Month: November 2024

Illuminating Gandhi

[Found in here.]

Emergency Gear

Protective suits and Emergency Life Pack for an evening in New York City, 1961

When nuclear fallout protection was all the rage.
Not sure what’s in the Emergency Life Pack, perhaps an 8 day supply of cigarettes and iodine pills. Note that the Cuban Missile Crisis went down in October of 1962, so the photo date may be in error.

[Photo by Max Scheler, colorized, found here.]

Let’s Ventriloquise!

‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.

[Found here.]

Boustrophedonic Hot Links

Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.

OCD.

Eatin’ bananas.

Urban graphics.

Getting unstuck.

Goose Creek Tower.

A gravesite service.

Somewhere in Detroit.

Organizing 72 demons.

Norty Blues Episode 90.

Lorem Ipsum Generator.

Getting the kids up to speed.

ElectroBOOM’s greatest hits.

Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].

Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.

Daisy has all the time in the world.

Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].

Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).

Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].

An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].

The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.

[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Solon Fishbone, The J R Clark Band & Toronzo Cannon

Armed with vintage Fender gear, Solon Fishbone has spread the blues throughout Brazil and South America for 20 years.

The J R Clark Band includes Johnny B. Gayden (bass), Randall Willis (drums), Willie “Styles” Phipps (keyboards), and J R Clark (guitar & vocals), all of whom have excellent resumes.

Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast:
“Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ “

It’s been a week since my eyeball work got done, and I think the missus is getting tired of me pointing out things that I could never see before. Stop by the porch tomorrow and I’ll explain the benefits of depth perception.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 880 – Hi-Def Bacon, Happy Rain Doggo & Breaking Bat

[Found here, here and here.]

They Heard Them Coming – Bloco da Latinha

“A local helps a reveler with his costume made from beer and soda cans during the ‘Bloco da Latinha’ street party Carnival parade in Madre de Deus, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).”

“Carnival revelers in northeastern Brazil ‘s Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it: More than 30 paraders decked out in cumbersome outfits made from hundreds of beer and soda cans clanged their way around the island in Bahia state’s Bay Of All Saints.”

[Photos & story found here via here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Mickey’s Dreamy Spuds

fluckyducky – 23 August 2018
“This isn’t from 1960, I made it this morning while I drank my coffee. I posted it on my facebook page at about 10:45am, which was a couple of minutes after I finished making it. That’s my watermark, ‘Clarington Shpoo Imagification’, next to the french fries. It’s a joke, a parody.”

[Spotted on Xwitter, found on Reddit.]

Veterans’ Day – To All Who Served

Armistice Day – Remembrance Day
Veterans Day