Ticks in Virginia. The Surfin' Bird. Seinfeld, the early years.

Seinfeld, the early years.

Potato Palooza. Celebrity Tattoo. Robert Johnson - Love In Vain.

Thanks for clicking-in to The Yolo County Hermit; I am James, your suburban hermit, an avocation that I enjoy very much. I'm a senior, retired from a career in radio, and while this blog isn't serious at all (this is about my appreciation of random things), I do take being a hermit seriously. As it happened, during the COVID shutdown I noticed that I truly enjoyed the isolation, so I have continued it. I am married, and my wife is decidedly not a hermit, so that's a complication, but not really a big complication. She has her own issues to live with, yeah.

Too Much Coffee Man. Freddie King plays the blues. Cheesy weiner sauce.

The Yolo Country Hermit is open for drive-up service. Come on in and order up a nice big serving of nonsense.

The Yolo Cousins. A ragtop '62 Chevy. A cover version of Chan Chan.

Here at The Yolo County Hermit random things are brought to light, including this classy Chevy Impala ragtop. I think it's a 1962; at least this, my Dad had a white one that looked like this, and it was a '62. 

Fake ham in a can. A wannabe state song. Bullwinkle Moose.

Random music, random laughs, random quotes; that's why I started The Yolo County Hermit. As a hermit (a suburban hermit) I have time to seek these things out, and so I do. Let's get started. Have a great time.

The Moonwalk. A book for your kids. The world's longest foosball table.

Hey. Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit where the random things in life are celebrated. Let's get started.

Dancing hippies. Thoughts about money. The Telly Savalas Hair Club.

Another day is upon us here in Yolo County, California.

Enjoy some 'shrooms and join the dance.

Cockhandler magazine. John Lennon. Other BS.

Hey, y'all. Welcome. The Yolo County Hermit is open for business. 

Advice from George Carlin. R&B from Stevie Wonder. Other crap.

 "Sargent! Charge the man with everything."

Bodhidarma. Coltrane. Jimmy Durante.

Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit, featuring random stuff from my hermitage in Yolo County, California. (Close to Sacramento.) I'm glad you could make it.

Freaky for pudding. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Bulk toilet paper.

 Look for the random oddities of life. And barbecue. Look for barbecue, too.

The Lincoln Selfie. Marshall William Butler Yeats. Cooking With Lard.

Hey. Welcome to the random blog of random crap, The Yolo County Hermit. To start you off today I have located a copy of the famous Lincoln Selfie. Ol' Abe was taught how to do this by Matthew Brady in 1863.

Slums. Tom Waits. Rat Whip.

This somewhat rustic scene is in Baltimore, Maryland. My mother grew up on this block a century ago, back then this was Irish Catholic for the most part. I wonder what it would cost to get the rats out of there. Oh, well. Let's begin.

Welcome to the Yolo County Hermit

POTUS' mugshot. Bluegrass artists cover Stills. A rose in a gloved first.

Welcome to that random blog, The Yolo County Hermit. I'm James, your hermit. Glad to have you here. I keep these posts brief as random  junk seems better in small doses.

da Vinci, a street corner preacher, and Yogi Berra.

 Greetings, fellow humans. Let's get random; it's good for you.

Inca art, Compassion. Native plants of NYC.

 The Yolo County Hermit is here to bring random things into the light. These things could be sweet, weird, musical, visual, audible or whatever. This one is sweet.

The Compassion Bench is a colorful mosaic public art sculpture located at the corner of 3rd and C Streets in downtown Davis, California. Also known as the "Compassion Corner Earthbench," it was inspired by local resident David Breaux, who spent years asking passersby to share their definition of compassion. David is gone now, but forever remembered here in Davis. He had a good heart.

Hermits: a truck, a frog, and Wild Bill.

Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit, and I'm your suburban hermit. I'm wondering if this truck is also hermit. It's possible. 

Thunderclap Newman & Martha, the ugliest dog of 2017.

 Hey. Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit, where random things (thoughts, music, art, humor, etc) are displayed in an unorganized manner.

Frida Kahlo. Funny Signs. Jon Baptiste.

Good morning, Ethan. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to enjoy a few random items here at The Yolo County Hermit. It's good for you.

A daytime hooker. Miles & Trane together. A lazy dog.

Have you ever felt like you just couldn't go on? Me neither. Will somebody get the dog on his feet? It's time for The Yolo County Hermit.

The Disneyland Bullets. Elvis. Steve Allen.

 Hello. James here with your daily dose of random bullshite in The Yolo County Hermit.

Otis Redding. Toad Suck, Arkansas. Gilda Radner.

Hey, y'all. Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit. I'm James, your hermit.  To begin your daily dose of random nonsense I have a photo, below, of an ABBA tribute band called Dancing Queen. They mostly play county fairs and state fairs in the Midwest, with the bulk of their shows being in driving distance of their homes in Toad Suck, Arkansas, a quirky river town near Conway that annually hosts the popular Toad Suck Daze festival with Dancing Queen as the headliners.

The men are twins Terry and Gary Johnston, the women are Delma and Thelma Delacroix. Delma and Thelma are not twins, but identical cousins, like in The Patty Duke Show, only neither one is sophisticated. They're both Toad Suck residents. I elected to use the photo, but not the music. I'm not that cruel. As you can see they are flashy dressers like many other famous entertainers.

Aldous Huxley. Art. Cry Me A River.

 Welcome to The Yolo County Hermit. What's cookin'?

Brief bits of nonsense and tomfoolery

Welcome. You have arrived at The Yolo County Hermit. Yolo County is a very real county in Northern California. I'm in the suburban town of Davis, and I am a hermit. A suburban hermit. I here to celebrate random things; visual art, music, and bits of nonsense and tomfoolery. 

Dogs Playing Poker. Blatant Blasphemy. Trump Mockery.

Good morning, welcome to The Yolo County Hermit with your daily dose of random nonsense. Today I have random tacky things

First, tacky art:

Elvis on blue velvet.

Lead Belly. Mickey Rooney's spuds. Monkey Funk.

 Welcome, y'all. The Yolo County Hermit is open for business. 

I have always loved the blues. When I was a young boy in the 1960s my teenage stepbrother, Bill, had some 60s blues records. Yardbirds, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, that sort of thing. Really turned my 10 year old head around. In my teens and 20s, a lot of the blues greats from the 1950s were still around. Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James. 

Around the time I was 40 Nirvana did their MTV Unplugged show and played the song 'In The Pines.' Kurt Cobain told a story about trying to get his record lapel to buy him Lead Belly's guitar, which was for sale. They didn't. He used the story as the lead-in to the song; Lead Belly's recording of it is a classic. But it isn't really his song. 'In The Pines' dates back at least to the 1870s in Appalachia. Bill Monroe recorded a bluegrass version, also outstanding. So here you go.

Lead Belly - In The Pines 

Klepto Trump. Bruce Cockburn. Serious Hot Sauce.

It's my clothesline's birthday today. Celebrate. 

Wendell Berry. Miles Davis. A Bigasst Gorilla.

"...every day do something that won't compute."
Wendell Berry

John Lennon's Slurpee, a goat that yearns to be free, and Three Dog Night.

Welcome. Join me and my amigos here at The Yolo Hermit. Each post is assembled by me (James) quickly and randomly. Random stuff is what I love. And the hermit is me.

Blue Jean Bop. A family of chickens. Are elephants welcome?

 

Come on in, ignore the sign; the Yolo Hermit welcomes everyone and their elephant.

5 Random Soul Songs.

Not in any particular order. This is just the first five that came randomly into my mind. I could do this all day. As a boy on Baltimore's west side, this was what the kids listened to, much more than the Beatles or the Kinks. Welcome in to the Yolo County Hermit.

On the road with Slim Gaillard.

 The Yolo Hermit is receiving visitors, welcome. Enter in.