Tag: miscellanea

Morosophical Hot Links

Rocking Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Part 1
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and The Clowns (1957) Rocking Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu Part 1 earned a spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll; the flip side of the Ace Records 45rpm, RP & the BWF Part 2, did not.
In 1944 at the age of 15, Huey Smith began working in clubs around New Orleans and recording with partner Eddie Jones (later known as Guitar Slim). By 1955 he was a session musician, playing piano for Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Earl King and others. Smith’s mix of boogie woogie, blues and jazz piano styles became the sound of New Orleans.

Peabun.

Mugshot.

Bumstead.

Tubermail.

Can I do it?

Mirth in Space.

So long, Loretta.

Florida Bushman.

Florida Gatorman.

He’s got a big one.

Tommy Emmanuel.

Leonard Emmanuel.

Pop it like you mean it.

Song of the Cork Rider.

Norty Blues Episode 118.

How to fill a Klein bottle.

Something smells in NYC.

Dragon tail tale [h/t Amy D.]

Still my favorite puzzle video.

Tim, Michelle, Rosie and John.

This is probably an emergency.

The incomplete lives of AI generated actors.

Springfield Bushman [via Everlasting Blört].

Life inside a bag of corn chips [via Memo Of The Air].

Dawna Kaufmann discusses the late Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman. [Jump to 21:44 for interview. Unfortunate commercial interruptions.]

[Top image: Mona LisAI,  Peter McClard, 2025.]

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Iridaceous Hot Links

I’d Much Rather Be With The Girls, Donna Lynn (1965)Little info can be found about Canadian pop singer and occasional Broadway actress, Donna Lynn (Albano?). She recorded several novelty songs in the 1960s while still in her teens and had a minor hit with My Boyfriend Got A Beatle Haircut, recorded in 1964, just weeks before Beatlemania erupted.

Ca tart.

The Comet.

Sky Whales.

Glitterpoop.

About Antifa.

Sinking cities.

Summer tones.

That Medusa girl.

Visit Pioneertown.

RIP George Wendt.

Norty Blues Episode 117.

Glizzys all over the world.

Pig leaves [via Bunkerville].

Pigdogball [via Everlasting Blört].

Satan’s Tears. [Related post here.]

Making Kopi Luwak coffee: Step 1.

Shooting vertical panoramas [via Memo Of The Air].

Request for liberty granted [via The Feral Irishman].

The Boss fired himself [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image: Audrey II, artwork by Chet Phillips, 2020.]

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Resofincular Hot Links

I Can See Clearly Now, Lachy Doley Group (2021) Cover of  Johnny Nash’ 1972 hit by Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan R. “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet.

This dog.

Dandelions.

The Foothills.

Bologna Song.

Getting the crabs.

Oh for Ford’s sake.

No laughing matter…

Mighty Gabby Carter.

Gahan Wilson’s Diner.

New World Screwworm?

Norty Blues Episode 116.

J.D. is only 19 miles away.

The Stupid Measles Chart.

Fur and windshield wipers.

The Bic Cristal [via My OBT].

Claycat’s Doom – The Dark Ages.

My new ringtone [via Bunkerville].

Reading Ulysses in Montana #668.

Top 100 rock albums from the 1980s.

May 1980 – Mount St. Helen eruption.

Sheriff Buford Pusser Home & Museum.

Lena Guberman’s masks  [via Everlasting Blört].

Steaming Across Panama [via The Feral Irishman].

“Oh, honey? Mind stopping by the store on your way home?”

Alcohol and stairs in a Russian kitchen [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Retro Future charging station via Club Cranium.]

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Mothers Day Hot Links

“Scene in farmhouse kitchen near Burlington, Vermont.” August 1941

Swinging Mama, Tiny Grimes (1974)
Guitarist Lloyd “Tiny” Grimes (1916-1989) played with many jazz notables. In the late 1940s he had a hit on a jazzed-up version of Loch Lomond with the band billed as Tiny “Mac” Grimes and the Rocking Highlanders. They wore kilts and included Red Prysock on tenor sax and singer Screaming Jay Hawkins.

Walkers.

Have a Look.

Discount TV.

Get the bar out.

Collecting data.

Future Pastime.

Jonny Quest intro.

Global Unwarming.

Vintage camperness.

Google Maps Roadtrip.

Norty Blues Episode 115.

Watercolors of the West.

A common murre [via Bunkerville].

Sprinkle Lemon Happy Guy Muffins.

The Brennan Monorail [via The Feral Irishman].

The Mad Gasser of Mattoon [via Memo Of The Air].

Electro Queens and Digital Divas [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image found here.]

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Ligyrophobic Hot Links

She Drives Me Out Of My Mind, The Swingin’ Medallions (1966)
  The Medallions formed in 1962 in South Carolina, and became Swingin’ in 1965 when they recorded their hit Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love).

Lanai.

Coin toss.

STD news.

Some kid…

Busta Cean.

A stork story.

Master Tingus.

The Squawk Off.

West Side stories.

Eulogy of the Dog.

The Diefenbunker.

Show him the panda.

Animals on the brink.

May 4 1970 Kent State.

Norty Blues Episode 114.

Bubblehead [via Bunkerville].

Dogs and food [via Everlasting Blört].

“Give Him a Ticket!” metal version [h/t Gord S.].

1953 Spartan Manor trailer [via Feral Irishman].

Still life with woman, tea and letter [via Memo Of The Air].

Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1550).
Interactive key map here.

[Top image found here, h/t Charlene J.]

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Fabaceous Hot Links

Ooh Poo Pah Doo, Taj Mahal (1996) Cover of Jesse Hill’s 1960 classic. It was originally performed by a New Orleans pianist known only as “Big Four”. Reportedly Hill wrote down the melody and lyrics while hearing it live and began performing it with his own band.

Bench.

Stand By Me.

The Overcrowd.

Message in a bottle.

The Speech Jammer.

Cool carpentry trick.

Etsybirds [via My OBT].

Norty Blues Episode 113.

Public Opinion 1935-1946.

Tasting Surströmming.
Discussing Surströmming.

2+ years of boring weather.

The Flu vs. ‘Rona smackdown.

Fkkn Jeff [via Feral Irishman].

The French invented car theft.

Four Decades of CBGB & OMFUG.

The Infanticiser [via Bunkerville].

Kerry Hyde’s science fair project (2021).

YouTubes’ 20 year anniversary Top Ten.

Pickle lovers always insist on a proud pickle.

Listen with your teeth  [via Memo Of The Air].

American polyglot learns bonabo [via Everlasting Blört].

[Top image: The Crow, digital art by Sigi Kolbe  ca. 2009 found here.]

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Metopomancing Hot Links

ALL PEEPS ARE GO

T-Model Boogie, Rosco Gordon (1951)
Rosco Gordon had a long career with several major hits including Booted (1952), No More Doggin‘ (1952), and Just a Little Bit (1960). His simplified boogie-woogie piano style emphasized the back beat, and was the inspiration for ska, the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Like many other artists of the time, he was cheated out of a lot of royalties.

“Sorta.”

The Herds.

Flatmobile.

The hand-off.

Junior Samples.

The Shoplifter.
More shoplifters.

Speaking Hadza.

Aluminum colony.

A shrimp’s daily routine.

Norty Blues Episode 112.

The Blob of Barry Nowlan.

The Penny-Farthing Tank.

The 1980s: Dangerous Times.

A lonely EB [via Everlasting Blört].

If your phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.

Trimming Bennies [via Bunkerville].

The Disease Formerly Known as Monkeypox.

The 1958 Grundig Party Boy [via Memo Of The Air].

How to play a Chromatic Audience [more at My OBT].

Conducting business with Chinese companies (2019).

[Top: .Gif found at This Isn’t Happiness.]

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Vectitating Hot Links

Lobster Pot Provincetown, oil, Robert Abele III 2017.

Big Ugly Wheels, The Beat Farmers (1990)The Beat Farmers (1983–1995) were a great band from San Diego, California (best experienced live) and featured the late Country Dick Montana. According to their website, they’ve since reformed re-formed with a new lineup.

Hold on…

Chew this.

Spacepoop.

Toast Malone.

Hell of a woman.

Property values.

Alan and Denise.

Folklore Music 8.

Ce n’est pas pizza.
C’est une pizza.

G.I. Jive with G.I. Jill.

“Do NOT call me ‘Roo’.”

Write like an Egyptian.

Norty Blues Episode 111.

The Briden-Roen Sawmill.

Sesame Street Wargaming.

Evel Knievel home movie clip.

The War Between The States.

Dogs and horses [via Bunkerville].

Who put Luebella down the wych-elm?

Bailong Elevator [via Everlasting Blört].

“Can we keep him?” [via Thompsonblog].

Electric throat guitar?! [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: Painting by Robert Abele III, found at My OBT.]

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Ecdemomaniacal Hot Links

Hot Dog Dooly Wah, The Pyramids (1959) Not to be confused with the surf band from CA, or the reggae group from the UK, or the R&B group from Detroit, or others, these Pyramids appear to be songwriter Vince Catalano (who also disguised himself as The Acorns).

PSVR.

Lunchtime.

Planting poop.

A Whole Lotta.

Pull the turnip.

“Hey you guys!”

The Girls of Etsy.

Disgruntled liars.

The US Debt Clock.

Penguins can’t spel.

Amusement Park Land.

Norty Blues Episode 110.

Which show set him off?

The History of Neil Young.

Catspeak [via Bunkerville].

The Covid-19 History Project.

“Even crime fighters must eat.”

Purple paint laws (like this one).

Want a surplus 1911 M1911A1 pistol?

Experience Regina [h/t Gord S.].
Reminds me of The Great Barrington playlist.

Sara’s danceoff round  [via Everlasting Blört].

Painted chickens [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found on FB [h/t ZJJ]. Gargoyle is located at the La Porte de la Reine (The Queen’s Gate), Aigues-Mortes, Camargue gardoise, Gard, France.]

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Nemorivagant Hot Links

You’re Losing Me, Barbara Lynn (1968)
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.

Stuff it.

Zoetrope.

I remember.

Camperage.

The Romance.

Hey hey. Ho ho…

Goodbye, Waffles.

Crime in Barbados.

A pangolin love story.

Movie posters of yore.

Quick Quack Car Wash.

Almost that time again.

Norty Blues Episode 109.

Volleydog [via Bunkerville].

Shark in the Box [h/t Paul Y.]

Thomas the Tank Engine Beatbox.

Rubber City Blimps [via Everlasting Blört].

Translating Star Wars [via Memo Of The Air].

The Raid at Son Tay is soon to be a movie [h/t Kirk W].

The world’s largest artificial reef [via The Feral Irishman].

Take Five: The Sachel Studios Orchestra [via Wheels within Wheels].

Photos and videos of 7.7 earthquake, Thailand & Myanmar, 18 March 2025.

[Top image found somewhere. More space bimbos here.]

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