Pen and ink sketch by Mattias Adolfsson (2025).
DIY Christmas Tree
Pen and ink sketch by Mattias Adolfsson (2025).
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Viraginous Hot Links
Don’t Be Lonely, BoDeans (1987)
Classic guitar-driven midwestern rock-pop group BoDeans formed in 1986 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and they’re still at it.
dog.
Signs of the the Exit [via Messy Nessy].
MIDI Slapophone [via Memo Of The Air].
Wash your marmot [via Everlasting Blört].
Yuleshards, bummocks and Schnapsidees.
Kellog’s Contraptions [via Thompson, blog].
Guadalcanal Christmas 1945 [via The View from Lady Lake].
[Top image found here, with caption:
Twice a year at Asakusa’s famous Sensoji temple an old ceremony of dancers dressed as white egrets or herons take place, once in April and once in November. The ceremony is called Shirasaginomai (白鷺の舞) and was revived in 1968 using an old scroll as a basis that had been found in the temple, depicting a ceremonial dance in 1652.]
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Saturday Matinee – Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse, The Cinelli Brothers, and Mr. Sipp
Beau Gris Gris & The Apocalypse is a roots rock blues Americana country soul punk psychobilly band from California, featuring vocals by documentary filmmaker, television producer, business entrepreneur and Louisiana native Greta “Gris Gris” Valenti. (The nice lady dancing in the background is Kitten De Ville.)
Winners of the 2024 UK Blues Band of the Year, The Cinelli Brothers (Marco and Alessandro) revive 1960s – 70s vintage electric blues, R&B and soul with a modern vibe.
Castro Coleman, aka Mr. Sipp is smooth. A recipient of many prestigious awards, Castro was the first bluesman to have his handprint inducted into the Wall of Fame in Fredrikshavn, Denmark.
Another week and world news is still splattering all over the pavement and splashing in the swales. Every major story is both good news and omens of disaster depending upon the time of day and which town crier is coming through the village. The 48 hour rule is officially null and void.
My plan is to sleep in until Porch Time so I can be fashionably late. See you then and/or there.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 933 – Under Water Works, Otter Trotter & FlaminGo
The Beer and The Mountain
[Poster by Kyle Mertz (2020) found here.]
Fresh Old Coffee
Bugeyed
[Found here.]
Space Bimbos IV
[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]
Belonephobic Hot Links
Help Me Make Up My Mind, Joyce Jones (1969) Born in Mississippi in 1949, Joyce Jones, (along with Reginald Hinesinger) wrote Help Me Make Up My Mind as an answer song to Tyrone Davis‘ Can I Change My Mind (1968). Jones was a member of the Philadelphia soul/disco group First Choice from 1972-75.
Hadzabe man shares an anecdote.
LBJ’s pants [via Everlasting Blört].
Steve Cropper: The Green Onions story.
Diet culture in the parking meters [via Thompson, blog].
55 times Mother Nature threw a hissy [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: The Lobster Wars, illustration by Maxfield Parrish, cover lining from Poems of Childhood by Eugene Field (1904) found here.]
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Tacky Raccoons 