4th of July, X (1987)
[Photo by Teresa Davis Photography found here.]
Category: Holidays
Memorial Day
Andersonville becomes an object lesson in patriotism. To this retired and beautiful spot will thousands resort in the long years to come, to learn again and again lessons of heroic sacrifice made by those who so quietly sleep in these long rows of graves. ~ Robert H. Kellogg, Andersonville Survivor
Mothers Day Hot Links
You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the 1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]
Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].
Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]
Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].
Where to go over summer vacation.
Put this girl in charge of everything.
35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].
The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.
Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.
There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.
Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]
[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]
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Easter
Easter Munchers
Watch your six, peeps. Spotted these morsels on a baking pan last night.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Hot Links
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream), Allison Young (2020) A multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Allison Young has a timeless style, as evidence by her cover of The Chords‘ 1954 classic. (More about her at My OBT.)
Better than Bic {via Bunkerville].
Megalithic Ireland [via Mme. Jujujive].
Books of bricks [via The View From Lady Lake].
Irish “Sheena” McCalla 1956 [via Memo Of The Air].
And there’s more Saint Patrick’s Day stuff here.
[Top image cropped and modified from lost original source, dates to March 2008 according to Tineye.]
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Saturday Matinee – The Pogues, The Rumjacks & Rory Gallagher
The Pogues‘ (late) frontman Shane McGowan took Waxies’ Dargle, an Irish traditional, and made it incomprehensible. The lyrics are not obscene.
The Rumjacks are a Celtic punk band, formed in Sydney Australia in 2008, relocated to Europe in 2016. An Irish Pub Song (2010) was in the top 5 of the “Most Popular St Patricks Day” songs on YouTube for the years 2016 through 2019 according to Billboard Magazine.
Rory Gallagher, live at the Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland, 1987. Another master guitar slinger who died way before his time.
Saint Patrick’s Day weekend has begun, and I imagine a lot of you green ale guzzlers will give Monday morning a pass. Meanwhile, we’ll be on porch watch. See you then.
Happy Valentine’s Day from Ken and Whatshername
Heureux Mardi Gras!
New Years Day 2024
Tacky Raccoons 