Category: Retro & Vintage
Tom & Tommy
Saturday Matinee – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Roomful Of Blues
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals performing “Treat Me Right” at the 8×10 in Baltimore, MD on September, 14 2006. They pretty much nailed the Big Brother & The Holding Company sound.
So here is Janis Joplin with BB & The HC “Summmertime / I need a man to Love” at the Holllywood Palace Oct. 26 1968.
Roomful of Blues is a great band to see live. Here they are in 2010 with Big Joe Turner‘s “Boogie Woogie Country Girl.”
That’s it for today. Have a great weekend folks.
Squeezin’ Out The Hot Links
Visit Rose at The Coffee Shop and sit next to the virtual fireplace.
Via the Transnational Pupshaw Association, this is Problematic. Click through for the vid.
Abandoned Paintings – the Classics depopulated.
Oh, man. They wasted Periwinkle.
“It’s a kite!” “No, it’s a camera!”
Francis Alÿs‘ animations.
Top image: Ana Gloria and Ronaldo, Havana, 1957. (Click the pic for a bonus.)
Christmas Eve 1903
William Henry Walker (1871-1938), Santa Speeding Down Road in Motorized Sleigh, 1903. Charcoal on paper. Published in Life Magazine, December 10, 1903.
Santa’s driving a 1903 Winton, the first automobile to be driven across the United States in that same year. [Found here, via here.]
The End Of The World Mayan Apocalypse December 2012
Elf Happens.
Original source unknown and I won’t link to where I found it. (Sorry, wc).
Take It Easy
Recently we realized we missed some serious punnage and we Bangor heads in shame. Thanks a wad to midnightvisitor for reminding us to be more attentive to all snarks & puns, and to plunder them mercilessly whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Oil-Finish Steel Hotlinks
Chaetopterus pugaporcinus aka the pigbutt worm.
Cool exhibition of Conway’s Game of Life here.
Nice collection of Living fossils.
Nan goes Christmas shopping in Singapore.
If you’re going to run over your own kid, do it with a Landrover.
A Twinkies inker exposed.
It’s a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford. Winslow Arizona trompe l’oeil. (Only criticism – there oughtta be a Jackson in the upper window instead of an eagle.)
Cutting a torus – The Möbius Bagel [via].
On Anthropogenic Global Warming, this is a fun read, and educational, too.
For those who think this blog is about Raccoons, here ya go. [h/t A.U.]
In compliance with Stacy McCain‘s Rules Numbers 2 & 5 on how to get a million hits on your blog, we took a vote and figured why the hell not.
Top image found here.
In Memory of Erin O’Keefe
A somber ceremony at Pike’s Peak 1876. The dangers of the new frontier were many, and there were many horrible ways one could part from the living.
The U.S. Signal Service (an early Weather Bureau) built a telegraph station on the summit [of Pike’s Peak] in 1873 to monitor the weather, and a guard was posted in Manitou at the beginning of the trail to collect a toll for hiking to the summit.
In May of 1876, tragedy befell the O’Keefe family when their daughter Erin was apparently eaten by mountain rats. The true story may be found here.
[Bottom image found here, top image here. Related post here.]
Tacky Raccoons 