mostlythemarsh:

In the Year Oh One

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fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:

Late Night dir. Nisha Ganatra (2019)

A legendary late-night talk show host’s world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women are separated by culture and generation and are united only by their love of a biting punchline.

WAIT; WHAT??

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pls rec me things to read:

imaginarycircus:

snickfic:

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From above: “I’m just gonna throw this out there: does anyone have any recs for books
(fiction or non-fiction) set in Europe between about 1000 and 1400? I
realize that is quite a wide net. But if you have any favorites, I would
like to hear about them! Historical fiction, pop history, whatever you
think would fit. In the past I have had a really good time reading
things like the economic history of England in the 14th century, so
don’t be shy.“

Wow. That’s a funky time period and most of what I’ve read is theology or
philosophy like Aquinas’s Summa Theologicae and St.
Anselm’s Proslogion–which I do not recommend. I kind of enjoyed Aquinas, but only because he was like HEY what if Aristotle had written about Christianity, huh????? Maybe Maimonides? He’s kind of cool. I’ve only read excerpts.  I like St. Thomas A Kempis’s Imitation of Christ, but it’s like 1420. It’s a nice book about how if Christians actually acted like Christ it would be a better world. Some nice monks in the desert recommended it to me over pound cake.

Most obviously–The Divine Comedy. I like
the Mandelbaum translation. The Purgatorio and Paradiso are fantastic
and people usually only read The Inferno. I assume you’ve read Chaucer and I enjoyed reading Chaucer, but only when I went very slowly with a Chaucer glossary and a Chaucer dictionary and took the poems apart. Words that mean something now meant very different things to ol’ Geoffery. So if you don’t take care you miss many of his jokes and his metaphors. This hit me full force when I realized his Doctor of Physick is a dude on a horse dressed like a human heart in arterial red and veinous blue. 

I’ve toyed with the idea of
reading Culhwch and Olwen but idk. It supposedly influenced Tolkien’s Lay of Luthien and Beren.

There’s various myth/poems from this period like Tristan and Iseult and The Ulster Cycle. I read The Tain translated by Kinsella and it was interesting and rhythmic even in translation. There are a bunch of Romance poems and things that I think informed Mallory’s Arthur. IDK. The whole Vulgate Cycle overwhelms me.

I’ve never read any of the nuns who wrote in this time like Julian of Norwich or Hildegard of Bingen. I’ve read bits of Abelard and Heloise’s correspondence, but never sat down and read it for real.

I keep forgetting about Christine Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies. I’ve never read it, but it sounds potentially interesting. I’ve never attempted El Cid either and I feel like I should have, but eh. Maybe someone else can jump in and be more helpful.

Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake rocked my world. But I had to read it out loud before I could make sense of it.

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California Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma californica)

Santa Monica Creek, 2018-11-28

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Liftoff

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karynslee:

half agony, half hope.

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Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius)

Santa Monica Creek, 2018-11-28

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Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

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90377:

L1770494–合歡越嶺古道(西段) by bass hou

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mostlythemarsh:

Grand Lake Flowage

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oneangryshot:

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oneangryshot:

oneangryshot:

like i go on a lot of outraged rants when drunk but nothing compares to my outraged rants about how criminally underrated the b52s are

people always like ‘o lmao they’re the rock lobster guys right’ yeah yeah they are but rock lobster is lowkey a work of genius and so is love shack. their first two albums are masterpiece level idc what anyone says
52 miles west of venus – dreamy eerie beautiful
52 girls – garage rock guitar, kate and cindy singin about girls
give me back my man – my fave song of all time, raw emotion, cindy is the best vocalist ever
mesopotamia – produced by david byrne which, apparently, did not go well. great song though, not typical b52s
private idaho – a gay anthem (tbh which b52s song isn’t a gay anthem) this is an example of why ricky wilson is such a killer guitarist they weren’t quite the same after he died
dance this mess around – idk how cindy screaming why dont you dance with me im not no limburger gives me chills but it does i’m pretty sure it’s like… why don’t you dance with me i don’t smell like terrible smelling cheese so. fuck any music without a sense of humour i won’t accept it
the deadbeat club –  one of the first songs i ever remember being emotional about as a kid idk i guess i knew i was a loser even then. i had a cassette tape of their time capsule best of album i remember the silver paper booklet so well

anyway idk why i’ve done this but. listen to the b52s fuck they’re the best. somehow both very much a product of their time while also being super ahead of their time. also all of them, gay

@kazimirov​ fuck i forgot channel z!!!!!!!!! fuck something about the girls singing something big and lovely~~~ was so hopeful and perfect. i think you and i had the same childhood i was similarly disappointed by the lack of respect haha

@kazimirov yes!!!!! is that you mo dean? so goddamn good. also i forgot legal tender and also every single other song they have

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mostlythemarsh:

Home

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debunkshy:

Long-tailed Duck

Glendale Recharge Ponds, AZ, 1-19-17

#325

A female Long-tailed Duck was reported by Nick late Sunday afternoon from Ocean Beach County Park, just far enough away that I couldn’t get there before dark, and would very much not have wanted to anyway since it would have put me in Thanksgiving weekend traffic on the way back. And the next day (Monday) was my day to go the opposite direction to LA for work, so I had to cross my fingers and hope the bird would stay until today (Tuesday).

One eBird report by Libby on Monday showed the bird still there, so I was hopeful. I set the alarm for 4:30 and got there shortly after sunrise. It was cold, which wasn’t so bad, but also foggy and windy, which put a damper on things. I looked around the railroad bridge near the parking lot where the bird had been seen, sifting through the Ruddy Ducks and Eared and Western Grebes, but no dice. I walked to the beach and checked out the Snowy Plovers, then returned to the railroad bridge again, wiping condensation off my glasses. Still no Long-tailed Duck.

Oh, well. Most chases don’t pan out; it looked like this was going to be one of those.

I returned to my car and reviewed my eBird list. As I was about to drive away I noticed that the sun was starting to poke through, and I thought, well, maybe the duck has been tucked away somewhere waiting for it to get nicer out. So I took one last stroll down to the railroad bridge.

What a cutie. 🙂

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90377:

Riisitunturi by Olli Tasso
instagram.com/ollitasso

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inthetags:

reblog this and put in the tags how you currently live (e.g. with your parents, alone…)

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Stealing from the best, like all great artists do. 🙂

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