Whispering Glades via Starship Melancholy: November 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

marxbrosfandumb: And here we have King Endymion, Neo-Queen Serenity and their daughter, Princess...

And here we have King Endymion, Neo-Queen Serenity and their daughter, Princess Lady Serenity.

Oh wait.

They had me fooled.

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Rocky Road ahead.

I’m about to eat rocky road ice cream for the first time since I was admitted to the hospital in 2005 for an unknown, terrifically painful, GI ailment.

Several days in the hospital waiting to be cut open for exploratory surgery, alternating morphine and some other synthetic opiate for days on end, my only “nutrients” coming in IV form. Follow that with contrast dye, compazine, and those radioactive shakes they give you for CT scans (the latter two were rejected by the host time and time again.)

Wish me luck. It looks delicious!

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thenotes: Kind of unbelievable that this isn’t in every movie,...

thenotes:

Kind of unbelievable that this isn’t in every movie, really.

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"so now you’re about to turn twenty and the world hasn’t gotten any bigger for you. you’re untouched,..."

“

so now you’re about to turn twenty and the world hasn’t gotten any bigger for you. you’re untouched, unloved, unprepared. your parents still pay for your gas. your friends all have internships. one of them even got cast to be in a movie. you’ve got all this talent that you don’t know how to share. you just want to fuck someone, anyone, to feel a little less like an island. the man at the McDonald’s drive-thru held both sides of your hand when he handed you your change and you cried the entire way home. skin burns. you’re about to turn twenty and you feel like you’re fifteen. you sleep for fourteen hours and still need a nap. the world is shrinking one empty heartache at a time.

you’re scared you’ll never find anyone to love you, not even well. you’ll settle for anything.

don’t.

you’re about to turn twenty and they never remind you how young that is. falling in love does not make you grow up, heartbreak does, and there is more than one way to fall apart.

you’re about to turn twenty and it’s okay if you aren’t ready. it’s okay if you aren’t ready. it’s okay.

”

- turning 20 | Caitlyn S. (via perfect)

Sounds a lot like 36.

Don’t be fooled by seemingly significant words. That which people vocalize in these fits of seeming introspection are sweet and adorable and honest but these feelings that you have at 15 and at 20 (25, 30, 35, etc) never go away. They never get easier.

They seem really impossibly new and fresh and your life feels like a raw nerve, but that is simply the life you have becoming your own, you becoming you which is important and special. I’m not being sarcastic. These moments where you feel lost and confused, alone and together, trapped and free all at the same time, these feelings aren’t something you can “deal” with. 20 year olds want to treat everything like school. Study and knowledge of the subject will make this make sense. The idea that time will heal these heretofore unknown feelings or that a good conversation will make all of this shit make sense and acceptable is a great way to try out your new skin. Soon rationalization won’t work. Things you spoke passionately of or felt strongly suddenly you could give two fucks about and things will seem meandering and foreign yet again.

The sucky thing is that you’re basically a raw nerve for the rest of your life. Growing up isn’t learning to let these feelings pass, thinking they will go away and in that digestion of feelings, through some kind of cathartic shedding of old selves you become stronger, it’s the taking that moment, realizing it, and moving on. Moving on because whether it crushes you or delights you this isn’t about a youthful nostalgia for that which once was, it is about living and continuing to live and finding ways to be happy day in and day out, one foot in front of the other as the cliche goes.

One day, cliches like that, one foot in front of the other, one day at a time, etc, these cheesy sounding cliches will make a whole lot more sense and are a lot easier to understand and take solace in.

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The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it...

The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]

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Chuckles the Beast surveys his domain.

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allemaaldingen: (via Stunning images taken by crane driver...

allemaaldingen:

(via Stunning images taken by crane driver working on Shanghai’s skyscrapers - Telegraph)

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"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life..."

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine?’”

- Nietzsche (via devilduck)

The original YOLO.

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Pffffft.

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persephone81: Piazza del Popolo, #Roma I think I missed a lot...

persephone81:

Piazza del Popolo, #Roma

I think I missed a lot as a 16 year old in Rome.

Although yelling “SEND IN THE LIONS!” at the Coliseum with Drew was pretty great.

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Skee ballin’

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jedavu: The Vietnam War As Seen By Associated Press...

Photographer unknown, May 8th, 1971: Near Camp Eagle, headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division, an aerial view of a peace symbol probably made by U.S. troops with a bulldozer.

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic South Vietnamese government.

German photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas, March 1965: U.S. Army helicopters lay down cover fire over South Vietnamese troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp

Photographer/Date unknown: A South Vietnamese woman sobs over the loss of her deceased husband, who was discovered in a mass grave.

Daniel Camus and Jean Péraud, March 16th, 1954: French paratroopers descend at Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements.

Henri Huet, September 1966: U.S. Marines south of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) after a night of fighting North Vietnamese troops, in which the supply chopper seen in the picture was shot down.

September 25th, 1965: in the jungle area of Ben Cat, U.S. paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, carry their weapons above water in the rain while they search

Henri Huet, May 14th, 1966: The body of a U.S. soldier killed in battle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter.

Photo by New Zealand journalist Peter Gregg Arnett, April 10th, 1965: Soldiers arriving at Red Beach at Da Nang.

Photographer/Date unknown: A wounded paratrooper at the base camp of Shau Valley awaits a medical evacuation, in agonizing pain.

jedavu:

The Vietnam War As Seen By Associated Press Photographers

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WHERE IS THIS?!

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historicaltimes: Mississippi River frozen solid, February 1905

historicaltimes:

Mississippi River frozen solid, February 1905

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allthingseurope: Krakow, Poland (by Simon Whitfield)

allthingseurope:

Krakow, Poland (by Simon Whitfield)

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Friday, November 29, 2013

mylifetumbled: Auschwitz, Poland If you got out of a box-car at...

mylifetumbled:

Auschwitz, Poland

If you got out of a box-car at the end of those tracks this is what you saw.

When you looked up, the sky was filled with heavy black smoke.

A layer of gray ash coated everything… Welcome to Birkenau.

Here was the last stop in Hitler’s “Final Solution.”

This wasn’t that long ago.

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theatlantic: When You’ve Lost Europeans, You’ve Lost...

theatlantic:

When You’ve Lost Europeans, You’ve Lost Europe

The collective mood of a nation mired in a prolonged economic recession shows many of the symptoms of clinical depression: despair, fatalism, an inability to make decisions, lack of motivation, and irritability. This is one of the impressions I got from a recent trip to Spain and Italy, two nations I know well and visit often. While both countries have recently made small strides on the path to recovery, I nevertheless came away with the strong sense that their economies are in recession and their societies are in depression. In the course of my travels, I also felt more than ever before that Europeans have fallen out of love with Europe—or, more precisely, with the idea of building a Europe-wide union.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

It should have never happened.

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birdsong217: Frederick H. Evans Klemscott Manor: Thro’ a...

birdsong217:

Frederick H. Evans

Klemscott Manor: Thro’ a Window in the Tapestry Room, 1896

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adanvc: Images Made of Light. by Léonard Misonne

Coming Home on the Ice. Belgium, 1920s.

Rainy Street with Tram in Brussels, Belgium, 1937.

A Rainy Day. Belgium, 1920s.

Picking Fruit off the Ground. Belgium, 1920s.

Photographer's Sons with Cameras. Belgium, 1928.

adanvc:

Images Made of Light.

by Léonard Misonne

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peerintothepast: Two future presidents: George H.W. Bush and...

peerintothepast:

Two future presidents: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

Dumb and dumber.

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devilduck: Love has conditions Found on floor of 8th grade...

devilduck:

Love has conditions

Found on floor of 8th grade classroom.

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Priorities.

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DSCF1086-Edit-Edit.jpg on Flickr.Drips.

DSCF1086-Edit-Edit.jpg on Flickr.

Drips.

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nationalpost: Japan’s plan to solve the world’s energy...

nationalpost:

Japan’s plan to solve the world’s energy problems: Turn the moon into a giant solar panel

A Japanese construction company is proposing to solve the energy problems facing Japan, and ultimately the entire planet, by turning the Moon into a solar power plant.

Shimizu Corp, which is based in Tokyo, wants to lay a belt of solar panels 350 kilometres wide around the equator of the Moon and relay the resulting constant supply of energy to “receiving stations” on Earth by laser or microwave transmission.

The proposed “Luna Ring” would be capable of sending 13,000 terawatts of power to Earth. In 2011, the United States generated just 4,100 terawatts of power, the company says. (Photo: Shimizu Corporation)

Seems Legit.

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"I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye..."

“I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.”

- Teju Cole (via devilduck)

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nationalpost: German policeman arrested on suspicion of killing...

nationalpost:

German policeman arrested on suspicion of killing man who ‘fantasized about being eaten by another person’

A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the Internet who had long fantasized about being killed and eaten, authorities said Friday.

The handwriting and document analysis specialist was arrested on Wednesday at his workplace, the Criminal Technical Institute in the eastern city of Dresden, authorities said. He told investigators that he fatally stabbed the victim in the throat on Nov. 4, hours after the two met in person for the first time.

The 55-year-old said he then chopped up the body into multiple pieces. The suspect pointed officers to a number of places around his property, south of Dresden, where he had buried the remains, city police chief Dieter Kroll said at a televised news conference. (AP Photo/dpa, Egberth Kamprath)

Moss: I’ve got your advert here, I’ve printed it out. (Takes out ad from pocket) “I want to cook with you.”

Yohan: Oh no no, my english is not so good.

Moss: Oh! You want to cook with me. Using me!

Yohan: Yes! Yes!

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

immutableinscrutable: N E V R F O R G E T T 🇺🇸

immutableinscrutable:

N E V R F O R G E T T 🇺🇸

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Abed Rabo Jedua inspects damage to his olive trees, which were destroyed by Israeli settlers, in the West Bank village of Tuqu’, November 25, 2013. The vandals were escorted by Israeli soldiers as they destroyed some 60 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the latest state-sanctioned ‘price-tag’ attack on Palestinian property. (Photos: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Activestills.org)

Not cool.

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