Refulgent Hot Links

(Until Then) I’ll Suffer, Barbara Lynn (1971) Barbara Lynn (aka Barbara Lynn Ozen, Barbara Lynn Cumby) is a well-known blues / R&B singer, songwriter and electric guitar player* with an impressive discography. She was only 19 when she began her recording career with Give Me A Break in 1961, and the following year she scored her biggest hit You’ll Lose A Good Thing. Many years and many tours later, sharing the stage with almost every big name in the business, she’s still performing.

*Barbara Lynn plays a left-handed guitar without a pick [video].

Hyperdontia.

Portal to hell.

The Art of the Stair.

Do the Fudu Kumpo.

The Expert Witness.

Discarded treasures.

A Palliwood Tutorial.

Timelapse watercolors.

Running From Camera.

Norty Blues Episode 56.

Sampling! [h/t Jaime G.]

Get Up and Do The Wobble.

Trains of the Rock Island Line.

Billions In Change [h/t Linda M.]

Mr. Skygack From Mars [h/t Gord S.].

Another indictment [via Bunkerville].

Cephalopudlian [via Memo Of The Air].

Inspired [via The View From Lady Lake].

The Jackson Lean [via Sloth Unleashed].

“Yo mates! Look at his leg!” [via Mme. Jujujive]

Valtteri Bottas, famous racecar driver [h/t Nan N.]

[Top image found here. I messed with it a tad.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Hoodoo Men, Spiderbait & The Pointer Sisters

The Hoodoo Men: Gerry Höller / guitar, Peter Samek / harp & vocals, and Wolfgang Leinweber / washboard. Great 1950s Chicago blues from Vienna.

In 2004, Australia’s Spiderbait did a bangup job covering Ram Jam’s cover of Leadbelly’s Black Betty.

The Pointer Sisters‘ classic soul/funk/gospel cover of Allen Toussaint‘s Yes We Can Can features the great Gaylord Birch on drums.

Passed a milestone of sorts this week, and I’m happy. See you on the porch tomorrow and I’ll tell you all about it for the 100th time.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 846 – Nancy & Sluggo

Ernie Bushmiller‘s ubiquitous comic strip has intrigued me since I was a kid. It was rarely funny, sometimes creepy, and the drawing style was unique and constrained. Bushmiller was more of a draftsman than a comic strip artist, and it’s obvious that he used tracing templates, photography, and in his later years, photocopiers.

One day in the early 1980s, this panel showed up in the Sunday funnies. I was hooked, and I began paying closer attention to the Zen of Nancy.

The .gifs above have been posted here previously, and scraping them into a pile seemed like the proper thing to do. The one in color was an early experiment with Jasc Animation Shop v.3.11, a program I acquired in 2012 (thanks, Possum). Most of the panels were lifted from Nancy strips posted on X/Twitter by @JohnnyCallicutt and re-used with minimal editing.

[For more Nancy, Sluggo & Aunt Fritzi stuff visit The Nancy & Sluggo Archive.]

Blobby McBlobface

[Found in here.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

Patience waits.

[Found here.]

Silent But Deadly

Unfortunately I was unable to find a copy of the text, but apparently others did. Here are some reviews culled from https://imgur.com/gallery/GJOa1:

“Is this R.L. Stine’s new Goosebumps series?”
“I can’t wait to see the screenplays. I hope they can get JJ Abrams.”
“I hope the movies stay loyal to the books.”
“I’d be willing to bet “Linger” by the Cranberries is on the soundtrack.”
“Guaranteed the 2nd one isn’t as good as the first, it never is.”
“STILL a better love story than Twilight.”
“It’s good, but it’s no Scrotie McBoogerballs.”
“Can’t wait for the 3rd, and the prequel.”
“But who was left to kill in the sequel? Or is it a tale of redemption about the fart coming to terms with its dark past?”
“He’s come back with more of his kind to wipe out all carbon-based life.”
“I prefer the fanfic version where the Fart actually saves the world by defeating the alien invaders.”
“Heeeey this is originally from the Writers’ HQ 60 Minute Novel workshop – can you credit pls? Cheers.”
“Not college, but places…”

[Unknown author / publishing date. The photo dates to 2016, h/t Pam M. via FB. Unconfirmed, but the books may be the work of this kid.]

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Hot Links

Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream), Allison Young (2020) A multi-instrumentalist from Nashville, Allison Young has a timeless style, as evidence by her cover of The Chords‘  1954 classic. (More about her at My OBT.)

Be oncé.

LOL Joel!

Rising CPI.

More trains.

The Little Fly.

Sunny Emilio.

Pearly whites.

Very Disturbed.

Bicycles of 1939.

The longest game.

Lunch with Bessie.

Trolling the Nevers.

Norty Blues Episode 55.

The Shadow of the Beast.

Tom Waits does the Ramones.

Better than Bic {via Bunkerville].

Megalithic Ireland [via Mme. Jujujive].

Books of bricks [via The View From Lady Lake].

Irish “Sheena” McCalla 1956 [via Memo Of The Air].

And there’s more Saint Patrick’s Day stuff here.

[Top image cropped and modified from lost original source, dates to March 2008 according to Tineye.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Pogues, The Rumjacks & Rory Gallagher

The Pogues‘ (late) frontman Shane McGowan took Waxies’ Dargle, an Irish traditional, and made it incomprehensible. The lyrics are not obscene.

The Rumjacks are a Celtic punk band, formed in Sydney Australia in 2008, relocated to Europe in 2016.  An Irish Pub Song (2010) was in the top 5 of the “Most Popular St Patricks Day” songs on YouTube for the years 2016 through 2019 according to Billboard Magazine.

Rory Gallagher, live at the Cork Opera House, Cork, Ireland, 1987. Another master guitar slinger who died way before his time.

Saint Patrick’s Day weekend has begun, and I imagine a lot of you green ale guzzlers will give Monday morning a pass. Meanwhile, we’ll be on porch watch. See you then.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 845 – Carbon Faceprint, Railhopper & Little Dancer

[Found here, here and here. Other sky dancers here.]