



[Found here, here, here and here.]

Marie, The Four Tunes (1953)The Four Tunes originated from The Brown Dots, a quartet started in New York City by Ivory “Deek” Watson after he split from the Ink Spots in late 1944. Marie was written by Irving Berlin and first recorded by Nat Shilkret & the RCA Victor Orchestra (as The Troubadors) in 1928.
Emergency Cat Sounds.
Emergency Goat Sounds.
Emergency Chicken Sounds.
Caterpillars heard that. [via]
Criminals are gonna love this new BMW.
LAPD southwest gang unit Day in the Life.
When animals come to visit. [h/t Bunkerville]
Nice collection of sewer tile & sewer pipe pottery.
[Top image from The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant [via]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Eugenia, Lasse Johansson & Claes Palmquist (1993)From The Entertainer: The Music Of Scott Joplin – Arranged For Fingerstyle Guitar. You can hear a piano rendition of Joplin’s Eugenia here.
Happy New Ears.
2021 Optical Illusion Winners. [h/t Eaglesoars]
[Top image: Skyline Chili blimp found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Here is an incredible photo of two Bolivian river dolphin (Inia boliviensis) wrestling with a young green anaconda from Beni, Bolivia. Photo by Alejandro De Los Rios.
[Found here.]

In 1922, Hans Riegel Sr. of Bonn, Germany, studied the reproductive methods of die Gummibärchen in 1922 and bred numerous varieties. Gregor Mendel would be proud.
[Found here.]




PPG Tower, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
[Top image found here; bottom here.]
Update: Here’s my brew for comparative purposes only.
Such a touching story. In clay.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
“America, for all of its associations with pain and its bloody history, has always been a place of incredible hope and optimism. To be American, and particularly to come from New York City, is to be blessed.” – Eric Bibb
Eric Bibb was interviewed in April 2019 by Charlie Heat at Kensaltown Live. Jump to 01:12 for some stompin’ blues.
Finnish blues rocker Pertti “Pepe” Ahlqvist & the Wentus Blues Band, live in Borås, Sweden (2004). Scandi blues at its best.
Let’s go one more. The Sad Sam Blues Jam features sisters Sadie Johnson (Vocals/Guitar) and Sam Johnson (Bass), with Krista Hess (Vocals/Guitar) and Matt McCarthy (Drums). Sam Motter is the wailin’ sax player. That’s what they sounded like in 2014 while still in high school!
Looks like that’ll do it for now. Gonna see if I can unclog the sidebar widgets that WorpDress arbitrarily farked up, but other than that, have a great weekend and we’ll be back tomorrow with more roughage.

[Found here.]