[Found here. More Valentine’s Day stuff here.]
Author: Bunk Strutts
Boogah Boogah.
Heureux Mardi Gras!
American Indian Chiefs Cigarette Cards – Pt. 3
[See Part 1 & Part 2 for more. Source: Allen & Ginter Cigarette Cards 1888-1889.]
Super Bowl LVIII Hot Links
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].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Jimmy Dawkins, Frank Sultana & The Altered Five Blues Band
Jimmy ‘Fast Fingers’ Dawkins, Skopje Jazz Festival, Macedonia 1991. Dawkins was one of many Mississippi bluesmen who migrated to the Chicago scene in the 1950s. At 18 he was playing on street corners for tips, eventually finding some success as a sideman / session player, and later as a solo artist and record producer.
“Pre WW2 mojo, dark, dirty guitar tones and a voice that has the grit and soul of the characters and places he writes and sings about.”
Sydney Australia bluesman Frank Sultana won the solo/duo section of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in 2023. [h/t Archie.]
Award winning group from Milwaukee, Altered Five Blues Band features frontman Jeff Taylor with Jeff Schroedl / guitar, Mark Solveson / bass, Alan Arber / drums and Steve Huebler / keyboard.
Superbowl Sunday tomorrow and there’s still time to get The Chili going.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 840 – Arson Street, Unshoveling Snow & the STL Budweagle,
Maw Belle
Selfie, unknown elephant, unknown location, 2024.
[Found here, via here. Google Images thinks it’s a ram’s horn.]
Antony Gormley’s Contribution To The World: 40K+ Clay Peeps
“By Antony Gormley, just some of the 40,000 clay figures from part of the ’Field for the British Isles’ on loan from Arts Council Collection, it’s being shown in three of the National Trust’s Barrington Court rooms currently in Ilminster, England.”
[Installation circa 1991 found here.]
Collectors’ Item
[Found here, h/t Sol R. Land.]
M.A.R.S.* PATROL TOTAL WAR
November 1969 issue No. 8 of M.A.R.S. PATROL Total War:
“When the M.A.R.S. Patrol destroys an invader weather-control ship, they capture a badly wounded courier whose name translates as Victor. Victor explains that his is an army of aliens, intent on capturing Earth for its resources. Through their interrogation, M.A.R.S. concludes that the next major attack will be on Miami. Gold Key Comics Club News. In ‘Part II: Seek and Destroy’, M.A.R.S. helps fend off the attack on Miami even as ‘Victor’ escapes, determined to redeem himself. A booby trap from his own side kills him just as M.A.R.S. discovers the secret underwater base, which they then destroy.” [source]
…and one of them appears to be a football star.
Tacky Raccoons 