Regardless of his politics, some of which I’ve disagreed with, John McCain forever earned my respect for his conduct during his 5+ years incarceration as a POW in North Vietnam.
[Related post here.]
Infraterrestrial Hot Links
Gone With The Wind in 1 minute.
Guy got fired for doing what comes naturally.
What The Heck Is It? The Giz Wiz dares you to guess.
Like early 20’s-30’s jazz? Free public domain downloads here.
Ever review the Socialist Party USA Platform? Everything is free except for freedom.
Yank the plastic straw out of the sea turtle’s left nostril and sell it to China = RECYCLING!
Dust in the foreground, stars in the background. This .gif of the surface of a comet (67P?) may or may not be amazing.
This is possibly The Best White House Press Conference you’ll ever hear.
[Top image: US Navy Hurricane Hunters, 1960, found here.]
Saturday Matinee – The Archers of Loaf, The Axis of Awesome, Zappa & Santana
Archers of Loaf. Great 3-chord rock. According to Wiki, they disbanded, reformed, broke up and now reorganized before disappearing completely.
In 2009, The Axis of Awesome discovered the secret 4-chord progression required to make a hit record.
Zappa’s “Variations on the Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression” is a classic. Unfortunately the video is not an actual performance, but a compilation of images pasted over the music. So what. I still like it. We’ll let Carlos Santana have the last word.
Woodstock put Carlos Santana on the map in 1969. Great jam.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow and we’ll mess around with stuff.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 547 – Ghost Scooter, Wire Mesh & #InMyFeelings Challenge Fail
TRUCK FOR SALE NEEDS PARTS
[Found here.]
T-Shirts So Cute They’ll Make You Wanna Barf.
[Via email, h/t Nancy H.]
Engine in Retirement
Nothing Much Happened This Weekend.
Hot Links with Daisy and Joe
THIS is amazing.
Remembering Triggly Puff.
Stuff I never knew about petticoats.
Cats during an earthquake in Japan [via].
The Dancing Plague of 1518 killed hundreds of peasants in Strasbourg Germany.
The Laughing Epidemic of 1962 affected hundreds of people in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
Got a critter trapped under the kitchen counter? It might not be what you think it is.
In the past six years (2002-2018) there have been three recorded deaths in the US from snake bites during religious services. Pastor Cody Coots survived a bite to the face. Jamie Coots, Cody’s father was bit on the hand and died in 2014. (Pinkard and Bowden addressed this practice in 1984.)
About Hollerin’. Wanna hear some? Leonard Emanuel was one of the best.
Petticoat Junction trivia – Edgar Buchanan (aka Uncle Joe Carson) was a dentist in real life. He’s pictured above with Irene Ryan (aka Daisy Mae “Granny” Moses) on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
Saturday Matinee – Cyriak, Zappa, Traffic & Aretha Franklin
Cyriak outdoes himself creepy-wise, with “Indigestion.” [Found here.]
Frank Zappa‘s final live performance (with backup by Pražský výběr) 1991, Prague, Czechoslovakia, shortly after the collapse of the USSR. Long intro, but worth the listen.
Traffic, 1971. We played their albums in college so often that if you held the vinyl to a light you could see through the grooves.
A great cultural icon passed on this week. She possessed one of the greatest voices in the business, singing and performing gospel, blues, R&B, jazz, soul and pop. Multiple generations grew up listening to her recordings, myself included.
What a natural. Only 22 years old in 1964, and she was already amazing. Respect indeed.
R.I.P. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018).
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 