[Artwork by Curtis Lanaghan found here.]
Nomads and Dinosaurs
Category: Cool
Third Ave & Bowery, NYC
Note that the shop advert is a screen; the windows are visible. It’s around the corner down the street somewhere (or was). Presumably the building shown is (or was) on Bowery Street. Original photo by Tom Webb found in here, overlaid colorized portion by unknown. [Related post here.]
Inconcinnate Hot Links
Tear Drops, Soul Brothers Inc. (1967 Salem Records) 1960s northern soul group from Christiansburg, Virginia, with vocals by brothers Earl and Marshal Carter. A copy of this rare 45rpm can fetch as much as $5k. (Not to be confused with Soul Brothers Inc. from Houston, Texas, or S.B.I. / Soul Brothers Inc. Records.)
Hanta photoshoot.
Hanta can do what??
Eggshell [via Memo Of The Air].
NYC bag dogs [via Everlasting Blört.]
100 year old Marenghi Organ Smashmouth.
Aug(de)mented Reality 2 [via Miss Cellanea].
Your Internet Radio Dial [via Thompson, blog].
Free healthcare, clothing room & board for $1.
[Image at top: Impressionist graffiti (aka “deep fried graff”) by ForzaNokia (Belgium 2026) found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 956 – No Distractions, The Cromag & Through the Looking Glass
A Dressed-up Phalanx CIWS
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“.
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.]
Tacky Raccoons 