Month: February 2025

A Moment of Reflection

[Found here.]

True Love

[Found here.]

Rhotacismic Hot Links

My Only Man, Helen Merrill & Piero Umiliani (1962) Smooth and sultry, from the 1962 Italian drama Smog. Umiliani wrote many scores for spaghetti westerns and sexploitation films, but was best remembered as the composer of Mah Nà Mah Nà.
Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) was a jazz vocalist who recorded in the bebop era of the late 50s / early 60s. She traveled abroad for some years before returning to the U.S. in the 1970s.

Smog.

Read it.

Stencils.

The Niffle.

The Wackids.

This dog.
This dog, too.

Zoom fashion.

Things to sit on.

F-bomb generator.

F.I.’s misc. memes.
Memes for $6,000, Alex.

Norty Blues Episode 103.

“Andy is hot on a smell trail.”

Balloon ride [via Bunkerville].

Thank You Very Much (trailer).

Ruth’s mallets [via Memo Of The Air].

Venetian entry buzzers [via Everlasting Blört].

I Wanna Rock and Roll Until a Reasonable Hour.

Jayne Mansfield walks around her Hollywood home.

The Alafia River Beer Shed [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Helen Merrill in studio, unknown date.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Altered Five Blues Band, The Gabe Stillman Band (w/ Anson Funderberg), Vulfpeck, and Andrea De Luca

Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features front man Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.

After graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Gabe Stillman formed his band  in 2015, and was a Blues Music Award nominee in the Best New Emerging Artist Album category in 2022.

Vulfpeck grooves with some speed bass. Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2011, the group was founded by multi-instrumentalists Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss, and bassist Joe Dart.

Johnny Winter once told Andrea De Luca, “Hey, you got it, man. Just keep on bluesin’.” Born in Roma, Italy, De Luca has been playing guitar since he was six years old, began touring at 14, and credits Jimi Hendrix for his inspiration.

Porch. Tomorrow. Sooner or later. Your call. See you then.

Valentines Day: Songs of The Love Bot


Songs above are ordered from oldest to newest, all have been posted previously. More playlists here, top image found here.

[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]

Meep.

“Years ago, I was traveling in Slovakia. I was sitting on a bench, waiting for a friend, when I suddenly saw this creature staring at me.”

[Image found here, caption here.]

The Tanzmasken of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt (ca. 1924)

Schulz and Holdt made these costumes for dancing; they performed under the name Die Maskentänzer (The Mask Dancers). The outfits are more sculpture than clothing, and they entirely swallow up the wearer. Some suggest a mongrel collision of characters — a buggy-eyed insect meets a jester meets a bearded tomato — and others allude to zippy motion, with eyeballs cartoonishly pulling off the face. Wires poke out and wooden blocks dangle, a bridge seesaws from shoulder to shoulder. Many of the geometric silhouettes defy anatomy; hands, feet, and heads are all boxed in, with no apparent exit.

The story doesn’t stop there. Schulz and Holdt were insane.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tanzmasken/

Bonus: Interactive 3D images of Maskentänzer
Toboggan Mann
Toboggan Frau

All Star Batman Pow Orange Drink

[ASBPOD ca. 1966 found here.]

The Mirror

[Found here.]

Super Bowl Lix Hot Links

Jumpin’ Jacquet, Illinois Jacquet & His Orchestra (1946) Recorded in New York. Illinois Jacquet / tenor sax, John Simmons / Bass, Freddie Green / guitar, Emmet Berry / Trumpet, Bill Doggett / piano, Shadow Wilson(?) / drums.

Amber.

Der Käfer.

One Got Fat.

Beetlejuicies.

Working late.

House of Dan.

Yay! Campers!

How to parent.

Stickler’s snails.

Animated street art.

Click for more NEWS.

“But why?” said the dog.

Norty Blues Episode 102.

Psst… hey O.J. – ISWYDT. 😀

Talk like an orca [via Bunkerville].

Saxquatch [via Everlasting Blört].

Mastering The Art Of Hock A Loogie.

Routine graph [via Innocent Bystanders].

Abraham LeBron Lincoln – An American Icon.

OVERRIDE: The opening salvo of the DOGE war.

Everybody and The Sunshine Band [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here. More disco dream girls here.]

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