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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Muskrat Love
Spanish trapper hanging muskrats up to dry their fur before skinning. Stretching and drying the pelt follows this. His camp is in the marshes nearby. Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parrish, Louisana, 1941.
[Image and caption found here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
Bombylious Hot Links
Number 9 Train, Tarheel Slim (1958) Allen Rathel Bunn (1923-1977) recorded under various names but was best known as Tarheel Slim. Bunn enjoyed a successful recording career playing an eclectic variety of styles including gospel, R&B, blues, rockabilly, pop & soul. In 1963 he dropped out of the music business , but was “rediscovered” a decade later and resumed recording and performing on acoustic guitar until his death at the age of 53.
Waiting for someone to notice.
“It’s basically a hotdog of the sea.”
Just found a new ringtone. [h/t Suz H.]
The Temperature of Doom [via Bunkerville].
Ink-powered leaf boats [via Memo Of The Air].
It’s 5 minutes compressed into 3, but so what.
[Top image courtesy Serafina D.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Mighty Teardrops, Eric Bibb & Robbie Robertson
The Mighty Teardrops of Vancouver cover the 19th century traditional Midnight On The Stormy Deep, first recorded by Lester McFarland & Robert A. Gardner (1926). It’s a song about cheatin’.
Born in New York, blues singer / songwriter Eric Bibb moved to Europe in 1970 and currently resides in Helsinki, Finland, with his Finnish wife Ulrika.
In 2019, Playing For Change featured Ringo Starr and The Band’s original member Robbie Robertson, along with musicians across 5 continents.
Outta time, outta gas, gotta go. See you tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 814 – Rock N Roll Train, Monkeyslide & A Tight Phalanx
“A Tumble-Weed Ball (From A Photograph)”
[Found here.]
Electrical Experimenter Magazine 1918
Bird Dogs
[Found here.]
Carphologic Hot Links
Old Man River, Ronnie Cates and The Travellers (1962) The lead singer sounds familiar, but I could find little more than a discography for this group.
It’s hot [via Bustednuckles].
Harry Rocks and Handfast Point.
Men and women think differently.
“Pumpkin pie gave me the beetus!”
20 ways of Fiddlin’ [via Memo Of The Air].
Soccer coach Marcelo Gallardo has big brass ones.
[h/t Pam M.]
The Nature of Democracy (needs bongos and a flute).
[via Bunkerville]
Babies playing in the womb in 1512AD [via Mme. Jujujive].
Juliane Diller (nee Koepcke) has an amazing story of survival.
[h/t Paul Y.]
[Top image found in here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 