Dusty Mantle

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

We had similar the other day, with a Nadiya cooking programme that had subtitles from the Scottish wildlife programme Landward.

The three year old has a pony named Night. This pony apparently knows everything about the Night. She wakes up when the stars come out.

Small votive dedication to Hades showing a man in a chariot and, sorry, a chicken. With greek inscription.

I'm sorry, but for budget reasons, your chariot to the afterlife is scheduled to be pulled by a chicken.

SOMETHING HAIRY AND HORRIBLE

Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia This clip gives you a taste of what Gilgamesh, one of the earliest known works of literature, sounds like in its mother tongue, Akkadian.

While doing research on ancient languages for a novel I'm working on I discovered Dr. Martin Worthington at Cambridge University. After years of study, he's come up with an approximation of Akkadian. You can listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh here:
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In my experience the bots are both taking the surveys and making them.

wikipedia photo captioned "a perfect example of a normal grey cockatiel"

oh to be perfect and normal in an unexplained black void

Animated skeleton just hanging out with his similarly dead friends and their favorite stuff in this bizarre memento mori by Carstiaen Luycks. It's his day.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Hanging sign on building which reads 'Only Fish Falconry Prints and Design'

This confuses me

More like peda-BOGGY amirite?

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

Which is more petulant? A portrait of a grey chicken walking through the grass on a sunny day A portrait of a Spanish white face chicken on a dark background

If you need a break from fighting with ignorant assholes, the Clickens are here for you. Millions of combinations. You can judge them until your cortisol levels even out.

clickens.chicken.pics

Giving the world some bonhomie: the best of August Darnell Among the wittiest of songwriter-producers, Augie Darnell cut quite a figure in Koch-era New York, holding punk and commercial disco with one hand and guiding a throwback revue  called Dr. Buz…

Augie Darnell cut quite a figure in Koch-era New York, holding punk and commercial disco with one hand and guiding a throwback revue called Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band in the other. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/g...

hi bluesky! we are excited to present a live score to Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic Metropolis very soon! hope you can come. the Seattle show is free at sunset

8/16 Seattle @ Maple Leaf Reservoir Park
8/17 Olympia @ Capitol Theater

The Flipping Champs

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More The Rovers, Fidos, and Spots of the world have been regarded since time immemorial as man's best friends. But they haven't always been named Rover, Fido, and Spot: early fifteenth-century English dog ...

A List of 1,065 Medieval Dog Names: Nosewise, Garlik, Havegoodday & More

In English, if something is suspicious or amiss you could say either “I smell a rat” or “something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” In Denmark, however, you could say der er ugler i mosen. It means “there are owls in the bog.”

"Decedent" is a word I have written a lot at employment recently. Relatedly, I learned the word "diener", which will take some time to stop looking like a typo, but apparently is American for a mortuary assistant.

The Hills Have Eye

They were going to be in it too! It would have been a more blessed timeline.

werner: does it tell you you're here at San Vincente, close to Sunset Boulevard: interviewer: yeah, it's basically like a Google map werner: but what does pokemon do at this corner here? interviewer: you might be able to catch some. It's all completely virtual. It's very simple, but it's also an overlay of physically based information that now exists on top of the real world. Werner: when two persons in search of a Pokemon clash at the corner of Sunset in San Vicente is there violence? Is there murder? interviewer: they do fight, virtually werner: physically, do they fight? interviewer: the people or the.... werner: yes, there must be real people if it's a real encounter with someone else

Werner Herzog considering Pokemon Go from an interview in 2016

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The almost three-er has discovered the pleasures of pasta adulterated with spicy tomato sauce, but must take a long draught of water between each farfalle. This increased water intake has had an unfortunate effect on ongoing toilet training, most directly upon the carpets of the in-laws.

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Carved figure with bulgy eyes & protruding tongue on a pew in St Margaret’s church, Cley

Strange little guy from the church in Cley, Norfolk

Today the almost 3-er and I were discussing flowers (a bush that she recently spent some time kissing each bud goodnight). I asked her, what if Linder was a flower on a plant? Would that look strange? "It would be bootiful" she said, with fervency. I can't disagree.

When the moon hits the sky
From his coffin he'll rise
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