‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.
[Found here.]
Author: Bunk Strutts
Boogah Boogah.
Boustrophedonic Hot Links
Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.
OCD.
Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].
Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.
Daisy has all the time in the world.
Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].
Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].
An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].
The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.
[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Solon Fishbone, The J R Clark Band & Toronzo Cannon
Armed with vintage Fender gear, Solon Fishbone has spread the blues throughout Brazil and South America for 20 years.
The J R Clark Band includes Johnny B. Gayden (bass), Randall Willis (drums), Willie “Styles” Phipps (keyboards), and J R Clark (guitar & vocals), all of whom have excellent .
Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 22, but he picked it up fast:
“Gary Clark, Jr. declared, ‘Toronzo is a beast. He lights the room up,’ and Joe Bonamassa rightly pronounced, ‘Toronzo’s a great guitar player, excellent vocalist and an amazing personality.’ “
It’s been a week since my eyeball work got done, and I think the missus is getting tired of me pointing out things that I could never see before. Stop by the porch tomorrow and I’ll explain the benefits of depth perception.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 880 – Hi-Def Bacon, Happy Rain Doggo & Breaking Bat
They Heard Them Coming – Bloco da Latinha
“A local helps a reveler with his costume made from beer and soda cans during the ‘Bloco da Latinha’ street party Carnival parade in Madre de Deus, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).”
“Carnival revelers in northeastern Brazil ‘s Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it: More than 30 paraders decked out in cumbersome outfits made from hundreds of beer and soda cans clanged their way around the island in Bahia state’s Bay Of All Saints.”
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Mickey’s Dreamy Spuds
fluckyducky – 23 August 2018
“This isn’t from 1960, I made it this morning while I drank my coffee. I posted it on my facebook page at about 10:45am, which was a couple of minutes after I finished making it. That’s my watermark, ‘Clarington Shpoo Imagification’, next to the french fries. It’s a joke, a parody.”
[Spotted on Xwitter, found on Reddit.]
Veterans’ Day – To All Who Served
Armistice Day – Remembrance Day
Veterans Day
Cepivorous Hot Links
Hymn to Nikal, unkown Hurrian composer (ca. 1400 bc)
This hymn is the oldest known musical melody. The ancient musical fragment dates to 1400 BC and was discovered in the 1950’s in Ugarit, Syria. [Performed by Michael Levy on the lyre.]
Mission Temple Fireworks Stand.
The Gunfighter [via Memo Of The Air].
Extreme droning [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Great Ovine Flood [via Bunkerville].
Meth mouse, danger chicken, sky raisin, and more.
The Third-Term Panic of 1874 [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Urartu Sphinx, 9th-6th century BC, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Mitch Woods, The Bruce Katz Band & Tas Cru
Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Mitch Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight. “My mom would hire this superintendent of the building, a black man, Mr. Brown, to take me to school, and we stopped off at his cousin’s house, where somebody was playing boogie-woogie piano. It really hit me.”
Mitch Woods (without his Rocket 88s) makes it look easy on the streets of New York.
The Bruce Katz Band features Bruce Katz on Hammond B3, Aaron Lieberman on guitar and drummer Liviu Pop (whose snare mic got disconnected in this song).
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tas Cru is an eclectic, performing original songs that mix roots rock, blues and gospel. Good stuff.
Some interesting historical events transpired this week, and now we’re in the danger zone – a lot can happen between now and January 20.
Good news on the home front. I attended a laser show that lasted two minutes, cost me a few clams, and now my left eye can spot a red tail hawk before it spots me. The porch will be open for business tomorrow as usual, see you there.
Tacky Raccoons 