“This is a 1500w probe-start metal halide lamp. Typically used for stadium lighting or in very high mounting applications. It will work to grow weed, but the electricity costs vs plant biomass would not be worth it.”
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Dégringolade Hot Links
I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.
More about Robot Archie.
Robbie Shilstone’s animations.
Old trains & obscure locomotives.
Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).
Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].
Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.
25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].
More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.
The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]
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Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Joe Louis Walker & Kid Anderson (with Tommy Harkenrider, Brent Harding & Derrick D’Mar Martin)
Tom Waits‘ Telephone Call From Istanbul was released on his album Frank’s Wild Years (1987) and was featured in the movie Big Time (1988).
Joe Louis Walker at Broadway Studios, San Francisco, December 1999. Walker has recorded with Ike Turner, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, and Steve Cropper, opened for Muddy Waters and Thelonious Monk, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and was a close friend and roommate of Mike Bloomfield, and that’s some serious cred.
Kid Anderson / lead guitar, Tommy Harkenrider / rhythm guitar, Brent Harding / bass and Derrick D’Mar Martin / drums at the Beatnik Bandito Emporium, Santa Ana, California, February 2020.
Nice set for St. Medarus Day. Celebrations will commence on the front porch whenever you get here. If I’m not out you’ll need to holler at the door because the doorbell doesn’t work.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 857 – The Splat Sisters, The Bean Bed & Elvis Whips It Out
D-Day 06 June 1944
The Daily Mail posted an interactive timeline of the D-Day, the Invasion of Normandy, 80 years ago today.
Robot Archie
Robot Archie had “ARCHIE” emblazoned on his chest plate to make him easier to identify.
[Artwork by Ted Kearon found here. Click for uncropped images.]
Baby’s First X-Ray
That is a Pigg-O-Stat Pediatric Immobilizer.
[Images found here and here. Order yours today!]
Horrorchids
Notonectal Hot Links
Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.
Pretty little flapping things.
The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].
A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].
“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”
The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.
Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].
[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]
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Tacky Raccoons 