LOU AND MOE AT AIRPORT: VU PHOTO GALLERY

More great photos at The Daily Beast.

BETWEEN THE FOLDS

UNCLE LIONEL BATISTE

I'm visiting my brother in New Orleans for Thanksgiving. The next couple of posts will feature people I've met and things I've seen during this week in the Crescent City.



Lionel Batiste, known to most folks down here simply as Uncle Lionel, has been an integral part of the Tremé brass band scene for over 50 years. Bass drummer, band leader, and all around NOLA booster, Uncle has been at every single bar I've visited this week, often outlasting revelers several decades his junior. I watched him sing with Kermit Ruffins one night, dance to the music of his own band the next, and then hop onstage at 2:30 AM to sing and sway along to the music of Walter "Wolfman" Washington. New Orleans is full of characters, but Uncle Lionel is a singular presence.

GLEN DENNY: YOSEMITE

Yosemite in the Sixties is a relatively new book of b+w photography capturing the famous Camp 4 at Yosemite, the epicenter of the climbing world in the 1960s. The book includes a forward by Yvon Chouinard, adventurer extraordinaire and founder of Patagonia.





via Inventory

SWASHBUCKLING, ETC.: WHAT IS FILK?!

EDWARD WOODWARD: 1930-2009

Edward Woodward, who played Sgt. Howie in the infamous 1973 film The Wicker Man, has died.

FEELING ALRIGHT

Incredible early footage of the Jackson 5. Live in their home state of Indiana, 1971.

ANATOMICAL HORROR

Images from a new book called simply The Anatomy of Japanese Folk Monsters by Shigeru Mizuki.

via Pink Tentacle.