Tag: potpourri

Obnubilated Hot Links

 

New Life, Little Johnny Christian (1983) John Christian grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi singing gospel in local church choirs. He was 15 in 1951 when he left for Chicago and joined The Highway Q.C.s, a post-WWII group with an ever-changing lineup that launched the careers of many gospel and soul singers. Tire of touring, Christian sang and played bass guitar in bar bands around the Chicago area, eventually forming his own R&B group,  The Chicago Players, in 1968. [More at the link at top.]

Eat me.

Birdhat.

Florida man.

EMTs & BFGs.

So many signs.

Dining Lounge.

White Pocket AZ.

An 1838 shoeshine.

Norty Blues Episode 71.

Watterson’s musing [thread].

“This behavior is unacceptable.”

Shell station in a grocery store.

R. C. Anderson, Psychic Bullfighter.

The life of a modern cowboy [via Bunkerville].

Animation vs. Geometry [via Memo Of The Air].

To the Red White and Blue [via Feral Irishman].

All the little birdies go tweet tweet tweet [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image: Japanese decoy tank constructed from lava rock, Iwo Jima, WWII (colorized); Decoy Warfare: Lessons and Implication from the War in Ukraine, USNI Proceedings April 2024.]

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Floccilating Hot Links

Kiss My, Sean Healan Band (2008)
Nice groove from New Mexico singer / songwriter Sean Healan.

Bartkira.

A rescue.

Sarah’s Attic.

Make it count.

No gold for you.

Scout was a ham.

Norty Blues Episode 70.

The Master of Photoshop.

Still my favorite Norm joke.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

The white line is lava [via Mme. Jujujive].

The longest green light [via Bunkerville].

Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.

MPGe is how far an EV can go on a “gallon of electrons”.

Photos by a NYC nightshift cabbie [via Memo Of The Air].

Will Bradley & Ray McKinley: Best of the Big Bands [free download].

[Top image: Sock puppet by Natalie Karine.]

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Scapulomancing Hot Links

Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”

Ant baths.

Marli Toys.

GPS Doodles.

–And Yet Again

Map of Sounds.

Be the capybara.

The USS Harder.

Who’s That Lady?

Restored campers.

Create a password.

LBCP walks around.

Norty Blues Episode 69.

A Latvian Solstice serenade.

The Death of Poor Joe (1901).

The Witches Tower of Dayton.

Applaud as if your life depends on it.

Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].

Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].

Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]

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Patroclinous Hot Links

Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts 1&2, Will Bradley Orchestra (1940) Featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie “Daddy” Slack (piano), this classic boogie woogie was written by Don Raye.

#12.

Not a fish.

A new knot.

The Cats of Etsy.

OMG. She gets it.

I Am Joe’s Budget.

FKB closing credits.

Arrested for DUI & DIC.

Norty Blues Episode 68.

Hey Dad where are you?

Modern kitchens of yore.

Spın̈al Tap discusses jazz.

A discussion of visual & ocular migraines.

Absurd Trolley Problems [via Memo Of The Air].

Willie Nelson’s hole and more [via Mme. Jujujive].

Not your grampa’s pocket knife [via Bunkerville].

Emmanuel Don’t Do It – The Movie [h/t Corinne L].

De Havilland DH.82a Tiger Moth [h/t Aussie Infidel].

Photographer disqualified for entering photo in contest. [h/t Paul Y].

[Top image found here, colorized.]

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Dégringolade Hot Links

I Really Love You, The Stereos (1961) Formed by members of The Buckeyes, The Stereos were an R&B group from Steubenville, Ohio, and recorded from 1959 through 1968. Their biggest hit, I Really Love You, was later covered in 1983 by George Harrison.

THIS KID.

Minibago.

Keepsakes.

Hippo eyes.

Just peachy.

Barbados & cricket.

77% plus correlations.

Norty Blues Episode 67.

More about Robot Archie.

Cousin Eddie’s rust bucket.

The 1917 Scenic Spiral Wheel.

Robbie Shilstone’s animations.

Old trains & obscure locomotives.

Laser kids busted (watch in 2x speed).

Electric vehicles of old [via Bunkerville].

Best Albums of 2024 that I haven’t heard.

25 minutes of destruction [via Mme. Jujujive].

More proof that the true minimum wage is zero.

The Flammerian Engraving [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: TV Night 1968 found at Team Jimmy Joe.]

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Notonectal Hot Links

Tut Tut Tut, Gillian Hills (1965)
Tut Tut Tut was a French cover of The Lollypops‘ song Busy Signal (1965), and was featured in the excellent Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
Music video of Gillian Hill’s version here.

Sound up.

Doodletown.

Huggin’ Molly.

Nerve-wracking.

Running in circles.

Trees eating things.

Harmonized sirens.

The pace of the race.

A long pregnant pause.

Norty Blues Episode 66.

Electoral College Forecast.

Pretty little flapping things.

The Carpet Explorers [via IDHMGO].

A 1905 pet shoe [via Memo Of The Air].

“We were all wrinkly and pruny and shit.”

The Half Hour National Lampoon Radio Hour.

Loud music alarms striped eel catfish [via Bunkerville].

[Top image by Gerald DuBois.]

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Adoxographic Hot Links

Zoom Zoom Zoom, The Collegians (1958) A hit for the Collegians, the intro to this song was adopted by the Marcels in 1961 for their classic version of Blue Moon.

Sound up.

Crank it up.

Clogged up.

Hammer time.

Sigfried & Joy.

Scream Queen.

Cool old trucks.

Mami boat ramps.

Cats being a-hoes.

“That’s a mean ball.”

Mister Softee Potholes.

Norty Blues Episode 65.

All the people in the world.

Now about those high prices…

Hotel di Vinyl [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Driving Test [via Bunkerville].

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

I don’t know any of the songs but it’s still a cool mashup.
[via Memo Of The Air]

4000 photos taken by Lluís Bussé are in the Barcelona Airport.

[Top image: Everyone in that A.I. generated photo is named Jeff. Unkown source.]

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Belomancing Hot Links

This Is Ska Live, Bad Manners (1997)
Bad Manners hooked me with their cover of Millie Small‘s 1964 hit My Boy Lollipop (a cover of My Girl Lollipop credited to Robert Spencer of The Cadillacs and recorded by Barbie Gaye in 1956).  Bad Manners also recorded one of the prettiest reggae love songs ever: Samson and Delilah.

The diner.

That line…

BBQ Salad.

That Hertz.

Three bears.

Clothing time.

Bushman Beach.

Carnival of Souls.

Norty Blues Episode 64.

Australian beach worms.

Everyone needs a little space.

Bump It Up [via Feral Irishman].

Class photos [via Mme. Jujujive].

A collection of weaponry memes.

Fruity Oaty Bars [via Memo Of The Air].

Stoic, serious, and pragmatically practical cows.

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Carbon Footprint Awards finalist [via Bunkerville].

Feeding 1st Responders after recent storms. (It’s Stalecracker, dood!)

[Top image: 1983 Bad Manners 45 rpm all clean and shiny.]

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Mothers Day Hot Links

Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City. July 1939.

You Didn’t Try To Call Me, The Mothers of Invention (1968) Track 8 of TMOI‘s debut album Freak Out! – a double record set of songs composed by Frank Zappa that won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and ranks at No. 246 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2012 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

[CORRECTION: Taminatorpgh noted that this version of You Didn’t Try To Call Me is from the  1968 album Cruising With Ruben and the Jets. The original version from Freak Out! is here. More in the comments below.]

Tourons.

Drill fight.

The Pylon Men.

Magpie smarts.

The end of sleep.

Sticks and stones.

Recycling styrofoam.

Norty Blues Episode 63.

Nice collection of rat rods.

A chair of geometric solids.

Fun machines [via Mme. Jujujive].

Zinaida Portnova [h/t Charlene J.]

Look at this moth [via Bunkerville].

Where to go over summer vacation.

Put this girl in charge of everything.

35 Flapper Fotos [via Memo Of The Air].

The 50 most commonly prescribed drugs.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge Gap.

Re-enactment of the 17-year cicada’s lifecycle.

There’s a live video “portal” between Dublin & NYC.

Uber driver with Tourette’s picked up passenger with Tourette’s.
[h/t Kirk W.]

[Top image from Shorpy, cropped and colorized: “July 1939. ‘Family in front of shack home. May Avenue camp, Oklahoma City.’ Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.”]

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Cinco De Mayo Hot Links

Crackin’ Up, GA-20 (2023) One of the best roots rock blues bands to come out of Boston (or anywhere) in recent years, GA-20 consists of Matt Stubbs / guitar, Pat Faherty / guitar, lead vocals & gofro, Tim Carman, drums. The song is a cover of a 1959  Bo Diddley recording.

Old trucks.

Bouncing China.

The longest road.

Leveling dominos.

Daddy’s little placebo.

Norty Blues Episode 62.

24 Femmes Per Second.

Best ways to use Orbeez.

Put the Orbeez in a balloon.

“If it’s true, is it still propaganda?“

Shadow and Light: Sergiu Ciochină

Bouncing lessons [via Bunkerville].

Live Music Is Good Part 2 [h/t Gord S.]

Improved Ferris Wheel Goat. Related posts here.

Morse Code Receiver Chart is clever [via Memo Of The Air].

The Penguin goes “pew pew“ [via The View From Lady Lake].

¡Feliz Cinco De Mayo!

[Top image: Face Plant courtesy Pam M. via FB.]

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