The ship may be the JS Myōkō (DDG-175), a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The Ratheon Phalanx CIWS is sometimes painted as a “Minion“.
Category: Cool
A Storehouse of Asiatic Antiquities
[Found in here.]
Drapetomanic Hot Links
Moon Baby, Bo Diddley (1961) The amount of time to compose and record this song must have taken almost an hour. It was the last track on Side 1 of Bo Diddley is a Lover (reissue, ca. 1961). It also appears on retro compilations (like this one).
The Age of Purity
& Victor Davis Hanson.
Multiply by 9 for 2026 dollars.
Furniture [via Nag on the Lake].
Unraveling AI’s Knitting Bullshit.
Dungeons & Dragons according to Scripture.
Preggo texts to punk [via The Feral Irishman].
Trucks parking on a boat [via Thompson, blog].
A large angry dude jumping into a crowd of punks is art.
Datsun/Nissan pickup truck evolution [via Memo Of The Air].
[Image at top: Leviathan, Hirusuke Yabe (2020) via Everlasting Blört.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Ghalia Volt, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, and Soledad Brothers
Belgian guitarist (and occasional one-woman band) Ghalia Volt grew up listening to her grandparents’ traditional Spanish music and flamenco songs, then moved onto punk, garage rock, psychobilly and roots rock. She began performing as a street busker in Europe and is now anchored in New Orleans.
“This is the sort of band that gets booked by unwary festival promoters as an early evening support only to discover they’ve stolen the show by 8 pm.”
Since their beginnings as a Copenhagen bar band, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado have been dubbed Denmark’s premier roots rockers. The septet has performed in Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia for the past twenty years.
Soledad Brothers were an American garage rock trio from Maumee, Ohio. Taking strong influence from blues rock and punk, the band produced four albums and were active from 1998 to 2006. They took their name from a trio of convicted members of the Black Panther Party, incarcerated at Soledad Prison in the early 1970s.
Panic walks amok: This week’s news feeds shifted to stories of dignitaries chowing down in China, a possible super El Niño, un-salmandering the gerrymandering, snorkeling near the USS Arizona, and the Rat Turd Virus. All in all it made for a slight respite, and Porch Time is scheduled for porchtime o’clock. See you then and there.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 955 – Big Boy Bag Blaster, Bottle Flipout and Leo Looks Around
Smile
[Found here.]
Vending Machines
[Found here.]
Illecebrous Hot Links
Pressure Drop, The Clash (1979)
“Now when it drops on your dirty little head (oh yeah)
Where you gonna go?”
In 1979, premier UK punk group The Clash covered The Maytals’ 1969 hit.
Rat kings.
Rat king dumplings.
“It’s a Jeff Lewis Meal Deal.”
The Teether [via Everlasting Blört].
Astronaut Michael Collins’ secret fear.
Catchin’ crawfs [via Memo Of The Air].
10 minutes of ant noise [via Thompson, blog].
[Image at top found here. Don’t forget to call Mom.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Monster Mike Welch Band, Joe Ely, and Colin James w/ Amanda Marshall
Monster Mike Welch Band: Mike Welch / guitar & vocals; Alex Schultz / guitar; Lorenzo Farrell / keyboard; Derrick “D’Mar” Martin / drums & faces. Welch has been performing and recording for over 30 years. The bluesman from Boston was only 13 when Dan Akroyd gave him the nickname.
Texas roots rocker Joe Ely kicked the Austin progressive country music industry loose in the 1970s. Besides his own solo work, he performed with many other headliners, including Bruce Springsteen, Uncle Tupelo, Los Super Seven, The Chieftains, James McMurtry, The Clash, Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark. After suffering from Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease, Ely passed away at the age of 78 in December 2025 [obit].
Colin James‘ 1988 self-titled debut was the fastest-selling album in Canadian history. It won him his first of seven Juno Awards and an opening spot on tour with Keith Richards. So far he’s got seven Gold-certified albums in Canada, including four Platinum albums and two Double Platinum albums.
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Canadian singer and songwriter Amanda Marshall was 16 in 1988 when she met blind guitarist Jeff Healy; he was so impressed with her vocals he took her with him on tour. In 1993, Marshall’s self-titled debut album was released in 1995 went on to become one of only eighteen albums in Canadian history to achieve Diamond status, and achieved Gold or Platinum status in fifteen countries.
Enough to keep yer bones a-rockin’ and yer earballs a-poppin’ – at least until Porch Time. Tomorrow. On the porch. Be there or be L7.
Tacky Raccoons 