[Found here, unknown original source. Internet-circulated image dates to October 2014.]
Category: Cool
Mirror for Sale – Only Used Once
[All images found in here. Some of the photos on this Reddit thread look deliberate / staged, but there are some fun ones.]
Mothers Day Hot Links
You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
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Saturday Matinee – Nina Simone, The High Numbers & GA-20
1987 claymation video by Aardman Animations features the voice and piano of Eunice Kathleen Waymon, aka gospel / jazz / R&B / soul singer Nina Simone, with a song from 1958. She changed her name to elude family members and play “the devil’s music” in an Atlantic City nightclub. The management told her that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and that launched her career as a jazz vocalist.
“What’s your band’s name?”
“The High Numbers.”
“The who?”
“Yes.”
The Detours, a British group formed in the early 1960s, changed their name to The High Numbers and recorded a few tracks before reverting to a previous band name, The Who. That’s a young Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon covering Jesse Hill‘s Ooh Poo Pah Doo (1960) and The Miracles‘ I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying (1963).
GA-20Â covers Hound Dog Taylor‘s She’s Gone (1971). Great authentic electric blues cranked out with respect.
Too far south to see this weekend’s aurorae, and I hope everyone who can survives the EMT barrage. I’ll take the event as a good omen, and yet another damn good reason to do some porch sitting tomorrow.
See you then.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 853 – Gorillas in the Back Seat, The Pug of the Party & Welcome to Tralfamador
[Found here, here and here, and yeah, that’s a Vonnegut reference.]
Japanese Pigeon People
In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
[Found here.]
Telephonque
Professor Drakeon’s Wondrous Sound Wave Generator found here.
Badwater Basin
Badwater Basin is 282 ft. (855 m) below sea level, the lowest point in North America. Seasonal runoff water covers the salt flats of Lake Manly.
[Check out Google Maps “lakeview” images here and have a walkabout. Image found here, h/t Paul Y.]
…To Be Wild
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.
Cinco De Mayo Hot Links
Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959Â Bo Diddley recording.
“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“
Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină
Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].
Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]
Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.
Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].
The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].
[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]
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