A Public Service Announcement

[Found here.]

The RenuLife Violet Ray ca.1917

James Henry Eastman, a Detroit inventor who held several patents for violet ray machines, established the RenuLife Electric Co., in Detroit, in 1917. The device was a hand-held Tesla coil with glass tubes to (theoretically) protect the user:

“Treatment with a violet ray machine involved attaching one of a various set of evacuated glass tubes to a handle, holding it to whatever part of your body was troublesome, and then switching it on. This caused a high voltage, high frequency, low electrical current to run through the body. Similar technology is actually still used today in TENS machines that zap low currents into a targeted area of the body to relieve pain through nerve stimulation, though modern machines are safer and their use is monitored by trained professionals who use them only for specific types of pain. A violet ray machine, on the other hand, was capable of creating a powerful electric arc that could cause serious skin burns.”

[History and images found here.]

Marcescent Hot Links

Misfits & Freaks, The Courettes (2022)Dubbed “The World’s Greatest Two-Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble,” Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Fabulous Courettes, are proof that Phil Spector lives.

Trains!

5th Place.

Gompotheres.

We’re doomed.

Make it teensy.

Doppelgängers.

Skinny Legs Bar.

Crystal Magnum.

What is surveillance?

Slow down, Kathleen.

Silent Running (trailer).

Norty Blues Episode 94.

2-1/2 hours of prog rock.

Which clown are you?
Who are your Disney parents?

Huffy Radiobike [via Bunkerville].

The pyramids of Giza have eight sides.

Xmas Tree People of yore [via Mme. Jujujive].

Louis Vuitton Crack House [via Nag on the Lake].

Berens Old Fashioned Brandy Fruit Cake [h/t John McL.].

Mawson, Ninnis & Mertz [and others, via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Linda Teränen / RelaxTrio, The Nick Moss Band, and Shakura S’Aida

The girl pounds bass. Finnish band RelaxTrio is (was?)
Linda Teränen (Vocals & double bass)
Oskari Nieminen (Vocals & guitar)
Vilho Voutilainen (Drums & backing vocals)

The Nick Moss Band gives a tribute to the late great Hubert Sumlin in fine Chicago style.

Great smoker by Shakura S’Aida, backed by Donna Grantis (guitar), Lance Anderson (B3), Roger Williams (bass) and Tony Rabalao (drums).

While posting this, an internest outage almost forced me to watch television. Fortunately it came back just in time so I could announce that tomorrow’s porch time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you then.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 884 – Doglights, Cage Splash & Space Bimbos Attack

[Found here and here, and I lost the link to the 3rd.]

SYDN Shop

Truth in advertising, unfortunately it’s AI.
[Found here.]

Black & White

[Original image found here.]

WetCoaster

The Big Dipper roller coaster, Santa Cruz, California. Schmuel Thaler, photographer, 2024. [Found here via FB.]

Toons Anatomy

Click for larger, all are the work of Michael Paulus, more at the link.
Brown, Boop & Flintstone bones previously posted here.

Dextrogyratory Hot Links

The Car Of Your Dreams, Taj Mahal (1996)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Jr., aka Taj Mahal, has been writing, recording and performing since 1964. A true chameleon of roots music, his discography includes blues, rock, R&B, reggae, jazz, country blues, Caribbean and West African styles. He was an early pioneer of what’s now called world music.

UfoBER.

Ornaments!

“I am a pilot.”

Zombie fires.

Trouble in Bend.

Shop With A Cop.

Pah-rumpa pum pum.

The Whizzo of Gomez.

All it ever does is rain.

The 1960 Pininfarina X.

Norty Blues Episode 93.

All Chuck [h/t Corinne L.]

He saw what you did there.

“Which people would say that?”

Young Terry & the valiant effort.

This is NOT Toonces [h/t Gord S.]

Волшебник Изумрудного города.

Noodlin’ Cajun girl [via Bunkerville].

My favorite scene from Jurassic Park.

Climate Change over the past 4000 Years.

90 Animals Ranked by Eyesight [via Mme. Jujujive].

The paintings of Jules Worms [via Memo Of The Air].

A Female Science Fiction Character Written by a Male Writer.

[Top image found here. It appears to be a 1952 Chevrolet Bel Air.]

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