After posting the photograph to Facebook, Scott Taylor was amazed by the attention the image received. “I am from a town of 960 people where everyone knows pretty much everyone, so to receive the amount of attention that I received was absolutely crazy to me. People from all over the world started contacting me.”
[Image and caption found here, via here, and everyone has already mentioned the game except for me, so don’t bother.]
Collected from all over the internest. More Space Bimbos here.
Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (1963) Flatt & Scruggs, veterans of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys, recorded the song and also performed it “live” on The Beverly Hillbillies TV show as an ode to Cousin Pearl Bodine.
Snow blowers [via Bunkerville].
His old man’s a groovy old man.
The Magic Boy [via Memo Of The Air].
Reconstructing Florence. (Click the links).
YouTube 10th Anniversary video compilation.
Things that people slept on [via Mme. Jujujive].
You are not a fingernail, and other truths from Banter Republic.
[Top image: Poop car found at Bits & Pieces.]
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Hans Theessink & Terry Evans (with Arnold McCuller and Willie Greene Jr. provide backing vocals) doing some gospel-style Delta blues. Ry Cooder is lurking somewhere in the background.
JJ Grey describes his music as funkified rock and front porch Southern soul music, a style he calls Mofro, hence the band name JJ Grey and Mofro. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Grey writes, produces, sings and plays all instruments for demo tracks before bringing the band into the studio.
Mad Guz & the Mojos is a heavy rockabilly-influenced blues band from somewhere in Germany, and consists of Mad Guz (vocals, sax, guitar), Isi Mojo (double bass), Tim Mojo (drums, vocals) and Spike Mojo (lead guitar, vocals).
Yep. Another busy week is out of the way, and after Tet, Superbowl Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday and a couple other holidays I don’t remember, I’m declaring tomorrow to be National Porch Day. Be there or be somewhere else.
[Found here.]
[See Part 1 & Part 2 for more. Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889.]
Job Opening (For an Experienced Heart Mender) Pts. 1 & 2, Del-Larks (1967) This 45 rpm record is one of the most sought after Northern Soul records in the U.K. The Del-Larks almost made The Ed Sullivan Show, but according to group leader Sammy Campbell, “We were ghetto guys. We were talking that street language among ourselves and using a lot of profanity. The [Sullivan] director walked in the room and heard that profanity. He said ‘Ms Gregory, take them back and teach them some manners.’ I knew when they did that, we were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Lake of Bones [h/t Pam M.].
Just NO [via Mme. Jujujive].
Spiral diopter / optical vortex.
A Murmeration [via Bunkerville]
The Best of Stella Leaf Jumps Volume 1.
Cowboy Adam pays tribute to Toby Keith.
Lichtenstein’s House [via Memo Of The Air].
EV sales are down because of Rowan Atkinson.
David “Avocado” Wolfe is an a-hoe [h/t Ian Collins via FB].
Il Duce bath towels sold here [via The View From Lady Lake].
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Tacky Raccoons 