[Found here.]
Shark Artistry
[Found here.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
Pumping In The Jet Age
[Found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Human Fountains, The Band and The Black Crowes.
Might have been better with four NFL cheerleaders in skimpy wet chamois skins, but that’s just my non-judgemental politically correct sexist micoagressional opinion [via].
That’s one of the best songs by one of the best bands ever.
That’s one of the best covers of one of the best songs by one of the best bands ever.
Have a great weekend, folks, and remember that President’s Day is a construct designed to minimize the historical importance of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, two of the greatest and most influential Presidents in the history of the United States of America.
Kim Jong Un’s Sister Isn’t Hot Links
From the “I Can’t Wait To Cite This” Department: Section A404 of the 2016 CEBC is titled “PRESCRIPTIVE MEASURES FOR WEAK STORY.”
The history of the Lally Column.
“You ain’t usin’ dis car tonight.“
This has something to do with college football. No idea what, but it does.
Very cool macro photography of bug faces.
Graphic comparison of some of the world’s notable bridges.
Extreme G-Forces can knock you out cold.
Family members say Mouzon was going into the National Guard in August [2016] and Campbell had joined the Navy. “These kids are not awful terrible kids.” Yeah, Right.
The Nudifier is the perfect ap if you want to pretend to be flashing the crowds during Mardi Gras.
“The shadow dissolved into vapors. The stench increased.” Ten creepiest two-sentence stories are creepy.
A placebo thermostat does nothing, but the person who adjusts it hears the noise of hissing or a fan running and consequently feels more content.
Kim Jong Un’s sister looks a lot like Kim Jong Un. Oh wait. That’s the brother who was assassinated.
According to CNN: “While military service for women has long been voluntary, it was reportedly made mandatory recently in a bid to bolster the armed forces.” Inside North Korea is not a CNN porno movie as far as you know, and yeah, she’s got a skin infection.
Military Parade: 1st Marine Band at Disneyland, Veterans’ Day 2014.
[Top image: Blinky Bill, found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Origins of the Moon Walk, Sugar Chile Robinson, Ola Belle & Zane Campbell
The origins of the Moon Walk.
Sugar Chile Robinson was a 7 year old blues & boogie woogie piano prodigy. I wondered what happened to him and found this. Here he is in 2007 at the age of 69:
Let’s move on to something completely different.
I’d heard of neither Ola Belle nor Zane Campbell until today but both were and are awesome.
Have a great weekend, folks. There’s more in the hopper.
497-519 Broadway, New York City 1853-55 and now
I spotted that in a collection of photos with the description:
Broadway looking north from between Grand and Broome Streets in New York City, 1853–55.
The photo includes visible addresses, so I decided to take a drive down Grand [via Google Maps] and look for 497, 499, 501 & 519 Broadway.
A lot changed in +160 years. Some buildings were razed and rebuilt, others have been refaced, but a few are still there, like the large white building, the 2nd building closer (with the fire escape), and the one on the far right of the top image.
Also note that there is a blurry horse pulling a trolley in the top photo and a car named after a horse in the other, and if the drivers swapped places in time, neither one would know how to steer.
Saturday Matinee – Going Fishing, Rock & Bluegrass, The Flying Burrito Brothers & 1929 Elders
This is kinda cool [found here].
1971 – When Rock & Roll Met Bluegrass. It’s part of an Earl Scruggs tribute video. Click on the link to the Utoobage to see the awesome lineuup of players. “Easy Chair” is sappy as hell, and it’s one of my all-time favorite songs.
1969’s Altamont Speedway Concert was to be California’s answer to 1967’s Woodstock, but turned to disaster once the concert promoters thought it was a good idea to hire the Hell’s Angels as security. (It was as stupid as if the promoters of Burning Man had hired M-13 and the Zetas to keep the peace out in the middle of the desert).
Now THAT is important. 90 year old voices from 90 years ago. Just think of what they witnessed in their lifetimes, and think of what your grandchildren will witness in theirs.
Have a great weekend, folks, and it’s not too late to plan for a crockpot full of Bunk’s Chili for your Sunday StuporBlow Party.
Rightful, Righteous, Indignant & Indigenous Hot Links
Montreal police stopped to ticket an illegally parked DeLorean – made out of snow.
20 great stories of passive/agressive revenge. More here.
THE INSULT FILE includes such gems as this one:
“You are a fiend and a sniveling coward, and you have bad breath. You are the unholy spawn of a bandy-legged hobo and a syphilitic camel. You wear strangely mismatched clothing with oddly placed stains. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just knowing that you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. You are jetsam who dreams of becoming flotsam. You won’t make it. I beg for sweet death to come and remove me from a world which became unbearable when the bioterrorists designed you.”
Parrot sounds off after his hated cage is destroyed. [NSFW, NSFK h/t Octopus]
Ah dinnae ken “air beige” until it was explained in this short video on Scottish slang [via].
Nice collection of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth graphics. More of Roth’s work here.
On sanctuary cities: Los Angeles residents spoke up at a City Board of Supervisors meeting before they were shut down (March 2017). The rude condescension of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl to her own constituents is stunning.
The J.C. Whitney Catalogue was the equivalent of a phonebook for amateur and professional auto mechanics. So many things I wanted (like a Klaxon horn) and so many things I couldn’t afford as a teenager. I bought a vinyl black “leather” jacket for $14 and a can of “Smell-Nu” for my ’57 Chevy. Worked so well I made my bedroom, bathroom, hallway, family room and kitchen smell like a new car. Mom was not pleased.
For $4 you can get a rear wheel outer grease seal for your 1928-38 Ford Model A. Presses into hub and keeps dirt out of the roller bearing, but you’re going to need two.
[Top image: 19th century loon-shaped Tsimshian seal grease bowl, found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Paul Simon and Chevy Chase, Tito Larriva & Tom Waits
By the end of the week I usually have a couple of videos already in the queue, but I found I had none ready to post, so I defaulted to retro vids.
A 2011 Paul Simon performance of “Kodachrome caught my ear. The missus walked in and asked why I was listening to that sappy song. I said I needed to post something for Saturday.
“If you’re going to post a Paul Simon video, it should be You Can Call Me Al with Chevy Chase,” and she’s right. It’s a classic, and it’s also the best Paul Simon video ever.
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
IIRC, that was recorded about the same time that David Byrne was doing his own version of international music, like featuring Tito Larriva:
Then there’s this.
Tom Waits took Psychobilly to a new dimension in 2006.
Have a great weekend, folks, and don’t worry. Everything is gonna be all right despite what the doom mongers tell you.
Tacky Raccoons 