That’s Frank, with loyal companions Pupshaw and Pushpaw, and Jim Woodring has an online fire sale today. More info here.
Category: Cool
Canary in a coal mine.
Candy Colored Hot Links
Monitor lizards can count up to six. Nobody knows why they stop counting at that number.
Some people will jump off a 33 foot tall tower for $30, and some people won’t.
Awful graphics, but the information is interesting when you interpolate it. $100 in Mississippi or Alabama buys about 32% more than it does in New York or California (and a whopping 36% more compared to Washington D.C.).
One-sided negotiation is not negotiation.
This scene creeped me right out.
ICYMI. Yeah, it’s blogwhoring. Hit the tip jar if you don’t like it.
[Top image: The posterior of a 1956 Volkswagen Beetle, found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Summertime Blues (1958 to Whatever).
From the UToobage description:
“Though Eddie Cochran was only twenty-one when he died, he left a lasting mark as a rock and roll pioneer. Cochran zeroed in on teenage angst and desire with such classics as ‘C’mon Everybody,’ ‘Something Else,’ ‘Twenty Flight Rock‘ and ‘Summertime Blues.’ A flashy stage dresser with a tough-sounding voice, Cochran epitomized the sound and the stance of the Fifties rebel rocker.”
Lotta covers of that kickass song.
1962 The Beach Boys. A 14 and a 16 year old contributed to this recording.
Ten years later, Blue Cheer broke ground in 1968 with a heavy metal version of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” released ten years earlier. [This guy was on the SanFran scene in 1968.]
I heard that version when I was in 6th grade, and tried to decide if I liked it or not. Took me several years before I understood what they were doing, and I decided that I liked the original better. Hell, the name of the band was a brand of LSD named after a laundry detergent.
1975 The Who – According to Wiki they’d been playing Summertime Blues since 1967 so this version is out of chronological order.
1970 T. Rex
1975 Olivia Newton-John
1978 The Rolling Stones
1982 Joan Jett. Hear The Ramones influence?
1987 Alvin & The Chipmunks
1992 Little River Band
2004 Rush
2009 The Black Keys
Cheech Marin, The Prophets, Levon Helm, Guitar Wolf, The Flying Lizards, Bobby Vee, The Crickets, Buck Owens, James Taylor, The Ventures, Dick Dale, Robert Gordon with Link Wray, Skid Row, Johnny Hallyday, Brian Setzer, MC5, Alex Chilton, and Marty Wilde have also covered the song.
Y’all can find the the other killer ccvers on your own. Have a great weekend and we’ll see you back here tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 497 – Rodeo Rascals, Hedgehog Cat Tango & Pwnd by Plastic
That Game With The 15 Numbered Balls Is The Devil’s Tool.
Australian Body Surfing Hot Links
This is what you get when you Google Fireworm.
Keep the carburetor out of the dishwasher.
Ladies and Gentlemen, due to a shift in the space-time continuum, we’re going to monitor the situation.
The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly is kinda fun [via].
Conan O’Brien, once president of the Harvard Lampoon, allegedly spent a night in jail following a stunt he pulled as an undergraduate. That story (with other unrelated pranks) found here.
How to swap pianos and not hold up the concert.
This is my favorite piano etude. I’d rename it “The Stupid Deadline Song.”
Saturday Matinee – Earl Barton & Lisa Gaye, The Wolfgangs & The Reverend Horton Heat.
If you lived in that time period, you’d have done the exact same thing. Not me. Dig, man, I wouldn’t have been caught dead dancing plaid.
I don’t know anything about The Wolfgangs except that they rock and may or may not use illegal substances.
Very few bands can cover a classic Johnny Cash song like Folsom Prison Blues, but the Reverend Horton Heat did just that, and even cranked it up a notch.
Rock on, my friends. More stuff coming down the pipe.
The .Gif Friday Post No.496 – Fluidity, Creepy Busker, Fail Bot
Tacky Raccoons’ 10th Year – The Top 11 Posts
On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less. It’s not our 10th Anniversary, because Day One doesn’t count, but Day 366 does, so this is really a Birthday Celebration. It goes like this:
3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogaversary
3 August 2017 – 9th year Blogaversary
On the other hand, there are now 3,981 posts in our archives.
TEN YEARS OF STUFF!
Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for the source.
As with previous years, we’ve celebrated those posts that received the largest number of hits, not only for the past year, but for the entire life of Tacky Raccoons, and this year is no different.
We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different. There are some surprises, and I still don’t know why some get an exorbitant amount of hits while others fade.
Previous Top 11 hits are linked here.
Earlier years’ decisions hold for these posts:
10/10/10 10:10:10 and 10:11:10 11/10/11 are hereby relegated to the sub-category of Inexplicable Honorable Mentions.
The numbers adjacent to the titles below indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third numeral is for all-time popularity (August 2007 – August 2017). “NR” indicates Not Ranked.
Click on any image below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!
No. 11/nr/272 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever.
No. 10/11/14 – Babe Cannon
No. 9/2/2 – LOL FERRET: Episode 1
No. 8/8/156 – Introducing The Beatles – COLLECT ‘EM ALL
No. 7/19/64 – The .Gif Friday Post No.185 – 80 Beetles
No. 6/6/30 – Beads, Beer, Boobs & Blues = Heureux Mardi Gras!
No. 5/4/4 – Giant Woolly Bear Caterpillar Discovered Near Las Cruces, NM, Predicts Global Warming for Decades to Come
No. 4/7/188 – 11 September 2001 – Never Forget.
No. 3/nr/135 – The .Gif Friday Post No. 445 – Demolition Demon, Roll Survivor & Rock This Way
No. 2/3/32 – Hello. I Am Mr. Google.
And the Number One Post for the past 12 months is once again:
MEET THE BEETLES
Posted on 17 July 2011, “Meet The Beetles” wins again with a score of 1/1/25.
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Bunk
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