Couldn’t save this for the Saturday Matinee post for obvious reasons.
The video is the full album; click the forward buttons to find your favorite.
More about Gary, aka Gary Solo, aka Dr. Gary Soloman here.
[h/t Pam M. via FB.]
UPDATE:
Gary’s at No. 8 on this album cover rating site. Let’s get him to No. 1. He deserves it. https://classicovers.sprucemoose.digital/album/getting-down-to-business.html
New Life, Little Johnny Christian (1983) John Christian grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi singing gospel in local church choirs. He was 15 in 1951 when he left for Chicago and joined The Highway Q.C.s, a post-WWII group with an ever-changing lineup that launched the careers of many gospel and soul singers. Tire of touring, Christian sang and played bass guitar in bar bands around the Chicago area, eventually forming his own R&B group, The Chicago Players, in 1968. [More at the link at top.]
Watterson’s musing [thread].
“This behavior is unacceptable.”
Shell station in a grocery store.
R. C. Anderson, Psychic Bullfighter.
The life of a modern cowboy [via Bunkerville].
Animation vs. Geometry [via Memo Of The Air].
To the Red White and Blue [via Feral Irishman].
All the little birdies go tweet tweet tweet [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Japanese decoy tank constructed from lava rock, Iwo Jima, WWII (colorized); Decoy Warfare: Lessons and Implication from the War in Ukraine, USNI Proceedings April 2024.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
[Found in here.]
Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
[Found here.]
Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”
Applaud as if your life depends on it.
Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].
Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].
Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
[Found here.]
11 June 2024, Cincinnati
In the 9th inning of the Cincinnati Reds / Cleveland Guardians game Tuesday night, Reds fan William Hendon, a sophomore at OSU, ran onto the field of the Great American Ball Park in his socks and wearing a Johnny Bench jersey. A police officer approached, Hendon did a backflip, and the officer stopped him with a Taser.
Hendon “did knowingly run onto the Reds playing field during the game without permission to do so,” an officer wrote in one of his criminal complaints.
“Everybody thinks you landed that backflip,” Municipal Court Judge William Mallory said during Hendon’s arraignment Wednesday morning.
“I’m pretty sure I did,” replied Hendon.
Hendon pleaded not guilty.
Tacky Raccoons 