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The Best of BOLLARDS II
Click any image to enlarge. Related posts: The Best of BOLLARDS I & III.
All posts tagged “bollards” here.
Most images were lifted from World Bollard Association™.
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The Booker Tease, The Residents (1977)
A mysterious tribute to Booker T. & the M.G.’s by The Residents, one of the oddest of art rock groups to come out of the 1970s.
Hobo Nickels [via Mme. Jujujive].
Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap grew fur.
Regarding Covent-Garden Ladies.
“Zicke Zacke, Zicke Zacke, Hoi Hoi Hoi!”
Go Dogs, Go! [Sound up. h/t Corrinne L.]
The first speeding ticket [via Bunkerville].
Wonders of Street View [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here with comment: “I posted this kidding around during the last eclipse and people took me serious. 😆”
h/t Pam M.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Davide Pannozzo, Billy Gibbons & the BVG’s, and HAIM
Davide Pannozzo, with Etienne Stadwijk (keyboards) and Clint de Ganon (drums). Trained in classical guitar, Pannozzo opened a show for Magic Slim at the age of 14 and has been playing the blues ever since. A graduate of Rome’s Conservatory of Santa Cecilia, Pannozzo has won many awards, including Acoustic Solo Guitarist at the Emergenza European Acoustic Festival, the Groove Master Award for Best Italian Blues guitarist and Scotland’s Highland Uproar competition.
Billy Gibbons & the BFG’s grind up and pave over Jimmy Reed‘s 1959 classic Baby What You Want Me To Do . The BFG’s are Matt Sweeney, Danielle Haim and Tim Montana (at least they are in this lineup).
HAIM = sisters Este (bass and vocals), Danielle (lead vocals, guitar and drums), and Alana Haim (guitar, keyboards and vocals). Great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s 1969 hit Oh Well in front of a huge crowd.
Monday is National Confiscation Day, so don’t forget to mail your yearly pound of flesh to the bureaus that squander it – the beast gets all humpy when it hasn’t been fed. Have a great weekend and we’ll watch the rain tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 849 – SolOreo Eclipse, Sheila’s Glasses, Spin the Grove & Ronnie Spector’s Wiggle
Oreo eclipse plate animated from this. [h/t Corrine L.]
Sheila Jackson Lee clipped from this video.
Eucalyptus plantation created from this photo.
Ronnie Spector .gif modified from this one.
Photos Of An Unknown Family Who PROBABLY Owned A Liquor Store
In 2005, someone named “BENBENEK” found a box of photos at a Southern California swap meet and realized he’d found a treasure, a glimpse of unknown history. The photos were bland and banal, yet oddly endearing, so he set up a website to share them with the world: HouseplantPicturesStudio.com.
Unfortunately the site is defunct, but via the Wayback Machine we can still enjoy Photos Of An Unknown Family Who PROBABLY Owned A Liquor Store.
Eatin’ a Nanner
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Con el Tiempo, Los Apson (1966) Spanish cover of The Outsiders‘ hit Time Won’t Let Me by Mexican band Los Apson of Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. The band was criticized for being malinchistas for performing rock and roll instead of ranchera music. Their biggest hit, Fuiste a Acapulco, was a comic ranchera song) topped the Mexican charts for 6 weeks in 1966.
The 3 Body Problem (Netflix).
The 3 Body Problem (Newton).
How not to have an Easter party.
How to find water using a baboon.
How to get out of a speeding ticket.
How to prevent a total eclipse & more.
Dregs of the City: San Francisco [NSFK].
The 1909 Leslie Sharpener [via Bunkerville].
Macro views of various writing instruments.
WWII greasebombs [via The View From Lady Lake].
Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Actual Reality Goggles™ are not for viewing solar eclipses. The cut-out goggles came from the back of a Reese’s Puffs cereal box circa 2019. h/t Sol L.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Alex Schultz w/ The Jacknives, The James Harman Band, and Kid Ramos & The 44’s
Alex Schultz (The Prince Of West Coast Blues Guitar) with Egidio ‘Juke’ Ingala‘s band The Jacknives.
“A song is like a women’s dress, it’s got to be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep you interested.” – James Harman (1946-2021)
Any list of west coast blues roots rockers include Kid Ramos & The 44’s. Ramos has played with almost every regional blues band worth a mention (and more). As for The 44’s, they can hold their own with no help.
Well, well, well. Another weekend is here, and since the world hasn’t fallen apart yet, I’ll be on the porch thinking I should be doing something important. See you tomorrow for a superficial in-depth discussion of whatever.
Tacky Raccoons 