Yep. The Potoo bird is real [h/t to Will N].
Category: Bird Stuff
Capy Barrage
Saturday Matinee – Old Crow Medicine Show, New Grass Revival & John McEuen
“Caroline” by the Old Crow Medicine Show reminds me of the NGR. Great pickin’ with great harmonies. So let’s go there.
New Grass Revival with Béla Fleck (circa who knows) playing “Deviation.” That reminds me of the NGDB. So let’s go there. One of my favorite songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is “Some of Shelly’s Blues.” Rather than post a vid of the original recording and have you stare at an album cover, here’s a live version by John McEuen:
John McEuen, Nathan McEuen, Scott Gates, Chelsea Williams at the Coffee Gallery, Altadena, California 29 March 2007.
“There’s nothin’ so hard about the life that you’ve led”
is the best line of the whole song, written by Michael Nesmith (yeah, THAT Michael Nesmith. Check this out.)
Have a great weekend, folks. Ignore the snow.
Just Do It. Eat A Live Duckling. Raw.
Yeah, and do it while sitting next to a box of high explosives and a witness.
Okay, There are no explosives in that box. It’s a collector’s item with connections to the American Revolution, and Pierre Samuel DuPont in particular. If you’re ever near Wilmington Delaware, the tour of the DuPont gunpowder factory is awesome, It’s 18th century water-powered technology, and yeah, it’s the origin of the company of the same name.
[Found here.]
The Birds
This house was part of what was once a fairly successful small island colony in Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. Rapid erosion of the island’s mud and silt coast, however, meant that there was less and less room to live on the island. This house was the last one left on Holland Island before it too collapsed in 2010.
[Image and caption found in here.]
A Duck In Every Pot
Giggle Gaggle
[Found here.]
While looking for previous related posts, we suddendly realized we needed a new One-Click Archive Category on Tacky Raccoons for all you Anatidae fans, so here you go.
Ducks and Geese.
Everybody’s Heard About The Hot Links
This is kinda cool. Interactive Twist Again [via].
Skybridges [via].
I love the name of this experimental project: The Slingatron.
Never heard of guard llamas until a few days ago.
Photos of a young James Newell Osterberg, Jr. [via]
Oh, and about Syria? There’s this abbreviated version.
The Bird is The Word. Don’t you know about the bird?
Top image from here.
The .GIF Friday Post No.291 – Awesome Owls
Usually we post more than two animations for The .GIF Friday Post, but these two stand alone. Top .gif was posted previously; related post here.
[Found here.]
Cough it up, Pug.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 