Gizmo (Monday 23rd June 2025)

After a trip to the doctor's in the afternoon I drove over to C's. Loki was out until later. I got one photo of him but it was facially unsharp, but luckily I also got a shot of Gizmo, the mogwai, peeping out of a box made for him by C's son Dan.

L.
Tuesday 24.6.2025 (1131 hr)

Blip #4285 (#4035 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2025 #082/265 + 066/100 Extras
Day #5568 (1480 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3423 (#3263 + 160 in archived blips)

Trowbridge series
Artwork series
Crafts series

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Yellow) and Pentax HD P-DA 55-300 mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Kid Thomas - Rockin’ This Joint Tonight (recorded 1959, Chicago IL)
I have reached Volume 19 in my replaying of the Finbarr Rock'n'Roll Party CD series, and it included this, the best known number by tragic blues/rock'n'roller Louis Thomas Watts, or Kid Thomas (1934 – 1970) from Mississippi. After learning harmonica he appeared onstage in Chicago with the likes of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley. He often filled in for his idol Little Walter when he was frequently 'indisposed'.
Rockin’ This Joint Tonight has been descibed as "one of the wildest rock’n’roll discs of all time with Kid Thomas blowing his harmonica and shouting out the lyrics in a frantic frenzy. Just listening to it leaves me breathless. He wouldn’t record again for five years, that’s probably how long it took for him to catch his breath."
Finding little commercial success in the following years, Kid Thomas became a lawn mowing man in Los Angeles during the latter half of the 1960s. Sadly, on 3 September 1969, while driving his truck in Beverly Hills he struck and killed a 10-year old boy who had run out into the street from between two parked car. Arrested on a charge of manslaughter, the charge was later dismissed for lack of evidence. A few months later, after appearing in court on a separate charge of driving with a revoked licence the boy’s father waited outside the courthouse in the parking lot and shot him in the head. Kid Thomas died at UCLA Medical Center, Beverly Hills on 5 April 1970, aged 35.