Category: Bird Stuff
Um, Dawg. Y’all got a ducklin’ on yo’ haid.
[Found here.]
Tokyo’s Clothes Hangers Crows Nests
The .GIF Friday Post No.324 – ‘Coon Kit ‘n Kitten, Traffic Sucks & Flipping the Bird
Saturday Matinee – Oorutachi, Pokey LaFarge, The Crows & Elwood Blues
Bizarre, and with a great soundtrack. Oorutaichi [via].
Pokey LaFarge performing “La La Blues” at Music City Roots live from the Loveless Cafe on 20 April 2011 [via]. So what should follow that? Maybe something in C Am F & G…
The Crows‘ “Gee” from 1953 may have been the first R&B crossover hit, and it was a B side experiment. Ike Turner earned the prize for the first rock and roll hit “Rocket 88” in 1951, recording as Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats . Y’all have heard that classic, or should have by now, and James Cotton did a kickass version.
More recently Dan Akroyd took a shot at it and pulled it off.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Potoo To You
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.]
Tacky Raccoons 
Conceptual Art installations? Nope.
[Images & reader comment found here, via here.]