The .Gif Friday Post No. 853 – Gorillas in the Back Seat, The Pug of the Party & Welcome to Tralfamador

[Found here, here and here, and yeah, that’s a Vonnegut reference.]

Japanese Pigeon People

In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.

[Found here.]

Badwater Basin

Sea level sign, Lake Manly, Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California.

Badwater Basin is 282 ft. (855 m) below sea level, the lowest point in North America. Seasonal runoff water covers the salt flats of Lake Manly.

[Check out Google Maps “lakeview” images here and have a walkabout. Image found here, h/t Paul Y.]

…To Be Wild

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation was a manufacturing company based in Detroit, Michigan and formed in 1924 from the merger of the General Aluminium and Brass Company and the C.B. Bohn Foundry Company.

[Ads from 1947 found here and there.]

Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

If it’s true, is it still propaganda?

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]


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Saturday Matinee – Taj Mahal w/ Clive Barnes & Eric Bibb, Cory Wong w/ Victor Wooten, and Anna Scionti

Following a performance in France in 2010, Taj Mahal and Clive Barnes joined Eric Bibb to play his song Needed Time.

Cory Wong with Victor Wooten and band lay down some funky groovidity.

Anna Scionti won the Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society’s (MBAS) Blues Performer of the Year 2023 (Solo/Duo Category) and represented the MBAS at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis Tennessee in January 2024.

Outta time, outta steam, see you tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 852 – Pulseface, Dad vs. Kid Gamer Styles & Rubbermaids Are Go

[1st .gif made from images found here; 2nd & 3rd from Xwitter vids found here and here.]