Month: February 2024

The .Gif Friday Post No. 840 – Arson Street, Unshoveling Snow & the STL Budweagle,

[Found, here, here and here.]

Maw Belle

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.

Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.
[Found here, via here.  Google Images thinks it’s a ram’s horn.]

Antony Gormley’s Contribution To The World: 40K+ Clay Peeps

“By Antony Gormley, just some of the 40,000 clay figures from part of the ’Field for the British Isles’  on loan from Arts Council Collection, it’s being shown in three of the National Trust’s Barrington Court rooms currently in Ilminster, England.”

[Installation circa 1991 found here.]

Collectors’ Item

[Found here, h/t Sol R. Land.]

M.A.R.S.* PATROL TOTAL WAR

November 1969 issue No. 8 of M.A.R.S. PATROL Total War:
“When the M.A.R.S. Patrol destroys an invader weather-control ship, they capture a badly wounded courier whose name translates as Victor. Victor explains that his is an army of aliens, intent on capturing Earth for its resources. Through their interrogation, M.A.R.S. concludes that the next major attack will be on Miami. Gold Key Comics Club News. In ‘Part II: Seek and Destroy’, M.A.R.S. helps fend off the attack on Miami even as ‘Victor’ escapes, determined to redeem himself. A booby trap from his own side kills him just as M.A.R.S. discovers the secret underwater base, which they then destroy.” [source]

…and one of them appears to be a football star.

 

Papuliferous Hot Links

Bliz-aaard Ball Sale, David Hammons, 1983.

Come On Let’s Go, Girl In A Coma (2010) Joan Jett sings Richie Valens backed by The Ramones. From their album Adventures In Coverland, this is a fun mashup from the trio from San Antonio.

Oakland.

VW Busblast.

The Lockout.

Never Forget.

Elvis had a belt.

1896 calendar girls.

Recycled taco holders.

Bollards rock. And roll.

In the Pits [via Bunkerville].

Rat Selfies [via Mme. Jujujive].

Perpetual 1-Day Blinding Stew.

Four fuzzy things drinking coffee.

The village beneath New York’s Central Park.

Dead in Vegas [via The View From Lady Lake].

Look at this tardigrade [via Memo Of The Air].

Interview with Adele Morse, creater of Stoner Fox.

Freebird guitar solo on harmonica [via The Feral Irishman].

[Top image: “One of David Hammons’ most famous works is his 1983 performance Bliz-aard Ball Sale, in which he stood on the sidewalk in Cooper Square, selling snowballs. Each snowball cost $1 and they were arranged neatly according to size.” Found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Luther ‘Snakeboy’ Johnson, Big Guitars From Memphis & The Radiacs

Luther Snakeboy Johnson (aka Snake, Georgia Boy, Little Luther & Luther King) was born in 1941 in Davisboro, GA, and taught himself guitar while still in grade school. He served in the US Army, and after discharge performed with a gospel group before heading to Chicago. In the late 50s, he played regularly with Otis Spann and Elmore James before joining Muddy Waters’ band in 1967. This video is from a 1973 French television show; three years later he succumbed to cancer at the age of 34.

Big Guitars From Memphis show their chops in this video, recorded for Mugz, an indi film that was scheduled for 2010 but never released. (They don’t sound like Memphis because they aren’t from Memphis).

Doing 90 on the 90, The Radiacs are/were a psychobilly quartet formed in 1987 in Sheffield, UK. Can’t find much about them, but it appears they were active through 2011.

Got a lot to think about these days, and I think sitting out on the porch with a couple of dogs is a damn fine idea. See you there tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 839 – The Tumblestomper, Spidergordo & Driveaway Drive

[Found here, here and here.]

Volkswagen All Terrain Camper

[Found here. I don’t care if that’s A.I. I want one.]