
HUGE collection of newswomen in boots found here. Click on any group photo to enlarge; some individual photos are duplicates, but you get the idea.
[Related collection of trendy weatherwomen’s fashion here.]

Off The Wall, Little Walter & His Jukes (1953)Little Walter Jacobs was the first and only blues harp player (to date) to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Following his January 1953 recording on Checker Records, Big Walter Horton claimed to be the composer and recorded the same harmonica-led tune for Sun Records in May of the same year.
Kids toys of today are boring.
Watch a giant sea cucumber poop.
[Top image: GA-20 digital album cover of cig machine in Jacksonville, FL, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
When the people of Cuba took to the streets by the thousands in protest over the past weekend, the mainstream media in our county fired up the spin machine. It’s about COVID and shortages, they said.
They were all lying.
This video is credited with helping inspire the uprising. It says everything about the human desire to be free and Cuba’s desire to throw off the shackles of communist tyranny. If you don’t speak Spanish, make sure to watch it with the captions on.
Carlos Santana & Everlast from the 1999 Santana album Supernatural, one of my few impulse purchases. Good stuff.
(Sí, sé que Carlos no es cubano, pero aun así…)
Golden Earring was active from 1961 to 2021, and were the best known and internationally most successful rock band to come out of the Netherlands. [h/t Feral Irishman]
The Skids. The vocals are notoriously unintelligible so the song works for just about anything.
Lotta heavy stuff coming down the road, so stay alert and be safe while I go get a haircut. See you tomorrow.

[Earliest source via Tineye search here; h/t Pam M. via FB.]



Archigram‘s neo-futurism was not far off the mark…


[Top images found here. 2nd image via Google Maps, 3rd previously posted in here.]

[Found here.]

Hair-Net, The 5 Peaks, (1985?) Jay-R RecordsFrom Pueblo, Colorado, Gerald Gantt, Robert Stallworth, Casey Hynes and Joel Scherzer recorded in the 70’s as The Four Shades, The Five Bucks, and as The 5 Peaks in the late 80’s for the Jay-R label. The 45 rpm credits M. Simpkins as the songwriter. [Heard on The Hound.]
Where to get away from it all.
Belgian Prime Minister got vaccinated.
Average Faces of Native American Tribes?
Random objects in the London Museum of Science.
Canadian Chris Sky predicted it in October 2020.
[Top image: Lum York.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
“Don’t be gaslightin’ me, MoFo.”
Jerry Casale (of DEVO fame) airs some grievances as Jihad Jerry & The Evildoers, a new release after a 15 year break. After three minutes of that I gotta rest my earballs.
The Clash, live at Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, 1982.
Petty Booka features Petty and Booka, except Petty left in 1997 and was replaced with a different Petty, and in 2002 Booka left and a new Booka joined the new Petty. Here they are at Cheapo Disc in Austin, Texas, 2007 with a better version of Connie Francis’ song from 1962. (I don’t know why, but there’s some extraneous bluegrass filler from somewhere in El Paso).
UPDATE: Got a thank you note from Petty & Booka!
Freshlyground features Zolani Mahola (the one who sings) who has one of the prettiest voices I’ve heard. The band hails from Capetown, South Africa, and their style is Afro-eclectic pop jazz – at least that’s how my ears see it.
Gonna be a hot one tomorrow – Death Valley is expected to reach 130°F so don’t go there. Go somewhere else, point and laugh at someone for no reason, and have a great weekend.