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Flagitious Hot Links
Easy Rockin’, Sam Butera & The Witnessess (1960) Louie Prima‘s backup band. Sam Butera was already a rising star at the age of 18, playing sax for Ray McKinley‘s orchestra, and later for Tommy Dorsey‘s band.
CRUMAR [via Mme. Jujujive]
If you’re happy and you know it…
The origins and methods of Woke.
Zookeeper stories [h/t eaglesoars].
Are you left brain or right brain dominant?
(No you’re not.)
Steam powered Gramophone [h/t Bunkerville].
The Motor Cycle magazine covers [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Mr. T‘s Maimdozer found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 812 – Wakeup Machine, Testing the Hitch & A Fluster Cluck
[Found here, here and here. The Wakeup Machine is the work of the amazing Simone Giertz, inventor and breaker of things.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 810 – Blownado, The Weavers & Mabel Normand’s Demon
[Found here, here and here. The Mabel Normand clip was part of a damaged reel from the short film Won in a Cupboard (1914).]
The Past is the Present
[Found here.]
Pantagruelian Hot Links
Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.
Do the Electric Clam.
Lab-grown meat looks real.
Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.
250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].
A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].
The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.
Pupmobile
[Found in here.]
See The Man.
Photo credit: Inge Morath, 1960.
Outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, during her 18-day road trip from New York to Reno, Nevada.
I hope she saw the man.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 