Video Times with These Guys. Totally Gif’d a Gif.
This is probably the best .gif I’ve ever been in.
Hanging out together apart. Feels more like a Sunday today.
I think that I want to bike from Forest Grove to Astoria, possibly over Spring Break. (Here’s the route I would take.) I think I would want to get one of the recumbents up here. Anyone wanna tandem it?
The Old Bailey, online. Try to picture the staggering amount of information on this site:
“The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use.”
On top of this, there is a great amount of general information, from who lived in London and when and what the different communities were like, what types of punishments were common… just click on the ‘historical background’ link and get into it.
So, the amazing Kate Beaton has been on Tumblr for less than a week now, and she’s already posted the source that provided most of the primary information for my undergraduate thesis. The other primary source I used was the Newgate Calendar, which is also mentioned in Ms. Beaton’s post. (My thesis was on highway robbery in England between 1680 and 1750: Myth vs Reality.)
I am so happy. Really, following her is already paying off big time for this nerd.
These post-its have been on my desktop forever. There’s not really a context to explain, except that the two on the left are hilarious.
Jameson Whiskey Advertisements are the Best
It all started with a giant Octopus, a color elevated mood that wets any Portlander’s panties whistle,* and the best era of clothing (if you ignore the health risks of whale bone corsets.) Just watching this ad within 50 miles of the greater Portland area makes me want to get a sprawling Kraken chest piece.
I’m not sure which order the rest of these premiered, so I’m going to just put them all out there.
In the Hurricane ad a group of strapping, young Irish bucks comprised of everything I find attractive in a man sit around downplaying what badasses they are. There is no flaw in this advertisement, besides the fact that I am not currently sitting in this bar:
The Fire ad is simply a work of beauty. There’s not much else to say, besides great job Jameson. I will buy your whiskey if I can be part of a fraction of this badassery:
I believe the Hawk of Achill ad is the lastest in the great Jameson campaign to make the world a little more awesome. In this latest feast for your eyes, Jameson takes on a monsterous bird whose diet apparently consists on whiskey and supple young women:
I don’t know what plans you’re drawing up, Jameson, but I can’t wait to see what you come up with next. Never fire your advertising team. Infact, those better be the best paid employees of a whiskey company. They are artists.
*Media literate inspired self censorship.
It snowed this week, resulting in 13 trees cleaved on my block. Also, beautiful pictures.
I feel like both are equally valid.
(Source: jennlevo, via alltheprettythings)
Salem encounters snow for the first time. (Taken with picplz.)
She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts; she’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers.
—Sylvia Plath (via vaginawoolf)
(Source: incorrectsylviaplathquotes, via superherojuice)
This was a great weekend.
Backstage at a 50s burlesque show
Will someone please recreate this image with me?
(via loveyourrebellion)
My sister and our matching cats. (Taken with picplz.)
Funniest thing I’ve seen today.
(Source: spidervillainy, via lapubell)
