Top Row (left to right): Eastern box turtle, pancake tortoise, and Bell’s hingeback tortoise.
Middle Row (left to right): Radiated tortoise, Florida box turtle, and Burmese star tortoise.
Bottom Row (left to right): Spotted turtle, Bourret’s box turtle, and European pond turtle.
[Image refers to this viral classic animation and was screencapped from the final scene of this AI reel. h/t Charlene J.]
[Full story w/ update and video found here.]
The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.
Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)
“Normally it’s pretty simple.”
Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].
Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].
Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].
9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.
“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”
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Ruf’s Blues Caravan 2024 featured Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak.
Nikki Hill Band:
“If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos mixes Delta blues, NOLA second line funk and 60’s jams with classic rock. No self-indulgent wheedly-wheedly solos with these guys.
Cam Cole, busker, bluesman, rocker, recording artist, and the most impressive one-man band you will ever see.
Looks like the west coast is in for rain, the midwest is in for winter, and the porch has a roof with a live weather watch. See you tomorrow, rain, mud, sleet or snow.
In April 1958 Harry and Edna took a cruise from San Francisco to Hawaii on the SS Matsonia. Photographer Jeff Phillips found a ton of Kodachrome slides and is searching for Harry and Edna’s family.
[Story and more photos here.]
[Previous Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans Day posts here.]
Tacky Raccoons 