This is the 800th edition of the .Gif Friday Post, and that means there are approximately 2.4K embedded .gif animations in The Archives. It all began with this:
Some of the old .gifs stutter or freeze and no longer animate properly and I blame WordPress. Perhaps I’ll suss out the problem some day.
Or not.
Top: Steel plate sculpture in front of Taylor Hall, purported bullet hole visible.
Bottom: Taylor Hall, colorized via https://palette.fm/ . Sculpture was on opposite side of building, now demolished.
[Previous Kent State posts here.]
[Found here while looking for something completely different.]
[Found here.]
Don’t Look Back, The Temptations (1967)
The Classic Five – Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams performing live on the Ed Sullivan Show 19 November 1967. The Temptations were THE Motown Sound (thanks in part to Smokey Robinson).
Peter Tosh (with Mick Jagger) recorded his version of Don’t Look Back in 1978.
Duck.
A repo repo {via Bunkerville].
There’s a reason for the nets.
Good planets are hard to find.
Playing with panic [h/t Pam M.].
A moment of cognitive dissonance.
Attack of the Marmite [ht Aussie Infidel].
The Social Conformity experiment (2015).
FYI: Facebook class action settlement notice.
A tiny sci-fi story every day [via Mme. Jujujive].
Women laughing alone with salad [via Memo Of The Air].
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
When you ask A.I. to create a Family Guy pizza commercial you get this.
Hot Club de Piracicaba performs Paganini in Django style.
Guitar great Jimmie Vaughan is still pickin’ the blues at 72.
At 04:12 he says it’s an Eddie Taylor song, but a 1952 Meteor Records 78rpm issue credits Elmore James & James Taub as the writers.
Robert Randolph and The Family Band
“In his adolescent years before being discovered by the secular community, [Randolph] was almost completely unaware of non-religious music. He went on exclaim in an interview that ‘I grew up and saw a lot of older guys playing lap steels and pedal-steel guitars in my church. I had never heard of the Allman Brothers, or even Buddy Guy or Muddy Waters.’ “ [Wiki}
And I had never heard the term sacred steel before today. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow. Bring your laundry.
[Un-rotated & un-cropped image found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 