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Month: April 2025
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here.]
The Pillar-Biter
The Pillar-Biter (1509-1517), seen on the lower part of the choir screen of St. Bavo Church, Haarlem, the Netherlands.
A common motif in late medieval and early modern Northern European art is the “pillar-biter.” Usually, the pillar-biter is depicted as a man who clings to a column while biting into it, but there are also representations of men and women who embrace or kiss columns. In the iconographic literature, the motif is usually linked to religious hypocrisy and the dissimulation of piety.
[Image found here, caption here.]
[Update: Another pillar-biter from the same church, found here.]
Fabaceous Hot Links
Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Taj Mahal (1996) Cover of Jesse Hill’s 1960 classic. It was originally performed by a New Orleans pianist known only as “Big Four”. Reportedly Hill wrote down the melody and lyrics while hearing it live and began performing it with his own band.
Tasting Surströmming.
Discussing Surströmming.
Fkkn Jeff [via Feral Irishman].
The French invented car theft.
The Infanticiser [via Bunkerville].
Kerry Hyde’s science fair project (2021).
YouTubes’ 20 year anniversary Top Ten.
Pickle lovers always insist on a proud pickle.
Listen with your teeth [via Memo Of The Air].
American polyglot learns bonabo [via Everlasting Blört].
[Top image: The Crow, digital art by Sigi Kolbe ca. 2009 found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Jovin Webb, Sonny Gullage & The Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Lionel Richie once described his voice as “the sound of barbecue sauce.” Luke Bryan remarked, “I could sit and drink a lot of bourbon listening to that voice.” Louisiana blues and soul singer Jovin Webb made it to the final ten performers on the 2020 season of American Idol and moved on from there.
Singer, songwriter and keyboardist Kevin ‘Sonny’ Gullage has earned much acclaim despite his young age (26 years old this year), and combines the sounds of New Orleans roots blues, boogiewoogie and gospel with modern styles.
The Melbourne Ska Orchestra covers a tune from the 1927 Broadway show Good News.
Been pretty busy this week. A lot of time and effort goes into pretending to be busy, and I’m definitely getting better at it. Free lessons tomorrow on the porch. See you there.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 902 – Prancyboys, Seal Lion Boops & The Bus of Judgement
Pounding Birds
For tots who love to pound things, like birds.
[Found here.]
Harry’s Airplanes
Beat culture musician, filmmaker and avant-garde artist Harry Everett Smith collected things, including paper airplanes.
The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné
“Volume one features richly detailed photographic documentation of 251 paper airplanes gathered by Smith from the streets of New York City over an approximately 20-year period. Whimsical and weird, the paper airplanes rank among Smith’s most mysterious collecting pursuits. This extensive compendium presents the fruits of his extraordinary aeronautic pursuit and highlights the tangled history and myths that accompany them.”
Elephant Earwax
[Found here.]
Ray the Bass Man
THE POT OF LUNKER BASS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
Raymond Gauthier has reached the end of the rainbow and has been justly rewarded with the fisherman’s pot of gold in these lunker bass caught on Toledo Bend Lake. On July 3, 1973, while fishing near Pendleton Bridge he hauled in 7 bass that tipped the scales at 56 pounds even. Since then he has caught 63 bass in a 2 acre area. 20 of these weighed over 6 pounds each, 20 more weighed over 7 pounds each and 12 of these weighed over 8 pounds each with the 2 biggest weighing 9 pounds 14 ounces each. Since then he has caught many more in the same weight range that have not been mounted.
[Postcard with caption found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 