little exposure in the US.
Time is getting compressed and the days are speeding past again, at least for me. Have a great weekend – we have some serious porch sitting to do tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 842 – Dancing The Radioactive Flesh, Vintage Tagger & Jake Blues’ Brows
[Found here, here and I messed with Joliet Jake’s mugshots just because.]
More about the top one: From Mexican surrealist producer Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965), the final scene in a nightclub (Café Milleti). Saint Simon Stylites is present, and so is the Devil. St. Simon asks “her” for the name of the dance, and the Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
The band is Los Sinners. [Scene starts at 41:18.]
Hellberry USA
There are some things that AI should just leave alone. Top is Opie & Andy Taylor from hell; middle isis Opie & friend inspecting a crank from hell; bottom is Aunt Bea & Barney Fife laughing at something from hell.
[AI generator: https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img.%5D
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
[Update: Re-arranged gallery, added Shut Up Helmet. All images previously posted elsewhere, click for larger.]
Red Bullet
After posting the photograph to Facebook, Scott Taylor was amazed by the attention the image received. “I am from a town of 960 people where everyone knows pretty much everyone, so to receive the amount of attention that I received was absolutely crazy to me. People from all over the world started contacting me.”
[Image and caption found here, via here, and everyone has already mentioned the game except for me, so don’t bother.]
Tacky Raccoons 