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ohdanielle: “If you come any closer I will scream for my mommy...

Wed, 16 May 2012 21:52:32 -0700

ohdanielle:

“If you come any closer I will scream for my mommy castle.”

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Wed, 16 May 2012 21:33:00 -0700

“Your Facebook connection has expired. Reconnect to continue sharing.” - Tumblr

this is awesome.

Wed, 16 May 2012 21:31:20 -0700

this is awesome.

"Courageous people are scared. Hopeful people are dark. The only thing that keeps them from being..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 21:19:43 -0700

“Courageous people are scared. Hopeful people are dark. The only thing that keeps them from...

archiemcphee: Once again the awesome power of nature goes and...

Sat, 12 May 2012 18:20:38 -0700

archiemcphee:

Once again the awesome power of nature goes and produces something that looks like it couldn’t possibly be real. Last time it was the Jewel Caterpillar. Now we have the prettiest ear of corn we’ve ever seen.

This is the aptly named Glass Gem Corn. The photos are from Seeds Trust (“a 25 year-old family seed company dedicated to teaching you to save your own seeds, grow a delicious home garden and create stunning native landscapes”) who shared the following background story about this stunning vegetable:

“Seedsman Greg Schoen got the seed from Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee man, now in his 80’s, in Oklahoma. He was Greg’s “corn-teacher”. Greg was in the process of moving last year and wanted someone else to store and protect some of his seeds. He left samples of several corn varieties, including glass gem. I grew out a small handful this past summer just to see.

The rest, as they say is history. I got so excited, I posted a picture on Facebook. We have never seen anything like this. Unfortunately, we did not grow out enough to sell. Look for a small amount for sale starting in August 2011.”

Of course now we can’t help but wonder if it tastes as good as it looks.

[via TYWKIWDBI and Farming and Agriculture]

Wow. All I can think about are the various people throughout my life who have insisted that truly blue colored food does not exist in nature. Shades of violet, perhaps, but not blue.

Just look at some of those baby blue kernels!

It’s 12:30 on a Friday night, and I’m surfing...

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:40:07 -0700

It’s 12:30 on a Friday night, and I’m surfing through literal versions of 80s videos.

amnhnyc: A look inside the Paleontology Collection Photo by...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:56:20 -0700

amnhnyc:

A look inside the Paleontology Collection

Photo by Denis

curiositycounts: Absolutely lovely collection of French letters...

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:42:48 -0700

curiositycounts:

Absolutely lovely collection of French letters and envelopes, romancing the lost art of calligraphy and leading you into a “universe of arabesques and beautiful writing.”

(via)

Best Coast, We Are Hunted, and the new sharing update on...

Tue, 08 May 2012 18:45:05 -0700

Best Coast, We Are Hunted, and the new sharing update on Spotify. A trilplet of awesome right now.

showslow: ‘Metamorphose’ Photos by Frederic Fontenoy.

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:21:21 -0700

showslow:

‘Metamorphose’

Photos by Frederic Fontenoy.

betheboy: uncledynamite: Today a Twitter funny guy, @fedge,...

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:12:52 -0700

betheboy:

uncledynamite:

Today a Twitter funny guy, @fedge, took his own life. He left as his suicide note a Tumblr post. He’s not the first to have used this template, I’m sorry to say. I never knew him and yet I feel strongly affected by his passing.

I’m not going to make the mistake of giving advice to the clinically depressed or even pretend to know his particular story. There are plenty of Tumblr posts from people who have taken a stick to depression after a long battle and then go on to provide a road map out. I’ve linked to them before and there’s damned good advice in there.

This chap @fedge, real name Jeff Barszcz, referenced a few things in his Tumblr that got me thinking. What was triggering him, he said, was approaching age, not having friends around him, not being where he wanted to be in his career, and not being in a relationship. I’m sure there are/were other factors and clinical depression itself is a bear. It can happen with your friends around youthful you, with your family surrounding you, and with your job going great.

It’s terrible that Jeff’s gone. I hope there’s peace where he is, finally.

His list of reasons, if you look at them dispassionately, are about what he wasn’t getting. He wasn’t getting adulation, he wasn’t getting friends, and he wasn’t getting love. The real tragedy, to my way of thinking, is that he also had all those things to give and now no one’s going to get to experience any of that.

If you think I’m stupid or evil enough to have told him to get off his couch and read to sick kids in the hospital or sling hash at a soup kitchen, coach youth sports or become a volunteer librarian and then he’d be magically cured, you’re wrong. But I will tell you that if you’re susceptible to feeling the walls closing in, if you become isolated easily, if you’re prone to feeling friendless or stuck in your career, then I want you to at least try these kinds of experiences. Because it feels good to give. It IS good to give, and it feeds you psychologically and in other ways. A lot of your fellow humans need a lot of other fellow humans to help them live. Could you be that human? You could be that human. When you help them, they help you in surprising ways. Yes, get meds, get the meds right, find a good doctor, talk it out, and work it out. But do good works, be among good people, and let that be part of your plan.

Reblogging so that somebody, somewhere might get the message.

Ditto.

"So Easy"

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:13:15 -0700

"So Easy": Hey guys, check out my friend Haroula Rose’s new summery single!

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Mon, 07 May 2012 14:13:15 -0700

I can’t get enough of this song.

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:04:16 -0700

I can’t get enough of this song.

Under the SuperMoon

Sun, 06 May 2012 02:21:02 -0700

jennhoney: I Superfell And Superscraped my knees and SuperBactined my knees And now Supersnacks and...

Currently at a music club that feels like a stoners apartment....

Sun, 06 May 2012 02:14:38 -0700

Currently at a music club that feels like a stoners apartment. And smells a bit like it too. Watching a pretty amazing set of music acts. Cuddle magic is currently on stage. (Taken with instagram)

maxistentialist: How a spring is made.

Sat, 05 May 2012 18:33:49 -0700

maxistentialist:

How a spring is made.

Tonight there's a SUPER MOON.

Sat, 05 May 2012 18:27:33 -0700

Don’t miss it.

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Fri, 04 May 2012 20:34:14 -0700

Walrus Man is not enjoying Star Wars day. At. All.

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:07:38 -0700

Walrus Man is not enjoying Star Wars day. At. All.