Category: Cool

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

1940 Pontiac Drive-In Special

June 11, 1940. “General Motors exhibit at Golden Gate International Exposition,
San Francisco. Transparent Car with Pontiac Chassis and Body by Fisher.”

Plexiglas model demonstrates the ease of smuggling friends into the drive-in and/or transporting bodies out of town.

[Images found here and here.]

Whale Breath

“A study released this month by the SETI Institute and the University of California at Davis dives into a newly documented phenomenon of humpback whales blowing bubble rings while interacting with humans.”
[Video and more here.]

The Humpback Whale, NLRH (1974 PSA)

Obequitating Hot Links

Try Me One More Time, Willie Nix (1951)
From Sun Records: “Willie Nix was an innovative drummer and gifted lyricist as well as vocalist, and was an integral part of Memphis’s Beale Street blues community during the late forties and early fifties. […] Nix recorded and played in both Memphis and Chicago, and worked with legendary bluesmen in both cities, among them Junior Parker, B.B. King, Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Bobby Blue Bland.”

Skill.

Killbot.

Fishin’.

N-U-J-V.

Bebes talk.
Bebes move.
Bebes laugh.

Ambient art.

World’s best.

Anna the Fox.

Veo Sinkholes.

Ramone alone.

Fan appreciation.

Carbonating tuna.

I find her amusing.

The Sound Museum.

Music to boil pasta by.

WSU Tartar Field 1970.

Norty Blues Episode 121.

Robot High School mascot.

Singers falling down stairs.

Great, Great, Great […] Great Grandma.

This Cat in the Hat [via Everlasting Blört].

California Freedom [via The Feral Irishman].

Random sounds from Wikimedia [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via text: Sister’s roommate Farah runs hot and cold.]

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Saturday Matinee – Lil’ Jimmy Reed, Bag of Nails & Blackburn Brothers

Leon Atkins, better known as Lil’ Jimmy Reed, is one of the last original Louisiana bluesmen. Born in the late 1930s in a small sawmill town on the Mississippi, he was playing a cigar box guitar at six years old; by the time he was a teen he was playing guitar and harmonica in local clubs around Baton Rouge. Atkins earned his nickname the night he filled in for local bluesman Jimmy Reed.

Formed in Athens, Greece, in 2015, Bag of Nails describe themselves as a psychedelic blues/soul/rock trio inspired by classic music of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Blackburn Brothers were described by Living Blues magazine as a “generational family band [that] plays traditional blues and R&B with a contemporary take.” The heart of the group are the sons of Toronto R&B great Bobby Dean Blackburn.

Getting serious news overload these days, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to let up. So many topics will be up for discussion when the porch opens tomorrow at, um, you know, porch time. See you there.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 910 – Discount Wave Pool, Fish Face & the SpaceX Static Test RUD

[Found here and here. SpaceX Ship 36 explosion from here.]

Bruno’s Garret

Bruno’s Garrett, Jerome Myers, charcoal, 10.5″ x 14″, 1916
Bruno’s Garrett, Washington Square & Thompson Street, New York City, 1914 colorized

[Colorized photo found here, sketch here. Google Maps location here – the buildings were demolished long ago.]

‘Sup.

[Found here.]

Rafael Araujo and Phi

[Found here. More by Rafael Araujo here.]

Flocculated Hot Links

Humphrey Bogart and Douglas Kennedy in DARK PASSAGE (1947), colorized.

Beat Party Pt. 1, Ritchie and the Squires (1960)
There were a lot of groups called The Squires, this one had someone named Ritchie. Possibly from New Jersey, I dunno, but I do know that the flip side of this rare 45 is Beat Party Pt. 2.

Sit.

Fetch.

Lie down.

Fkkn Susan.

The Bel Airs.

Zambian rock.

Happy stories.

Used stairways.

The Stupid Law.

One story truck.

Scheduled for demo.

Norty Blues Episode 120.

Albert and Ernie Ride The Rails.

Nice racks [via Memo Of The Air].

Sharpening a pencil with a chainsaw.

Towels and owls [via Everlasting Blört].

To go where none of y’all ain’t never been to!

[Top image found here.]

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