It’s the tallest building west of the Mississippi, and those guys are perched on the spire atop the Wilshire Grand Center, Los Angeles, in September 2016. The spire is purely decorative, serves no purpose other than to support a beacon (and perhaps an ego, IMO).
[Image found here.]
Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps recorded “Catman” in 1957. [Here are the lyrics so you can sing along.]
The Ramones capitalized on The Stance.
This is the Ideal Store.
Rollin’ Wild is a cool site with animation shorts filled with spherical animals, like this one.
Omphalophobes can be repulsed just by seeing or thinking about a belly button. Other rare phobias listed here.
Apparently anthropomorphic global warming existed before anthropomorphs did. Dinosaur skulls have been found as far north as what is now Alaska (which in the Cretaceous Period was mostly within the Arctic Circle). Pachyrhinosaurus is now my favorite Sauropod. What did they do in the Arctic darkeness?
Corey Hart sends mixed messages and I have no idea who he is.
Dog likes to watch “Planet Earth” on TV [via].
Happy Fathers’ Day to all Fathers who ever Fathered. To you Proto-Fathers and Fathers-In-Training, your prime responsibility is to Father forever more.
Women’s wrestling c.1950 features Ramona Isabella & Ethel Johnson vs. Babs Wingo and Marva Scott [via].
“Waiter, there’s a table in my soup.” -YouTube Commenter
It’s a compilation. Dates, locations and ships are not indicated, but that’s some serious listing. I’d have been hiding in my cabin and praying that the Dramamine didn’t wear off [via].
How about some retro rock?
This one dates from the mid to late 80’s during a resurgence of roots rock / rockabilly spearheaded by The Stray Cats. This was the heyday of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Keith Ferguson was their left-handed bassman before he left to form his own band The Tail Gators (yeah, I have some of their vinyl). Ferguson died in 1997 at the age of 50 from liver failure according to Wiki.
Big Guitars From Texas didn’t hit my radar, but there they are, live at Dixie’s Bar and Bus Stop in Austin TX, and featuring Evan Johns, Don Leady, Denny Freeman, Frankie Camaro, Keith Ferguson and Mike Buck, Circa 1985-86.
Have a great weekend folks, and we’ll be back here tomorrow for more awesome.
It’s all in the presentation.
[Via Email – h/t Nancy H.]
[Top image h/t Savage via FaceBook.]
So in other words, if you want to impress your guests with your talent for setting sugar cubes on fire, take up smoking first.
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The Deltones (UK) had a nice reggae cover of The Staple Singers’ hit “I’ll Take You There” in 1972. (There were a lot of groups who called themselves The Deltones, so I’m not sure which to link t0.)
USS Bataan (LHD-5) fires on a killer tomato (video).
Bear breaks into condo, plays piano.
Pirates emerged from the sea at low tide in Birling Gap, Eastbourne, England recently [via].
Topiary Cat Visits The Seaside.
Fighting the Hoover & Denham fire, Washington D.C., July 1918.
1964 ridiculous Fashion Trends that took a couple of years to catch on [via].
“Effa didn’t liver ad move, wooden chew?” Appalachian dialect sawsum, enna fokeser grate.
[Top image: That love bug stayed on the side of my garage for two days, and I took it to be a good omen. It was.]
Nice groove with a great message from Mavis Staples.
[h/t windbag].
The Staple Singers, a family gospel/soul group had a number of hits in the 60’s and 70’s, and “I’ll Take You There” was my favorite due to the killer bass line.
Les Paul met up with Billy Gibbons in 1999. Interesting banter, interesting jam.
Bunkarina caught wind of a SoCal band that she thought I should check out. I did, and you should, too.
Cutty Flam is a 1-woman-2-man retro rockabilly R&B band from the San Fernando Valley. Reminds me of a combination of Richie Valens, The Paladins, Ruben & The Jets (with a sprinkling of The B-52s) and I like it.
Have a great weekend, folks. More stuff is on the way.
Tacky Raccoons 