Seriously great life advice though.
JOHANNA
I appreciate that even though you are saying I am Mindy Kaling you are also kind of saying I’m a Khaleesi. :3
At least I am choosing to take it that way.
After you pretended not to hear him, did you have your dragon kill him with fire? Because it’s pretty awesome when that happens.
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*____*
come to meeeeee
GIVE ME THESE THINGS
Ah! These don’t look hard to make…
I TOTALLY NEED THIS!! ANYONE KNOWS WHERE I CAN BUY IT?? PLEASE, TELL ME!!
WHAT ARE THESE? WHERE CAN I BUY THEM? SOMEONE TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!
Oy. In less time than it took you to engage your caps lock key and plead with the universe to PLEASE PLEASE GIVE IT TO ME I’LL DIE PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!! you could have typed “elf ears jewelry” into Google.
#1 hit: Custom silver elf ears by Belethil on Etsy
Was that so hard?
I worry about Tumblr sometimes. Pro-tip: If it’s raining, don’t gape upward wondering where all that water is coming from. You could totally drown. For reals.
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movie magic
This is the best.
Also, technically, lies.
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new song ÍSJAKI from the forthcoming album KVEIKUR. preorder: http://sigur-ros.co.uk/kveikur
In which the universe continues to be a wish-granting factory…
One of the reactions I had to the Sigur Rós show in Santa Barbara last week was how awesome all the songs from the upcoming album are. They played three at the concert, and this makes four, and I lovelovelove all of them. I love the old stuff too, but the new material is… different. More complex. I don’t want to impose my values on anyone, but at least from my perspective the new stuff is just… better.
I think the band has continued to grow musically, and it shows. I’m so looking forward to hearing the whole album.
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Maybe I’m reaching with this one. The last thing I want to do is judge someone unfairly.
Adele is amazing though, right?!
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who did you have to kill for that url omfg
Not trying to give anyone ideas or anything.
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Matthew McConaughey on the serious turn his career has taken in the past few years:
These roles — these last six films I’ve done — they came to me; I didn’t go out and chase them,” he says. “[W]hat I had in my life at that time was something really special, which allowed me to take a pause and back away and not do the romantic comedies, or not do the other scripts that were coming in. I had a son.
So I said, ‘I’m going to be a father for a while. I’m not going to rush into work. Let the work come find me.’ … So I was able to be very patient and, what happened is, I got the call from Billy Friedkin [about the part of a cop moonlighting as a murderer in Killer Joe], and then Richard Linklater came to me with the Bernie script. And I got the call from Soderbergh [for the strip-club-emcee role in Magic Mike], and then Lee Daniels gave me a call on Paperboy and then Jeff Nichols came. So they came to me — and that was just really one of those wonderful ways the world works.
Image of Matthew McConaughey in Bernie via Theiapolis
I enjoyed Bernie a fair amount. It wasn’t at all what I was expecting. But it had some really interesting moments.
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Hi Everyone,
Unfortunately, due to some minor software issues there will be a small delay with today’s episode.
(It shouldn’t be as bad as last time though)
Still not here.
It’s okay. If Jane were real she wouldn’t be the sort of person to hit the 0900 upload time every week within seconds. I’m just adding this to the list of little differences between AoJE and LBD that help me suspend my disbelief.
Looking forward to seeing it when it does arrive.
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I like the zoomed-out view of Orion, with Collinder 70 enclosing the belt. I also really love that three-dimensional effect you get from visualizing the structure of the Milky Way when looking toward the galactic center. See: It’s a big pancake with a thicker area at the center and dark lanes of dust crossing our field of view. And all these stars around us in other directions: Those are in thin outer reaches of the pancake, with us being inside it.
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“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via jenngofett)
Not Tolkien.
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Craven, Jaime thought, as Brienne fought to stifle her moans. Can it be? They took my sword hand. Was that all I was, a sword hand? Gods be good, is it true? The wench had the right of it. He could not die. Cersei was waiting for him. She would have need of him. And Tyrion, his little brother, who loved him for a lie. And his enemies were waiting too; the Young Wolf who had beaten him in the Whispering Wood and killed his men around him, Edmure Tully who had kept him in darkness and chains, these Brave Companions. When morning came, he made himself eat. They fed him a mush of oats, horse food, but he forced down every spoon. He ate again at evenfall, and the next day. Live, he told himself harshly, when the mush was like to gag him, live for Cersei, live for Tyrion. Live for vengeance. A Lannister always pays his debts.
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It is nasty out today in Philadelphia. Rain, wind, puddles, general unpleasantness. Looking at some of the paintings from this show of John Singer Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum, however, makes it all seem a little less bleak. They’re lovely. If I were going to be in New York this weekend, I would go to there.
Sargent detractors who think he was a gifted technician but lacked imagination and formal rigor may profit from re-examining their prejudices in light of his watercolors, his freshest and most authentic work. The show won’t alter the basic conventional wisdom, but it does offer a good opportunity to consider knotty questions like: Was Sargent a modern artist?
He was modern in the sense that he revealed the processes of painting, unlike conservative academicians who preferred to hide their tricks behind veils of illusion. Because of its transparency watercolor has a certain intelligibility; you can see the artist thinking, deciding and constructing the work.
Corfu: Lights and Shadows, 1909 by John Singer Sargent
I didn’t even realize he wasn’t just a portraitist.
I should actually learn something about art some day.
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Haha. Awesome! Yeah, my limited experience was that if you could once get them engaged, everything else would take care of itself. And being willing to be a bit of a clown was a handy way to break through the apathy.
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When I graduated from college with a degree in political science in 1985, I had no clear idea what I wanted to do, job-wise. Shortly thereafter, I became a substitute teacher in the L.A. Unified School District’s southern section. I did not have a teaching credential or any real training. This was part of the “emergency credential” program L.A. Unified was using to address the severe teacher shortage they faced.
Hilarity ensued.
It was very much a learn-as-you-go, sink-or-swim situation. Unsurprisingly, the first school at which I “taught”, Washington High in Culver City, never asked me back again. But pretty quickly I figured out the basics, and over time acquired a repertoire of classroom-control techniques that, if they lacked theoretical rigor, at least had the attribute of having proven themselves in real-world situations.
One example: On more than one occasion I obtained complete compliance and enthusiastic engagement with the day’s lesson by striking the following bargain: If the entire class completed the assignment I would, in the final minute of the period, get on top of the table at the front of the room and do the big-shoe dance.
If memory serves, I only ever actually did it twice (during substitute assignments at Gardena High). But the fact that I once had, and might conceivably do it again some day, became part of this weird folklore that attached itself to me among Gardena students, who regularly asked for it.
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Channeling her on the regular.
best thing.
i don’t watch GoT on the regular but i have learned one thing:
you do not fuck with dany targaryen or arya stark. EVER.
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“Jaime,” Brienne whispered, so faintly he thought he was dreaming it. “Jaime, what are you doing?”
“Dying,” he whispered back.
“No,” she said, “no, you must live.”
He wanted to laugh. “Stop telling me what do, wench. I’ll die if it pleases me.”
“Are you so craven?”
The word shocked him. He was Jaime Lannister, a knight of the Kingsguard, he was the Kingslayer. No man had ever called him craven. Other things they called him, yes; oathbreaker, liar, murderer. They said he was cruel, treacherous, reckless. But never craven. “What else can I do, but die?”
“Live,” she said, “live, and fight, and take revenge.”
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Disneyland ticket book, 1965
I remember these. I went to Disneyland a bunch in the late 1960s, and these ticket books were pretty much the center of your world in the park. The books were expensive, and if you were like me your dad probably was only going to buy one for you. Then you had to be super careful managing your use of the D’s and E’s, because those were what you needed to go on the awesome rides (hence the term “E-ticket ride”). I remember working deals with my siblings, trading tickets in return for future favors. I and everyone I knew had old ticket books from previous trips with a single unused “A” ticket, because honestly, who would want to do Mr. Lincoln when there was awesome stuff like Pirates of the Caribbean to go on?
Those tickets, with that special wavy pattern in the paper, were imbued with a really powerful sense of value in my little-kid brain. I mean, actual money was more or less meaningless to me, but those tickets were worth something.
I remember when they phased these out and went to unlimited rides with an increased entry fee. I think Disney did that because Magic Mountain had opened, and offered unlimited rides, and Disney needed to do so too in order to compete. That was the word on the playground, anyway. I didn’t expect I’d ever miss these ticket books, but I totally got a rush of nostalgia from this post.
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David Roberts – The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra [1833] on Flickr.
The broken profile Alcalá de Guadaíra Castle, near Seville, seen in the distance appears in a beautiful sunset reflected on the river. The image is the result of the evocative vision of the romantic Scottish painter David Roberts, a prominent representative of the British landscape, who exerted great influence on Spanish artists, especially in Genaro Pérez Villamil.
[Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid – Oil on wood, 40 x 48 cm]
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lies:
Hungry fishies!
Also anyone know what’s wrong with my choice of tank mates?Well, you have multiple male bettas sharing one tank (looks like there’s a female in there, too). How’s that working out?
Great actually.
There is only one male, the rest are females. He was one of those baby bettas from Petco and I didn’t want to see him suffer any longer. So I took him home, raised him in a small tank and I had to downsize on aquariums so I just threw him in with my girls. He took it like a champ and the tank has been peaceful.
Ah; that makes sense. Was there anything else wrong about the choice of tank mates, or was that the thing you were alluding to?
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