They’re hella bigger than I realized.
An RQ-4 Global Hawk was lost off the coast of southern Spain in June of this year, and the wreckage was recovered only recently. That’s a loss of about $123 million, and the cause of the crash has not been released to date.
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That one is 14-feet long. Giant squid can grow to over three times that size.
[Found here.]
Regardless of his politics, some of which I’ve disagreed with, John McCain forever earned my respect for his conduct during his 5+ years incarceration as a POW in North Vietnam.
[Related post here.]
THIS is amazing.
Remembering Triggly Puff.
Stuff I never knew about petticoats.
Cats during an earthquake in Japan [via].
The Dancing Plague of 1518 killed hundreds of peasants in Strasbourg Germany.
The Laughing Epidemic of 1962 affected hundreds of people in Tanganyika (now Tanzania).
Got a critter trapped under the kitchen counter? It might not be what you think it is.
In the past six years (2002-2018) there have been three recorded deaths in the US from snake bites during religious services. Pastor Cody Coots survived a bite to the face. Jamie Coots, Cody’s father was bit on the hand and died in 2014. (Pinkard and Bowden addressed this practice in 1984.)
About Hollerin’. Wanna hear some? Leonard Emanuel was one of the best.
Petticoat Junction trivia – Edgar Buchanan (aka Uncle Joe Carson) was a dentist in real life. He’s pictured above with Irene Ryan (aka Daisy Mae “Granny” Moses) on the set of The Beverly Hillbillies, 1968.
Cyriak outdoes himself creepy-wise, with “Indigestion.” [Found here.]
Frank Zappa‘s final live performance (with backup by Pražský výběr) 1991, Prague, Czechoslovakia, shortly after the collapse of the USSR. Long intro, but worth the listen.
Traffic, 1971. We played their albums in college so often that if you held the vinyl to a light you could see through the grooves.
A great cultural icon passed on this week. She possessed one of the greatest voices in the business, singing and performing gospel, blues, R&B, jazz, soul and pop. Multiple generations grew up listening to her recordings, myself included.
What a natural. Only 22 years old in 1964, and she was already amazing. Respect indeed.
R.I.P. Aretha Franklin (1942-2018).
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here tomorrow.
Ruth Norman (1900-1993) was the gilded leader of “Unarius,” a UFO cult founded with her husband Ernest in 1954. Ruth was not only a figurehead for “interdimensional understanding” but a master at putting together looks fit for an intergalactic space queen.
[Photos & modified caption found here and, yes, there’s more.]
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature and it relies upon Octonians, 8-dimensional numbers discovered in 1843 by John T. Graves. A x B doesn’t always equal B x A.
Cohl Furey describes Octonians in layman’s terms. I still don’t get it, yet it fascinates me.
Zebra or donkey? “Zebras also have black snouts, according to one 9-year-old expert.” The comments are fun on that report.
Wholphin? Its father was a rough-tooth; its mother was a melon-head. TRUE.
The most complete fossil of the earliest known true lizard, Hylonomus, was found in a tree stump.
I’m sorry to admit that I watched THIS in its entirety.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 1.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 2.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 3.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 4.
Our archive for the category “Dance Hard” has some related stuff.
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) became a U.S. citizen in 2013. In March 2017, he opined about Donald Trump.
Young U.S. Communists Explain USSR/Venezuela/Cuba/N. Korea Failures to ex-USSR immigrant Vladimir Jaffe on 27 July 2016 [pre-Trump era]. Some people can’t handle the truth.
Jared Dines commissioned the design of a 17-string guitar, paid $1,200 for it, then learned that it was made in China for $400. Pissed him off, so he destroyed it. He then ordered this 18-string from a legit Australian company. Nice catchy tune…
Hillbilly Moon Explosion is interesting. Not too many bands feature Wednesday Addams teaching Lurch how to do The James Brown (at least I think that’s the dance).
The Baboons‘ “It’s Dark” has a solid (but unattributed) Howlin’ Wolf groove, so let’s go there.
That’s Willie Dixon on bass. He wrote, arranged, produced, played and sang on some of the most influential blues standards in modern history, so it’s really a Dixon Groove.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here when you’re ready.
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