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May 24th, 2013
how to do it right.
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May 23rd, 2013
LOVE CONQUERS WALL
Roermond, Limburg, The Netherlands
Here’s a novel solution to burial taken by a Dutch couple of mixed religion who were forbidden from being buried in the same grave.
J.W.C van Gorcum, a colonel of the Dutch Cavalry and militia commissioner in Limburg, was a Protestant. In 1842, he married 22-year-old Jonkvrouwe van Aefferden, a well-heeled Catholic aristocrat, with whom he enjoyed 38 years of happy marriage despite the considerable controversy their initial wedding caused.
Colonel van Gocum died in 1880 and was buried in the Protestant section of the Roermond graveyard.
Shortly before she died eight years later, his widow said she did not wish to be entombed in the van Aefferden family mausoleum, which lay in the adjacent Catholic graveyard.
Instead, she asked to be buried against the wall, directly beside her husband’s grave.
The two graves were subsequently connected by this poignant sculpture of two clasped hands across the wall.
Hi tumblr pals,
Excited to share with all of you that independent publishing house Paper Farms just released a full-color booklet featuring two of my previous comic zine titles “Intergalactic Telepathic Pen Pal” and “A Special Message For You Hand-Delivered To You From the Universe” in a single volume that also includes a process essay by yours truly. Since me = cheap with my printing costs, I’m tickled pink to finally have a properly bound book to share with all of you that isn’t completely monochromatic.
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P.S. Paper Farms previously released a booklet featuring the screenprint comics / artwork of my artist pal Jen Tong, which you should also eye-drool at and order for yourself.
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yay!!!
May 22nd, 2013
Carlo's Corner: Will a billionaire's trials and tribulations never end? | Green Left Weekly
Will the trials and tribulations of trying to be a decent, hardworking billionaire in this nation ever end?
First, coalmining magnate Clive Palmer toldNews.com.au that billionaires “were oppressed” in Australia, and, when asked if he was serious, said: “Yes, I get ridiculed all the time.”
Shamefully, Palmer’s brave denunciation of the injustices his people face merely brought more oppressive ridicule — while Amnesty International and the United Nations stayed silent, preferring to focus on such petty side issues like Australia’s inhumaneincarceration of asylum seekers or the apartheid-like Northern Territory intervention.
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has also had enough. She told the Australian Mines and Metals Association conference in Melbourne on May 17 that governments must stop using “miners” as an ATM: “What few seem to properly understand — even people in government — is that miners and other resources industries aren’t just ATMs for everyone else to draw from without that money first having to be earned and, before that, giant investments are made.”
It is incredible, isn’t it? It is as though some people think the source of Rinehart’s wealth was something that just happened to occur naturally in the ground and her control over one chunk of the industry was due to the pure fluke of being born to a multi-millionaire iron ore magnate father.
It is really hard to know how Rinehart copes with the burdens the government puts on her. What, with Labor’s mining tax bringing in a cool $126 million in its first six months, while tax offsets and deductions associated with the tax have actually left mining corporations billions of dollars in credit. Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has acredit against the mining tax worth $1.16 billion.
It really is just “take, take, take” with this government.
Knitted bobble hat nipple pasties.
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aw! look at the adorable tiny knit caps, just for fish! or maybe for kittens, or tiny chihuahuas, you know, the ones that shake a lot? so cute!
we would never nipple them! why nipple something you clearly are not meant to eat? they are knit, not nosh!
(wait. what?)
;)
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May 21st, 2013
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
Awesome.
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cerberus is not hades’ pet dog. cerberus predates hades in the underworld, and is actually an aspect/familiar of the goddess hecate. also hades did not name cerberus because by the time hades showed up, cerberus was already named.
but the spot part is cool.
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Charles Dana Gibson - Plenty of Fish in the Sea - 1901
Swimming in stockings is both impractical and really cute.
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actually… it is not cute at all! they get instantly waterlogged and saggy! they flop around so much the Great Whites have occasionally been lured by them!
no, not cute! naked is much better! skinny dipping for everyone! yay!
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4” x 4” x 1.5” oil on cedar wood block
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go to vhmckenzie’s tumblr and look at the entire series! it is awesome! yay!
French Painter Fabienne Verdier
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that’s the biggest brush we’ve ever seen!
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May 20th, 2013
we were going to keep away from this fandom nonsense, and we’ll try harder next time, but BALLS.
so i’ve seen a lot of criticisms of elementary’s move to combine the characters of irene adler and moriarty, and i want to address some of those criticisms because i think that this twist is absolutely freaking brilliant and i want to shout from the rooftops about it. so, here we go. one day i will actually learn how to write meta that isn’t so long it requires a read more.
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forgive us, but this is a load of balls.
it is a desperate attempt to try to render something feminist when, in fact, it is balls.
the elementary fandom have been in this mode since the begining with the casting of lucy liu as watson, as if making watson female is, inherently, enough, when it is not. (now, if they had made HOLMES female, well. that would be another thing, wouldn’t it?)
now, in eliminating irene adler and transforming “her” into moriarty, we are all supposed to go oh WOW, look, a female villain, amazing, there’s never been anything like THAT on television before! this is fake subservision. it is fake because in positing the female of your species as villain, you pretend that this is in any way similar to positing her as powerful or individuated. the fact is, even as a male, moriarty was entirely a dependent upon holmes.
see, everything revolves around holmes in the non ACD canon. holmes as the Great White Male Genius who can behave any way he wants, and everyone else must be obsessed with him. this is why a female watson was not impressive, any more than bbc’s sherlock’s male watson has been anything other than pretty pathetic. you can fantasize them having sex all you want to, these watsons are entirely dependent upon holmes. in fact we suspect that’s why it’s easy to fantasize sex between holmes/watson in all new incarnations, because their relationship takes on a particular appearance of sub/dom dynamics.
moriarty is entirely dependent upon holmes. interesting, irene adler was NOT. which is why she has been subsumed into a form of moriarty, who excercises typical female power over a man by seducing him and breaking his heart, but who then proceeds to reveal herself as, just as the male form, obsessed with who?
sherlock holmes.
this not an improvement, it is balls. irene adler is obviously too individual and complicated for the writers of elementary to get their minds around— a female NOT interested in holmes? OMJ! what?
let’s fix this by making her the fixated villain, and let’s let the fandom come up with clever rationales in order to dodge the fact that we couldn’t handle irene adler actually outwitting holmes in whatever modern way she would have done it— too tough for us! too complicated! can you imagine, writing a modern female irene adler who isn’t smitten in some way with holmes, and actually portraying her as outwitting him and then MOVING ON WITH HER OWN LIFE BECAUSE SHE ACTUALLY HAS ONE OF THOSE??? no, that’s too hard. and we can’t have a woman, The Woman, actually, you know, outsmart our fairhaired boy and walk away. and, worse, have him care about it, and her not. oh HELL no!
and then what would we do about watson, anyhow? joan watson’s self esteem is questionable to begin with, which is fine for actual characters resembling real human persons, but contrasted to a woman who just walked away?
let’s make adler into moriarty! now we don’t have to think anymore!
fortunately for us fish, we now have another weeknight free so we can learn all about this “twerking” thing. we are pretty excited about that.
Please Welcome Our First Ever Etsy Shop of the Week!
Etsy Shop Name: ChromoCrochet Designs
Brief Description of Shop: ChromoCrochet Designs specializes in providing crochet patterns to make sea creature amigurumi dolls! You can learn how to make everything from cute cuttlefishes to seahorses with pose-able tails. In addition to my Etsy, I also have a Craftsy shop branch, which is full of even more amigurumi goodness.
Why you think this shop should be the shop of the week: With ChromoCrochet Designs, I try to strike a nice balance between cuteness and anatomical correctness. I’m devoted to quirky sea creatures, and I always take requests for new patterns on my blog! If you like amigurumi patterns, this is the perfect shop for you.
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How exciting to be chosen! Thank you so much :)
May 19th, 2013
I usually have to pay to have women oppress me. I didn’t realize they were giving it away for free.
Major Kong
