[h/t Marc “Savage” D. for enlightening me.]
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town, The Harmony Grits (1959) When The Drifters were fired by their manager after an incident at the Apollo Theater, they were immediately replaced by members of The 5 Crowns. Clyde McPhatter had begun a solo career, so the others, Gerhard and Andrew Thrasher with Bill Pinkney and Little David Baughan(?) formed The Harmony Grits, as their former manager owned rights to The Drifters name. They recorded two songs before renaming themselves The Original Drifters. [More on the story here.]
Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town was first recorded by Harry Reser and His Orchestra, with vocal by Tom Stacks (1934).
Tardigrade egg [via Bunkerville].
Raised in captivity, born to be free.
The Santa Sessions [via Mme. Jujujive}.
Brunch in a Jar Sippin’ Cream [h/t Gord S.].
Beware die Schlupfkappe [via Memo Of The Air].
Dan Koft calls Boogie Woogie Santa Claus square dance.
[Top image via Deep Dream Generator and the text prompt “Tardigrade with Christmas lights”.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Vukovar, Yugoslavia in 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence.
The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of Vukovar in eastern Croatia by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), supported by various paramilitary forces from Serbia, between August and November 1991.
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During the battle, shells and rockets were fired into the town at a rate of up to 12,000 a day. At the time, it was the fiercest and most protracted battle seen in Europe since 1945, and Vukovar was the first major European town to be entirely destroyed since the Second World War.
A 2013 discussion on Reddit includes analyses of this and other photos found in this collection, and suggests that the Santa photo may have been Yugoslav staged propaganda.
[Image found here indicates a date of 1991.]
The crosscut saw is a pain to clean, so when the missus pulls the bird out of the oven and asks me to do the honors, this year I’m grabbing the bow saw.
[Photo source unknown, h/t Pam M.]
Día de Los Muertos, Merengue Urbano (2021)
[Skulls found in our living room and on the front door stoop.
Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
[Images found scattered across the internest.]
“An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. […] By the 1930s costumes based on characters in mass media such as film, literature, and radio were popular.”
[Images are from the UK Mirror, October 2017.]
Tacky Raccoons 