Deracinated Hot Links

Steam Powered Aereo Plane, New Grass Revival (1981)
NGR was a tight group of talented pickers who mixed traditional bluegrass styles with jazz and rock. (The song is a John Hartfield cover.)

Knockers.

Lady In Red.

Lil’ Blammo.

Changelings.

Johnny At The Fair.

The Melon Whisperer.

Japanese marble run.

The Wingnut Museum.

Norty Blues Episode 76.

Bartender’s manual 1927.

Two Thin Lines Of Ketchup.

Warren Buffet on marriage.

Skapybara [via Mme. Jujujive].

These things seem to happen.

Some things never happened.

Chairman of the Beach [via Bunkerville].

Better with sound (and better than a .gif).

Behind the scenes in the panda paddock.

Everyday Life in Real Time [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Slugman Portrait Pillow found here.]


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

Saturday Matinee – Jimmie Vaughan, Ruzz ‘Guitar’ Evans Blues Revue & Los Lonely Boys

“Stevie had the intensity, but Jimmie had the feel; Custodian of a genre, master and eternal student, genius born of passion for honoring those who came before.” – YouTube comment
Jimmie Vaughan & The Fabulous Thunderbirds  – Extra Jimmies (ca. 1980).

From Bristol, UK, Ruzz ‘Guitar’ Evans Blues Revue cranks out a variety of  blues styles, from big band swing to rockabilly to western space retro rock. Evans won the Guitarist Of The Year award and was nominated Artist Of The Year (runner up to Jimmie Vaughan!) in The Blues Lounge Radio Show 2021 Awards.

Los Lonely Boys:
“Leveraging the power of their connection, brothers communicate in their own vernacular understood by one another, yet alien to the rest of the world. Scaling one mountain at a time, they have summited unprecedented heights.”
Whew. Seems like someone’s girlfriend wrote that description, but these guys rock. San Angelo, Texas, brothers Henry (vocals, guitar), Jojo (bass, vocals) and Ringo Garza (drums) have been performing since 1996.

Time compression kicked in for me again this week, exacerbated by ad-libbed napping and the leftovers of a drive-by head cold. Be back here tomorrow, porchtime-ish, and we’ll discuss variable speed quantum hypotheticals and, you know, stuff.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 866 – Magic Mirror, Baby Shower & The SBD High Seas Rockers

[Found here, here and here.]

All About Tardigrades

In summary:

[Found here while looking for something else. UCL = University College London.]

Picasso’s Girls

[Found in here.]

Big 8 Hank & The Rhythm Slappers

Henry “Hank” Tudor (aka Bluffin’ Hal) was dubbed the King of 8 Cylinder Retrobilly. Tudor sang lead vocal and played slap bass. Little is known about the Rhythm Slappers’ lineup other than the female vocalists were replaced numerous times for unknown reasons.

Image from Historical Men Reimagined As Modern People Living Today,
[h/t Jaime G.]

St. Francis Fountain

St. Francis Fountain, 2801 24th St., San Francisco, est. 1918.

[Unstitched photos  found here, story here.]

Ololygmancing Hot Links

Hello Stranger, Barbara Lewis (1963)
 One of the prettiest songs ever written IMO.

Barbara Lewis was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her musician father: “I would make the circuit with my dad and people would yell out: ‘Hey stranger, hello stranger, it’s been a long time’.” The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics but is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song. [via Wiki]

A snek!

Puttering.

Grape bricks.

Thai rednecks.

Current events.

Adam’s first swim.

Mary had a little rabbit.

Entitled Do Not Disturb .

Norty Blues Episode 75.

The happiest vertebrae.

Eyechat [via Nag on the Lake].

Gaping maws [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Costco Apocalypse Dinner Kit.

The final minute of WWI [via Bunkerville].

Popular Scientific Recreations – 1883 [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]


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

IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 17 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2024 – 17th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,594 posts in our archives, +10.8 K comments and over 3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2024).

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!



No. 11 / NR / NR – This is Robert. He wants to meet you.


No. 10 / NR / NR – Meme Peeps


No. 9 / 7 / 97 – Cliffside Path, China


No. 8 / NR / NR – Horrorchids


No. 7 / 3 / 48 – Professional Shadow Puppetry


No. 6 / 6 / 63 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever


No. 5 / 2 / 75 – St. Pancras Hotel


No. 4 / 4 / 95 – Monetary Disfigurement


No. 3 / 8 / 34 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil


No. 2 / 5 / 38 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals

And the No. 1 Post for the past three freakin’ years:

The Most Terrifying Bird In The World

Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/28 – Number One for three years in a row AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.

Top 5 Audio posts for past year:

[I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]

Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.

Bunk

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The .Gif Friday Post No. 865 – Crib Diving, Ram Jamb & ‘Splody ‘Nana

[2nd & 3rd found here and here. I lost the link to the crib kid.]