Arlington National Cemetery, L’Enfant Drive, Section 41.
Memorial Day is a time of remembrance, reflection, and reunion with friends and families. For your festivities, here are some unrelated tunes, chosen at random and ordered by year of release.
[Previous Memorial Day posts are archived here.]
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of the recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
[Found in here.]
He’s presumably somewhere in this building in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Found here, via here.]
Dumbo Octopus
Members of the genus Grimpoteuthis, these critters are the deepest-living octopus known to science and can be found near the seafloor at depths of up to 13,000 ft (4,000 m). These adorable cephalopods flap their ear-like fins as they move through the water—a behavior that inspired scientists to name the genus Grimpoteuthis after Disney’s flying elephant. Unlike many other octopuses, Dumbo octopuses do not have ink sacs. Some scientists think it’s because they rarely encounter predators in their extremely remote, deep-sea habitats.
Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Wikimedia Commons
Credit: American Museum of Natural History.
[Image and description found here. Dumbo octo gif found here; more cephalopod stuff here.]
Go Away Baby, The Baby Dolls (1960) “Hi I am an original Baby Doll who is flattered by the positive comments and that our records are being played and recognized by the many viewers of websites. Just a little history on us. The Baby Dolls were a young Black female group that consisted of two sisters. and 2-3 friends that got a record deal with Maske records. I learned that our records were being played on various websites a few months ago, and was surprised that anyone remembered us, but honored that they did.” – Rebecca Warren, via YouTube comments, 2014.
Jeeves, dead at 30.
R.I.P David Allan Coe.
R.I.P. Nedra Talley Ross.
For want of coconuts and fish.
Canadian military fights itself.
Roman boiler [via Thompson, blog].
Thunk the Fabric Pet Rock [via Everlasting Blört].
THE Pulp Magazine Archive [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Abandoned cars at Old Car City USA found here.]
Update: 1956 Mercury on the left, ditto on the right. h/t Dan P.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
[Found here.]
[Found here, via Memo Of The Air.]
From The Kudzu Project, photography by Helene Schmitz, 2012.
Helene Schmitz began documenting kudzu while working on a field study in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, to investigate the effects of its ruinous nature in the summer of 2012. Each black and white frame produced took hours of preparation in the sweltering southern heat using a special large format camera.
[Monochrome photos and story found here.]
“Someone once described me as a non-destructive vandal which I quite like. Within the confines of a camera viewfinder I transform known, and some not so well known landmarks around the world with bits of crafted black card.” – Rich McCor (aka Paperboyo).
[Photos found here, more of McCor’s work previously posted here.
h/t Jaime G.]
Tacky Raccoons 