Tag: potpourri

Teichoscopic Hot Links

Girl Of My Dreams, Ike Quebec (1945) An accomplished dancer and pianist, Ike Quebec switched to tenor sax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quickly earned a reputation as a promising player. His recording career started in 1940, with Count Basie’s Barons of Rhythm.

Drain flies.

Saxodrone.

Sugar Serif.

The Skipper.

Campertime.

Stairs of Death.

The Sloopy Girl.
The real Sloopy.

Carlton Cummins.

Greg on X (sound up).

No place for mistakes.

Norty Blues Episode 91.

Estee Palti’s greatest hits.

Frog flops [via Bunkerville].

From the Dream Collection.

Michigan looks like a mitten.

First date / fast food survey.

The Hog Killin’ [via Feral Irishman].

Deathcalator [via Memo Of The Air].

“What would you say to the Pilgrims?”

How to move a gemsbok without getting killed.

[Top image: A GROK- generated image with the prompt “Create a photo of an American family in the 1920s sitting at the dinner table with a large potato.”

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Boustrophedonic Hot Links

Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.

OCD.

Eatin’ bananas.

Urban graphics.

Getting unstuck.

Goose Creek Tower.

A gravesite service.

Somewhere in Detroit.

Organizing 72 demons.

Norty Blues Episode 90.

Lorem Ipsum Generator.

Getting the kids up to speed.

ElectroBOOM’s greatest hits.

Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].

Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.

Daisy has all the time in the world.

Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].

Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).

Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].

An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].

The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.

[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]

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Cepivorous Hot Links

Hymn to Nikal, unkown Hurrian composer (ca. 1400 bc)
This hymn is the oldest known musical melody. The ancient musical fragment dates to 1400 BC and was discovered in the 1950’s in Ugarit, Syria. [Performed by Michael Levy on the lyre.]

10,946

Delusions.

ALL PLAID.

Marketing.

10 Reasons.

Chrome logos.

In the year 3129.

The crushed legacy.

Remember The Time.

Change just one word.

Dachshund swim class.

Norty Blues Episode 89.

100 years of chasing cars.

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand.

The Gunfighter [via Memo Of The Air].

Extreme droning [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Great Ovine Flood [via Bunkerville].

Meth mouse, danger chicken, sky raisin, and more.

The Third-Term Panic of 1874 [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image:  Urartu Sphinx, 9th-6th century BC, found here.]

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Elinguated Hot Links

She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.

Runners.

Smile *click*

Irish mussels.

Some bad days.

The Hand (1966).

Trains and trains.

Product placement.

Ricky G, influencer.

R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)

Little Shop de Brujerias.

Norty Blues Episode 88.

World’s longest experiment.

Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].

1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.

Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].

Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]

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Moschiferous Hot Links

Graveyard Queen, Zombie Ghost Train (2006)
Also known as ZGT, their music is categorized as gothabilly and/or hellbilly. One reviewer called them”Australia’s best kept secret. . . These mortuary musicians are the best thing psychobilly has seen since The Cramps.”

Spaceballs.

George Carl.

Camperocity.

Grip the Raven.

Jonco’s Journal.

Prove that T = H.

Trotify your bike.

Hollywood Canteen.

 The corpse in the well.

Norty Blues Episode 87.

Obnoxious Bicyclist Part I.
Obnoxious Bicyclist Part II.

Look behind you [via IDHMGO].

Play with a spherical Voroni diagram.

Dog’s favorite chew toy comes to life.

Phone theft deterrent [via Bunkerville].

Rearranged junkyards [via Memo Of The Air].

This City Eats People Alive [via Feral Irishman].

Shark spotted in Mexican floodwaters [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]

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Fremescent Hot Links

Here Comes Mary, The Raveonettes (2005)
The ghosts of Don and Phil Everly echo from the velvet basement of the haunted mansion.

Exrayna.

Noodlin’.

Wheelson.

Leah’s oils.

Hello ‘Ween!

Conker cheater.

Speed yodelling.

Conflicted  toads.

Everything is fine.

How to dance Goth.

A bone-chilling uptick.

Norty Blues Episode 86.

Beware the Ankle Biters.

Birdbreath [via Bunkerville}.

Reviewing The Replacements.

Spontaneous synchronization.

The Grateful [via Mme. Jujujive].

Ed and Ralph do the Hucklebuck.

Pigeonhead [via Memo Of The Air].

2024 Kids Mullet Contest finalists.

Sonny Boy tells his story (and it’s true).

The Horror of Hanson (and the town’s reponse).

[Top image found here.]

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Rhyparographic Hot Links

The Cry Of The Wild Goose, Frankie Laine (1950)
The wild goose nose song scored No. 1 on Billboard’s most played by deejays list in 1950, the third of Laine’s three consecutive No. 1 hits of that year.

Disobey.

Pulled shrimp.

Never can tell.

Multiple choice.

Fastballs are fast.

Goodbye Tropicana.

Pennsylvania aurorae.

Norty Blues Episode 85.

An ounce of prevention?

Here come the Maskholes.

Hiking through Chimney Rock.

I Am Boris Kelstorm [via IDHMGO].

Paris street art [via Mme. Jujujive].

Dairy Queens of yore [via Memo Of The Air].

Misophonia and an example of misophonia.

1947 road trip (with music from 1959?) [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Painting by Quebec painter Mark Lague found here.]

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Panglossian Hot Links

The Caterpillar Crawl, Dick Dixon and the Roommates (1959)
Relatively unsuccessful cover of The Stranger’s hit. Flip side of the 45 is another instrumental, Be Good, Be Good, Be Good. I couldn’t find any details about the band.

Post Helene I .
Post Helene II .
Post Helene III.
Post Helene IV.

Fence.

Automata.

Moto-Potty.

The Staples City.

How many days?

Barbados Quakers.

Product placement.

The Most Deadliest Day.

Time Ghost: A CGI demo.

Norty Blues Episode 84.

Boogie Boogie Hedgehog.

Judge this book by its cover.

The Making of Animal House.

Dog training [via Bunkerville].

Stew noir [via Memo Of The Air].

The end of a beautiful relationship.

Recycling mannequins in Japan [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Moon pie found here.]

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Haptotropic Hot Links

Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.

Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.

This dog.

This web.

SOMF live.

The Little Apple.

The Countdown.

Shadow jammin’.

Auctioneerspeak.

Squeeze-N-Pump.

Birth of a tardigrade.

Norty Blues Episode 83.

Live frugally on surprise.

The details of the painting.

Decycling [via Bunkerville].

Van Gogh’s harvest season.

Playing the Dualo du Touch.

You can’t choose teal or turquoise.

“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].

Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]

Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].

THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.

[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]

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Autumnal Equinox Hot Links

Blitzed, The Raveonettes (2007)
Indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channel Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.

Lizard.

Jell-OMG.

The Jetsons.

The Visitors.

The Snapshot.

Good Morning.

Classical abuse.

Hi-tech archery.

Oh Those Shriners!

1957 Chevy Bel AI r.

Addressing the ****.

In case of emergency…

Norty Blues Episode 82.

Umpty’s Magic Pain Killer.

Zhdun.
Zhdun piggy bank.
Zhdun piggy bank in action.

The Future was a long time ago.

GarE Maxton’s puzzles (with video).

FUTUREAMA [via Memo Of The Air].

Angela LOVES crashing into bollards.

The Carpentopod [via Mme. Jujujive].

Musical Quintracycle [via Bunkerville].

1948 Norman Timbs Special [via Bits & Pieces].

Fall begins today, 22 September 2024, at 02:43:12 PM.

[Top image: Photo of the sunset as projected from a vent in the west wall, through the roof trusses, and onto the east wall of our garage. It’s a giant pinhole camera; our own little Stonehenge.]

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