That’s smoke from the Corona, CA fire as viewed from my neighborhood about 1:30PM today. We’re about 28 miles SW, but the sky is orange from all the smoke. People are stopping to take pictures. Hot Santa Ana winds are blowing.
UPDATE: 3:44PM – Here’s a live link: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/live/?aid=31997849&vid=30518544
1959’s “Shombolar” by Sheriff and the Ravels post dated The Chips’ “Rubber Biscuit” by a few years, but had some of the same Hubba inna Jiggawa phrases. Gotta love it. (Watch for the Dick Dale cameo.)
Bill Haley & the Comets’ “Rip it Up” (ripping off Little Richard’s original verision). Awesome jitterbuggin’… Lookee here for mo betta.
1957’s “Untamed Youth.” Scary stuff.
This one’s for Aussie Phil. Ready for some speed blues? Here’s “PRESSURE COOKER.” Clarence Gatemouth Brown was one of the most underrated bluesmen of the modern era. He was one of those rare folks that if you told him a set of jumper cables was an instrument, he could play ’em.
[Image from Square America.]
Here’s to all Veterans, past, present and future.
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Military provides current non-classified information that the popular main-stream media typically overlooks and ignores. Well worth the admission price of $21.00 a year.
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The publication is proudly conservative and I recommend it highly. Regardless of your political affiliation, it is not insulting to those of differing opinions. Go for it. —Bunk
This embarrasses me… Not for her, but that someone actually designed and built that P.O.S. backdrop, with the lime jello wave and the cauliflower/Pearl Harbor bombing sky, and took some of her retirement money for the photo. Some people have no shame, and I wish I’d thought of it first. (Is that Corky Carroll’s mom?)
New York, NY (Strutts News Services) – Thursday, Whoopie Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Sherri Shepard (while berating Elizabeth Hasselbeck for daring to argue logic and common sense) were approached by a creature of superior intelligence from the studio audience of “The View,” and didn’t even notice. All suffered severe palp scrapes and abrasions. No beak bites were reported. Film at 11.
It’s intuitively obvious to the casual observer that this stuff really works. Just one drop and you’re free from you-know-what. I don’t need it, but I bet YOU do…
And if the Magic CephaloDrops don’t work, RIDE ‘EM! The danger is you gotta break ’em first. Teach ’em to stay on the track.
Mr. Bittman has absolutely no respect for the sentient. He’s just asking for a double-palp smackdown, right square in his crackerbockles.
Ignore the misspelling and the erroneous apostrophe, and the fact that a large octopus could easily kick a moray eel’s ass. It’s still a cool sketch.
[Lots more VERY COOL cephalopodia HERE. Related posts here, here and here. Oh, yeah, and here.]
Jimmy Carl Black 1938-2008
“Lonesome Cowboy Burt” was “Harder Than Your Husband (to get along with).” Where’s my waitress?
He was one talented Mother drummer.
Speaking of Zappa’s drummers, here’s a beat-off between Chad Wackerman and Terry Bozzio, with a couple of absolutely ridiculous drum sets.
Don’t like them? Here’s Gene Krupa vs. Buddy Rich.
Don’t like them? Here’s Marky Ramone to explain it all.
Don’t like Marky Ramone?
Eh.
Tacky Raccoons 