I’m sorry to report that due to DNA analysis, skunks are now classified as mephitids and are no longer members of the mustilid family. That’s okay because honey badger is.
[Live Amtrak poll found here. More mustilid stuff here.]
BONUS: This is what a skunk sounds like.
Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.
Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.
Decycling [via Bunkerville].
You can’t choose teal or turquoise.
“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]
Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].
THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.
[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
[Found here, h/t Kirk W.]
“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009
[Found here.]
[Descriptions and more in here.]
Blitzed, The Raveonettes (2007)
Indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channel Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.
Zhdun.
Zhdun piggy bank.
Zhdun piggy bank in action.
The Future was a long time ago.
GarE Maxton’s puzzles (with video).
FUTUREAMA [via Memo Of The Air].
Angela LOVES crashing into bollards.
The Carpentopod [via Mme. Jujujive].
Musical Quintracycle [via Bunkerville].
1948 Norman Timbs Special [via Bits & Pieces].
Fall begins today, 22 September 2024, at 02:43:12 PM.
[Top image: Photo of the sunset as projected from a vent in the west wall, through the roof trusses, and onto the east wall of our garage. It’s a giant pinhole camera; our own little Stonehenge.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The Black Hole (UK, 2008) is a short film starring Napoleon Ryan and a hole, directed by Phil Sampson and Olly Williams (Phil and Olly) who may or may not have been fans of Warner Bros. cartoons.
“Carolyn Wonderland describes herself as ‘a guitarist in a roomful of singers and a singer in a roomful of guitarists,’ was recently called ‘one of Texas’ finest Americana guitar-slingers’ by her hometown newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman.” – Alligator Records
The Henrik Freischlader Trio plays some damn good funkified blues. Freischlader is a German blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Wuppertal, Germany.
Gary Hoey was in diapers when the Chantays recorded their 1962 classic, and he rips it up with respect.
Way too much happened this past week. I think some of the sensory overload is intentional and unnecessary, but we’ll cope.
Porch. Tomorrow. Noonish.
[Found here. More at the NCW Awards.]
Tacky Raccoons 