Month: July 2025

Repurposed Bathyscaphe?

[Found here. Original source unknown, likely an A.I. image.]

Hebetating Hot Links

Nitro, Dick Dale (1994) The Father of Surf Guitar, left-handed speed picker Richard Anthony Monsour, better known as Dick Dale, originally wanted to be a country singer before becoming the master blaster of the Stratocaster.

Fanny.

Fragments.

The Incline.

Nose lickers.

Firestick Man.

No complaints.

Cranberry Zen.

Double pendula.

Gorilla playtime.

$5.5M water tower.

Breakfast with Legos.

Infrared Palm Springs.

Bigass Mormon cricket.

The trouble with Romas.

A beautiful scribble pad.

Norty Blues Episode 125.

Pistol Pete [h/t Donna M.]

The Hidden Lives of Nails.

The Bug Carousel and more.

Aron Wiesenfeld’s Post-It Notes.

“Do it! Do it!” [via Everlasting Blört].

A link dump that’s almost as good as this one.

Cuddles Newsome and the Flat Mountain Boys [h/t Jaime G.]

Ancient meanders of the lower Mississippi [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: High Flyer, Chet Phillips, date unknown.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Shinyribs, 19-Twenty & Wee Willie Walker

Based in Austin, Texas, and fronted by Kevin “Shinyribs” Russel,
Shinyribs “defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn- driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing, and roots-rock.”

19-Twenty is a high energy roots rock/blues band who have played numerous prominent festivals and many small venues across Australia. Their recordings include collaborations with other Aussie greats like Aloe Blacc, Lachy Doley, Roshani & Hussy Hicks.

Wee Willie Walker (1941-2019) was a gospel, R&B and soul singer born in Hernando, Mississippi, raised in Memphis, Tennessee. His first release, in 1967, was a cover of the Beatles’ Ticket to Ride.

Holy crap what a week of weather – record heat, record rains, record floods. Prayers to those who suffered losses of property and especially to those who lost loved ones.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 913 – Puzzled Pup

Don’t know where I found this little doggo, but I messed with it a tad.

Horus and Anubis, chillin’ in Cairo 2006

[Found here. Story here.]

Nothing Much Happened Today.

[Bath Day found here.]

Trotify

Better than ringing a stupid bell and yelling “Outta my way, butthead,” Trotify dignifies the alert.  Downloadable plans are available for free here; 3D printable files ($4.57) here.

[Found here a few years back.]

Galeanthropic Hot Links

GTR, Chase Walker Band (2024)
The Chase Walker Band is a blues roots rock and soul band from Riverside, California.  Guitar prodigy Walker has already attracted the attention of many in the industry, and he’s still in his twenties.

Slab City.

Rat Rods.

Ghostfish.

“You do you.”

Rust harvest.

The Future Bean.

Schrödinger’s Deli.

1959 Spülmaschine.

Watch this cucumber.

The Gold Medal House.

Trix ‘O’ Treat Billy Move.

Brazilian crowd control.

A Forest Full of Fireflies.

Norty Blues Episode 124.

Stevie Wonder on drums.

Swedish barn conversion.

Lois Gibson’s many faces.

The bow of the USS New Orleans.

English Rat Girls [via Memo Of The Air].

Classic fighters [via The Feral Irishman].

“Sorry to bother you, but I got a favor to ask.”

1930s nightclub matchbook covers [via Everlasting Blört].

Cheater Slick Culture [h/t Mr. Joe @ The View from Lady Lake].

[Top image via Xwitter: All at Sea, Louis Wain (1860-1939)]

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

Saturday Matinee – Blues Against The Machine, The Future Shape Of Sound & Otis Rush

Blues Against The Machine is a six-man blues/jump/boogie/rock supergroup with members from Portugal, Spain, Norway, Poland and Italy. Winners of several prestigious blues awards, BATM are headliners at many blues festivals around Europe.

The Future Shape Of Sound, aka The Church of Rock & Roll, advertise themselves as a “9-piece Rock’n’Roll Gospel Spectacle”. Three of the members have a side hustle as the award-winning Soca Divettes.

From his first hit in 1956 (I Can’t Quit You Baby) Otis Rush was the sound of West Side Chicago electric blues. His vocals and playing style influenced many who followed, including Buddy Guy, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn (who named his band after Rush’s 1959 hit Double Trouble).

I intended to post something insightful and brilliant about the recent state of affairs but decided to save it for another time and another place.
Like tomorrow. On the porch. Be there or BL7.