Spanish trapper hanging muskrats up to dry their fur before skinning. Stretching and drying the pelt follows this. His camp is in the marshes nearby. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parrish, Louisana, 1941.
[Image and caption found here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
Bombylious Hot Links
Number 9 Train, Tarheel Slim (1958) Allen Rathel Bunn (1923-1977) recorded under various names but was best known as Tarheel Slim. Bunn enjoyed a successful recording career playing an eclectic variety of styles including gospel, R&B, blues, rockabilly, pop & soul. In 1963 he dropped out of the music business , but was “rediscovered” a decade later and resumed recording and performing on acoustic guitar until his death at the age of 53.
Waiting for someone to notice.
“It’s basically a hotdog of the sea.”
Just found a new ringtone. [h/t Suz H.]
The Temperature of Doom [via Bunkerville].
Ink-powered leaf boats [via Memo Of The Air].
It’s 5 minutes compressed into 3, but so what.
[Top image courtesy Serafina D.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Mighty Teardrops, Eric Bibb & Robbie Robertson
The Mighty Teardrops of Vancouver cover the 19th century traditional Midnight On The Stormy Deep, first recorded by Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner (1926). It’s a song about cheatin’.
Born in New York, blues singer / songwriter Eric Bibb moved to Europe in 1970 and currently resides in Helsinki, Finland, with his Finnish wife Ulrika.
In 2019, Playing For Change featured Ringo Starr and The Band’s original member Robbie Robertson, along with musicians across 5 continents.
Outta time, outta gas, gotta go. See you tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 814 – Rock N Roll Train, Monkeyslide & A Tight Phalanx
“A Tumble-Weed Ball (From A Photograph)”
[Found here.]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
Bird Dogs
[Found here.]
Carphologic Hot Links
Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.
It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].
Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.
Men and women think differently.
“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”
20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].
Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]
The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]
Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD [via Mme. Jujujive].
Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image found in here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 16 YEARS OF STUFF!
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2023 – 16th year Blogoversary!
As of this date, there are exactly 6,233 posts in our archives, +10 K comments and over 2.69M referral links that comprise
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.
—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—
The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2023).
“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.”
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11 / NR / NR – Staredown on the Pequod
No. 10 / NR / 203 – How To Make Capybara Dumplings
No. 9 / 5 / 36 – Kluck Klams – The Ghost of Walt Kelly Speaks
No. 8 / 11 / 35 – Bigass Ammonite Fossil is not a Bigass Ammonite Fossil
No. 7 / NR / 109 – Cliffside Path, China
No. 6 / NR / 83 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever
No. 5 / 2 / 42 – Pelicans Trying to Eat Other Animals
No. 4 / 10 / 134 – Monetary Disfigurement
No. 3 / 4 / 53 – Professional Shadow Puppetry
No. 2 / NR / 96 – St. Pancras Hotel
And the NO. 1 POST for the past year:
The Most Terrifying Bird In The World
Posted on 1 June 2021, this garnered a surprising rank of 1/1/37 – Number One TWO YEARS IN A ROW. AND THE BIRD IS PURE AWESOME.
Top 5 Audio posts for past year:
[Note that I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.]
Thanks for all your visits, comments, favorites and linkys, and I wish you all the best.
Bunk
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Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
Tacky Raccoons 