Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
There’s a quieter “contact” call that they make while they’re skulking about the underbrush. If you learn to recognize it you’ll occasionally notice them coming up to check you out for a moment before they disappear back into the bushes.
Lance Benner has a good example of what that sounds like here: https://xeno-canto.org/296924
XC296924 Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata)
The one in the blurry, rainy photo in my checklist was particularly curious. He or she definitely seemed to be wondering what possessed me to be on the trail in those conditions.
Fun fact: Wrentits are “highly philopatric.” They spend their whole lives within a breeding territory a few hundred yards across, typically not far from where they themselves were raised. I remember when I learned that, how it added to my sense of loss for the chaparral I’d grown up birding that had been turned into endless tract housing. What happened to those wrentits? 😞
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Tags: birds , like , wren , I’m also highly philopatric , maybe you’ve noticed , by the way I’m still here on tumblr dot com in this the year twenty twenty two . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Saturday, November 14th, 2020
genekellys :
The last shot of the “Good Morning” number, with Don, Kathy and Cosmo falling over the couch, took forty takes to film.SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Gene Kelly + Stanley Donen
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Tags: like , A LOT , this was one of the movies we watched a lot with julia growing up , and once I learned the bts lore about debbie reynolds’ casting and experiences on set , it colored how I experience the film , I still love it , but it’s the love you feel for an old partner , who you’ve seen in their best times and their worst , about whom you know every flaw , every propensity to fail , you love them regardless , b/c you also still see the things you loved at first , before you knew all the other stuff , but the feeling is different . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
joe-keerys :
I a m n o t y o u r c o n s o l a t i o n p r i z e , H a r r y .
Meg Ryan as Sally Albright in When Harry Met Sally (1989) dir. Rob Reiner
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Tags: you know , like , which , fun fact , ive never met meg ryan , but she knows , or a least knew , my younger child , and would greet him by name , at a cafe in montecito , that they both frequented , my understanding , is that their meet cute , involved plastic dinosaurs , and afterwards she'd greet him , hey william how's it going? , i liked her already , but now I like her more . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Tags: birds , like , and in conclusion , but this , but it's there , rcki , again with the unconventional composition , center frame , negative space , i'm assuming uncropped? , i would totally have felt like I needed to crop that tightly , put a nice big rcki at a rule-of-thirds intersection , on the right b/c you want it to have room to fly , and probably the upper right , because I dunno , it just seems like the obvious conventional choice , this is actually the experience , this is birdwatching , before you raise the bins , or through the bins but at a bird that's distant , it's a little bird in its environment , it's all olive and gray and brown , until the bird disappears , you can find it , and then you appreciate it even more , why are you reading these tags , when you could be birdwatching? . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Tags: okay , like , but , yes! , about the dark times , there will also be singing , this looks fun , kind of troubling , in a meta sense , we're going to make droll adorable limited-streaming-series uplift , about impending societal collapse , and megadeath , the inclusion of gayle , makes it a must-reblog , thus we dance toward the apocalypse , in the dark times will there also be singing? . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
mcavoy :
What’s the first thing an actor learns? ‘The show must go on!’ Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show must go on!
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
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Tags: also , so , okay , like , obv , except , A LOT , we live in this world , i love sitr , but so much of it is just ridic , the Broadway Melody sequence makes up for everything , and then some , the more i watch it , and i've watched it kind of a lot , the more i love jean hagen , she does so SO much for the movie , and furthermore , it is super sad to me , that the censors required a cut , during the broadway melody ballet sequence , i always notice it , that little jump , i wonder how different a world we'd be living in today , if 1952 audiences , had had their minds blown , by whatever the steamy move was , that they weren't allowed to see , but i still wonder . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Monday, June 4th, 2018
amanda-kathleen :
Nothing compares to the beauty of the mountains.
Forest Falls, California
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Tags: like , fun fact , i know right where this is , we had a cabin in forest falls when i was little , i made a navigation error one day , while hiking off trail with my younger cousin , and we ended up getting stuck , near the snowline on the ridge south of here , and had to spend the night , i think we were , 11 and 10? something like that? , we each had a sweater , and found a little nook , and tried to huddle out of the wind , as best we could , it was so cold . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Sunday, October 15th, 2017
Because I really like the premise of the show and I have also seen and liked all of the things that the Tin Can Brothers have created so I trust that they will create something equally as good. The thing is when you follow a group of creative people and you follow all of the shows and sketches that they make, you start to develop this trust and adoration for said group of people. That is how I feel about the Tin Can Brothers, I know they care for their fans and I know they will not disappoint me on this new project. But let’s say I watch the show and I end up not liking it, I will still watch it because I like the people making it and I will also still follow and support everything the TCB do. Sometimes you just have to take a chance on something.
Hope that answered your question
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Tags: like , applies to more than just tcb , why would you make a lifelong commitment , to a person you've really , on the scale of lifelong commitments , just met? , a: because you have history with them , and even if that history is brief , to be a full human being , to live your one wild and precious life , sometimes requires a leap of faith . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Monday, April 24th, 2017
anonsally :
First things first, even if they’re obvious: !!!!! Wow! It’s a total work of genius, the performers were all fantastic, and I’m incredibly lucky to have gotten to see it! More specific response below the cut.
Keep reading
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Tags: like , once or twice , welcome to the collective :-) , I still have not seen it , though I may have listened to the cast recording , but I've now got the physical tickets , for the pantages , I actually currently have 8 (!) tickets , spread across 3 (!) shows , b/c we got the season tickets a year ago , and then season ticket holders got to buy more , so I'll be selling half of them , but it's kind of fun to just hold them and fan myself with them , casually during conversation , why yes! , these ARE my hamilton tickets , why do you bring it up? . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
debunkshy :
Mountain Plover
Santa Cruz Flats, AZ, 1-16-17
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Tags: anyway , like , or whatever , hello friend , birdwatching is the coolest thing , one thing about it I love is that it's not just the bird , it's the bird in its surroundings , it's the landscape *including* the bird , and their relationship with each other , and it all gets bound up in a merged identity/experience , that I come to associate with that bird , not sure I'm expressing it well , but it's like having a friend , who always wears that same damn jacket , or is always sitting in that same spot reading a paperback and sipping a coffee , until seeing that friend in their spot doing their thing is all one big act of recognition , i see you doing your thing there , and your friend nods back to you like , wassup? , and that's what's cool about birdwatching , this photo reminded me of that . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Saturday, February 4th, 2017
vayarevoltillo :
Photo:Allen’s Hummingbird by Andrej Chudy http://flic.kr/p/PGuHvB
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Tags: like , yes! , saw this dude at the salt marsh tour today , there was a birder couple from Denmark , and they were super stoked to see him , and it made me feel proud , i the docent , have brought forth this amazing winged jewel! , it was cool . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
VIDEO
marykatewiles :
Please enjoy my newest reflection video, “Five Things I Don’t Like About Myself.”
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Tags: i mean , like , don't we? , i like this a lot , but it makes me wonder , there's revelation , and then there's revelation , we all have secrets , things we are truly embarrassed/ashamed of , that we don't reveal , and mk talks here about how she has curated a certain image , and wants to be more honest and reveal more , but it's still curated , thank goodness , we all curate the version of ourselves we show the world , people who never learn to do that are emotionally stunted , and difficult to be around , even when they don't get elected to positions of authority , so the curation impulse is a good thing , and I'm glad it's still operating in this video , even while I appreciate the honest intention , that went into revealing less-flattering things about herself , that honesty is the part of the artistic impulse , that I admire most , so in an odd way , admitting these less-admirable things , is admirable . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Monday, December 12th, 2016
orlandobloom :
some of tolkien’s original illustrations
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Tags: like , these feel like real middle earth to me , b/c Tolkien , kind of freaked me out as a kid , when I found out he did these , you created all that and can paint like this *too*? , jesusfuck , not that I said jesusfuck , I was like 12 , and it was the early 70s , that degree of linguistic excess , was not yet something I needed . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Tags: rape culture , so yeah , like , i dunno , part of me thinks the best thing to do , is just ignore the crap out of those people , shun them and relegate them to a part of society , that we simply don't acknowledge , AGGRESSIVELY ignore them , I also think we should have joined hands and sung , like the whos in whoville after the grinch , rather than upending our society , and giving stature to brutish people , who wanted to pursue a violent response , after 9/11 , but we don't live on a dust speck on a dandelion , we live in this world , I'm down with loveforlesliej , but just so you know , please don't assume anything in particular , if you ever notice , me being silent about the current outrage , mass shootings , horrible people doing horrible things , holding hands in a circle and singing , as if literally nothing terrible has happened , is also a valid response . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Monday, July 18th, 2016
sylvia-morris :
Leslie Jones is getting a lot of racist hate on twitter. If you have time to make something or send her a nice note, it might serve to make the world a marginally happier place for her.
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Tags: i mean , like , isn't it? , that's her christian siriano dress from the premiere , she was so good in the movie , and omg in the peter dinklage naked and afraid sketch from snl , she makes me catch my breath to see how fierce she is , in the face of that sort of hate , the way she just Does. Not. Give. A. Fuck. , she obviously does care , she's a human being , but seeing her integrity and courage in standing up and being who she is , unapologetically , is inspiring , I'm sorry that kind of awful exists . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
debunkshy :
Northern Waterthrush
Salmo Pond, WI
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Tags: but still , it's true , like , PJH , really , it's weird , there are those kids you went to school with , and it's years later , and you're looking in the yearbook , or on facebook , and you see a photo , and you just stare at the name or picture and scratch your head , you went there? , at the same time as me? , they just slip through unnoticed , this bird is that for me , same for the overbird and louisiana , i know they exist , i've birded my whole life , most of it outside their normal range , never seen them , i probably just need to learn how to look , and then they'll be everywhere , won't be able to throw a stick without hitting a waterthrush . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015
itsnotliketherearehillshere :
theparttimemisanthrope :
footage of the US government after telling the public that it was a “missile test.”
@laurelanced
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Thursday, October 1st, 2015
deadhpool :
I admit it’s fatally dangerous. But consider this: I’d get to fly around like Iron Man. Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.
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Tags: so , like , I think it will be pretty hard for them to screw this up , the book was kind of sexist , in a sort of characters are unimportant but female ones especially so way , which I suspect was at least partly weir channeling his hero heinlein , but as long as they add a little adult , preferably female adult , supervision around those characters , can annie not _just_ curse as her tough-woman-overcompensating trait? , I think the rest of what worked in the book should work in the movie , looking forward to it . Posted in Tumblr by jbc | Permalink | No Comments »
