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Alectryomancing Hot Links

Last Night (live version), The Mar-Keys (1967) Recorded in Europe during “Hit the Road Stax,” a Stax-Volt Records showcase revue. The Mar-Keys were the first house / session band for Stax Records, and Last Night was the first recording for the label. The instrumental made No. 3 in the US charts in 1961. For some reason the producer didn’t want guitars, so Steve Cropper played second keyboard.

Cool, but what if…

Yinzers on COPS .

Two sets of ducks.

Whole Lotta Folsom.

A righteous hangout.

Pretty sure I need this.

Lazercat [found in here].

The cost of going Green.

Norty Blues Episode 129.

What was wrong with Vincent.

Amazing tea brewing machine.

Zappa’s war on drugs [via Memo Of The Air].

Engineering Rushmore [via Thompson, blog].

Who is The Burry Man? [via Everlasting Blört].

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words.

[Top image found here with the caption:
A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance. ALL CONDUCTORS ARE AWARE OF FELIX.

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Saturday Matinee – Igor Prado Band, Davey Knowles and Gerry Joe Weise

Igor Prado Band‘s cover of Camille Bob’s 1965 hit. These boys from Brazil play blues, R&B and west coast swing/jump, and funk. Lefthander Igor Prado leads on guitar with brother Yuri Prado on drums, Rodrigo Mantovani on acoustic bass and Denilson Martins on baritone sax. Their website igorpradoband.com was AWOL at the time of this posting.

Playing solo or with his band Back Door Slam, award-winning songwriter and guitarist Davy Knowles plays Telecaster, American Steel and mandolin to cover various genres including classic rock, blues, and folk.

Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist and guitarist Gerry Joe Weise‘ repertoire includes classical, jazz fusion and blues. He was recently named 5th best jazz guitarist in Australia, and creates land art installations as well.

Amazing. This week we saw people protesting in support of criminals, people protesting a peace summit, and people complaining about improvements in the economy, all while Governor Pantload gripes about everyone else in order to distract from his own incompetence. Pheew.

I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. I had an appointment with my onkydoc this week, and I’ve got nothing to complain about. I’ll be on the porch tomorrow taking suggestions and requests. See you there.

Frumentarious Hot Links

Don’t Drag No More, Susan Lynne (1964) Born in New York, Susan Lynne Koskowitz recorded a handful of singles while still in high school. Record producer and promoter Artie Kornfeld composed Don’t Drag No More in 1964 as an answer song to Jan and Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve. By 1966, Kornfeld had written over 75 Billboard charted songs and participated in over 150 albums. He was also co-creator of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair.

Can’t park there.

Winston’s platypus.

An emotional milestone.

Norty Blues Episode 128.

Here he comes [sound up].

Deconstructing Raffaello.

The doors of Mary Procter.

Every blockbuster film trailer.

Do the Spazbot [via Everlasting Blört].

Medieval medicinal recipes [via Thompson, blog].

New Shroud of Turin news [via The Feral Irishman].

The Atmosfär Project is for people with autism [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image via Bits and Pieces. Batmobile replica crashed on Fathers Day 2006 at some place named Woodside, more about the car here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Lefthand Freddy, Yates McKendree & Carl Weathersby w/ The Alex Zayas Band

Seasoned Dutch guitarist Lefthand Freddy mixed up a hot bowl of ska-flavored blues at the Nuenen Blues’m Festival.

“Born in Nashville and raised in a recording studio, multi-instrumentalist Yates McKendree grew up hearing and playing with some of Music City’s greatest musicians. […] During Yates’s teenage years, he played on and engineered dozens of recordings in his father’s (Kevin McKendree) studio, The Rock House; most notably for Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, who told Rolling Stone Magazine, ‘Yates was our secret ingredient.’”

Born in Mississippi but raised in Chicago, Carl Weathersby was a teenager when his father’s friend became his tutor. That man was Albert King. Weathersby played rhythm guitar in King’s band before joining up with Billy Branch & The Sons Of the Blues, aka The SOBs. Weathersby passed away in 2024 at the age of 71.

The Alex Zayas Band: Zayas’ website is down / defunct, so his story is a bit tricky to find. He was born in Barcelona and has been on tour for about 30 years playing classic blues and blues rock; his band often backs other big-name blues performers.

With everything else going on in the world, the biggest news story this week involves fluorescent phalli and women’s basketball. At least the MSM seems to be reporting on it honestly and without obvious bias, and that’s a bit of fresh air.
Speaking of fresh air, stop by tomorrow at porch time and guess what the neighborhood skunk did to the neighbor’s little yappy dog.

Rupestrian Hot Links

Clumsy, Mudwerks (2025)
Not a spoof.

Hopkins & Feifer.

Playing with food.

Scores of animals.

Machete ban in Oz.

Custom Afghani rugs.

Bunkerville dodged one.

Norty Blues Episode 127.

Bees of the 13th Century.

Talking to cats in absentia.

One more thing to deal with.

Shoplifting and progressive empathy.

Song of the Eiders [via Everlasting Blört].

Forensic dollhouses [via Memo Of The Air].

Pollution reduction increases global temperatures.

[Top image: Eureka Tower, Melbourne, AU. Photo by Leanne Cole 2024.]

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IT’S OUR BLOGOVERSARY! 18 YEARS OF STUFF!

On Friday, 3 August 2007, the date of our first posted post that was posted, the world twitched imperceptibly, a global nanoflinch, an earthquake with the power of a morning fart, or less.

3 August 2007 – Whelped
3 August 2008 – 1st year Blogoversary
3 August 2025 – 18th year Blogoversary!

As of this date, there are exactly 6,973 posts in our archives, +11K comments and +3.1M referral links that comprise

Steal, lift, purloin, burgle and abscond with anything you find here, just link back and give us credit for finding the stuff before you did.

We’ve featured the Top 11 Posts every year since 3 August 2008 and this year is no different.

—>Last Year’s Top 11 Hits linked here<—

The numbers adjacent to the titles indicate ranking for the previous 12 months, followed by the previous year’s ranking, and the third number is for all-time popularity. Unfortunately WordPress has modified its statistics tracker and only includes the top 400 or so.

“NR” denotes “Not Ranked.” “NA” is “Not Available.”

Click on any link below and it’ll take you to the original post. So let’s go!

No. 11 / NR / NA – Trotify

No. 10 / NR / NA – Doodle Challenge Accepted

No. 9 / NR / NA – Google Street View

No. 8 / NR / NA – The Essence of Doggo

No. 7 / NR / NA – Chat-N-Chew Cafe, Wing ND

No. 6 / NR / NA – Vomit Clocks

No. 5 / 6 / 60 – The Best VW Repair Manual Ever

No. 4 / NR / NA – VW Lead Sled Beetle

No. 3 / NR / 374 – A Hindu God

No. 2 / NR / 360 – Halloween Costume Suggestions

And the No. 1 Post of the Year:

Unreal Abandonment

Posted on 26 February 2025, with a rank of 1 / NR / 104, this collection of computer-generated abandoned houseboats got a surprising amount of attention in a relatively short amount of time.

Saturday Matinee – Flaco Jiménez, Big George Brock & Dan Patlansky

Flaco Jiménez (1939-2025) began playing the bajo sexto at the age of seven with his father, Santiago Jiménez Sr., a pioneer of conjunto music. He later adopted the accordion after being influenced by his father as well as zydeco musician Clifton Chenier.

Big George Brock was born in Grenada, Mississippi on May 16, 1932. By the time he was eight, he was working as a sharecropper picking cotton. He moved to Mattson, Mississippin, while in his teens, met and performed with Muddy Waters. In the late 1940s he moved to Walls, Mississippi where Howlin’ Wolf hired him as a roadie and sideman, and while in Walls he jammed with Memphis Minnie at house parties.

Dan Patlansky was voted the #4 Best Guitarist in the world and (besides Joe Bonamassa!) remains the only artist in the world with two worldwide No. 1, and two worldwide No. 2 Best Blues Rock Albums as voted by Blues Rock Review USA.

Got a lotta stuff to think about getting around to planning to do one of these days, but not tomorrow because I’ve got an appointment on the porch around porch time. See you there.

Ophiomormous Hot Links

Crazy Train, cover by Postmodern Jukebox w/ Jennie Lena (2018) R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne.

Spın̈al Tap II.

Ammonite Ironwork.

82 year old terrorist.

Identify the candidate.

Heads, horses and men.

Norty Blues Episode 126.

“Booo,” moaned the heckler.

Mud balls [via Everlasting Blört].

A.I. and digital forensics [h/t Chuck S.].

James Bond in India [via Memo Of The Air].

31 strange television shows [via Neatorama].

On being arrogant, haughty and unmoored from reality.

“The problem’s not that you’re poor, it’s that you suck at being poor.”

[Top image: McDonnell-Douglas Space Bimbo (uncolorized) found in here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Emmaline, The Teskey Brothers & Toby Lee

“Quite Like Me” is a diss track that I wrote to my friend’s EX-boyfriend. Now, I don’t write diss tracks often, but this guy was the absolute worst, folks — and that’s putting it in the nicest way possible!”
Vocalist, violinist and songwriter Emmaline has won much recognition for her jazz / torch song recordings and performances both on stage and on screen. I think this is one of the prettiest f-u songs I’ve ever heard. [h/t Octo.]

Josh Teskey (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Sam Teskey (lead guitar) formed The Tesky Brothers in 2008. Based in Melbourne, Australia, they faithfully resurrect the sounds of 1960s/70s soul.

Born in Oxfordshire England in 2005, Toby Lee played Zack Mooneyham in the New London Theatre production of School of Rock the Musical in 2016 and was named UK Young Blues Artist of the Year in 2018. Since then he’s shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Jools Holland, and has a number one record to boot.

We didn’t have any junebugs this year, but the julybugs made a good show. I found some barfed up catfood next to the trash bin, and the neighbor got a new roof and a Solatube. I was informed that the word picnic is racist for some made-up reason, and tomorrow is porch time. See you around half past whenever.