Nephew: Star Wars was in Captain America’s list of things to see right? Is he going to watch all six? He’s going to find out that Nick Fury is a Jedi.
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i think about this video almost every day and i am so frightened of it
Do the sounds creep anyone else out?
I don’t know what this is but I want it.
MESMERIZING.
This was the most intense video I’ve watched in a very long time.
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The World is Planted in Pennies:
“When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. It was a curious compulsion; sadly, I’ve never been seized by it since. For some reason I always “hid” the penny along the same stretch of sidewalk up the…
I recognized the passage as soon as I started reading it. This was the first “grown up” book I read. I was visiting my mom on summer vacation; she always had a bookcase full of interesting books. On a whim one day I pulled it out and started reading, and it completely upended my world that a book could be like that. I recognized Dillard’s voice — she felt like me, the way she looked at the world, the lonely way she moved through it, amazed by frogs and trees and a mockingbird falling from a building without opening its wings. I was probably 9 or 10. I’m sure a lot of it went over my head. But I remember spending days lost in its pages, and this post took me back, the way a smell can take you back, the memory suddenly real, in my mom’s house, sprawling on the easy chair’s big footstool in the nook off the kitchen, reading while she made dinner, the chaparral outside stretching east from Crest Drive to Lomas Santa Fe and Leucadia and beyond, dirt roads and sandstone and curious round pebbles, roadrunners and white-tailed kites and coyotes, gone now, lost to diabetes and tract housing, to time.
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Sorry to hear about your anxiety issues, it can be pretty tough. I’ve talked to a few doctors about this actually and together we’ve come up with a ten-step process that I think has gotten me to a much healthier place. I’m no expert, I don’t know if it’ll work for everyone, but I’ve certainly found success with it.
1. Take a deep, deep breath, and really focus on your breathing. You’re not thinking about the crowd, where to put your hands, and the music and your nails and everything else- all you need to think about for the next twenty seconds is a deep breath. That’s one thing. You can handle one thing.
2. Count to ten. That’s easy, you can do that. You have total control over your ability to count to ten. Look at you, crushing ten.
[Remember, the key to socialization is being comfortable with yourself first. People are like more sophisticated versions of dogs; they can sense if your nervous or tense and they will respond in kind.]
3. Life your shoulders up, then roll them back and down. This is relaxing (and will help your posture) and it is yet another thing you can control, which seems to be in your wheelhouse; you’re comfortable doing presentations because everything is written out or rehearsed, there’s no room for spontaneity, you have everyone’s full attention and you are in complete control.
4. Accept that you won’t be able to control the people/events in this room or party, but you CAN control how you respond to them.
5. Take another deep breath, in through the nose, out through the mouth. Very good.
6. Take out the bag of spiders you’ve been keeping in your inside jacket pocket and liberally sprinkle them throughout the party. Slowly, everyone else at the party will notice the spiders (the bag should have lots) and they will all individually come to the realization that they ALSO can’t control the events of the world. When Chaos is given a voice, the playing field becomes even.
[The spiders can smell blood in the air and will thank you for the gift you’ve given them.]
7. Isolate the person who seems to be the most “in charge” in the room. This will be an authority figure (in a work situation) or the person who seems least phased by all of the spiders (at a party or family gathering).
8. Unhinge your lower jaw and consume this person. His authority was imaginary and reliant on the cooperation of cowards and charlatans. You are neither. You are a shark in a sea of guppies. What everyone else in the world is looking for, you’ve already found and discarded.
9. The light inside you is the only light that truly matters. It burns brightest and hottest. It would be blinding to anyone else, but not you, you are the Warrior and the Father.
10. One more deep breath.
Hope this helps!
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inside-your-head-but-its-real:
It takes them until the next morning to realize the umbrella is still on his front porch.
And the ukulele.
Now that is some high-grade canonization.
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Grackle giving quite the serious stink eyed looked. They aren’t the kindest species of birds, but their feathers are quite the color combination.
Taken on 26-04-2014.
Canon 550D, 500mm, F7.1, 1/400, ISO 3200, and edited with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
Photo by Joanna.
Haha, thanks! I suspect this is a Common Grackle, because of the contrast between the multi-hued iridescence on the body and the bluish iridescence on the head and neck. (Boat-tailed is supposed to be more uniformly purple-blue, per Sibley.)
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this too, was a gift.
Look, it’s the poem from episode 78!
I’ll always be grateful to despairoftranslators for exposing me to Mary Oliver.
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He did this to himself. Then looked at me with sad eyes because I was to busy laughing to help him.
If you’re going to ship a cat, this really is the best way to package them. To avoid damage en route. Just sayin’.
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Feeling all feely about today’s episode?
Have a Behind the Scenes-Alysson-is-sass-Lucas-slides-on-floor moment.
You’re welcome
Class!
Haha. I don’t normally reblog AoJE stuff that’s out-of-world (because Real), but the mental image of these two circling forever like Pirates of the Caribbean animatronics is too good to pass up. It makes me want to drift past them in a little boat.
Omg. And now I want that: an Autobiography of Jane Eyre dark ride, à la Disneyland. Or since I’m dreaming, a whole Webseries Storybook Land, with Lydia Bennet’s Wild Ride to Vegas, the I Didn’t Write This Spinny Kiss Teacups, and a Kissing in the Rain Ride, where you’d be carried past scenes of Lily and James kissing in never-ending downpours, then snarking on each other post-“cut”, before the final scene where they kiss on the porch as the music swells before you emerge into daylight.
I’d ride that one again and again. I don’t care how long the line is.
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“Éperdu” – Cocteau Twins, Milk and Kisses (1996)
This is definitely the song Sinead is going to sing for the Kissing in the Rain musical interlude on Monday. The way I figured it out was, the clue Yulin posted today shows a character named Victoria. That would make anyone think of the Cocteau Twins’ 1986 album Victorialand. That was too obvious, I knew. But then I realized that their 1996 album was called Milk and Kisses.
Kisses. Kisses. I can be slow on the uptake sometimes, but even I couldn’t miss that.
I went through the songs on the album, and it was obvious which one they’d be doing. The title “Éperdu” is from a French adjective meaning “desperate, distraught” (as of a glance or look), “overwhelming, desperate” (as of a need), or “boundless, violent” (in terms of love). Hello. Is there any fan of Shipwrecked who could miss the obvious references to their preferred subject matter?
So looking forward to Monday.
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Saturday’s Clue. For every day between now and Monday 4/28, we’ll be reblogging a post that contains a clue related to our upcoming musical parody project and tagging it “shipwrecked puzzles”.
I have to confess: This clue has upended my previous idea, and left me (temporarily) stumped. I’ve got a few ideas, but they’re going to take some research.
I’m confident I’ll be able to figure it out. I just need some time.
Okay; I finally got it. Whew. I apologize for how long it took. I guess I owe you an explanation.
Basically, I set off on a couple of false leads before I figured it out. The first thing I thought was, okay: They reblogged this from @eyrequotes. That’s probably a clue. Jane’s postings to her tumblr often anticipate some development that shows up in her ensuing video, so I figured I’d check for the next video of Jane’s after she posted this item to see if it contained any obvious musical reference. Jane posted this on December 20, 2013, which was a Friday. Her next video, which went up the next day, was Episode 53, “Teenagers”. I immediately thought: oh, of course. It’s a reference to The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’, with its iconic “teenage wasteland” lyric.
The more I thought about it, though, the more trouble I had picturing Sinead singing “Baba O’Riley”. We’ve seen the stills from the shoot, and something about the flowers, the lacy dress, and those dangling keys just doesn’t quite work in the context of that song. So I took another look.
Maybe the fact that this was reblogged from Jane was a red herring. Yulin is sneaky that way. So I examined the gif more closely, and noticed something I hadn’t before: The character who speaks these lines is named Victoria. And she’s speaking to another character named Victor. I immediately thought of Victor/Victoria, the classic Blake Edwards comedy from 1982. There’s that beautiful song “Crazy World” that Julie Andrews sings in it. It would be perfect for Sinead to sing in the video. And if you watch it in the movie, it’s actually shot like a slow-motion version of a classic Yulin spinny kiss. I thought for sure I had it that time.
I’ve been wrong a few times already, though, so I gave it one more look, just to be sure, and that’s when the truth hit me. I’d been on the right track, but just went a little astray at the last step. Anyway, now that I know what it is, I’m so looking forward to hearing and seeing Sinead’s interpretation on Monday. It’s such a beautiful song, and I know she’s going to do a great job with it.
I’ll post what it is in a second, just so I don’t spoil anyone who wants to be surprised. I’ll also explain how I figured it out, though it’s pretty obvious in hindsight.
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Saturday’s Clue. For every day between now and Monday 4/28, we’ll be reblogging a post that contains a clue related to our upcoming musical parody project and tagging it “shipwrecked puzzles”.
I have to confess: This clue has upended my previous idea, and left me (temporarily) stumped. I’ve got a few ideas, but they’re going to take some research.
I’m confident I’ll be able to figure it out. I just need some time.
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Contemplation [1847] on Flickr.
Franz Xaver Winterhalter – Contemplation [1847]
[Oil on canvas, 20.8 x 25.4 cm]
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The adventures of Selkie and her smudgy owner.
Mini watercolours. I’m trying to encourage myself to use colours more often.
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Turquoise Almond Branches in Bloom, Vincent Van Gogh (detail)
Every time a detail shot of this painting comes across my dash my brain is confused and thinks that there’s a hole in tumblr, because the full painting is my desktop, and I’m not terribly bright sometimes.
Also, I have internet! Although I’m still waist-deep in unpacking and my social calendar is basically already full every day for the next month and a half (hyperbole) so who knows how often I’ll be around, aside from waiting for my dog to eat his breakfast before we go for a walk.
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This morning while I was getting ready I was watching Sesame Street.
They were doing this bit where some clown was trying to wash his hands but kept washing his feet or his elbows and Elmo would go, “no mister noodle, your HANDS!” and all the tv kids would laugh.
Around the fourth or fifth time he couldn’t find his hands, I heard a grown man yell from somewhere else in the motel, “GODDAMMIT, MR. NOODLE.”
LITERALLY MY FAVORITE STORY ON ALL OF TUMBLR.
OMG I literally cannot breathe from laughing at this.
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