10/11/12 10:11:12 PM EST


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Treehouse

Looks like a structural liability to me. [Found here.]

Nothing much happened today.

Great photo with nice shoes.

[Found here.]

UPDATE: BTW that’s Will Nunziata.

“Even if you’ve never seen Will Nunziata and Jerry Miller do their thing, you feel like you have while watching “Dystopia Gardens” at Dixon Place. Mr. Nunziata is the portly one, crass and fearless even (or is that especially?) when running around in his underwear.” [via]

B&W Makeup

Alexander Khokhlov is a Russian photographer who loves to use the human face as his canvas for creating graphic, black and white face painting with makeup. From the WiFi icon to the pop icon Mickey Mouse or a QRcode across his model’s faces, Khokhlov’s project is quite interesting. Rather than relying on canvas, paper, or any other synthetic material, Khokhlov relies on the beauty and lines of the feminine face to form this project, entitled Weird Beauty.

[Found here.]

Density

The lesson here is that if you drink lamp oil, rubbing alcohol, vegetable oil, water, dish soap and milk, and eat a ping pong ball, a bottle cap, beads and a cherry tomato YOU DIE.

[Found here.]

Push Car

I want one. [Found here.]

The Crux


[via]

If you’ve never heard of or read Dr. Thomas Sowell, you’re missing out on one of the most brilliant minds since Milton Friedman. REALLY.

P.S. Don’t know why I didn’t do it before, but I’m adding Mr. Ka-Ching to the TR Blogroll. He’s got a lotta good stuff.

Saturday Matinee – Country Blues Edition, With Furry Lewis, Belton Sutherland, and Taj Mahal Hosts A Documentary

“If you want to go to heaven when you D.I.E.,
Put on your collar and a T.I.E.
If you wanna scare a rabbit out an L.O.G.,
Just make a little sound like a D.O.G.”

That’s Furry Lewis playing slide on “Kassie Jones,” a song he recorded in 1927. The video is from 1968. A few years later Joni Mitchell met with him and recorded “Furry Sings The Blues” in tribute.

Lewis despised Mitchell’s song and demanded she pay him royalties. “She shouldn’t have used my name in no way, shape, form or faction without consultin’ me ’bout it first. The woman came over here and I treated her right, just like I does everybody that comes over. She wanted to hear ’bout the old days, said it was for her own personal self, and I told it to her like it was, gave her straight oil from the can.”

Belton Sutherland was a Mississipi Delta bluesman. There is no Wiki article for him and little other information about him on the internest. There’s no entry for him in Lawrence Cohn’s “Nothing But The Blues” either. Sutherland was filmed in 1978 by Alan Lomax at Maxwell’s Farm, near Canton Mississippi.

A story about Lomax’ film “American Patchwork” includes one mention:

“…Lomax rounded up folks even he hadn’t heard of, like Mississippi bluesman Belton Sutherland–a master musician who appeared during Lomax’s session with another singer and asked to ‘try’ the guitar.”

That’s a great documentary about Country Blues, hosted by the great Henry Saint Clair Fredericks.

For those of you who find the rough roots of The Blues too tough to listen to, here’s a a WTF moment for a cat instead.

Have a great weekend folks, and we’ll be back tomorrow with more odd funnies.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 248 – Carrion-Naut, Banjo Heads & Hungry Dogs


[Found here, here and here.]

Do-It-Yourself Digital Barbershop

Sure, that’s a cheap way to save $8/month, but the investment will cost you a few clams. [Found here.]